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I did not wake up with any bizarreness in the middle of the night last night. I also had rice with terriyaki sauce for dinner, which Patty had to make because I have not yet mastered rice, because anything else seemed too challenging. On the other hand, now I am cured.

Yay, thing that was fucked up with new lease is now unfucked up. Although management company person on speaker phone, with music playing, filing your nails (yes, I could hear the emery board), you completely suck.

There was also an incident this morning involving city inspectors and a caulking gun.

Stanley Fish on plagiarism. It is, of course, Stanley Fish, which is to say, argue amongst yourselves.

The Ebell Club, a woman's social club in Los Angeles was founded at the end of the 19th century to provide a substitute for university education to women who were usually denied such opportunities because of school policies and family financial priorities. Keeping the club going in a time of broader opportunities, however, is a challenge.

Diagnosing appendicitis.

Fed up flight attendant makes one hell of an exit. Who wants to bet his story gets optioned for a movie deal?

Oyster battle: they can help clean polluted waters, but gov't agencies worry that means tainted seafood will reach consumers.

In the weirdest, least comprehensible event in the saga of the downtown Islamic cultural center is the proposal by an anti-gay media personality of opening a gay bar catering to Muslims next to it.

Meanwhile, the MTA has approved this really offensive ad with images of the planes flying into the WTC that opposes said Islamic cultural center.

Everything I hear about Torchwood S4 is making me so excited. Yesterday's big news, at least in my book, is that it will be taking place 2 years after the events of CoE. We're not sure if that means Ianto and Steven's deaths, or when Jack takes off from earth six months later. But it's a really compelling amount of time to me either way, in terms of where Jack's head is going to be, and is really a random piece of info I've felt those of us who want to be writing speculative S4 fic really, really need. I am all over this detail. ALL OVER IT.

Last night on Buffy: It's the apocalypse sex episode! Hey, own your tropes. Also, jeez, how is Spike the only grownup around? And really, King ARthur? The sword in the stone, really? What's most ridiculous is the degree to which it works, at least in the moment of watching.

Tonight, White Collar and Covert Affairs.

Comments

[cleverthylacine]

Many people have unusual/uncommon triggers which are hard to avoid because they are things that are neutral or even positive to most people and are therefore found all over the place, such as crosses and popular songs and smells. I am deeply, personally aware of this, although I decline to name my personal triggers in a public post.

However, an image such as that of planes flying into the WTC is neither an unusual nor an uncommon trigger. We know there are large numbers of people who do find it triggery. Unlike a cross or a crescent moon (which are symbols that have other meanings--the crescent moon is found on Eastern Star medallions, Wiccan jewellery, Procter and Gamble products and outhouses), it is also a very specific triggery image that can easily be avoided. People who are triggered by crosses and crescents have bigger problems than where the mosque lives. People who are triggered by the image of planes flying into the WTC can usually avoid it...unless, you know, some asshole puts it up in the bus.

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Entirely with you on this. My thought was that the crescent moon / star was a less common trigger, but for those it effects just as bad as the plane for them.

Asshole putting it on a bus is dead on. There are worse things out there, but few that will get such publicity / public showing.