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Homeless man needs help finding his stolen cat.

Transatlantic taxi swap. When I was a kid my father insisted on checker cabs only, because they had more room, and my mother and I weren't allowed to sit in the jump seats because we were ladies.

Same-sex valentine's day cards debut in India. Includes card designs targeted at both gay men and lesbians as well as a gender-neutral card design.

yuki_onna is back with some thoughts about the messages of most Superbowl ads. The piece gets into some interesting stuff about how so much of heteronormative society seems to be about convincing men and women to hate each other and yet then freaks out when people turn to their homosocial groups for sex and interpersonal connection.

A decorated pilot in the Canadian military has been charged with the murders of two women and the assault of two more with further charges expected.

ebonypearl writes about dealing with food fraud in response to a Newsweek article. Also, check out the comments. It seems the dude who was selling regular bread as gluten-free has been arrested on felony charges.

Mumps on the march.

Controversy over seven-year-old samba queen.

Creative philanthropy, $100 at a time.

ellen_kushner answers some questions about "The Man with the Knives."

Last night was Buffy-free as Patty wasn't feeling well. Hopefully she will be full recovered today and that whatever it was was non-contagious, because NOT FUN, most especially for her.

Apparently the snow IS coming for NYC this time. Well, at least it'll make Cold Spring pretty this weekend or something.

A guy who used to shoot art nudes of me saw the suit photo and said "you look like a London banker." Yes. Thank you.

Comments

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Forever ago ( sometime in the early 80's ) my parents converted the family business into a gift shop. My mother went nuts getting "sample packs" of everything in the known universe. One of these sample packs was from a greeting card company that included gay/lesbian greeting cards in the sample pack. They were amazingly generic ... the one that I saw was " hip hip hooray - I'm glad you're gay! " with generic artwork.

Remember the gender neutral grade school v-day card sets? " BE MINE!! ". Scary part of grade school was being forced to give them out - even to people you didn't like. The construction paper mailbox that was taped to the desk to collect them all. Scary scary stuff. It squicked me to have to participate.

[orlacarey.livejournal.com]

Scary part of grade school was being forced to give them out - even to people you didn't like. The construction paper mailbox that was taped to the desk to collect them all.

But the sad side is that by not giving them to everyone you end up with that kid who gets none because he/she's unpopular.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Agreed, but I had no problem with being that kid. I'd rather not participate in it at all, but I as not offered that choice.

[gement.livejournal.com]

My school (probably because we had known Jehovah's Witnesses in the community) allowed reciprocal opting out. Don't give any, don't get any, do a different craft while everyone's making boxes. I'm sorry to hear yours was not so accommodating.