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[rm]

So, I am thinking, a pair of eye-glasses to replace my snapped cat-eyes ones and a pair of square-ish wire-rims with those transitions lenses so I can have prescription sunglasses on the cruise. Y/Y?

From the Department of WTF BBC: Should homosexuals be executed? I'm having a hard time cogently responding to this, but the very short version: you just apologized to Alan Turing, who, btw, helped save your asses in WWII. Doesn't that tell you the damn answer?

keori gives us an amazingly detailed overview of the history of impact of DADT.

Fela's Women.

Have now seen all the abstracts for Bristol.

I was weirdly and freakishly charmed by Stephen Colbert rapping with Alicia Keys last night.

More reaction to and fallout from the Chartrand mess: here and here. This is about a lot more than pseudonyms; it's about how you get paid better if you talk about how much women suck and how women on the Internet literally pay the price for all that casual vitriol from men fictive and not.

Design the next NYC condom package.

In India a call has gone out for volunteers to marry sex-workers to get them out of the biz (via catdancerz). This one's complicated and interesting.

About being a marginalized person and the expectation that you be willing to educate others about it in a way that considers their feelings, often more than your own. via i_am_schizo

Offered without my internal commentary: Looking young may mean living longer. via 00goddess on Twitter

Okay, so who exactly on the flist is going to Gallifrey One this year? I've actually lost track. Why do I need to know? Inappropriate trinket planning, of course.

Tomorrow Patty leaves for Ohio. This is *frowny face*. I will work and write like mad to catch up on everything (hi, Werewolves; hi Virtual Season; hi, ConSweet), and then when she returns on Jan 1, we get ready for the cruise!

Okay, actually, my book is back-ordered EVERYWHERE. I'm expecting the major e-tailers to get it in in time for Christmas shipping, but at this point am just not sure. I do have a decent stock of books in my house though, so if you want one and you're in the US and you need if for the holidays $14 via Paypal (sorry kids, I'm more than Amazon, list is $14.95) and I'll pick up the shipping and packing. Email or PM if interested.

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[rm.livejournal.com]

re: book -- I just wish it would happen at like 8pm on the 24th, not on the 16th!

re: sex workers -- it also opens up the discussion on AIDS there and potentially de-stigmatizes it on some level, so that's an interesting factor too.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Re: de-stigmatization of HIV/AIDS, that's kind of fantastic too. Because, again, it's something that the religious community has become known for, mostly because of how noisy the Catholic Church gets in the third world.

Overall, I'm having a lot of trouble fully getting my head around DSS in a practical way, mostly because I am not from there, and only understand the culture in a vague, outsider perspective. It's the practical application that's going to make or break the whole initiative.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's high on the list of "I am not qualified to comment on this at all" but I thought it was worth reading.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

I just realized how super vague my first paragraph was. Religion = known for stigmatizing. Not that this is news, but I am compelled to tidy up. Twitch.

Also, in answer to something in an entirely different post*, still planning on Gally pending airline tix. I keep getting the financial cockblock right when I get ready to buy. Grr.

*iz not amused*

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* Boy, I am not winning for detail-oriented today.

[rm.livejournal.com]

The rats are making you dizzy.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

It's closing week making me dizzy. NO MORE. NO MORE.