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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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[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

A very insightful take on the tween boys and grooming can be found over on Jezebel (http://jezebel.com/5460417/axe-stridex-and-malibu-musk-entering-adulthood-through-the-drugstore-aisles). I think the following quote sums up everything that make adolescence such a trial:

One of my New Year's resolutions is to be kinder to teenagers: it's way too easy to mock them without taking the two seconds necessary to remember how terrible and scary and complicated life was at that age, not only because of the effects of puberty, but because adults are constantly pointing out how much you have to learn and how far you have to go without really giving you an opportunity to actually learn and or go before they start yelling at you for doing it wrong. (emphasis mine)

This is especially true in the comments section; why do adults act all shocked at sullen teenagers when they are constantly mocking and disregarding them for going through an uncomfortable, yet completely natural bodily process that they themselves went through?