rm | Nov. 23rd, 2010

We're back. We wound up much more off-line than intended due to a range of fascinating technical difficulties.

While I and the Internet were not working correctly, the International Transgender Day of Remembrance took place. Trans people and those perceived to be gender non-conforming can be at extremely elevated levels of risk for violence. We must remember as a step towards stopping the violence.

Netflix is screwing over its customers who use captioning. Illegally.

North Korea has fired on South Korea. This is very, very bad.

Vatican shifts position on condom use in some cases. Too little, too late is one very valid response to this. But what interests me is the implication that preventing something that's been viewed as a punishment for sin is acceptable. Doesn't that imply that even if one is to suffer in hell in the afterlife, that's no reason to encourage suffering in this one? That's interesting to me.

New York knows all stories are true.

I should say this more often than I do: Jason Isaacs is really cool. (Kali - READ THIS).

It's not just the sizes for women's clothes that lie.

Reviving the lost art of the castrato.

So Warner Bros is having someone write a script for a Whedon-free Buffy reboot. Y'all know how far "someone writing a script" is from "film actually getting made" is, right? Really frigging far. Even with noise about "2012 or even 2011." Believing it when I see it. Feeling really bad for folks for whom this feels personal, though. It's not for me, but I know what these things are like.

Have discovered my access point to old Doctor Who may be novelizations -- that way I don't have to face the crap effects.

Aside from being generally wonderful, our 24 hours at the St Davids was Super Fucking Weird for the first 90 seconds thanks to Bad Fanfiction I Have Read, also some Good Fanfiction I Have Read too. Just saying. It was lolariously awesome.

Possible best thing about Hay-on-Wye? Reciting horrible back cover copy to each other. Especially of porn thinly veiled as sci-fi from the late 60s.

Also, Patty and I have watched some Sherlock. I have (and have had for some time) many things to say, but for now I'll just say, Euros Lyn can direct anything. It's the pacing that makes it so good.

Have got Yuletide assignment. It is excellent.

Less than 1 month for us to raise the Dogboy & Justine funding. We still need to average $68 and change for each of the next 28 days. Eek.

Time to go make dinner.