Keep on keepin' on

Ok so I missed the performance at Rakkasah Saturday night, but as it turns out, it was a good thing.

Yes, you read that correctly.

For those who didn't brunch with Aelf and I on Sunday, I'll explain. I was wretchedly ill again on Friday. Imagine someone pressing a hot iron against the inner lining of the top of your stomach for the better part of the day and you'll be able to approximate what I'm talking about. By Friday night I was limp and useless, though a roll of Rolaids finally got the worst of it under control. By Saturday I was wasted and nauseated, could barely stand the car rides to Sunnyvale and back, and so I decided against a drive all the way up north and a strenuous dance routine. Spent a good portion of the evening beating myself up for being so weak, then Aelf called to say that due to a screw up on the part of the gal who'd scheduled us for the show, they just found out they could only have 5 dancers on stage at a time. Our troupe has 16 members altogether.

So, yeah, it kind of was a good thing I didn't schlepp all the way up there only to dance one part of the four part choreography, because I think I would've been homicidal. Anyway it apparently went fairly well, but there is serious dissention in the ranks and I get the feeling there's going to be some attrition on the group. That's not a bad thing as 16 people is far too unwieldy a size, really.

Saturday wasn't a total loss, though, as I got to see V for Vendetta, which quickly won me over and had me bowing and scraping before Hugo Weaving. And it was nice to finally be able to forgive Natalie Portman for the SW films. I knew within the first ten minutes that I'd be buying the movie when it came out and by the credits I knew I wanted the soundtrack. I also want to lay my hands on the graphic novels to see what all the differences were and if there was much more character development in the originals. I think my overall response was, "Hey, this is the Phantom of the Opera movie I was hoping that godawful AWL flick would be." Good damn film, if you haven't seen it yet, do so, you won't regret it.

Oaths

odogoddess just sent me this and I had to share:

On Wednesday, March 1st, 2006, in Annapolis at a
hearing on the proposed Constitutional Amendment to
prohibit gay marriage, Jamie Raskin, professor of law
at AU, was requested to testify.
At the end of his testimony, Republican Senator
Nancy Jacobs said: "Mr. Raskin, my Bible says marriage
is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to
say about that?"
Raskin replied: "Senator, when you took your oath
of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore
to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your
hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the
Bible."

Republican Senator Nancy Jacobs, PWNED!

US Constitution: Do not shred

If you're at all concerned about the NSA wiretapping scandal I ask, nay plead with you, to go here and send a few faxes. Nothing fancy, just a few lines about why the President shouldn't be above the law, if you need inspiration just read a few posts over at Glenn Greenwald's blog and I promise you'll have no trouble at all putting your faxes together.

If you're going to play more moral than thou, at least be consistent about it.

( A handy dandy chart that sums up the mind-blowing hypocrisy of the pro-lifers. )

Defend your masculine uniqueness!

I could build an entire Cafe Press store around this:

Feminists—or lesbians—as I like I like to call them, would love nothing more than to take your son and eradicate his masculine uniqueness.

I, for one, just live to destroy the masculine uniqueness of young lads. Hell, some days it's all that gets me out of bed in the morning. I sit there, pondering over a scone, just how much masculine uniqueness I can possibly eradicate in a single day. There just aren't enough hours in the day...