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Jack McGeorge died yesterday. He was a man of personal and professional integrity who understood that if you don't keep secrets it a hell of a lot harder for anyone to try to hold your choices over your head as if they are something of which to be ashamed.

There was a ferocious storm here last night and it seemed to hit my neighborhood the worst. We had some power outages, multiple downed trees and our plants were all tangled around each other (luckily, it seems relatively minimal damage was sustained). ETA: News reports do indicate that the worst of the storm did hit our neighborhood and did major damage to Central Park.

While I understand the fundamental difficulty of navigating large groups of small children through the New York City subway system, a teacher shouting "up against the wall!" at a pack of five-year-olds disturbs me slightly.

Ahoy! We have achieved Dragon*Con room. We'll be in the Sheraton (which I thought I didn't want to be in again after last year so we could be in a "cool" hotel, but you know what? The Sheraton was civilized and gave me a bit of a respite from the crazy).

And I'm back on the Alternate History track as part of a Rapid Fire Reading on Monday at like 11:30 or something. When my schedule is fully reconfirmed again I will post. So yes, it seems you will get four minutes of gay airship pirate romance thingy, which is much, much weirder than that description makes it sound.

I've had a brilliant idea for one of my interview targets for D*C footage. Email sent. Fingers crossed.

Proof that the political spectrum, as well as the earth, is round: Conservative lawyer argues for equal marriage rights.

Update: It's not the Marriott blaming a victim for her own rape, but the Marriott's insurance company. Why does this surprise me not at all?

You should just look at all of dimethirwen's links today.

Not all questions are equal. Go Barney Frank: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8 (article on same with entire dialogue exchange).

Caprica casting just got pretty interesting. I need to get around to watching all of BSG -- that and Mad Men are my two catch-up things for the Fall.

Still annoyed about a random person on newyorkers querying whether a given neighborhood was safe the other day. 1. New York is the safest big city in America. 2. I want to know what she thought her martial status had to do with it (i.e., she stated that she was a young married woman -- oh, people are targeting them! WHUT?)

Oh hey! Actual chance I might get to be a "masculine lesbian" at a black tie affair on camera. That's pretty rad. Yay acting! *snerk*

Today is Ianto Jones's birthday.

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[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Kudos to Jack McGeorge. His integrity will be missed, as will he.

Yeah, that was one scary storm last night.

Good luck at DragonCon!

...Yeah, still not impressed with the Marriott. If it wasn't for the con rate (and maybe I should do some comparisons), I'd consider getting a room at the Sheraton round the corner from the LAX Marriott for Gally. (They have a better breakfast buffet, into the bargain.)

Good links! (Particularly the notion of a Hypatia of Alexandria movie.)

Re: annoying person on newyorkers: sounds like she hasn't been here long enough to be able to disprove by her own experience all the horror stories about NYC? Or at least the Harlem bits of it. But yes, good grief.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm currently holding a reservation at the Marriott, but whether I keep it or switch the Sheraton will remain to be seen on the resolution of this (also, I have a bazillion points with Sheraton, so convenient Sheratons are always an incentive for me!).

Will you be at Peculiar later?

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Yup!

/eta: I propose we drink a toast to Ianto.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

I had a funny email exchange with Kali about it last night, because I'm the person who winds up making very weird impromptu toasts at things (once at a Regency Ball it was randomly decided that I should do a toast to Admiral Lord Nelson, and I like "fuck, I have to come up with something awesome!" and I did -- but talk about pulling it out of my ass).

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

A toast would work, but given the fact he is now the Late Ianto Jones, I have a mental image of a group of fans at Dragon*Con pouring out libations of coffee instead...