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My goal today is to get work done efficiently, come home, and start working on Clean All the Things. Patty has some things she wants me to get done in the house before she leaves for Cardiff, and there are a few other things I've let go, AND I need to unpack from Chicago, so I'd like to make dents in that tonight. (So we're clear, we have division of labor. I just tend to get behind, hence the "things I must dooooooooooooo!")

A lumber yard has opened next to our apartment building. It makes noise in the mornings. Today was better than yesterday, but this is blech!

Anyone know if last week's Project Runway will be re-run before this weeks? We missed it and need our fix.

Still haven't written my WIAD. After this conference call!

A film in NYC is currently casting background and looking for "drag queens who own pugs" and "hipsters who own pugs." I love this business.

Apparently, it's still raining in Pakistan. help_pakistan.

In case you haven't heard: A passenger asks a cabbie if he's Muslim and then stabs him when he says yes. And redstapler alerts us to a man urinating on prayer rugs and shouting anti-Muslim slurs. Yes, this is what people's bullshit about Park 51 is getting us here in NYC.

The organizer of Atlanta's Black Gay Pride has been shot and killed.

Hospital that was abusive towards and refused to treat trans woman changes policies.

Former RNC Chairman comes out and notes it's taken him 43 years to get comfortable with being gay. Thinky thoughts here about the profound danger of people who hate themselves being in power. Of course, very few people who don't hate themselves want power, so it's sort of a problem.

Men, gender roles, teddy bears and business travel. Also, men apparently keep teddy bears where pop-culture tells us they keep their porn, under the bed.

The Doctor, 1; Harvard, 0. via onebrightroad.

Last night on Angel: I keep thinking Connor is doubting, but then he shows up with Jasmin's voice and her army! Also, that scuttling flesh magic thing in the sewers? Did RTD totally get the big red spider queen thing idea from this or what?

Love that this is all about true names and blood vs. words and all these ideas that have a place in discussions of magick in this, but that's also frustrating in a set of shows where magic = lesbian sex, then magic = drugs and oh man, Willow is a Wicca!

Still loving this plot arc, still unsure of how they are going to get out of it. Will Connor or Cordy's blood be put into the water supply? Will Angel find Jasmin's true name? With the creepy flesh spiders summon her back into their hell dimension? What will happen? Who will die? OMG.

Comments

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

I am *so* dying to find out how you react to the end of Angel this season.

[idunn.livejournal.com]

People still keep porn under the bed? I figured the internet was so much more convenient now.

[adelheid-p.livejournal.com]

They just keep their laptops under the bed now. ;-)

[xtricks.livejournal.com]

I read, some years ago so I don't have the source and thus not sure of the accuracy, that more men than women keep a childhood stuffed toy into adulthood.

As noticed, it's pretty much one of those things that goes entirely unspoken because it implys that men actually have feelings.

[tod-hollykim.livejournal.com]

I did, well, until Cold-eyes Kitty disintegrated. She was called Cold-eyes because her eyes were metal buttons. And I couldn't go to sleep until I warmed both up by holding her to my cheeks- one side at a time.

I still collect stuffed toys, mostly Boyds' Bears, some cats, a handmade folk bunny and a moose a friend in Germany sent. But my favorite is a small teddy bear my mom made out of grey suit wool. He has a tiny white collar and a tiny red tie.

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

As noticed, it's pretty much one of those things that goes entirely unspoken because it implys that men actually have feelings.

Yep. THIS.

[sanginmychains.livejournal.com]

My husband's BFF (the man he would have married if they'd been into guys), and the head of the Nuclear Medicine department at a good sized hospital, still has his blue bear that he's had since he was a tiny baby. Cuddles it from time to time when he's having a bad day.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Poog not dog, goblin!

Hee, that's one nifty little hack from MIT. (Others have included painting up that dome to resemble R2D2's dome.)

Of course, very few people who don't hate themselves want power, so it's sort of a problem.

Which leads to Douglas Adams' reductio ad absurdum, where the real President of the Galaxy is an existentialist hermit who lives in a shack with a cat.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Which leads to Douglas Adams' reductio ad absurdum, where the real President of the Galaxy is an existentialist hermit who lives in a shack with a cat.

When I read the (it turns out completely unnecessary) sort-of-Hitchhiker's sequel And Another Thing..., when Arthur was introduced he seemed to be described a little bit like the Man in the Shack, so I thought, what, is ARTHUR going to turn out through time travel and stuff to be the real President of the Galaxy? May have made for a more interesting book than what got written...

[sykii.livejournal.com]

"Of course, very few people who don't hate themselves want power, so it's sort of a problem."
So horribly true and well said.

[jcbemis.livejournal.com]

The Doctor 1' Harvard 0

Yay for new hacks! of course, it's a tradition...

RE: Former RNC Chair

[(Anonymous)]

Oh look, this is my face of surprise and shock. I should fall over dead of a heart attack from the shock.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I'm always baffled by how everything is on top of everything in New York and I find myself wondering where on earth they found room to stick a lumber yard on your block.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Hey, it is Clean All The Things day for me too! As well as Pack All The Things, since my going to Dragon*Con is convoluted and involves going north to Boston to start.

I had thoughts about the stuffed animals thing, but they're rambly and self-centered and I'm just gonna turn them into a real post. At any rate, Lazarus would like his approval to be known --Laz being my small purple stuffed pony that was made for me a couple years ago by a friend. He has a pinstriped nose!

~Sor

[weirdodragoncat.livejournal.com]

RE: former RNC Chair...

I don't want to discount anything horrible he said during his stint with the RNC....cause that was some pretty horrible self-hating lashing out...but damn the comments on that article were just about as bad. I had to stop reading because it was really upsetting. I'm just glad the guy has finally found peace with himself...even if it did take 43 years to get there.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Don't read comments on news articles on the Internet, regardless of political persuasion.

[weirdodragoncat.livejournal.com]

You'd think I'd know better by now...but much like the 'train wreck' effect...I can't seem to stop myself.

[alan-yee.livejournal.com]

Hopping in to say, same with me. I inevitably end up reading comments that upset me, even though I should (unfortunately) expect news articles on anything QLTBAG-related to have some bigoted comments. I've started forcing myself not to read news article comments because unnecessarily upsetting myself--however briefly--is not a good thing for me.

[kel-reiley.livejournal.com]

re: angel - just... keep watching

[maryling.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is what people's bullshit about Park 51 is getting us here in NYC.

But those two fine, upstanding citizens wouldn't have done anything if the EVIL MOOSE-LEMS hadn't stirred up negative emotions by wanting to build a 3,000 foot mosque in the footprint of the North Tower!


...what's that? It's not a mosque? It's not actually at the site of the WTC? It's the hateful, intolerant white people stirring up all the emotions with their hatemongering? Oh. Um. My bad.

*eyeroll*

[chaos-by-design.livejournal.com]

I was pretty stunned by the article about men having stuffed animals, though I was annoyed at the writer's assumption that a man having a stuffie would bother a woman. I wouldn't care, or think it indicated anything about than that he had warm, squishy feelings.

[malle-babbe.livejournal.com]

Re: guys with stuffed toys. The stuffed rabbit I've had since Jimmy Carter was president is totally chill with revelation. I have wondered if the popularity of the Snuggie in late 2008 was related to a primal comfort need brought on by the economy coming apart.

Re: Ken Melhman coming out. Reading your blog, I have learned that coming out is way more than a self-confidence issue, and in many ways a luxury tied into how much privilege leverage on possesses. Still, I can't read his willingness to inflict his own self-loathing and baggage one other as arrogance of an amazing degree.