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Patty's parents are here which means lots of food and lots of walking. Yay.

I am often taken aback, not by your answers to my polls, but that so many of you answer them at all. I know it's the lure of the ticky box, but it always sort of touches me that you're willing to confess or play along in passing. Y'all have no love for production people, though. None. Fuckers. Heh.

I have recently been friended by a rash of blogs that just randomly repost full news articles about random celebrities. It's annoying and weird.

It wasn't one tornado, it was two tornadoes.

Celiac Alert! This looks really exciting. But apparently it is only available at Walmart?

The Liberace Museum is closing its doors. Article is surprisingly smart and melancholy (while, I think, also leaving out a lot of context that's important), but it does note, among other things, that Liberace was Lady Gaga before Lady Gaga was even born.

The inherited mezuzas of New York. People move, not everyone is Jewish, but in New York people don't often take them down.

An update to a prayer book used by Conservative Jews will include a prayer for a deceased partner in an effort to include Jewish gays and lesbians.

DADT discharges continue to disproportionately affect non-white and female service members.

Last night on Angel: Lorne's throwing a Halloween party for Wolfram & Hart. This is total monster of the week crap, but contains a number of things of passing note.

1. Who else had had things done to them and not shared with the class. Gunn didn't hide his lawyer stuff for more than a second, but Lorne hid the sleep thing. Angel's deal was for Conner. What stuff has Wesley and Fred had done or will have done?

2. On that note, here I felt sure Wes and Fred would finally hook up in this episode and didn't. This is getting tiresome. Will Wes's deal with the devil be for Fred?

3. Spike is hilarious in the episode.

4. Okay, those fucking horned demon things. It's like, everytime they're on screen I can hear the writers cackling. "Do you think we can get away with putting the little one on a leash?" "I know, I know, let's have his horns be sawed off to make it clear that he's somebody's bitch!" The whole thing seemed like a throwaway joke in the name of "what will the network let us do?" that happened to have gotten REALLY uncomfortable and was sort of accidentally really smart. But awful and presented in a way that it was just impossible to know how to process. Um, I bet no one cares about this but me.

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[billijean.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about you yesterday. I have had to start searching for wheat-free food for J and wow.. really tough here. So I heard about a hotel whose bakery makes rye bread, so i went there to ask if it still has wheat, and how much and what other no-wheat breads they might have. Right away, they sat me down and brought in the pastry chef. he sat with us and i explained that I was looking for wheat-free bread. he explained to me that it is not possible. *eyeroll* I corrected him - totally possible. So then he changed tacks and said oh yes, of course, my mistake. The rye bread they sell is still 70% wheat flour. BUT, he can order new mixes and be making 100% rye and 100% spelt loaves within a month. I'll have a standing order and every Monday and Friday, my driver will go pick them up. So yay.

But.. at one point, he was going on about making 'gluten-free' breads with just a little bit of wheat flour, say 20%, for people who have celiac disease. I said.. WAit! What? No. No. ANY gluten is too much. It can't be just a little bit, it makes people *really* sick and puts them at higher risk for future disease. "A little bit' of wheat, or bread that is "almost gluten-free" is NOT gluten free. You are messing with people's lives. That's not ok.

He had NO idea. He thought that Celiac Disease and 'need to avoid wheat mostly' (like J) were exactly the same thing. He was really upset and kept asking me more questions. I finally had to tell him that I am no expert, but he needs to do some research, and he needs to educate himself about what gluten-free food is. So he said he was going to do that and he thanked me because he was preparing to offer gluten-free food and kind of had it wrong. He didn't understand the consequences. Then he verified again that I was not looking for gluten-free bread, I was looking for no-wheat or low-wheat bread.

So yeah. I'll believe the availability of the promised bread when I see it. Nothing ever happens on schedule here. lol

[rm.livejournal.com]

You know, I have TOTALLY heard stories like this in the US too (well, most specifically, a company that was taking regular bread, repackaging it as gluten-free and making a lot of people REALLY sick), but god that is terrifying. More and more I'm thinking I should get the instant test strips that are available in order to do science on my food before I eat it.