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[rm]

We know everyone else is over it (other than the crowds that are always there) but we LOVE Cafeteria and had AWESOME dinner last night.

New fans for the win. (Clarifying for wankers: fans that circulate air, not minions, thank you).

I posted more kink_bingo and have figured out what I'm doing for my WIAD story. Next kink_bingo story will be neither D/s nor Torchwood for those of you wanting a break. It's the Angel story I've threatened.

Um Torchwood/Political RPF. Not dirty, but SO WRONG, you know, in that way where I have to link you to it.

sparkindarkness has "We wouldn't have booked you had we known you were queer". This in London. London!

Remember the porn actor who murdered some coworkers with a prop sword? Well, having been stungunned by the cops, he fell off a cliff.

THere's a non-scientific poll right now on CNN that asks "should a mosque be built near Ground Zero?" Right now it's running 79% "no". Oi, bigots.

The web as star machine.

Never knew it was called that: Bedpan alley.

Are you fucking kidding me? Elton John sings at Limbaugh's fourth wedding. This is what I mean when I go ballistic about people liking gay folks as entertainers but not as humans.

Architectural awesome: bookshop in a former church.

IRS change for gay couples in some states despite DOMA. Because it needed to be more confusing. Oi.

And more work on pill to banish bad memories. Via cruentum on Twitter.

Comments

[orlacarey.livejournal.com]

Seriously don't scientists WATCH Sci Fi/Fantasy? Every time someone decides to play with forgetting the pain it always goes badly.

Sir Ian would like to address the assembled....

[kshandra]

Re: Sir Ian would like to address the assembled....

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

That is frelling awesome.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

We actually met with some scientists potentially working on memory-loss pills earlier this week. They're not ignorant of the amount of evil it can do in the world . . . but . . . I was kinda bugging out at the meeting.

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

I really hope Elton John is going to donate his million-dollar fee from the Limbaugh wedding to gay rights groups. Otherwise, I'm pretty damn disappointed in him for agreeing to play there.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Totally agreed.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

"We wouldn't have booked you had we known you were queer".

At least in the UK, this sort of nonsense is a crime.

Elton John sings at Limbaugh's fourth wedding

Dear gods, why would Elton John do this - my respect for him just plummeted.

bookshop in a former church

Wow.

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

After covering for Eminem's homophobia and suggesting that we turn off the internet for ten years to see if we don't like that better, Sir Elton's stock had already been delisted in my opinion.

If you like that bookstore, you'd probably enjoy the Pittsburgh microbrewery (http://www.churchbrew.com/) in a former church. Slightly less magnificent architecture, but more ... um ... innovative repurposing.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

I think Eminem is a far more complicated case that Rush. I've read several pieces that made me think that what Eminem is doing is fairly harsh social commentary of homophobia and similar attitudes. I'm far from certain, but I'm willing to give Elton John the benefit of the doubt on that - for Rush, not so much.

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

I'm also given to believe that the person who portrays Rush Limbaugh is not as much of an asshat as the character that he plays on the radio. But in both cases, I think that the subtlety of that point is lost on the audience and damage is the same as if they were utterly sincere.

I'll admit that perhaps these issues are complicated, but it also might be that Elton John simply goes where the cameras and checkbooks are without stopping to think of the social ramifications of his choices.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Having seen him perform back in his Donald Duck costume/verbally abusing the audience days, I'm pretty sure Elton does what's most profitable for Elton.

[austengirl.livejournal.com]

I will definitely be checking out that brewery next time I'm in Pittsburgh, thanks for the link.

[matthewwdaly.livejournal.com]

Oh no no. According to police, he JUMPED off the cliff after being stun-gunned. *headdesk*

I wish CNN would ask a followup question: "Do you realize that it doesn't matter what the fuck you think about building a mosque near Ground Zero?"

[delle.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Elton John was allowed to bring his partner/husband (am not sure if he's married or not).

or, was he allowed in the front door? or did he have to use the back entrance. shades of Sammy Davis Jr in the early 60s. For shame.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

He's legally married to a Canadian.

[delle.livejournal.com]

I *thought* he was married, but didn't trust my memory.

Still wonder if he was welcome to bring his spouse.

[1-mad-squirrel.livejournal.com]

Why in the world would Elton John sing at that gasbag's wedding???

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

It's baffling.

[mamadar.livejournal.com]

The same windbags who insist that if queers can marry, then people will be able to fuck their children/horses/dogs in public and WE WON'T BE ABLE TO STOP THEM! are *always* either a) closeted queers themselves or b) heterosexuals who TOTALLY FAIL at long-term relationships. I'd like to defend marriage by forbidding people to have more than three goes.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

I am floored that Elton John agreed to do Rush Limbaugh's wedding? Why why why? If I were him, I'd tell Limbaugh to go piss up a rope.

And that story about the porn actor keeps getting weirder and weirder.

I'd also like to add that I'm anxiously awaiting your Angel fic. You're going to post a a link to it here, right?

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yup, the Angel fic will live here just like the TW and HP stuff. It'll probably be a few days though.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I am with you on hatingh it when people are hapopy for gay people to entertain them but not to be treated as human...

...and I boggle at Elton John. Why is he evcen doing that?!

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

Add me to the long list of people wondering why the hell Elton John would give Rush Limbaugh the time of day, let alone sing at his wedding.

And it's the 4th time for him? Gee, straight marriage is really a stable rock of stability. *eyeroll*

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Remember the porn actor who murdered some coworkers with a prop sword? Well, having been stungunned by the cops, he fell off a cliff.

This is one of those stories that I look at and think that the universe is fucking with us. Seriously. If I wrote this, people would laugh at me because it's too unbelievable.

Elton John sings at Limbaugh's fourth wedding.

Every time I try to parse this I succumb to baffled rage. I just...I don't...how the fuck?! IDEK.

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank heavens, I had a little panic attack about the IRS thing. We've got it worked out so that we file as married in MA and single for the feds, and I'm grateful that MA is a separate property state. Wife's income is So Much Less Than Mine, I suppose that combining our property and filing as a unit probably wouldn't radically alter our refunds, but still...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Remember the porn actor who murdered some coworkers with a prop sword? Well, having been stungunned by the cops, he fell off a cliff.

I know the cliffs, I live here - and very close by. He just looked up, and stepped backward. Finito.

Our unemployment rate is somewhere above 15% - a little less here in Los Angeles, but damn higher than rational people like. People losing a job under any conditions right now tend to go more than a little crazy.

And the porn industry is just about all that's left.

Who needs a gun.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

i'm far more irritated at elton for accepting the gig...