I’m not a huge ballet fan. I took several years of it as part of my theatre degree and found it completely unsatisfying trying to force your hips and ankles into shapes assigned to be beautiful. The grace and athleticism of ballet when done well is not to be denied but I find the art [...]
"A team of Penn State scientists has discovered a new ultra-small species of bacteria that has survived for more than 120,000 years within the ice of a Greenland glacier at a depth of nearly two miles. The microorganism’s ability to persist in this low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen, and nutrient-poor habitat makes it particularly useful for [...]
Every trekkie’s head just exploded:
The 71-year-old star, known for his role as Sulu in the 1960s sci-fi series, will wed partner Brad Altman this summer, after California state authorities lifted the ban on same-sex marriage last month. Takei will marry his partner of 20 years on September 14 and has invited his former castmates to the ceremony. [...]
Shattering set of manga comics about the Chinese earthquake. Artist Coco Wang writes:
I have been crying my eyes out in the past three days, I have never felt more proud of my country and people… their love, [...]
It is Sunday. Ron is lightly snoring. Woke up to Astro sleeping on top of me purring. Downy is usually at our feet.
Downy has a strange attraction to cords and cables. One his favorite nooks is between the TV stand and our big box o’ cords that we haven’t packed away from moving (you know: [...]
I can understand the government providing assistance for maybe six months. I don’t understand waiting around for a miracle.
Yes, Katrina was awful. The government response before, during and after was a fucking nightmare. You have no right to live where you used to live. I know that sounds heartless but it is true. Displacement sucks. [...]
I got to bed super early last night and so I’m now awake at 3:33 in the morning. Half of the support team is onsite this week so we all went out to dinner last night to a tapas bar.
RON (in Orange County): What did you have for dinner tonight?
ANDY: I went out with the [...]
Slouching towards that mall in Minority Report:
Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones. The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they [...]
Analysis on the Vanity Fair article about Madonna from Spiked editor Brendon O’Neill:
Madonna is gushing about her adopted son and everything that he “represents”. And what is that, exactly? Cohen explains: baby David is a “living totem of life as it was lived before machines”. In other words, he’s a simple, wide–eyed, primitive being who [...]
The best part about Bush making remarks about appeasement is the context of his grandfather Prescott:
His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush [...]
Last night before slumber I made some sarcastic remark and Ron came up with a new malaprop:
Are you being physicist?
Our current favorite is from reality show skank talking about how alcohol helps her lower her prohibitions.
Last night Ron and I kinda admitted to eachother how isolated we feel. I think it is our lack of neighborhood. No, this is not a surprise at all. We live south of the financial district with no color and no culture - just tall concrete buildings. Maybe we can find some place close to [...]
Sometime Tweety gets it right. This is a perfect example of a media-whore parking on a buzzword and parroting it with no context.
Matthews pressed James at least 19 times over five minutes to simply explain what Chamberlain had done in 1938 and 1939 to make him an “appeaser.” James could only shout his talking point [...]
"The California Supreme Court has overturned a gay marriage ban in a ruling that would make the nation’s largest state the second one to allow gay and lesbian weddings. The justices’ 4-3 decision Thursday says domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage. Chief Justice Ron George wrote the opinion." (PDF of the [...]
What a fucking asshole. I mean really. What a complete douchelord, twunty, fucktard, selfish, cokehead, alchy, faux-christian, smirking-chimp idiot:
For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families: He has given up golf. “I don’t want some mom whose son may have [...]
Ron baked a double-layer cake for my birthday on Friday night (maybe Thursday). 2 Super-Moist yellow cakes with chocolate frosting. Very yummy. The trouble is, we are the only people in the house eating cake. After our Saturday workouts we came home to feed. Most gym rats would have a recovery shake. We ate recovery [...]
Ron and I had gone to the bar Midnight Sun last Monday to meet one of his flight attendant buddies for drinks along with his usual assortment of Monday evening drinking buddies. That one Colton Ford music video was playing and it seemed like everyone was much taller than we were (are?).
Everyone in SF is [...]
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