Google satellite photo of John Travolta's house, with his Boeing 707 parked in his driveway. (He lives right next to an airport runway.) [link]

Hey, they all speak UnAmerican, right?

Clearly, you need more alarmists on your friendslist, msbelle.

CNET has a pretty good summary of what went down: [link]

How are you feeling, msbelle?

Apparently, I am missing my meeting.

Will LJ still be handling the dismissive ridiculing of customer concerns from its Moscow headquarters?

I am feeling good, just low energy. not sleepy though.

Google satellite photo of John Travolta's house

A friend lives close by. She said the community is very upset for them, of course. Also really upset about the second guessing in the press about the child's medical care.

For Ita: an article on krav maga in America and the in-fighting among the organizations that teach it. Each claims to teach the One True Method, taught by the One True Disciple of Imi Lichtenfeld, who developed it originally.

The in-fighting part is kind of sad, but human, I guess.

So I'm supposed to check my paystub to verify all the deductions are correct.

Except, so far, I can't get the site to work. I'm betting it's another case of "Look! We improved! Now you can only view this site on a PC using IE from Vista!"

CrankCRANKCRANK.

OK, going out.

"The salient fact of an adolescent girl's existence is her need for asecret emotional life—one that she slips into during her sulks and silences, during her endless hours alone in her room, or even just when she's gazing out the classroom window while all of Modern European History, or the niceties of the passé composé, sluice past her. This means that she is a creature designed for reading in a way no boy or man, or even grown woman, could ever be so exactly designed, because she is a creature whose most elemental psychological needs—to be undisturbed while she works out the big questions of her life, to be hidden from view while still in plain sight, to enter profoundly into the emotional lives of others—are met precisely by the act of reading."

The utter generalization of this paragraph made my head explode the first time because I'm sorry, not all readers are built alike and certainly, not all adolescent female readers are built alike.

Not to mention that it completely ignores adolescent boys. "Adolescent boys? THEY don't read! In fact, they probably don't even know HOW to read! They spend all their time looking for their dads' stash of girlie mags, jerking off, and playing whatever the newest violent video game is. Furthermore, adolescent boys have NO need of an 'inner world,' as that would make them sissies who will probably turn out gay, or at the very least, cross-dressers."

I mean, *seriously.* I get that all cultures have inherent gender stereotypes, but is it too much to ask someone to *think,* even a tiny bit, before they write such widely disseminated claptrap?

t /gender bitch