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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.

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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...