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10:32 pm
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I haven't had the chance to respond to comments, but...
OMG YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME! Thank you for all the redheads! ♥ ♥ ♥
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08:04 pm
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HELP!
Okay, quick, everyone start naming redheads! Particularly redheads of color, because I can think of exactly zero offhand. :(
(Or, failing that, everyone go over here and start voting for the candy option. But I would rather have the redheads. But I am desperate! Help!)
On my list so far: Catherine Tate, Seth Green, Kate Winslet (sometimes), whoever got named in the comments, the guy who played Turlough and a metric fuckton of Weasleys. Also, Simon Pegg, whom a former co-worker used to refer to as "that redheaded guy from Shaun of the Dead" so he totally counts. But no people of color, alas. :(
Also, you do not want to google the phrase "latina redhead" unless you are a fan of porn. And I didn't even image-google it! I'm kind of afraid to at this point, to be honest, and yet my curiosity is killing me.
Hey, does anyone know where I can get Psych icons? I have a need!
ETA: Oh! Also! Kari from Mythbusters! Yes! :D
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04:54 pm
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Yeah, I'll admit it, I cried.
Maine has a proposition on the ballot this year asking voters to rescind the new marriage equality law that was recently passed by their legislature and signed by their governor. There's been a lot of publicity on it, way more than Washington's proposition to rescind the new domestic partnership thing that basically makes it marriage without being marriage, and the polls are neck-and-neck. Registered voters in both states generally swing towards the personal independence / equal rights side of the fence, but it's an off year so that basically skews the pool of likely voters into angry old bigot territory, so it's all down to get-out-the-vote efforts at this point, and the Referendum 71 people are not making it particularly easy for me to volunteer but enough about me, let's go to the video of this guy from Maine! Ooooooh.
This is an 86-year-old man from Maine, a lifetime Republican and WWII medic, talking about LGBT rights and marriage equality: "What do you think our boys fought for at Omaha Beach?"
I kind of want to hug him. But, y'know, gently. It obviously took a lot of effort for him to be there. And now I'm getting all teary-eyed again, sigh.
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03:06 am
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I really should've been in bed hours ago, yeah.
Going by our tags, I have determined that the ideal Hot Daily picture would be a vintage shot of two men playing chess while handcuffed together in a car, one of whom is heavyset and dressed in drag while holding a gun, and the other of whom is wearing nothing but a tie and a pair of glasses, tattoos visible, holding a puppy, shaved completely bald (the man, not the puppy) and has clearly been smeared with dirt then sprayed with water (but not enough water to get all the dirt off, obviously). Also, the picture would have to be sent to me by someone else, and there would be a muppet in the background. Wearing a pair of Calvin Kleins. And one of the guys would be a Bollywood actor. This is a totally plausible thing that could happen!
...Actually, thinking about it more, if we removed the vintage and Bollywood requirements, this actually does almost sound like an entirely plausible scenario for a Frost/Pegg photoshoot. GET ON THAT, PHOTOGRAPHERS. AND SEND ME YOUR PICS!
PS: Nick should have a kitten in his dress.
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02:27 pm
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I have a bunch of tabs open, and I want to put the links somewhere.
I've had these first few tabs open for a while, because I've been wanting to post them but then I end up just seething at them for a while instead, so the links are old, and maybe someone's posted about this in UFB already, I wouldn't know, but anyway, Oklahoma is full of assholes. WTF Oklahoma? That law is so illegal it's amazing, and I hope that anyone involved in trying to enforce it gets prosecuted under HIPAA. Assholes.
And, in other news, let's see, let's see, what other tabs do I have open? Hmmmm...
Intersex Australians Must Join Sex Offender Registry To Get Medication
PepsiCo Apparently Decides Women Are Not Their Market
Students Use Free Gideon Bibles in Texas Schools to Beat Jewish Students and Roll Joints
And, via the Onion: If God Had Wanted Me To Be Accepting Of Gays, He Would Have Given Me The Warmth And Compassion To Do So
Also, I read about this in the paper before I saw it online, but apparently Amazon and Wal-Mart have engaged each other in some sort of online price war. I don't know who to root against. :(
ETA: Republicans say the darndest things!
