I'm sorry to use Press for this, but I was tempted to spam Natter and Bitches and then decided this was a better place.
I'm spamming everyone with this link: http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/. It's a short film that shows how supermodels are "transformed", about 30 seconds long. Ten years teaching high school and now working at a girls' school has made me pretty conscious of how much girls (and women, for that matter) are affected by the distorted image of beauty perpetuated in ads etc., and I thought some of you might find this interesting. It's making me think a lot, actually.
D'oh! Link deleted due to last minute changes.
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I've seen this around here, but my apologies if it's been everywhere and I missed it. If you had a paid LJ account at the time of last week's outages, you can get a week of free paid time: [link]
Sorry, I was asked before to hold this until some last minute changes could be implemented, but the trigger has been pulled elsewhere.
High Hat #7, ready for the public.
This issue, the Potlatch section is an assessment of Robert Altman, good and bad. There's also articles on pop culture artifacts as widely-flung as:
- In music: Schoenberg, Bonnarude, and death metal
- In literature & art: comics continuity, drunken novels, Charles Schulz, Prayer, and Pryor
- In movies: Artificial Intelligence and monkeys; and
- In TV: Deadwood and The Wire.
Apparently the ads for the day-after-Thanksgiving sales for many retailers are already leaked and online.
[link]
I thought I would share one such site.
Calling all sooper sekrit folks!
A couple of people who don't know their giftees very well have said to me they're having trouble coming up with ideas because the giftees haven't filled out a Buffista Database with Deena/don't update lj often/etc.
Consider this a nudge to maybe drop some hints in Natter; or if you haven't filled out Deena's quiz, now would be a great time to do so.
I've been group blogging a great deal lately:
In Gristmill:
The Myth of Energy Independence [link] 27/Oct/2006
Carbon Trading Problems [link]
12/Nov/2006
CyberTran: How to break the chicken/egg deadlock [link]
15/Nov/2006
Transforming the automobile [link]
16/Nov/2006
I also posted on healthcare over at MaxSpeak
SINGLE PAYER HEALTH - THE BASICS [link] 1/Nov/2006
And, to make it easier, just e-mail serasempre AT gmail.com with the following:
Buffista name:
Real name:
Top 10 under 10 pick-me-up list (In case you need a smile, what would make you happiest? Postcards; a new pen, refrigerator magnets, a keychain?...)
Name(s) of significant other(s), if applicable:
Name(s) and ages of child(ren), if applicable:
Pet name(s) and type, if applicable:
Name of roommate(s), if applicable:
Holiday system and favorite holiday:
Allergies or sensitivities:
Favorite kind of chocolate or other sweet treat:
Favorite alcoholic beverage:
Favorite non-alcoholic beverage:
Tea or coffee and favorite flavor/kind:
Favorite fruit:
Favorite food:
Favorite scent(s) or scent family:
Favorite flower or plant:
Favorite color:
bath or shower:
Favorite animal:
totem animal(s):
Passion or collection (music, leather, utilikilts, wonder woman?):
Favorite comic book, cartoon or similar character:
Favorite author:
Favorite artist:
Favorite music:
Favorite metal:
Favorite stone (river rock, fire opal, diamond):
Piercing(s):
Mac or PC:
Favorite website(s) (after buffistas.org):
Wish-list URL:
Something every Buffista should know about me:
1. Don't answer any you don't want to, and/or add more if I left something important out.
2. Also, if you haven't filled one of these out in a couple of years, you might consider updating your old one.
The owner of the group blog I post on, Max Sawicky has posted his annual Thanksgiving satire. I still think it is the funniest historically accurate Thanksgiving column ever written: [link] - even surpassing the Art Buchwald classic: [link]
