Yeah, that Modern Love article was several years ago, and I'm pretty sure I remember Salon and Slate and a bunch of other websites having "WTF?"-type reaction articles to it.

Summarizing this trip:

Wedding: weird. Won't go into it more than I have.

My extended family: kinda awesome. I only didn't get to chat with one uncle (which I regret, I will see if he emails because part of the issue was his hearing is bad in a crowd) but all the other aunts, uncles and cousins who attended. My Uncle K? Still THE BOMB. I wish he flew, because I'd have him here in a hot minute to give me period renovation advice. He shares my love of old stuff redone right and knows how to, as that was his former career. And if I could afford him and my cousin J, who is a carpenter/shipbuilder/restorer/builder....god, I'd have this place fanfuckingtastic. My eldest cousin A and I, despite a 14 year difference (meant more then than now,) just fall in like we've been buds forever.

My cousins' kids respond to me as if I've been around all this time. And OMG, is it fun to watch them play together as we once did. One aunt's namesake granddaughter became the favorite cousin ever of my eldest aunt's second granddaughter. And the namesake looks eerily like her grandmother. My two cousin's (sisters) sons also look alike, yet not like their mothers, but still very much like others in our family. They all raced around, bought penny candy from the museum, and generally amused everyone. We need to get them all out to the farm.

Omaha's Durham Museum (where the reception was, a deco train terminal, reminded me of Griffith Obsv): fucking awesome.

Getting mistaken for a docent in costume at said museum, hilarious.

Learning my cousin, the groom, has committed to farming with his dad, meaning the family farm might stay in family? Whoa.

Jesse, I can't work out how to submit a photoset to goodstuff, but if I could, I'd submit the first three chalk photos of my (currently) penultimate posting. They're kinda cute, if you leave out the last one.

I will try to remember to go back and find it when I get to work...

The repeal of the Equal Pay law in Wisconsin, according to state senator Glen Grothman: Not only is the no disparity in pay between genders, if there was, it wouldn't matter because "you could argue that money is more important for a man."

[link]

ita, I can't find it.

This [link] Jesse.

you could argue that money is more important for a man."

Um. Maybe you could argue his, but you would lose.

At jury duty today, which so far means lots of time for Internet browsing. Whee!

Thanks!

Cashmere, I'm not going to follow that link, because if my head esplodifies I won't be able to work. How did that guy get elected in Wisconsin, anyway?

A cool essay: I’m Christian, unless you’re gay.

An even cooler response (in which a gay teen comes out to his homophobic mother): A Teen’s Brave Response to “I’m Christian, Unless You’re Gay”

(You can read the second without reading the first.)