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TSA field office busted for "keeping score" in the style of Jeopardy on gay men, lesbians and African Americans, who were referred to as "creatures" by the managers in the office.

It's too cold to do ANYTHING and I have to do EVERYTHING.

Speaking of cold, we so did not go to Dances of Vice last night.

Instead we watched the end of Merlin, S2 (god, what a frustrating, incoherent waste of a series -- it has so much potential and it just doesn't know what it wants to be or care about creating a coherent world no matter how wonky and anachronistic -- note, I'm not asking for any sort of "accuracy" just for internal consistency).

Then we watched two episodes of Buffy which I continue to love. But wow that episode on cyberdating demons was so 90s it hurt. Jacked in?!?!?!?! Oi. It also had a lot of elements that reminded me of The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit from Doctor Who.

One of the things that amuses me about Buffy is spending a lot of time thinking about what the fandom must be like. At one point I turned to Patty and said, "People get that Gilles is, well, Gilles, right? They aren't writing lots of terrible fic about him wearing leather pants and being a dom are they? Because in Harry Potter fandom, that's what would happen."

Soon we can start Being Human.

Do you use a Mac? Do you think like you're writing a book? If so Things! is like Scrivener for your life. BEST. SOFTWARE. EVER. It could only be better if I could link it to Scrivener and make it give me deadlines in Scrivener for writing tasks.

There is a rabies outbreak in Central Park and authorities warn it could spread from raccoons to humans.

Harry & Bix: a eulogy for two dogs of W. 86th Street.

Tween boys and grooming products.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

That was a particularly terrible episode of Buffy - Season 1 has some truly terrible episodes, as do 6 & 7, but most of the rest is very good.

In the Tween boys and grooming products article, there was at least one very hopeful note: "in a recent survey, 41 percent of boys ages 8 to 18 said that one of their best friends was a girl." - perhaps this will help some of the gender idiocy improve.