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The dress is assembled, just have to do the drawstring (which is work that drives me crazy) tonight. I'll hem on the train and hope I've guessed right. I'll have time to redo it, or at least pin it after she tries it on before the ball.

My dress, meanwhile has arrived, and seems to fit. Without a person to fasten it, or the proper under garments (an approximation of which I'm getting today) it's somewhat hard to tell, but I think we're good. It certainly looks good.

Also today, trim, and hot rollers.

And a billion move related things. But we're getting there.

fighting the good fight

Some random person (I'm not sure who they are -- maybe we were in a show together?) included me on a distribution claiming that Target stores do not support Veterans groups, but only arts groups and gay and lesbian groups and *gasp* they give money to France.

Among other things, the message content is false (see: http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/target.asp)

But I was also offended as hell, and sent this reply back to everyone on the distribution (including the girl's mother and father):

This is FALSE and thoroughly explained at
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/target.asp

Among other things you can find at the above link:

"Target's stated policy is that they provide grants at the corporate level for programs involving the arts, education, and family violence prevention, and donates at the local level to a variety of charitable causes. The line about Target's responding to inquiries by stating that they provide corporate grants only for 'gay and lesbian causes' is a falsity added to later versions of the message."

I need hardly point out that the addition of gay and lesbian causes to the false message is designed to harm a corporation by preying on people's homophobia and bias. While we're all entitled to our beliefs, as a queer-American (and one that supports our troops), I'm offended by having this dropped in my mailbox.

Please take me off this distribution and fact check in the future.

Thank you.

If you're going to be a bigot; you're going to be called on it. Thanks for playing.

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