Sound like those MacArthur folk like to to play around with their grantees!
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Sep 28, 2010 4:53:35 am PDT #26430 of 30001
lisah - Sep 28, 2010 4:57:39 am PDT #26431 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
The MacArthur Foundation also gave my DH's non-profit $500,000 last week w/ no strings attached to the money.
Woot! I love that David Simon got a Genius grant even though I'm fairly bitter about how not good Treme is. Simon has a lot of love capital in reserve.
Tom Scola - Sep 28, 2010 5:06:36 am PDT #26432 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Basic Religion Test Stumps Many Americans
Forty-five percent of Catholics did not know that their church teaches that the consecrated bread and wine in holy communion are not merely symbols, but actually become the body and blood of Christ.
JZ - Sep 28, 2010 5:08:27 am PDT #26433 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Congrats Liese and SO!
tommyrot - Sep 28, 2010 5:21:49 am PDT #26434 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I've seen a lot of blogs cover this, so....
Tinfoil Tuesdays: UFOs Neutered Nukes, Officers Claim
In space, no one can smell the drifting interstellar cloud of patchouli oil or catch the cosmic hackysack. It turns out to be a crucial human failing, if a group of retired Air Force officers is to be believed. The officers says they’ve encountered UFOs, and surmise that the space creatures are trying to tell an obstinate human race to abandon its nuclear weapons. That’s right: earth is being monitored by intergalactic hippies.
Seven elderly retired Air Force officers called a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday afternoon — covered, improbably, by CNN — to disclose that they witnessed the UFOs rendering U.S. nuclear missiles temporarily inoperable during the Cold War.
“Whoever are aboard these craft are sending a signal to both Washington and Moscow, among others, that we are playing with fire,” announced longtime UFO researcher Robert Hastings, who convened the gathering. “The possession and threatened use of nuclear weapons potentially threatens the human race and the integrity of the planetary bargain.”
Finally, a UFO story where the aliens actually do something that makes sense, instead of anally probing people and mutilating cattle.
Gudanov - Sep 28, 2010 5:23:56 am PDT #26435 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Lee - Sep 28, 2010 5:26:29 am PDT #26436 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
YAY Grantness!
I am going back to work today. This seemed a lot better yesterday than it does this morning,what with the whole morning part and all, but still, yay!
Jesse - Sep 28, 2010 5:27:49 am PDT #26437 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yay work!
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2010 5:30:18 am PDT #26438 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm heartened to see that Massachusetts scored so badly. But I still maintain Michigan has excellent drivers, even if they don't know what a speed limit is.
I think I'm going to take some Aleve and hope for a placebo effect.
eta: Can I stay home in your place, Perkins?
Sparky1 - Sep 28, 2010 5:31:07 am PDT #26439 of 30001
Librarian Warlord
I hope work treats you well, Perkins!