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Pretty and my wallet survived the vet without anything too dramatic happening. Yay. She's at work with me now.

Plane makes emergency landing when dude tries to open emergency door mid-flight. This part of the story makes me furious and puzzled: "A passenger, Casey Coleman, told 7News that flight attendants directed all of the females to the back of the plane and all of the males to the front. Coleman said a flight attendant ordered the men to hold down the passenger over the intercom."

Dogboy & Justine did not win the festival, which is fine and as I suspected. The plays that tied for first place I actually liked a good deal. I remain baffled how one of the others even made the finals and interested in the degree that I don't think short play audiences want the content of these things to linger.

A Buffalo woman has been charged with blinding a lesbian in one eye in an anti-gay assault.

sparkindarkness brings us a list of recent trans-related news items, most of them appalling. I keep saying this over and over, but trans issues, gay issues, and feminist issues are everyone's issues. In a world where gender isn't a supposed dichotomy and "feminine" isn't a dirty word EVERYONE -- even straight cis-gendered men -- is safer.

This story on medical radiation errors is almost impossible to read it's so awful, but should be read anyway. I wonder, to what degree, I can barely read it is impacted by my Cold War childhood. This was, in a way, how we all thought we were going to die.

I like Patty times-evelentybillion. So I'm going to get some work done now (cat is in the office with me!) so I can get home to her!

Comments

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

Did "Fallout" make it? My friend was in "Tommy O'Reilly" and I'd be interested to see what you thought. I also thought that "Winners" and Traffic Jam" might make it, but I never did find out!

I saw everything in the first rounds, and I'd enjoy hearing your take on the different plays!

[seaopaque.livejournal.com]

and the writer is having some problems too, unless they really did hold the passenger over the intercom, whatever that means.

[5251962.livejournal.com]

That comment there. "She looks smug"- uh, no, she looks like someone who's had her eyeball poked out. Kinda tends to make you make faces. :(

*Eeerg in regards to the woman who was assaulted. The comments there are somewhat barftastic in some cases.

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

I read that Times article this morning and I cried and cried when I saw the picture of that man with his arms outstretched saying he wanted to just fly away from his body and pain.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I read the first page of the radiation article and felt so queasy I had to stop. I might try later. But god, talk about my worst nightmares.

[marchek.livejournal.com]

I totally met that guy who died in the radiation article. His wife was in the church choir with Alan. It was a really awful, awful situation.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

hold him over the intercom? That sentence structure needs help badly :)

I'm not sure why they felt the need to separate the passengers - sure, i can see asking men to hold him down because, on average, men are physically stronger. But why split them up?


I'm afraid I am often a purveyor of the bad news, but it needs to be seen to be changed :)

[dorei.livejournal.com]

sparkindarkness missed one. One of our board of supervisors, a total dickhead, referred to transgendered folks as "it". Charming eh?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/23/AR2010012300051.html?wprss=rss_metro/va

[fabricdragon.livejournal.com]

in some , you need to be cheered up maybe? news.
a interesting post on gender, sex appeal, and etc....
over at ladysisyphus
"even if its bold italics"

the video is fun, anyway...

[dvanulya.livejournal.com]

I am dealing with the probability that I will need radiotherapy to kill my thyroid in the next year or two, and it's scaring me shitless. I'm thinking that I'd rather have my throat cut open, tbh.

[lyorn.livejournal.com]

Medical radiation: This is a two-pronged nightmare for me, because I've seen what it can do if they go wrong (my music teacher lost the use of his hands due to one of a series of errors with RT in a nearby hospital in the 80s), and because I work in software development for these. (I got the link to the NYT article in my work inbox.) It's not quite as bad for one's peace of mind as working on software for nuclear reactors...

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

There is nothing about that medical radiation errors article that isn't alarming. From the problem itself, to the bits where the software is inadequately tested, to the bit where it's hard to tell if something's gone wrong...just really, the whole thing. And I def. get the Cold War angle. (I also have Trinitite in the house. Well, the boyf does.)