sundries

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Progress continues. Since yesterday budgets have been written, song ideas bandied about, web developers and designers found, and a funding request written. I'm still agog that all you've got to do is go (actually, that's always been my attitude, but I don't think I quite had m head screwed on about the money and scale part of it). I mean, I know it won't be easy, but don't I always say I'm in it for the ordeal?

We're in the throes of getting web stuff up and all that, but for now, we do have a Twitter, so if you want to follow us early and often, that's at @TrebleEntendre.

Meanwhile, quick sundries now, because Patty and I have a date at 2, and I want to go out and see the world a little first, it looks like a nice day.

ETA: I've been out and back. I bought a totally hot pair of jeans (all on my own, and without someone in the industry telling me I had to to look young. They're really tight and yet oddly masculine, so yay), a German phrase book, a film magazine (which has led to me stumbling on a must-do seminar for me, that I just missed a convenient date of, so I've written to them about 2011) and a copy of The Great Gatsby.

Oh, hey, I meant to link to a fic today, but no one reads this on the weekends, so it's better for all if it waits.

Apparently Americans are being warned about travel in Europe. Should I really register with the consular? I've never bothered before. But this is a long trip. I don't find myself at all freaked by these things though -- I was in Rome when the Rome and Vienna airports were bombed when I was a kid, and I remember my parents talking about how you had to lie about your nationality if the plane got hijacked. This shit isn't anything new.

Another story on the female engagement teams in Afghanistan.

Sketches and plans for Park 51.

Spirit Day, October 20, so honor and remember those who have killed themselves because of anti-gay hate. The images going around LJ show six young lives lost. But there have been several other LGBT suicides in the last month (at least three of which have been featured in the news), so it is important to note that this is for all of them. Spread the word.

We remember you who have suffered or died
at the hands of others,
Women who have loved women;
Men who have loved men;
And all of those who have refused
the roles others
have expected us to play.
Nothing shall purge
your deaths from our
memories.

Actually, while we're on the subject of that memorial from Sydney, can one of you who lives there actually assure me that that thing is still there? Also, what sort of permits does one need for filming in Sydney? I mean, if it was just say under 10 people (cast and crew -- really off the top of my head for the scene in question it's just 6)? Could I get away with just doing it? Trying to figure out the logistics of an old project of mine, and it's too much of a nightmare to do between distance and paperwork. I suppose I should just Google it, but hey, I thought I'd ask.

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It won't hurt to register with the consulate, ever - and if something does happen, either because of terrorism or because of a random bus hitting you or Patty or anyone else, they will know where to contact you and vice versa in an emergency. And just in case a discotheque or a cab blows up, they know to find you in jail or hospital and make sure your country's got your back.

It's one thing to lie about your nationality if you find yourself on a bus that's been hijacked buy terrorists, but the consular list is a totally different thing - that's letting the US know that there's a US citizen in town who they may need to help if shit goes badly. I think it ridiculously unlikely that they will have to evacuate Switzerland because the Slavs invade, but I like knowing the Marines will make sure I'm on the plane if I'm on the list.