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I cut my hair!

Patty has chosen a living situation in Cardiff and I believe is moving in there today. There are chickens. Someone, please use the chickens detail in a Torchwood fic.

Dress has been altered thanks to marchek. After I bought shoes for it, which were higher than I intended but are super comfy, and an industrial bra that basically takes me form a B-cup to a DD-cup, I decided it didn't need to be shortened, it just needed to be nipped in slightly on one side, and it has been. So it looks great, even if it's pure technology. Perhaps, that's entirely suitable.

I fear I am getting Patty's cold. Add to this that I need to get up at 4am tomorrow because of one of those vagaries of media-related employment and I'm full of dread. Mostly, I just need to power through the event tomorrow night, and then if I get sick, I get sick, although I'd rather manage to power through this whole week -- what with the Paley Center and the Inception rehearsal.

We haven't gotten any mail at the house in several days, which is pretty unusual. Should I be concerned about this in a "some asshole did a change of address on me" or something similar way?

Last night I tried to start my "It Gets Better" video. I've run into a few problems, including that most of the anti-gay bullying I experienced was during my completely horrific freshman year of college; that's not very promising is it? Maybe I should be vague. Also, somewhere towards the end of messing with it last night I sort of had a "Oh, this is how iMovie works!" breakthrough that has now led me to being all "scrap this, story board, start again, be awesome!" which on on hand is unnecessary, but on the other hand, does speak to greater cogency. Also, the power of editing is awesome, because it helps the directorial imagination, but wow, I HATE EDITING. At least with iMovie. It's a patience thing. MAKE IT GO. GRah.

If the aliens come, the UN has a plan.

I mentioned Sukkah City last week, here's an article about it.

An amicus brief opposing gay marriage has been filed to the 9th Circuit from Alabama, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming. Just so you know which states are on notice.

What's being sold in ads that feature "female empowerment"? I generally hate those ads. To some people they're inspiring. To me they say "you're nothing, but if you buy this thing, you can feel like you have one tiny little choice in the world."

Branding carrots as junk food to get kids to eat them.

The Kafkaeqsue legal wrangle over Kafka's papers.

"The Ecstasy of Grief" by eleusis_walks: an essay on the death of Jenny Calendar in Buffy which I'm linking to for my own reference because it's about death stuff.

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They need to change the name of the carrots. "Baby Carrots" does not inspire me to think of them as junk food.

The Verizon "Rule the Air" ad bothers me a lot. It doesn't mean anything. It could mean something, but verizon itself has little to do with equality and female power.

Another ad phenomenon I dislike are the companies which make rainbow-covered ads for queer magazines, but would never try to place a queer-oriented ad elsewhere. We can see photographs of victorian couples who are presumably gay or lesbian in some (I think for an airline), with the message, "We have always been progressive. Love us." The other ads generally say, "We don't hate you, so give us your money." The ads aren't relevant in the way that ads meant for heterosexual couples or families are relevant. An ad with a couple making jokes while sitting down to dinner or bedding down for the night is specific about a facet of heterosexual life; a queer ad saying, "You're queer and you should shop here" has very little to do with actual queer people.

For the video, I don't think you need to be vague. You have survived all the crap, which is empowering to people wondering if they can make it. It is also important to know that there are other people out there who are either queer or queer-friendly, that none of us needs to be alone and that there are places to go which are better than others. If we tell them that everything is awesome once they get to college, those that can't get to college for whatever reason may become even more hopeless. And those that do go there thinking everything will be awesome won't have had the disclaimer that not all colleges are awesome towards queer people.

[deusabscondidum.livejournal.com]

I just found an article linked to a list (with pictures) of Verizon's leadership team - http://www22.verizon.com/Content/ExecutiveCenter/BiosAndPictures/BiosAndPictures.htm

They have one woman, total. Win.