sundries

My help_haiti auctions:
solo fic: http://community.livejournal.com/help_haiti/3155.html?thread=2487635#t2487635
co-written fic:
http://community.livejournal.com/help_haiti/3155.html?thread=2549587#t2549587

The New York Times has a brief article on skin-lightening creams, which strikes me as one of those things that once again the New York Times is the last to find out about.

Men, hormones and the quest to stop aging.

On women, literature and recognition. Can I note I find all this stuff very tiring? I have enough gender issues without worrying if I'm just trying to circumvent the bullshit; it may be one reason (the other is that it was _made_ for print) that I've so held onto my name. It's true in theater too. Do I think a full-length Dogboy & Justine would get a better reception if it was seen as a man's statement about men instead of a woman's statement about women? Yeah, I do.

Villains and saints: or Elizabeth Edwards as the latest example of how women with public images never get to be simply human. And, of course, the New York Times places this in the Fashion & Style section.

Have you been following the Prop 8 trial online? I've been using The Advocate's Twitter feed. Anyway, the whole thing is sort of riveting and awful. The judge seems deeply irritated by the pro-Prop 8 lawyers, and sometimes seems to ask them questions just to see what nonsensical shit they'll say next. The Prop 8 Trial Tracker is also your friend, and tekalynn points us to this part of the transcript to remind us of the weight and misery of the closet. And, as tekalynn notes, read the comments.

I am so glad someone is finally mentioning that not everyone can see 3D. I can, but it's uneven for me sometimes and I don't like it. Patty can't. The possible future move to 3D TV, which I hate for other reasons (goggles isolate you from the communal experience of home viewing/discussing in real time with others) will completely screw up TV for a lot of people and it makes me unhappy.

Vid rec: Afraid of Americans. It's a fest vid, so we don't know who made it yet. Watchmen fandom. Well-done and smart.

Have _finally_ ordered the rank slides for the coat.

women, men and being a con artist

http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2010/01/a-rant-about-women/

( read the article first, then if you want, read me talk about myself in uncomfortable ways )

cruise: full day 2 - Grand Turk

Our second stop was Turks & Caicos. We stopped in Cockburn Town in Grand Turk which is still recovering from significant hurricane damage and was fairly poor. Patty went snorkeling, but I decided to take a taxi from the cruise port into town to see the historic homes from the tour that was all booked up by the time I decided I wanted to do it. Later, Patty and I met up for beach time.

( No stingrays. Puppies! )