March 2012
#SouthLAnd
Angry rival taco truck owner: You should call la migra on him!
Officer Sherman: This isn't Arizona, buddy.
On Glee, How They Got it Wrong, and America’s... →
I have been debating whether to post about this. I’ve been told in the past that I take Glee too seriously, that I expect too much from a show that’s essentially a cheesy TV musical with plot randomly interspersed throughout, but this is my thing: I work with teenagers, and they take Glee seriously. I think this means we should take it seriously too.
Last week, Glee did a Very Special Episode...
Chris Colfer & His Fucking Everything: a Struck By...
yayponies:
Yesterday I had the very awesome fortune to accompany my friend Leah and about 100 other invited fans and filming extras to a private screening of Struck By Lightning.
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go read my smart wife’s eloquent, spoiler-free write-up of what Chris Colfer did with his summer vacation…
February 2012
“Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your...”
– On advertising: Banksy vs. Gossage
White House Uses Espionage Act to Pursue Leak... →
During a point in history when our government has been accused of sending prisoners to secret locations where they were said to have been tortured and the C.I.A. is conducting remote-controlled wars in far-flung places, it’s not a good time to treat the people who aid in the publication of critical information as spies.
In Kentucky, 2015 Derby Winner Could Arrive Any... →
“NPR story that made me cry in my car on the way to work” of the day.
The Fact-Checker Versus the Fabulist - NYTimes.com →
Fictional authority is a matter of suspension of disbelief: novels must convince us that the feelings of fake people matter. But nonfiction is innocent until proved guilty. We begin with that natural sympathy we have for something we might well have experienced ourselves, so our guard is down. Nonfiction’s authority thus derives from the simultaneously rigorous (they did the legwork) and artful...
fuck yeah adopt a teen →
I’ve found many sites and resources for adoptive parents, but very few for those interested in adopting teens. Among the few sites I found for teen adoption support, most of the people responding seemed to be from “traditional” families: older and married, white, hetero and usually already parents to other children.
Their stories and shared resources were very helpful, but I...
See also "requested time for a gif shoot"
Rae: [REDACTED] is coming in for an interview next week. I requested time for a GIF shoot. What should I have him do?
Shana: play with a puppy
Rae: I mean, I guess I could rent a puppy....
“I keep thinking about that time we went to that carnival – the one in Virginia...”
– the beginning of Speak of Me as I Am, a YA novel by Sonia Belasco
(feel free to like or reblog if you’d like to see more)
From George Takei
pol102:
70 years ago today, the President signed a decree that sent me and my family to a prison camp. Hear my story, and learn how you can help fulfill our pledge: Never Forget. Never Again.
Worth a close look today, especially considering the anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric these days.
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Designing A Better Home For Wounded Soldiers Who... →
aka, “NPR story that made me cry in the car on the way to work” of the day
“If Jake Gyllenhaal plays a murderer, people know he’s not. If a gay...”
– Simon Halls, in my 2007 Out piece with advice for glass closeted gay actors who want to come out: If They Were Gay, Who Would Care?
(Apparently now it’s OK for all the entertainment reporters who have long known Matt Bomer is gay to say so without worrying Halls — his husband —...
