Would you like to go for a ride in my hot air balloon?

The title of this post has, obviously, nothing to do with its content. Again I have done nothing today but watch movies, eat ice cream, and agonize.  There is nothing like a bout of enforced inactivity to make you feel sorry for yourself.
Seriously, though, I have a new respect/sympathy for people with chronic illnesses [...]

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I just want to put this envelope in your hand.

Two scenes from the past week
Scene 1: Me at the bank, trying to get the ginormous cheque for the real estate lawyer:
Teller: [frowning at my passport] This signature doesn’t match.
Me: I know, it was issued before I was married.  I don’t have any ID with my married name on it.  I do have my marriage [...]

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Alchemy: Still not dead yet.

Today at the art gallery I watched Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, a documentary about the financial, social, and moral disaster that was Enron, the oil/internet/utility company that crashed and burned so spectacularly in 2001. Yeah, OK, the movie came out in 2005 or something, but I didn’t see it until today [...]

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The Communist Manifesto was better*

OK, so even though I said I would try to stop myself from exploring the dark, dark world of Quiverfull, I couldn’t help myself from looking up Alan Carlson and Paul T. Mero’s The Natural Family: A Manifesto.
This has led me to another conclusion I didn’t come to yesterday: these people actually hate children.
[actual quotes]:
“We [...]

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My patriarchy researches

As you may already know, I recently read and had my mind blown by Kathryn Joyce’s Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement.  Now, my general media consumption pattern is as follows:
- I run across something by accident, usually something nerdy
- I dabble in it for a little while
- I become increasingly obsessed with but slightly [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 21: If you take my alcohol away, I WILL kill.

Let’s make a little list:
- econapocalypse
- construction
- garbage strike
- heat wave
- threatened (but mercifully averted) LCBO strike
I explain why taking peoples’ booze away in this situation is just asking for revolution.  Also, why I’m sort of looking forward to getting old.
Link.

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Moonshine

This week has been excellent podcast-fodder:
Garbage strike.
Heat wave.
No money.
No work.
And now….
LCBO STRIKE!

The strike has been averted FOR NOW at least.  (For those who don’t know, the LCBO is the government monopoly liquor store.)  I bought a couple of bottles of wine and a bottle of vodka yesterday, but if they do strike…moonshine may be the [...]

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Where I get off the bus

Feministe, which is a feminist blog I read, has a post up today about fibromyalgia.  More specifically, about a jerky article in Salon about how fibromyalgia is bullshit.
Cara at Feministe takes the “misogynist/ableist” tack, which has a lot of validity – a combination of the attitudes that “women are always making shit up and don’t [...]

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….And this explains the weird bicycle noises!

I just posted this to Facebook as well.  I discovered the source of the mysterious noise my bike was making last night.  The seatpost has been bisected!
So now I do not have a functioning bicycle.  Here’s the problem:
- I  need a bike for work.
- But I don’t have any money to buy a new one.
- [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 19: World Naked Bike Ride.

I can’t go, but I urge you to: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=139007790050
Also discussed in this episode: what practicing really is, and why jazz movies suck.  And the WEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIRRRRRDDDD noises Kay’s bike is making.  Yes, this IS a drunk cast.  How did you know?
Direct link.

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