sundries: bomb the moon alternate universe day

Don't Ask Don't Tell mostly ousts women. Ah, homophobia and misogyny together again!

Brent Childers talks about his journey from using his religious beliefs to promote anti-gay bigotry to being a Christian advocate for LGBTQ rights. (thanks to popfiend for the link).

So in case you somehow missed it Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. Er, wtf? I mean, I'm crazily glad we no longer have bigoted war-mongering freaks running our country, but that doesn't really seem like a good enough reason to give the guy this award at this moment in time. Also? Refusing to meet with the Dali Lama? The we're closing Gitmo/wer're not closing Gitmo dance? The troop reductions that seem like they will never come (because, admittedly, we're in a tactical clusterfuck) The complete inaction on DoMA and DADT? The Great Healthcare Wafflerama? The being so interested in bipartisanship nothing the fuck gets done?

I mean, sure his speech to the Muslim world was FANTASTIC, but that's a starting point not an ending point. But regardless of all _that_ omg, now we're going to have to listen to the extreme Right (and less face it, folks, while there are individuals who are conservative and reasonable any collective organization of the same has cease to exist in the US for quite some time -- it's all the extreme right on the national stage) talk about world government conspiracies, the moral failings of peace and how whatever hate they spout isn't really racism. Folks, it's really racism. Man, this is going to be Not a Good Time.

Did we bomb the moon and wind up in an alternate universe? Who wants to bet that Rachel Maddow will actually ask that question tonight?

Patty and I are going to see Lipsynch in an all day marathon at BAM on Sunday and we'll be at the Players Club tonight. I have no idea what to wear to such a degree that I almost feel forgiving of the sudden spate of Torchwood fics in which Jack and Ianto have a date and neither of them can figure out what to wear (the problem isn't the idea, the problem is the clustering).

Posts I need to make seperately: LJ Idol Home Game intro and stuff about the current set of Torchwood novels.

Hello, women's shoes that will fit my feet and look appropriately masculine with my suits! -- Sold Out! Waaaaaaaaaah!

Oh hey, our sketchy landlord actually was nice and explained what was up with some shit, and now I am happy.

Pointless article expresses shock that women are interested in basic health issues like sleep and water consumption above sex. Many other offensive "insights" as well. Also, smirking tone.

Torchwood: Consequences

So, like a fool, I wound up reading Consequences which is really the last of the new Torchwood books first, because that's when it arrived. Now halfway through James Goss's I realize things in the first two are referenced in the third. But thankfully, the Whoniverse has no canon, and nothing has to happen in order anyway.

As mentioned before, I enjoy Pinborough's work, even if I questioned the way a particular bit came off and thought she went dark just for the sake of dark (although it did raise interesting questions about the artifact her story was one), and I liked that the book's first story was mostly about Emily, Alice and Gaskell.

What's really interesting however is the book's last story, which is pretty much required reading if you're doing any work at all on media, fanfiction, reception, the role of audience vs. writer vs. story, etc. whether you are in this fandom or not.

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