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Return of the eye-mask. I feel really well-rested. But that might be because I overslept by an hour.

Patty's parents arrive today. Also, she got a really cute haircut.

I have just gotten my face waxed. As per usual, they made my eyebrows too thin. They do open up my eyes when they are done, but I hate when they are too thin -- they speak to me of gender-normative desires I don't have. Of course, knowing this would happen, I got them done ten days before anything I care about -- they'll be coming back in slightly by then, and if not, I'll use pencil to fix. Because, argh, I am not a delicate thing with big eyes who is harmless. No.

They haven't decided if it was a tornado yet, but it sure does look like it. Power actually blipped at my office several times, which was very surprising.

How many birthdays of living celebrities do you know? I wonder how many the average person knows. Celebrities you actually socialize with don't count at all, because that defeats the purpose of my question.

The Joaquin Phoenix documentary, I'm Still Here, isn't real. While everyone I know expresses some level of annoyance or boredom while insisting on their own lack of credulity on the matter before this was revealed, I'm shocked that more people aren't finding the thing at least abstractly interesting. Because, in short, this is about a guy and his friends writing RPF about themselves.

While most people I know are horrified, I can't get past how right it feels to me that Sacha Baron Cohen will be playing Freddie Mercury in a new movie.

Reasons why it's good to date a writer. jennifer_brozek responds. I engage in too many different creative practices to expect all of these to apply to me, but the response to 18 makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.

Too bad I'll be out of the country for the Stewart/Colbert rallies on the mall.

shweta_narayan has an amazing post about the personal cost and general non-success of trying to assimilate in the way some people (most recently, Elizabeth Moon) would have you, erroneously, believe all immigrants must in order to succeed and do with ease and acceptance. It's important information and great writing.

Credit where credit is due: A BYU student and Mormon defends his editorial criticizing the Mormon church for its involvement in fighting Prop 8.

What you can do to fight DADT right now. Meanwhile, The New York Times calls on Obama to stop enforcing the policy.

senseless wants to know if you can help find another missing 16-year-old.

Buddy needs thyroid treatment. Help him at nuke_our_cat.

Comments

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

I think the "I'm Still Here" stunt would be more interesting if there hadn't been a movie with a similar approach already out this year ("Exit Through the Gift Shop", which did it brilliantly. Also more interesting if it's subjects and creators (Affleck and Phoenix) were more compelling themselves . . . Affleck comes off as a bit of a hack in the NYT interview, seeming to have no concept as to why people are confused by his artistic intentions. It seems absolutely absurd to me that he would spend years creating this piece of work, and then act baffled when his audience reacts to the piece.
Here's my bro-in-law's review: http://www.nycfilmcritic.com/?p=2146. It's