Athena714
Tuesday, November 25, 2003
Very sad. He was a good friend of a friend of mine. 27 is way too young to go, especially by your own hand. RIP, Jonathan.
Oops, haven't posted in awhile. Work has been pretty busy. Headed to S.F. tomorrow to see the fam, will be back on Saturday. Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving!
Friday, November 07, 2003
"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government." -Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)
This is a great article about all the controversy surrounding Howard Dean's "guys with confederate flags in their pickups" comment. If you take it out of context, I could see the outrage, but taken in context, it makes absolute sense. "I intend to talk about race during this election in the South because the Republicans have been talking about it since 1968 in order to divide us. . . . White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals in the back ought to be voting with us and not them, because their kids don't have health insurance either and their kids need better schools, too." Damn straight. He's apologized for the confederate imagery, but I get what he was saying, and I totally agree with him.
Anyone else notice the lack of acknowledgment from the White House of the soldiers who keep dying over in Iraq? Bush seems really reluctant to mention them, and even got really pissed at a reporter in an interview I heard on NPR the other day. The reporter asked him to comment on the helicopter that got shot down and the 16 soliders that died, and Bush was really snappy and told him that he was sad when there was any loss of life, but that's kind of the way it goes in war, and us Americans won't let the terrorists get us down, we'll just fight harder. Fucker. He sent all these people over there, and doesn't even acknowledge them when they die for his stupid little war. I'd like to see him put on a uniform and go over there instead of sending other people's kids/husbands/wives/parents to die.
Tuesday, November 04, 2003
Link for the day: PETA. It's important, people. I am of the belief that being a meat-eater (like me) doesn't mean you don't love animals, but I think all of us, vegans, vegetarians and meat eaters alike, need to do something to improve the way animals are treated. If family pets were treated the way the animals we use for food are treated every day, the owners would go to jail for animal abuse. Something needs to be done. Here is a link to PETA's "Action Alerts" where they ask for letters and support for urgent animal causes.
I also got the new Sarah McLachlan CD, Afterglow. It's beautiful. Very mellow. We put it on in my workstation here, and have been listening to it all afternoon.
Yay!!! Finding Nemo was released on DVD today. You know I already have my copy in my hot little hands! Love me some Nemo!
"Fish are friends, not food!" - words to live by.
Monday, November 03, 2003
How scary is this? This article paints a picture of what life in this country would be like for women if the ban on so-called "partial-birth abortions" is passed into law. I can't believe that it's the year 2003 and politicians in this country are still arguing that government has the right to control what a woman does with her own body. My biggest problem with this law (and believe me, I have many problems with it) is that there is no exception for medical emergencies. Even if the mother's life is in immediate danger and she WILL DIE if she does not terminate her pregnancy, too fucking bad. This wonderful Republican congress has, in effect, taken away the ability of that woman, and her doctors, to do what is best for her health. Unbelieveable.
Another fun thing from this weekend, I got to see a friend of mine (Amy) who moved far far away. We worked together in the pit of hell that is ADR, but she managed to escape with her sanity and moved back to D.C. And this weekend she was in town and we had lunch on Friday! It was really good to see her and we figured out that neither one of us like to actually work during the day, so we have been entertaining each other with emails about Alias and Joe Millionaire 2. Example: I was bitching about the fact that the yummy David Anders, who plays Sark on Alias, isn't actually british and his accent is fake. Amy's response: "Well, David Anders can talk in whatever accent he wants to, as long as he's in my bed nakie!". And I commence peeing myself from laughing so hard.
Did anybody else watch the premiere of Tru Calling last Thursday night? My review? Meh. As Television Without Pity describes the show, "She runs around New York trying to save people she doesn't know. The plot doesn't make any sense. Her relatives are problematic. The dialogue is insipid." Yeah, pretty much sums it up! And there's lots of running.
Ew. Well there goes her surfing career I guess. News stories like these are not good for my fear of large bodies of water. It's not so much the fear of drowning, it's the fear of large, hungry, pointy-toothed creatures who can swim a lot better/faster than me. Case in point, check out the photo in this news story.
Sunday, November 02, 2003
Halloween was pretty good. We went to the Trashy Lingerie party at the Key Club in Hollywood.
We met over at Kate and Neil's place after work. Of course, as we were getting ready, it started to rain. Not just rain, but pour buckets and buckets of cats and dogs all over Los Angeles. I went as a naughty policewoman (pictures to possibly come later), and the rain did not bode well for my being able to keep myself from freezing to death. Hawk went as my naughty convict, in standard white and black striped prison garb. Kate was glowing, as always, in her naughty (do you sense a theme here?) peasant girl outfit; Neil was a pirate (I think); Deb was cute as a button (and naughty) as Tigger, and Ryan was the best naughty nerd ever, complete with Urkel pants and tape on his eyeglasses.
We white-knuckled our way through the cab ride up to the club (the driver was running the whole company's operation from two cell phones and a pad of post it notes, all the while navigating through super heavy traffic and pouring rain). The club itself was pretty cool, lots of really creative costumes and scantily clad women. We had fun for a couple hours, then it just got way too crowded, and they did this costume contest that went on for about an hour. There were about fifty people who entered and they ran through them all twice. So we left relatively early and ran to Kate's car (which she had parked closeby earlier in the evening. my idea, thank you, thank you...) in the rain. Ryan kept us laughing all the way to the car, which distracted us from how cold and wet we were.
All in all, a sucessful Halloween, had fun with good friends and got to dress up all sexy, which I don't do very often, but judging from Hawk's reaction, I probably should!
