Huh. I loves me some suits (bring on Arthur and Ianto and Neal Caffrey, oh yeah). But reminding me of my father isn't a bad thing. Not that those guys do. He's more a Julius Nyerere type.

I love guys in suits. TCG and I are going to look at tuxes tomorrow for him to wear to the wedding. It probably seems kind of silly to get a tux for an elopement, but I really just want to see TCG in a tux.

I'm fine just living in sin with The Boy, but when he bought the suit for his mom's funeral, he said he wanted to find more places to wear it (as his job is in a warehouse and therefore not suit-appropriate, and we are not fancy people), and I thought, if we got married you could wear your suit.

IJS.

(What? People have gotten married for flimsier reasons than "I wanted to wear my suit again!")

Oh! I wish this were a bigger picture, but here is one of my friends who had one of the amazing steampunk outfits last night: [link] (Despite my outfit being not street-legal, hers very much is, so it's totally SFW.) I wish you guys could see the detail, and her bustled skirt -- amazing!

I am so loving the costume pics. Aimee and Joe look adorable together, as does Tim. That costume is sheer genius.

I have a witch's hat for Sunday, but not sure what else to wear. I figure I can rummage around my closet for some proper looking stuff, but dang I wish I had a corset! Oh well.

I love the costume pics too. And Ryan's pics. And Spidra, I'm sorry about the uncomfortableness.

And Barb - wow. Your teenagers is gorgeous.

In things I do not love: strong, feminist women who don't understand hollaback because "what good will come up from making noise about it"?

Excuse me, ladies, have you studied your feminism? Because sexual harassments were routine until women started "making noise about it". Also, lack of voting.

It bothers me more than the (male) one who commented "I don't understand the connection between your assault and the fact that you're a woman".

It's called boobs, sweetheart.

Huh. My brother keeps demanding I produce proof that any socialist country has succeeded. I'm not quite sure why, other than that I am a dirty commie pinko for not be a Tea Partier.

ETA:

Excuse me, ladies, have you studied your feminism? Because sexual harassments were routine until women started "making noise about it".

Sounds like the stupid is burning both of us today.

My brother keeps demanding I produce proof that any socialist country has succeeded. I'm not quite sure why, other than that I am a dirty commie pinko for not be a Tea Partier.

Tell him, "Every other industrialized nation on Earth." Then tell him that's using the Tea Party definition of socialism.

Are there any pure forms of any specific political type? Seems most modern countries are hybrids of political types. Federal Republic. constitutional monarchy. parliamentary democracy. etc. Even the "communist" countries are more dictatorial communist. Or some such.

So, I mentioned over the weekend Ryan had started standing on his own. Today he started walking. I have a toddler. He's so proud of himself.

Outside chance his parents are too.