Sometimes I'm kinda glad that my summer gig puts me in a relatively news-free bubble.

aurelia, you still around? I could do dinner tomorrow.

Cool. Where and when would you like to meet? I'm out of rehearsal around 4 and I'm happy to kill time until you are free.

Trudy, step away from the Salon letters.

It's too hot to sleep in here. I've got air conditioners, I've got a fan, and yet, still too hot. Seventy-eight degrees inside. I would open a window, but it's seventy-seven outside, so I don't think it'll make much difference.

Fox News? Can I go and light fire to Fox News? That's not Salon Letters.

No. Because you just posted the plan online, so you just created a trail. First rule of arson: you don't talk about arson.

I CAN'T STAND IT! I JUST CAN'T STAND IT!

t /charlie brown

Trudy, yeah, because then I can meet Keith Olbermann. That would rock. ETA: You don't suppose he'd believe Too Much Candy is a Southwest custom, do you? In any case, it's Fixed Noise. Burn away! ETA2: Stay away from Salon Letters. Either they're trolls or I get to see my cherished convictions tweaked till the break by people who can't spell "cherished conviction"

A few minutes ago, the catsitter I hired for July 11th-16th walked into my apartment.

That's hilarious.

I am so fucking tired, and don't feel that good stomach-wise. I was going to stay home, but I have too much stuff to do that I can't access from here. BAH.

This weekend's workshop is "Polite in the Park." Did you see the email?

bonny, I got the email and we should be there! We're hoping for no thunderstorms so we can have dinner at one of the sidewalk cafes, too. Will you join us?

July 11th-16th

Perkins, I have an extra ticket to the West party on Monday if anyone else we know needs free food & booze. I'm just as happy to skip it and be avoid-ish.

So PC has a cat wander into his apartment, Perkins has a cat sitter wander into hers ... some kind of convergence?

And from Hil's Salon link:

You know the Republican Party is going through a rough patch when party veterans start comparing the GOP to the undead. That's what Larry Hunter did in a story in The New Republic.

You know the Republican Party is going through a rough patch when party veterans start comparing the GOP to the undead. That's what Larry Hunter did in a story in The New Republic.

Didn't The Simpsons do that in a Treehouse of Horror once? ("Oh my God! The dead have risen and are voting Republican!" -- Bart)

"Obama's Baby Mama."

I'm reading the Salon Letters and I just keep screaming "OMG THAT'S JUST COMPLTETLY FUCKING RACIST "

Not counting brain-dead douchehounds like Rush Limbaugh or O'Reilly, I have a running bet with myself regarding which "political commentator" (or whatever they call themselves will actually use the word "nigger" on the air first.

If CNN (was it CNN? I swear I can't remember my own last name sometimes) can get away with the "sometimes a bitch is just a bitch" thing, it seem likely that some similarly vile racist claptrap is imminent from them.

I said this to someone yesterday: all the pontificating about whether Obama can get "working class" votes is exceedingly racist, though (somewhat) veiled. The nabe I live in is at least 50% black, and they all have jobs. Normal, make-enough-to-squeak-by jobs. And they voted for Obama in droves. (Yes, it's anecdotal, but wev. I'm not an exit poll.)

So...don't *their* "working-class" votes count? I really want the pundits to just call it what it is, and say that they think Obama can't take the redneck/racist/Klan "working-class" vote. Because that's pretty fucking true. (Although I tend to think it's true of most Democratic candidates, since they tend to be in favor of more equality and shit, which scares the redneck/racist/Klan voting bloc.)

Also? The anti-Obama faction (whether Republican or the new fun Democrats against Obama) who refer to Obama supporters as having "drank the Kool-Aid" need to STEP OFF NOW. Because that means....what, exactly? That it took *drugging the voters* to make them vote for Obama, otherwise they'd never vote for Scary Black Man?

I get that it's political rhetoric, and it's going to be used in describing faceless masses. But when a friend/family member/acquaintance says it TO ME, then I have a huge problem, because wow, is THAT insulting.

Grrr.