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08:21 am
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Speaking of Cthulhu...
So most everyone's seen this bizarre painting by now, right? It's crazycakes, with the Jesus and the Constitution and the A/N's, it's just bizarre, and there is nothing that can be done but laugh at it. Besides, of course, creating parodies, of which the Shortpacked version used to be my favorite. I say "used to be" because, well... yes. This is amazing. AMAZING. So detailed! <3
(PS: Regarding the Nobel Peace Prize, I don't really think he's done a whole lot yet to deserve it -- we're still in the midst of two wars, he's talking about ramping up in Afghanistan, there's still no real plan for closing Gitmo and plus he's been trying to continue some pretty damn iffy Bushisms regarding prisoner detention, and also I'm pissed off about his complete inaction on DADT but that's kind of beside the point -- but it's nice to see that the rest of the world still really really really appreciates our newfound lack of Bush/Cheney-types in the Executive Branch, and plus the wingnut reaction is proving to be just as glorious as you'd expect. After that whole fit they threw about how the Olympics thing showed that Obama had lost status in the world or whatever the fuck -- because that was totally his fault and not at all because of the Bush/Cheney-era traveling restrictions that make it an absolute horror for non-citizens to visit, obviously -- this is just beautiful. Thank you, whoever decides the recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize! You are awesome! ♥)
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02:17 am
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Oh my goodness! My poor virgin eyes!
There are some really interesting things that happen when you type "vintage" into the Google Images search bar after forgetting that you have the SafeSearch turned off.
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01:18 pm
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I like the guy with the π necklace best.
Scientists are so cool.
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11:54 pm
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I hate the vast majority of Republican politicians.
GOP backs corporate rape ("As predictably regressive as the modern GOP has become, it's shocking to see that they still have the ability to shock.")
On a related note, on the topic of things I never thought I'd hear myself say, I'm kind of in love with Al Franken right now. He is so awesome. I'm so glad Lizard People didn't win. <3
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05:45 pm
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pain and suffering
Dear Cold Medication,
Please work. Please. I'm begging you, please.
All my love,
Pui
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03:35 am
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Getting my hate on
I am, generally speaking, an extremely liberal person in almost every way, and I am of the strong belief that the United States criminal justice system needs a severe overhaul, particularly with regards to drugs and prostitution, but there are certain types of crime that make me veer sharply to the right and also make me want to beat people with large heavy objects.
Relatedly, this column about Roman Polanski pissed me off. Particularly this bit:
He did commit a crime, but he has paid for the crime in many, many ways: In notoriety, in lawyers' fees, in professional stigma. He could not return to Los Angeles to receive his recent Oscar. He cannot visit Hollywood to direct or cast a film.
Yes, my heart bleeds for Roman Polanski, who drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl and has never done even ten minutes of jail time for it. Boo-hoo for Roman Polanski, who fed a 13-year-old girl booze and quaaludes then anally raped her, among other things, and then lived in France for a while, from where he continued to travel the world and make all sorts of movies and be praised by famous people and win prestigious awards and be hailed as a genius, A GENIUS PEOPLE, A GENIUS, and is it fair that the plebes should be allowed to punish a genius? All he did was knowingly drug and brutally rape a young child, HE IS A VERY IMPORTANT AND FAMOUS ARTISTIC GENIUS, HASN'T HE SUFFERED ENOUGH FOR HIS CRIME?
Well, you know what? No. No, he has not suffered enough for his crime. He has not suffered enough for it, because he has not suffered at all for it, and there is not enough suffering in the entire fucking world for people who rape children. So there.
But he's never going to do time, because he's old and he's rich and he's famous and he's got sob stories to tell, and everyone's going to keep making excuses for him ("Oh, but he says he didn't know how old she was!" as if that makes the drugging and raping part a-okay; "Oh, but he lived through so many terrible things before that!" as if anyone who's had a shit life is allowed free reign to drug and rape anyone they please; "Oh, but he's given so much to the world!" as if making some movies is such a huge effort that should be rewarded by allowing the people who make them to drug and rape middle-schoolers all they want), and also he's rich, and plus he has money, and he's famous, so famous -- HE'S AN ARTISTIC GENIUS! -- and that plus the money is about all that he needs. He's never going to do time.
