i'll take your hat, your hair looks swell

so.

i may have just signed up for next month's "half-and-half" night (half guest performers, half regular cast) with a local drag king troupe (this one - goes to a myspace page; no guarantees on worksafeness [as usual, it depends on your workplace, i guess]).

we'll see how that pans out, and whether i actually wind up on stage, but. i am REALLY REALLY EXCITED.

over & out.

signal boosting, one tiny tower at a time

okay. fuck whatever my last post was.

unacceptable shit has, once again, gone down (link to goes to commodorified's journal, because it's the post and the link i found first) and ... i am not a words person. and i am not terribly awake. so i'm not going to write a pretty post about some terribly ugly stuff (others have; or rather they have written rightly and accordingly ugly accounts of ugly things, and more eloquently than i could pull off), but i will say this:

if you haven't heard about Dr. Peter Watts' experience with officials at the US/Canada border, do. read. look it up ... i don't know. it's probably all over the internet right now. and then make noise.

why? i mean, people are quite good at being nasty. it's not the first bout of unacceptable behavior, and it certainly won't be the last. but if there's one thing i've grown certain of and believe in above all things it's that while each hand is small, and some problems are very very big, with enough small hands (and small voices, and big hearts) -- well, we might not do everything, but we will do something.

(i don't know why this got me talking when, like i said, it's by far not the first episode of entirely unacceptable behavior i've heard about or that i've had the opportunity to talk about. there's no way it'll be the last. but for once i'm not going to sit on my hands and hide behind being busy with work (and this and that and the other thing) and trusting in the many others and wondering about what-good-will-my-words-be, convinced of my own redundancy. i'm dipping my little teaspoon into the ocean, and i hope with all my heart it's not just to make myself feel better.

i don't know, maybe it is. fuck it, i'm doing it anyway.)