sundries

Last night I finished Sarah Pinborough's Torchwood novel Into the Silence which is very much an animal apart from the other others. It has its problems, but it feels like she tried to write a real book, and, more than any of the other TW novels thus far, looked at the things fan-writers tend to look at, without committing fanservice.

( spoilers, I suppose, both for this book and very slightly for CoE )

Last night our house had an Epic Waterbug Incident and now we don't know where it is. I am now living in denial.

You cannot make an inhumane and discriminatory policy that compromises our national security by forcing soldiers with valuable skills out of the service more humane with this shitty logic: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/01/gates.gays/index.html Grrrrrr.

Today's TW radio play. No useful commentary, just ( hahahahaha )

. Also a CoE concern: ( Read more... )

Should also post reviews of TW audio-only books soon too. Not today. Working working!

Today I dropped off two shirts at the cleaners -- the dark blue-grey and the light blue. And I picked up a bunch of shirts -- the white, the light blue pinstripe, the dark blue pinstripe, the multiple shades of blue pinstripe, and the light blue-grey. All of which means -- I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE MY NAVY BLUE SHIRT IS. This is really bugging me. But since it's laundry night, hopefully it got sorted into wash instead of drycleaning and that will resolve that.

Writers behaving badly. This is one of like three incidents of same I've heard about this week. AND IT'S ONLY WEDNESDAY. People! I've a short temper and no doubt delusions about my talent and importance, but I know better, why don't these people?

Unhappy about all the "acetimophen is dangerous and we're reducing the amount of it/eliminating it from some meds" thing. Acetimophen is pretty much the only painkiller I can take -- ibuprofen doesn't work on me, aspirin bothers my stomach (even coated), naproxen doesn't touch it for me either. Most prescription stuff gives me terrible side effects. I don't take painkillers often, but when I need them, I need them, and the idea of not being easily able to get my Tylenol is NOT OKAY.

This is one giant clusterfuck of a story: http://gothamist.com/2009/06/30/woman_says_misogynistic_cop_arreste.php

Meanwhile, laurashapiro alerts us to a documentary on gender identity issues, homosexuality and Iran on HBO. Review (a must read) here: http://www.doublex.com/section/arts/get-sex-change-iran

Via several on my friends list: There's a new multi-fandom awards thing for LJ vidders, but it's not accepting any GBLTQ content -- even when that content is canonical to the shows the vids are from. So yeah, not just against slash in non-canon pairings, just plain ol' homophobic. Also, seriously disrespectful, not just to queer people and fandom, but also to creatives of all stripes -- apparently some of our stories don't really exist! Linky details from xtricks here: http://xtricks.livejournal.com/96484.html