And now this news story is going to bring out all his defenders, tons and tons of them, and I am going to hate the world so much by the time it dies down, I just know it. I already do.
He's never going to do time for it -- technically, they only got him for statutory rape, anyway, even though he was 44 and she was 13 and she'd clearly said no and he'd drugged her, but hey, that's just how rape convictions go, right? they probably said she was asking for it, at his house and dressed provocatively, you know, doing that modeling job at his house in the clothes he'd put her in for the modeling job and all -- no, he's never going to do time for it, but I wish at least that someone would just walk up and punch him in the face. It would make me feel good. I would enjoy seeing that.
I'm glad he got arrested. I hope somebody shanks him in jail.
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02:08 am
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Well, fuck
So yesterday I posted this picture at Hot Daily, because, y'know, I had his picture for some reason (I can't even remember why or where I got it or anything, it was just there in my folder, unposted) and he seemed like he would appeal to a lot of members, and we hadn't had a Latino guy in a while, and this month isn't as planned-out as normal and I had the pic in my folder. I can't even remember how I got it, it was just there.
I had no idea who this guy was yesterday, I'd never even heard of him aside from having him in my pics-of-hot-people folder, and I had to google him even to find out that he was an actor. I didn't click on any of the links, because it was easy to tell he was an actor based on the link descriptions, and it didn't seem necessary.
I think I'm going to have to start clicking links. :(
So I'm reading this post at Pandagon here like ten minutes ago, about this super-conservative anti-gay religious summit meeting thingie that some big-name bigot group is throwing, and I clicked on the link to view the guest list, just out of curiosity, and there, just by coincidence, listed as someone that they invited but haven't been able to to land yet, is that guy that I posted yesterday, whose name I only recognized because I posted him yesterday. And that, of course, made me google him again, and actually click the links this time, and it turns out he did Spanish-language commercials in support of Prop 8, as well as Prop 4 (the one requiring parental notification when a teenage girl seeks an abortion) because he is not only a bigot but a pro-life asshole. ASSHOLE ASSHOLE BIGOTED ASSHOLE. >:(
I've never actually felt the urge to retract a Hot Daily post before. Or at least post a warning or an ETA or something. I am very upset. :(
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08:12 am
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If only Pink were here to save me!
Damn you, Kanye! Stop interrupting while I'm trying to read my flist! *shakes fist in rage*
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11:19 am
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I <3 the Onion
Next Tarantino Movie An Homage To Beloved Tarantino Movies Of Director's Youth
Thousands Of Abandoned, Foreclosed Homes Threatened By Florida Hurricane
Afterbirthers Demand To See Obama's Placenta
And, of course, Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked, which was, of course, picked up by Bangladeshi newspapers as a real story. I love when that happens.
And in (not that much) older news:
Pantene Markets New Shampoo As Best For Masturbating Boyfriend In Shower
Jilted Hasbro CEO Laughs Coldly As Scrabble Destroys Another Relationship (My ex and I stopped playing Scrabble very early in our relationship, because he can't spell for shit but the bastard always won. Always. And he was so smug about it, too. Bastard!)
And, back in movie news where we started, Film Adaptation Of 'The Brothers Karamazov' Ends Where Most People Stop Reading Book (Yeah, I've never been able to finish that book, either. I'm not sure I know anyone who has. Anyone?)
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09:48 pm
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Popularity!
Oh, look, there is an email from Photobucket in my inbox today!
Subject: "hot_daily Warning! You are approaching the limit on your Photobucket account!"
"Every free account with Photobucket is allotted 10 GB of monthly bandwidth and our records show that you have less than 3 GB of bandwidth left to your account."
I know they're just trying to scare me into buying a paid account, and we're only two days from the end of the month anyway (our month starts on the 10th there because of when the account was started), but still! We've never gotten this warning before! It's kind of keen! :D
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12:50 am
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Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair
I've never really been a fan of his, I must admit, but after reading this awesome article earlier today, which put me in a googling sort of mood, which led me to this movie and this interview, I'm kind of a little in love with Chris Rock right now. It feels weird, but it's a good weird. Also, I really want to see that movie.
