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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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The article from the New York Times about the two tornadoes was so well written. The writing quality of our local newspapers is just appalling and pales in comparison.

I've been to the Liberace Museum and I'm glad I was able to visit it. Perhaps it needs to be a part of a Las Vegas History museum. It's really sad that it has to close it's doors.