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Spoke to Patty! She has a day off tomorrow, but they are visiting another archaeological site, but at least it's a change of pace. Sadly, while my text messages are still getting to her; hers are not getting to me.

LfT: Steve Case and the cool party, again -- http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/01/25/still-worried-about-lunchroom-hierarchies-after-all-these-years/

I'm probably missing the SotU tonight while I'm working on a project for another time zone. Am sort of annoyed.

Folks it Iowa are trying to take away equal marriage rights.

Marriage equality bills to be introduced in Maryland.

To echo @kshandra on Twitter last night. I hate that Geico ad mocking a three-person tango. Why? Because there is a long tradition of multi-person tangos in dance films and films with dance (usually, 3, 4 or 5 -- and yes, admittedly it's usually one woman and with everyone else being male and a dance enactment of fight or competition or rape or murder, but not always, especially in some more recently stuff where it's been more cooperative (there's a great one in one of the Step Up (I think) films), and it's just sloppy to base an entire commercial about a catch phrase ("it takes two to tango") that then ignores the entire history of the thing you're trying to do a send-up of (dance in classic film). IT'S JUST NOT CORRECT. I may write about this more intelligently on LfT later in the week. The whole thing has me SO irritated.

One of the most fun things about LfT is the site stats, especially the search terms that lead people to the site --

Weird one that totally makes sense: "tron mind control"
Weird one that totally doesn't make sense: "do spots mean you are getting ill"
Please never visit my blog again: "raped by a dog"
Obvious, yet, why is anyone searching on this phrase: "letters from titan"

Comments

[marcmagus]

I hate the ad for all of the reasons you list, and also because it's incorrect in the other direction: if you're trying to send up the phrase "It takes two to tango", you need to show *one* person attempting to tango and failing. "It takes two..." doesn't mean it can't be done with more than two, it means it can't be done with fewer. Gah!

[itcamefromjapan.livejournal.com]

This is my main problem with it as well.