elissa_carey found this interesting article, looking at the essential differences in moral priority between U.S. liberals and conservatives: Conservatives Live in a Different Moral Universe — And Here's Why It Matters [ motherjones.com ] It's an interesting read for people who want to look a bit deeper at why people with different political leanings disagree with and often misunderstand...
Cross-posted by request, via Duncan : "I know this guy and he puts on an incredible show. Also, I'll be guest-starring for a short portion of it. Sorry for the short notice and the expensive ticket but if you feel like catching some theater this week, this would be a good place to go." The Amazing and Impermeable Cromoli Brothers Present: HELLO VANCOUVER! A Vaudeville Act for These, Our...
The moonlight is a pool of silver on the linoleum floor. It glints on the enamel washbasin and slop pail. I can almost see the moon reflected in the slop pail. Everything in the cubicle in luminous. My clothes hanging on the pegs, my white aprons and rubber boots, my typewriter and tin box of biscuits, the big sharp scissors on the table - all these familiar things are touched with magic and make...
Bill Murray has been crashing parties and hanging out with strangers. ( It could happen to you. ) Across the buildings, a slight gap in the clouds. Keith looks out and says, "oh look, a nice day." A shift in the sky and the blue goes away. Weather whispering gray. Today it snowed briefly in a winter half effort. White flakes, fat with promise, that melted as soon as they touched ground. Now...
As a one hundred percent fantastic welcome back celebration, Duncan 's using his night at the weekly secret film school to present... THE AMERICAN ASTRONAUT a movie so good that it was introduced to me as a way to get into my pants . (Just typing that in caps sets the music off in my head) "Space travel has become a dirty way of life dominated by derelicts, grease monkeys, and hard-boiled...
Inspired by a skonen_blades podcast, some songs/videos that remind me of summer in New Zealand, via YouTube: Salmonella Dub - For the Love of It Black Seeds - So True Headless Chickens - Choppers Supergroove - You Gotta Know Crowded House - Weather With You Herbs - Sensitive to a Smile Netherworld Dancing Toys - For Today
Anyone wanna go see this: http://skonen-blades.livejournal.com/299015.html with me? It's a victorian gothic horrorplay thingummy. 20 bux. On til the 15th.