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emmagrant01 ([personal profile] emmagrant01) wrote2006-11-05 10:50 am

Sunday morning

1. [livejournal.com profile] slashcast episode 11 is up here! Featuring a GLBT news update from [livejournal.com profile] phaballa; a meta discussion on movie vs. book canon with [livejournal.com profile] charlotteschaos, [livejournal.com profile] kerryblaze, and [livejournal.com profile] scarah2; a fandom opinion segment by [livejournal.com profile] stepps; and the first part of my interview with [livejournal.com profile] henry_jenkins. w00t!

2. MDH and I spent several nights this last week watching TV news shows, and for the first time in years, it was kind of fun. The Republicans are scrambling, and I'm enjoying watching it. They've become the party of warmongers, pedophiles, and meth-taking homophobic closet case religious nuts. Bush is having to go to areas where the Republicans have strongholds in a last-ditch attempt to hang onto his base. Democrats have a real chance of winning seats in places where they were more likely to have been lynched a year ago. I'm too cynical to be hopeful yet, but I'm kind of looking forward to Tuesday.

3. I am making progress on writing my holiday exchange fics, yay!

4. Made dulce de leche from scratch last night. And poured it over homemade vanilla ice cream. Mmmmm...

[identity profile] oddnari.livejournal.com 2006-11-05 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
My cynical sibling says that by tomorrow there will be another Osama tape released to the American public and that'll be the end to that :(
Small wonder, he does not want to return to Oregon.

[identity profile] doxxed-up.livejournal.com 2006-11-05 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You're full of surprises! How on earth do you know how to make dulce de leche??!! Now you tell me you drink mate and I have a stroke *_*
*goes on to slashcast and take a look*

[identity profile] gmth.livejournal.com 2006-11-05 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I wish I could be as optimistic about the election as you are. I keep thinking about the new, papertrail-less, computerized voting machines here in PA and the very real possibility (certainty?) of widespread voter fraud in the last presidential election, and it's making me very, very nervous.

[identity profile] dartmouthtongue.livejournal.com 2006-11-05 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I used to be "It's ok if you're a republican, because that's just a different political point of view." Now, I think, well it's ok if you ARE republican, but if you vote for them in the next election then you're an enabler of pedophiles, criminals, war profiteers, murderers, rapists, torturers and hypocrites, and there are no two ways about it.

[identity profile] akemi42.livejournal.com 2006-11-06 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The Jenkins interview was facinating. I am totally going to cite it in the copyright fandom law review article I am writing. It is always cool to cite things besides other boring law review articles.

And dulce de leche with ice cream. *drool* How to I get invited to your place for dessert?