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[rm]

Patty and I have not been having the best luck this week with feeling well, tolerating the heat, etc. But the heat has broken and today will be different. I'm working early to finish early and yesterday pretty much taxed me out on the Internet for the week, I think. So y'all get to talk amongst yourselves while we try to be productive and have quality time before we leave on our respective trips.

Did I really see an ad on my way to my morning tasks for a film called: Dogs and Cats: The Revenge of Kitty Galore????!?!?!? Yes, apparently I did. (Warning for Patty: contains creepy hairless cat).

A new high school and some oysters may be the key to saving New York's waterways.

Italy is fighting in European court a ban on crucifixes in its classrooms.

Soon same-sex partners will be eligible for bereavement leave in NYS. How depressing is it that there needs to be a law or shit won't happen?

Meanwhile, this made me cry in a good way. Repentance and reconciliation at Pride and probably not in the way you'd expect. via pecunium.

Apparently, a doctor is treating pregnant women in Florida with hormones to prevent the possibility that their daughters with be lesbian or bisexual and/or display habits and career interests that are deemed too masculine.

In case you missed that, let me say this again: pregnant women are being treated with experimental drugs to prevent birth defects such as homosexuality and non-traditional gender roles.

I feel unsafe. The steps from the desire to prevent to the desire to eradicate what's already here are very small.

As Dan Savage notes: "Gay people have been stressing out about a day arriving when scientists developed treatments to prevent homosexuality ... well, here we are—the day appears to have arrived. Now what are we going to do about it?"

Comments

[bitsyrant.livejournal.com]

A way to prevent queerness of any kind? I'm not really sure you can stop, you know, *nature* but, if they can (and maybe it's enough that they are trying at all) then I would consider that to be an open act of war against me and mine. I'm not sure what we should "do about it" but being well fucking pissed off is certainly where I'll start.

In completely unrelated (and less dire) news, did you hear this rumour about Johnny Depp playing the Doctor in an American film version of Doctor Who as written by RTD?

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

rm tweeted it yesterday. As I replied at the time, I'll take it with a grain of salt. Depp's got the Ichabod Crane chops for the role, but we've heard these sorts of stories before and they've never come to anything.

[bitsyrant.livejournal.com]

Ah, I've been on tweet sabbatical so I totally missed that. I do take it with many a grain of salt and agree that Depp has a certain quality that could lend himself well to the part but, in my heart of hearts, I feel like he's too well known. He'd be JOHNNY DEPP AS THE DOCTOR instead of just being the Doctor.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

This also true. It'd be stunt-casting rather than just casting.

[rm.livejournal.com]

EXACTLY. Also I already know exactly how he'd play it, so that's inherently uninteresting, even if it's not wrong.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I totally heard that rumour, which makes just enough sense to be distressing and is also so obvious I can't really believe it's true. It's the Johnny Depp thing -- it's exactly what our dumb country would do to DW.

[bitsyrant.livejournal.com]

It totally is what our dumb country would do. The one thing I've taken heart in is that the supposed RTD quotes don't sound a ruddy bit like him. Oh, savory Flying Spaghetti Monster, please deliver us from this very american evil.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Oh, savory Flying Spaghetti Monster, please deliver us from this very american evil.

Bonus points if you say that a la Tennant.

[bitsyrant.livejournal.com]

Lately, I have switched from Tennant-ing to Gillan-ing. It's very similar but with more sass.

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

From public menace to ginger minx. The scandal!

[bitsyrant.livejournal.com]

I know! I have a friend who has quite the crush on our Ms. Pond and his hetero panties get in quite the bunch when I impersonate her. This of course, only makes me do it more. My favorite things to say?

"Are you all mister grumpy face today?"

and, of course

"Heel, boy..."

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

Ha-HA! Excellent.