you can't do that with a tiffany lamp!

points of order, the first: tomorrow, wednesday, friday night as of 4 or 5 pm, and probably saturday i will be spending my time at summerfest. should you care to join me (tomorrow until 8 pm entry tickets are only $2! wednesday: the cab, friday: empires!), send me a text or something. i will see you there! woo!

the second: tonight i wandered over to my sister's apartment and we began the Epic Task of rewatching The L Word from s1e1 (fwiw, the last time i watched The L Word was three or four years ago. this time i hope to make it past season 3). six episodes in and this time around I am finding myself identifying most closely with Shane.* as far as levels of Concerning go, this would be considered:

a) mildly so,
b) wholly so,
c) not at all,
or
d) jesus, what?**

*again, this is season 1 Shane as of the end of episode six. also, i don't identify that strongly. just, you know, i see where she's coming from. a lot. and frequently.
**also possible:
e) other, further specified in comments


LJ/DW crosspost

I fucking love Alton Brown.

also YouTube, but mostly Alton Brown.

Chewing the Fat: Alton Brown on Race, Class, and Food


\o/ ♥ \o/

my mother found this in a book she's reading and directed my attention to it. I was certain there would be a handful of people on my flist/in my circle who might also find it worth exploring.

Generally speaking, we regard discomfort in any form as bad news. But for practitioners or spiritual warriors – people who have a certain hunger to know what is true – feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we're holding back. They teach us to perk up and lean in when we feel we'd rather collapse and back away. They're like messengers that show us, with terrifying clarity, exactly where we're stuck. This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we are.
( pema chodron on 'this very moment as the perfect teacher' )

♥ all.

dyeing my hair after work today; pictures this evening, I imagine.


LJ/DW crosspost

no, self, I am NOT getting sick. this is not a good time. and I will do nothing but stay in bed tomorrow drinking airborne and orange juice and eating spinach and bananas and whole grains if I have to, EVEN THOUGH that will sabotage the clockwork cookies, because no. there is no way in hell that I am getting sick.

suck on that, um, germs.

going back to bed now; meletor out.


(ps - also, self? if you could stop waking up at random times in the middle of the night THIS SHIT ALSO MIGHT NOT HAPPEN. >:[ )

proper report on Believers Never Die Part Deux (which was tonight) later. maybe.

in the intervening time, please be aware that my cellphone is pretty broken. while I try to fix that, uh, you won't be able to reach me via text (or, obviously, via voicephone). hopefully I'll at least have an interim situation by Tuesday (the earliest opportunity I'll have to go to the US Cellular store).

me: trying not to be too frustrated, because life is life and it was an *awesome* night.

LJ/DW crosspost

to my Orlando girls:

( bad news and good news )

I just got home from a really freaking cool two-day conference/forum on bioethics and sustainability. some truly wicked panel discussions, a handful of solidly mind-blowing presentations, and the opportunity to pick some of the top brains in the sustainability/worldchanging arena. \o/

more on that later, though, because OH MY GOD EXHAUSTED.

Talon the Falcon is visiting Outpost tomorrow!

ETA: !!!!! vote on Threadless: Mac Man! I would embed the silly little graphic but that would spoil the brilliant surprise! MY SISTER MADE IT; SHE IS A GENIUS Y/Y.

part 2 of the 'clockwork cookies' project!

( fondant is still a bitch, but we seem to have an accord. sort of. )

ahaha, yeah, it took me all afternoon to complete 4 cookies. I'm going to have to pick up the pace! (BUT THEY LOOK REALLY AWESOME :O)

happy Zombie Jesus Day to all those who celebrate -

I am off now to work a double at the restaurant. but there will be ZOMBIE MOVIES when I get home!

so, I am sort of mucking around in an android-fantasy-slash-cyberpunk-slash-something-else (slash bandom) AU, uh. and it's a little bit epically huge in my brain, surrounding politics and love and gender theory and queer theory and "human" nature and um. did I mention the robots? so anyway.

while I do not imagine this will ever exit my head in a fully cohesive, sculpted story (because that would be, like, novel-length and while loving my brain I also recognize that it has simply not been wired for that sort of extended attention span), I will hopefully be throwing down some chunks o' 'verse in the kinda-near future, and I would like those to be as accurate and well-considered as possible.

my [re]reading/[re]viewing list includes: Asimov, early 80's cyberpunk, The Cyborg Manifesto (which I think/reallyhope I still have in a binder somewhere?), and also some movies. to be fair I only started constructing said list last night. but the important part of this post is, hi flist! what would you add?


[ps - miscellany/ohai uncanny valley!: while nosing around I also hit these videos of the HRP-4C Gynoid (fashion fembot) and the ever-exciting (while also a bit unsettling) CB2 Child Robot. iiiifff you haven't seen these, they are pretty freaking mindblowing. check it.]

[pps - fuck you very much, iceyrica.]