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[rm]

I'm having one of those periodic things I have where I want to knit. I'm a pretty lousy knitter. I can do a scarf, but that's about it. But in posting all those LJ small businesses yesterday, a bit of yarn jumped out at me.

Anyway, this led to the following horrific observation on Twitter: @racheline_m: Why hasn't someone made a 456 knitting pattern yet? Everyone wants a knit, vomiting, 3-headed turkey, don't they?

Which then led to the horrifying personal observation -- you guys know I live on the 4/5/6 train, yeah?

Okay, the White House gate crashers? met the President. I really, really, will be deeply, deeply annoyed if these people aren't in a world of trouble. Free passes on this sort of thing will just encourage more of it, and in our reality TV world, people will always rise to the challenge of self-promotional asshattery.

The houses of NYC.

Last night we went to see A Streetcar Named Desire. It was an exceptional and very funny production and the director tried to bring as much ambiguity to it as possible (maybe everyone is crazy, maybe everyone in a liar), but at the end of the day, it's still a weird play trapped in the moment of its creation and that moment's conception of sexuality and insanity. Still, it was a fine, fine thing, and it's interesting to me, the degree to which I can now recognize which performers came out of NIDA and which didn't, by very specific performance ticks. And, of course, being a mostly NIDA alum production, spectacular and intelligent sets.

I've just been linked to this: GDL (blond! and with Stephen Fry, and I think a chick that was in Spooks). It was good for a giggle early this morning, although it suffers more than a bit if you're lacking various England/Wales contexts.

I hope everyone is having fun at Chicago Tardis. Can I be right in that I'm not hearing eight billion pounds of squeeing out of it due to the lack of Torchwood boys as guests? People, squee anyway, some of us do still care.

bodlon points out the Frenzy of Fail that is this article about a transwoman over at the Boston Herald.

Oh my god our cruise is in five or so weeks and I still need to: find the right shoes for my tux (which will be here in a couple of weeks), buy a suit bag, double-check on my gluten-free food stuff for the trip, make sure Patty and I have all the wardrobe stuff we need (like post-swimming coverups), order various cruise extras (from our excursions to random luxury things for the room for our departure), and on and on and on. I can't believe we were originally booked on something department December 10th. Man, I am so glad this isn't happening until January.

OMG, tux! Also am excited to see the swatches that Seyta is sending me for the new shirts I'm ordering. I love my shirts from Duchess a ridiculous, ridiculous amount. I may have to go with a dark blue one too, since I lost my dark blue one from Uniqlo, and I do absolutely need one in that color for cosplay at Gallifrey One anyway.

Okay, I really need to stop being depressed about NaNo, and just go back to writing my book without the collective frenzy and get that damn werewolf story done. Just do it. Blah.

Plants vs. Zombies music video. I blame Patty.

Wanting to Want. A six page article in The New York Times about female sexual desire? This can't end well. Actually, I'm still only on the first page. With the raisins. WHUT? you ask. Yeah, just... have fun.

Yet another article claiming that Sarah Palin's biggest obstacle is gender, and that women don't like her because they're jealous ... or something. Maybe women don't like her because fewer women go for anti-choice, anti-gay politics AND because women can't believe this is the level of discourse they have to keep looking at this thing on. Aaaaargh. I'd argue women can't let Sarah Palin go, because men won't let them.

Anatomy of the Tauntaun sleeping bag.

Comments

[marchek.livejournal.com]

I still need to: find the right shoes for my tux

I've never order from them but are you familiar with these websites:
http://www.tuxedoshoes.net/
http://www.shoebuy.com/tuxedo-shoes.htm

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

That clip from Daily Motion is fucking hysterical.

And OMG HE LOOKS SO YOUNG. HIS LITTLE FACE.

[idunn.livejournal.com]

Meanwhile, court records have revealed a more complete picture of the Salahis, who have left an extensive paper trail in federal bankruptcy and state court filings.

Call me silly, but if I had a lot of dirt under the rug, the last thing I'd want to do is draw attention to myself and do anything to get my name in the news - including become a reality TV star or crash a White House dinner.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Right! I KNOW!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oooo, I will check out. Sadly, the second one won't even let me search for shoes in my side (tiny feet not useful for dressing like a man). The first one holds some promise, but I remain deeply frustrated by how chunky boy's shoes are as a rule. When I find the one pair that's appropriate, they rarely have my size. It's really the stupidest problem in the world.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

zombie. dolphin.
you know the way to a girl's heart :)

Raisins?

[labellerose.livejournal.com]

I love these descriptions of UMC women angsting-I grew yup in that country, though I don't live there anymore

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

OMG - how old is that clip of GDL - he looks about 12 in that clip...but sooo adorable.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I assume pre-Torchwood (so he's what? 22? 23?), but otherwise, no idea.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

RE gate crashers... I can't imagine the shitstorm the secret service is getting over this. I wonder if there will be a backlash of tightening up the ship , or possibly an " example " being made of someone down the line.

As I understand it, the crashers went through all security procedures , they simply were not invited. This should quell most of the OMGWTF about how anyone can walk in and get next to top officials.

Still, I would not want to be the head of that detail. I wonder how many peole will be back to writing parking tickets when the smoke clears.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the big problem was whoever with the list who bought their whole shock that they weren't on the list and waved them through because they didn't want to deal with angry rich people in the rain.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Laughable. They need to hire some of the door people from our club era. This would have never happened. :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Word.

[penguineggs.livejournal.com]

It's from 2003. It's from a series called Absolute Power in which John Sargeant and Stephen Fry play the fantastically corrupt partners in a very successful PR firm.

[rm.livejournal.com]

As a former PR person, I really, really may have Netflix all that. How pleasing to discover something cool through random completely ridiculous school-girl crushes geekery.

[kproche.livejournal.com]

BTW... did you get my final knitting tweet last night?

[rm.livejournal.com]

About the onesie? I caught it this morning. There was much cackling.

[kproche.livejournal.com]

And of course, the onesie by definition has room for a child in it.

Just like the 456

:-D

[rm.livejournal.com]

Wow, I totally needed that explained to me. We'll pretend it's the trauma of mornings and or CoE, as opposed to general slowness. That's sort of brilliant.

(now I want someone to make a pattern that has a 456 turkey head sprouting from each shoulder of a onesie, and the puking baby can be the center head).

[ubixtiz.livejournal.com]

Re: the NYT article: I found the digression on the DSM a couple of pages in quite interesting, and mindfulness/body awareness is always an intriguing topic for me, but my eyes are bugging out a bit on page 5. 0.o

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Oh, you mean this part?

So a typical successful experience might proceed something like this: first a decision, rather than a drive, to have sex; next, as Basson puts it, a “willingness to be receptive”; then, say, the sensations of a partner’s touch; next, the awareness of being aroused; then the “responsive desire” along with increasingly intense arousal; and at last the range of physical and emotional payoffs that sex can provide and that offer positive reinforcement leading back to the top of the diagram, to the reasons for setting off on the circle to begin with.

In summary: "go ahead and start sex, and hey, maybe you'll get into it." Which...seems problematic to me for various reasons.

[rm.livejournal.com]

It also seems to say "go ahead and start sex, but make sure you are initiating sex with the desire to be the receptive/non-agressive partner" which as a kinky queer person with a cunt makes me go "oh, straight people confuse me."

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Lie back and think of raisins!

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Do you play Plasnt vs Zombies? It is such a great great game!

And wow GDL looks like a baby!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Patty's been playing it, and I played it for the first time today. It's pretty hilarious.

re: GDL -- because of this Kali and I are now writing AU-Ianto!rentboy fic.