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Kiana Firouz still desperately needs our help. The UK, having denied her asylum request, wants to deport her back to Iran, where she will in all probability be executed for being a lesbian and political activist.

Well, SPN folks, looks like you dodged that bullet. Was it satisfying?

gina_r_snape saw someone die at work yesterday.

The search for an apartment's original tenant.

Arizona racism in action.

When I talk about the awesome, but completely randomized/frustrating public transit in Sydney, I usually talk about ShittyRail. But this post about the bus system is priceless.

ellen_kushner has an Alan Rickman story that beats my Alan Rickman story. Also, it involves the Welsh. Come on, you know you have to click.

The Hewitt thing is today. I took a different coat out of the closet, since I need to do a slight repair on the one I usually wear. This is one my mother bought me that I never wear because I find it a bit dowdy or something, but over the very 1940s look of the dress I'm wearing, it's sort of freakishly brilliant.

Speaking of dresses, sometimes I like them. Especially if they are vintage-y and/or speak to that "if Jack Harkness was a chick" instinct in my wardrobe. So do I want to buy this or this? I'm sort of all over this too, but I don't need it the way I need me some blue and white polka dots.

Ages ago, a photog I worked with even more ages ago friended me on Facebook. My Facebook pic is masculine, and the friending note said "you, er, look different now, but I hope you're well." I finally friended a bunch of random people back last night, and so he's since written on my wall "nice tie! hope you're well." To which I say to you all: if you have a question, just fucking ask it; otherwise, I'm ignoring this shit.

More Angel last night. WHAT THE FUCK WITH THIS VAMPIRE BABY PLOTLINE? IS IT BECAUSE ANGEL HAS A SOUL? I'm going to fucking HATE this plotline, aren't I? Also, still hate Wesley's hair.

Anyway, aside from that... Kal Penn in another thankless Whedon role! And I loved, loved that mess of a situation with Gunn's old crew and the karaoke bar and the demon murders and Angel and Wesley and just -- THIS IS MY SORT OF TV. But yeah, it's dark, and it hurts and nobody wins, and I'm not sure how I'm going to feel about what's clearly going to be the endless murky miserable grind of this season.

Now, because I can't talk about Angel without talking about Torchwood: Wesley pretty much has all of Ianto and Jack's best as well as most brutal qualities. I can't look away. I mean, I really, really can't look away.

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Short version:

When I went to see Private Lives on Broadway, I had tasrina and ladypeculiar with me. Tsarina was wearing a tiara and was all, ""let's go to the stage door! And Megan was having a personal crisis and also being all "I'm an actor, fuck this shit, I'm going to stand in the corner and smoke."

So I'm standing there with tsarina and she's having this surreal conversation with Lindsay Duncan wherein Lindsay Duncan says "I love your tiara! The best thing about this play is the hats. I have a hat!" and then Alan Rickman finally comes out to do the autograph thing and a bazillion Potter fans are being totally creepy ("I looked up your family's genealogy online!" "Sign my Snape doll!" etc.) and then he gets over to where we are. Some little NYU girls have shoved themselves in front of us, and they go "Oh, oh Mr. Rickman, we love all your films!"

Now, Rickman has been in some serious SHIT, so he starts laughing in this sort of sinister way and says "Clearly, you haven't seen all of them." Then I start laughing, and can't stop, and he and I have this weird eye contact/hand gesture conversation about these girls between us, when one of them TURNS AROUND and then starts berating me for ruining her moment with Alan Rickman, with whom I continue to gesture in a "can you believe this shit? what the fuck? people TERRIFY me" way.

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

Never mind my question. Cool story.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I will never forget the hilarious sarcastic bent of that one sentence for all my life. It was so great. Clearly!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Seriously, that "Clearly" went on for a good five seconds. It was HILARIOUS.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I am sad that the crazy bell pepper foot obsessed lady from inside the theater wasn't there to ask him to autograph the produce.