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Thanks to Patty, yes, I have seen SinFest over the last several days.

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3210
http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3211

It's really the braces that kill me.

Meanwhile, Top 100 Hot Butches.

We're having a Pepper Frenzy. There are currently 4 peppers on one plant (soon to be as many as nine -- one bud broke off); and buds on the other two plants.

- The Czech bush tomato plant finally has two tiny tomatoes growing.

- Green zebras continue to grow.

- Flowers on other tomato plants, unsure if there are tomatos yet.

- Have noticed some small insects that seem to be breeding on some of the tomato plants -- little white things that then turn into little green things. Is this symbiosis or do I need to intervene? And if so, how? My instinct is to clean the leaves with rubbing alcohol, but I don't imagine that's good for the plants. Help!

- The basil is managing well and we've been eating a lot of it.

- The rosemary and lavender have both taken various hits from birds trying to take them for nest materials, but overall are doing well.

Still reading The Angel's Cut. More when I am done -- it's nice to be reading again. Wish I knew a little bit less about the period of this book, not that the author gets is wrong at all, but I'm doo aware of the non-fictional versions of some of her characters. Also, am now noticing some of the themes she insists on visiting over and over again, and I feel.... disturbed. But again, more later!

Oh yay, new Torchwood tie-in novels are in the mail to me!

We just bought ALL THE TICKETS EVER to the BAM Next Wave festival as well as to Street Car (Cate! Sydney people! yay!)

I can't wait for July. This month is Kicking My Ass.

When I've time, lots on Iran, journalism, Neda, etc. It may not be until July.

Need to go look over a pegging fic for someone.

Woah. Audition excitement. Neat.

Am caught up on True Blood.

Lovely. Crazy Fred Phelps & Co. are now targeting Jews.

Am totally wondering what America will think of the pretty awful Merlin. It's diverting enough, but I don't resonate with any of the characters, find the show utterly devoid of emotional logic and just keep watching for the "what the fuck?" factor. I get being amused by it, as I am and Patty and I have been watching it and are entertained, but I don't get the degree to which people are into it. Gay subtext does not automatically make a show worthy of our attention, fandom.

Oh my glamorous life!

Comments

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

Fred Phelps and his family (because that's who his congregation is) have quite a racket. They protest at a funeral, and then either one of the relatives of the deceased reacts, and the WBC sues the relative, or the local cops make the mistake of trying to prevent the WBC from protesting, and the WBC sues them for infringing on their civil rights.

They just see the Jewish community as a new pool of people to provoke so the WBC can sue them.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

...depressingly, that seems the most likely. Apparently Phelps père was a lawyer at one point, before he decided that religion was a better racket, and a number of his family have gone into law to support his 'church'.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

They don't come to Canada anymore,because the police will not protect them, and our laws put them at a disadvantage. And I think they were a little unnerved by a Canadian constable helpfully explaining how to burn a Canadian flag.(They couldn't get it to light. Not bright these people.))