I watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with human_loser on Sunday ( Read more... )

I have got to stop reading Pandagon at lunch. I wind up taking far too long to draft lengthy comments on tangential points.

Case in point, a comment that I'm really quite proud of, inspired by this comment from a thread on The identity politics of atheism. So I'm re-posting the comment here, prettied up and slightly edited.

( Cut for zingerella holding forth. (But isn't that what you came here for?) )

One of the cool things about hanging out with people whose passions overlap but are not congruent with my own is that I wind up making time to try things I wouldn't ordinarily do, and get glimpses into lives and subcultures that aren't my own. It's good for me, as it is for anyone, to move out of my own patterns.

Saw Oleanna this weekend with human_loser, ( Read more... )

If you haven't been reading misia, then why not?

Today, she explains, smokingly, why she believes there are no illegitimate children and no illegal people:

No child is "illegitimate." Human beings are not "illegitimate." Or rather, if one of us is, then all of us are, because frankly, we're all the same kind of animal with the same basic needs ( Read more... )

“Are you going to be o.k. riding home tonight? Do you want to leave your bike here?” Publisher Dude asked me, as he left, concerned that my morning spill might have made left me too injured or nervous to ride home ( Read more... )

Big Themes on my flist have pulled my mind away from the petty annoyances of my day:

matociquala on cynicism:

Cynicism is fashionable, and stylish, and easy. It's why so many of us are, in fact, cynical in high school. (That, I think, and some lingering traces of childhood sociopathy, and the human tendency to assume that everybody else is much like we are ( Read more... )