I was getting pics together for the Hot Canadians picspam, googling for lists of famous Canadians and so forth, when I realized that none of the people in my pics folder, none of the people on any of the lists I'd found, were people of color. So then I switched over to hunting for pictures of famous Canadians of Color (Colour?) which, disappointingly but not unexpectedly, has proven to be much more difficult. On the bright side, though, Sarah Barrable-Tishauer is really fucking hot OMG, and I would never have heard of her if not for my picspam-fu, which would've been a crying shame. Also, Raven Dauda has awesome hair.
And suddenly, because I am a geek, the hair thing is making me think of that one extra in the new Star Trek movie, the one on the bridge with the super awesomest 'fro ever in the entire universe. Whoever it was who cast her, I am also in love with them, because she was only on screen for a few seconds, but she is probably in my top ten list of favorite little squee-worthy things in the background, for she showed without a doubt that the film makers actually gave a shit about the underlying progressive message of multiculturalism that should always be a part of Star Trek, and about which I had been very very very worried before the movie actually came out. They cared, OMG, they actually cared! And they seemed to even be giving it some actual thought! Unlike others I could name, who maybe try to give it thought but then make all their characters of color canonically considered to be less worthy of love than their Caucasian love rivals, or kill all their characters of color off, or otherwise totally fuck it up, Rusty. Although I am still kind of annoyed that new Trek shoved its only female main character into a love interest role seemingly because she was the only female main character and therefore she was there, but I will forgive them because Uhura kicks ass, and also the Kirk/Spock/Uhura thing was cute, and it made sense within the story, and also I almost got the impression that they weren't so much Soul Mates 4EVAH OMG than just really close friends in a time period when people have finally learned to be less fucking uptight about the fucking thing already, which is really very cool. But I am rambling! I will stop now!
Also in my top ten list: Scotty's pet tribble. Not because it had any sort of important underlying message or anything, just because it made me happy. XD
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08:18 pm
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Book meme, book meme, meme-y meme-y meme time! Meme!
The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here [Memer's Note: except it's actually 98, because two are counted twice, but then again it's actually more like 140-150 on account of all the collected works, so there you go]. How do your reading habits stack up?
( I seem to have read more than six of them, yeah. )
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12:14 am
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I <3 Damon Weaver
"President Obama is now my homeboy, too."
I'd heard that they'd given him press credentials for the inauguration, which was super amazing cool, but little elementary-school reporter Damon "Senator Biden is now my homeboy" Weaver had never managed to get his interview with Obama until now. Eeeeee! I swear, I was so happy for him I cried. And plus his questions are awesome! Already, he's a better reporter than half the people on CNN, and everyone on Fox News put together. He is so awesome! <3
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08:16 pm
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"Women are terrifying and strange"
I really don't know how to feel about this Penny Arcade post. I mean, on the one hand, I guess I should feel gratified that some lessons were learned or whatever, the right conclusions were eventually reached, but still. Ick. Ick ick ick.
I think that men who consider women to be "terrifying and strange" are far more terrifying to women than women could ever actually be to them, because that's exactly where the dehumanization starts, and it's that dehumanization that sits at the core of most violence against women. And you never know when someone's going to get creepy, you never know when that guy sitting next to you on the bus, that guy you met at the anime convention, that guy who sits two cubicles down and stops by to bring you coffee sometimes, you never know when that guy secretly thinks you're scary, omg so scary, but then he convinces himself that you can't be that scary because you're just a girl, you're just some stuck-up bitch who lets him buy you coffee without him even asking and won't even date him to thank him for it, you're just a live-action dating sim with a higher difficulty level, you're just a set of warm holes with tits attached, why won't you put out? What can he do to make you put out? And that's the shit that's scary, right there. Terrifying and strange.
Anyway, yes, Penny Arcade. Bleh. Pandagon has more, if you're interested. I think the Penny Arcade guys come out looking pretty good, in the end, but I'm sure that's at least partly because, at this point, my expectations are so damn low that pretty much any guy who isn't screaming at me to get back in the goddamn kitchen and bake him some pie (and by the way let's see some tits while you're at it) is going to come out looking pretty good. :(
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01:01 pm
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Science! Hair science!
Scientifically proven: It's literally painful to be ginger.
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