Bat’s Day was a lot of fun, but omfg, I am exhausted. The best part, for me, was seeing a bunch of our friends and meeting a lot of really sweet, friendly, and wonderful people. The second best part were the other vendors. Not only were they nice as hell, but the wares… jeebus. I just wish I’d had more time to shop.
And a good time was had by all.
Last night, after vending, we (puddin666, wicked-goddess Brian, and Jacquelynn) met alicia-stardust and axiom in the park, and we putzed around Disneyland together for a few hours. I don’t know about everyone else, but I had a wonderful time. It was, seriously, just what I needed to get my mind off of a lot of the petty, insane douchebaggery I’ve seen in the world lately. It was… nice. My only regret? I was keeping an eye out for two of our friends, and didn’t see ‘em in the park. =/
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wicked-goddess and I have pole dancing class tonight, but I’m wondering if I’ll be up for it. I feel like I got hit by a bus. Vending always does that to me.
What I really need right now is a massage. Not for the oh-so-fancy purpose of pampering myself, but because I’m so stiff, I can hardly walk. *scNoRt* The idea of going to get one, though, is frightful because it is so fucking hot outside. Being in a sauna then lying on a heated massage table will likely make me barf.
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Anyone know where to get a juvenile walnut, still in the green casing? I need one. Or five. Maybe a dozen. My attempts at finding these walnut pods in Los Angeles are not coming to fruition. Long story. Bottom line: I need this nut.
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And, because it wouldn’t be a post of mine if I didn’t jam in some links…
Karl Rove is still a cocksucker.
More Karl Rove. ‘Cuz that’s what you needed on a nice Sunday like this one.
And under the Things We Need category, the Truth in Wartime Act.
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On the topic of douchebaggery… its amazing how creepy and sick some people can be. I try my hardest to be a good person, and as nice as I can be to everyone. I try to show kindness on a larger scale through charitable work and donating as much money and time as I can to helping people that can’t help themselves. When we experience success or prosperity, we try to pay it forward. Yet again, its being proven to me that no good deed goes unpunished. Its getting harder and harder not to capitulate to cynicism.
I guess some people just get off on being horrid. Glad my jollies come from a happier place.
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‘Nuff yapping. If I don’t get to work, the Halloweenie update ain’t going to go live in a timely manner.
… and then we’re off to Bat’s Day.
Karl Rove: The Machiavelli Who Failed
The Worst House Speaker in History
Looks like there’ll be a heap of Worst (Blah) in American History awards passed out during this period of US politics.
I bought some Suggestive Underpants from Trashy, and, since I’m a pretty stereotypical American Consumer, that made me feel a little better for the moment. I’m drowning my sorrows in cute bras. Nothing says sexy like sitting in your underwear reading ‘The Assault on Reason’. Trust me.
There are so many woefully fucked up situations in this country right now, I can’t link to articles fast enough.
Spineless Congress and the Wiretapping Capitulation, more pissing on the Constitution, Gonzalez, Petraeus, military suicides, Rove, Guiliani and Romney are pigs…
…good lord.
Amazing.
I guess the most pressing question for me at the moment is… if I can’t have faith that a Democratic Congress will stand their ground, how can I have faith that the Democratic presidential candidate that I back will have a spine?
Really, its for your own good.
What happened to my country?
In case you’re not heartsick enough:
Bush’s Get Out of Jail Free Card
Lawsuits May Illuminate Methods of Spy Program
U.S. to Use Spy Satellites for Domestic Surveillance
Domestic Use of Spy Satellites To Widen
Reprogramming the Infinite Loop: The NSA Spying Debate
U.S. Defends Surveillance to 3 Skeptical Judges
The Spy Who Billed Me: How Companies Cash in on the Privatization of Intelligence
Anyone else here see Shut Up & Sing?
Watching Natalie Maines call the president a dumbfuck is worth the price of admission right there.
Took a night off from work this evening to play board / card games with Ted and the Virgos. Brian and I had a sucktacious simultaneous run of bad luck, and we both tanked Muppets Monopoly and Skip Bo. It was still fun. =)
Ate a lot of garbage, plowed through too many Marlboros (hey — Skip Bo is a high intensity game). Even though I didn’t drink more than one shot of gin, I know I’m going to feel like poo in the morning. *scHnOrt*
Doctors refusing to perform abortions. Standard. (The procedure isn’t even taught in medical schools.) Doctors refusing to provide fetal tissue for stem cells, pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions. All of these things happen based on peoples’ belief that providing such services threatens unborn life. And as much as I don’t agree with these decisions, I get it (sort of). If these people feel, really feel, that lives are threatened by their action, then following through is a difficult choice.
But how about when doctors refuse to perform, not abortions, not stem-cell procedures, but in vitro fertilization, which actually helps create life? The California Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case in which two doctors refused a woman IVF treatment because she’s a lesbian. Which means that they felt that Guadalupe Benitez and her partner (whom Elizabeth Weil wrote about for Mother Jones last year) did not have the right to the life they hold so dear.
The case, which began in 2001 with Benitez claiming that the doctors violated California’s anti-discrimination laws, is seen as one of the most controversial the Court has heard in years. The doctors were not refusing a service—they routinely performed IVF on other patients—but instead cited religious beliefs in this specific instance. The court could find that doctors will have to take an “all-or-nothing” approach, which would mean loss of lucrative IVF business if such doctors stick to their religious standards.
