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Still. No. Internet.

Fuck.

Tried disconnecting the router and just running everything through the modem and it still wouldn't work so it's probably not the router that's the issue. Faboo. At least the repair guy left me his cell number so I can ask him to please swing by tonight and take another look at it. *sigh*

But it wasn't a totally frustrating evening as I happened upon an Aelf at my local fabric store and we went a little insane over fabrics and trim (we're total shopping enablers, it's sick). Then back to my place where we ordered from a place claiming to produce "authentic NY style pizza". I scoffed, but then I've been burned numerous times by this claim out here. Miracle of miracles it actually was the closest to NY style that I've found and they deliver! Oh and the pizzas are enormous! Yum!

Ended up buying the fabric I wanted for my costume skirt and this gorgeous gold embroidered silk that is going to become yet another bra because I'm apparently unable to manage impulse control when it comes to these things. Sad. Still I'm going to have some damn pretty bras by the time this illness runs its course.

Got fuck all else done, but did manage to sit down and do a little writing, though it meant staying up well past my bedtime. So much for working on that sleep dep thing. Ah well, I'll aim to do better tonight I guess.

Oh and was I the only one who didn't realize there had been a stage revival of "The Women" in 2002? PBS Encore, bless their hearts, played a recording of it Sunday night so I got to see most of it. Yay!

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Y'all might have noticed I've stopped locking my political posts. It's an experiment at present, but yesterday's post on a certain Texan douchebag went really well so I'm just going to keep going.

Today I direct you towards the RudePundit:

Howard Dean Will Fuck Your Shit Up (Redux):
The Rude Pundit's said it before and he'll say it again: Howard Dean will fuck your shit up. Stand that motherfucker up at the gates of hell. Let that son of a bitch loose in the dainty Democratic china shop and let's break some fuckin' dishes. Howard Dean knows the score, man; he knows that the faithful, those who actually believe that the fight is not the path to surrender, want a spokesperson who's willing to pick up the unpinned grenade that just landed near him and shove it up the ass of the enemy who tossed it. Goddamn, it would have been magnificent to have seen him debate the President. On stage, Bush would have been begging for the privilege to lick the sweat off Dean's balls.

Listen to the crowd at the Take Back America conference last week, who are almost orgasmically gasping in joy at the viciousness with which Dean attacked the Republicans, calling them the party of people "who never made an honest living in their lives," with a "dark, difficult, dishonest vision" of America. Then, in an effort to clarify his remarks this past Monday in a talk with minority journalists, Dean said the Republicans are "not very friendly to different kinds of people. They're a pretty monolithic party. They pretty much--they all behave the same and they all look the same, and they all--you know, it's pretty much a white, Christian party. And the Democrats here adopt everybody you an think of in our party."

Challenged on the Today show yesterday by Matt "Behold My Stubbly Mane That Indicates I Am a Grown-Up" Lauer, Dean picked up Lauer, slammed him on the faux coffee table and whispered, calmly, in Lauer's ear that Democrats are tired of being the bottoms of the political fuck machine. He said, "They have the agenda of the conservative Christians...the Republicans don't include people. Look, they are outside the mainstream." And Dean wasn't afraid to invoke truly inclusive Democratic ideas: "They have used words like quota to try to separate black from white Americans. They did scapegoat gay Americans by putting an anti-gay amendment on it--in 11 states where gay marriage is already against the law. And they are attacking immigrants. Two--two Republican congressmen, Jim Sensenbrenner and Tom Tancredo, have incredible anti-immigrant legislation. This is not the way America needs to be." Calling out motherfuckers for fucking their mothers is as brutally truthful as politics gets.


I've always been a Dean fan, and he was certainly my first pick for presidential candidate in last year's election. The more the pearl-clutching members of my party fret and gnash their teeth over his more honest and bold statements, the happier I am. About damn time we started giving back as good as we've been getting.

And on that vein, I highly recommend torturing Lou Dobbs, Atrios suggests selecting "effective". Go on, you know you want to.

What's in the box?

Oh hallelujah, somebody found it! Years and years ago the MTV movie awards had William Shatner re-enact the finale of the movie "Seven" as his most famous characters. I'm torn between Kirk or TJ Hooker as to who's the best, in either case:



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