hurray!

my sister Erika is moving to California!

"how do minds touch?"

Pastor Heng Sure on what Buddhism has to do with healing the world

oh, nice one.

I haven't looked at Wonkette in a long time (okay, fine, I've actually never really paid any attention to it before), but this tidbit about Sarah Vowell just caught my eye:

"Yay, liberals! Especially the conscientious ones with a real grasp of history -- such as Vowell, who recently explained to writer Nick Hornby exactly how she arrived at the difficult decision to (vocally) star in the hit film "The Incredibles":

It was a job she was prepared to turn down, she told Hornby, until she learned it was a Pixar movie. ''They're the best at what they do, the most universally culturally revered. It's like if Nelson Mandela showed up asking for your help to fight racism. Maybe fighting racism isn't normally your thing. Maybe you're more of an armchair racism hater. But if Mandela was standing at your door asking you to get on the bus, you'd just start putting on your shoes, right?''

Yeah, being asked to star in a Pixar film is exactly like being asked to fight racism! Because, yeah, it's really hard. And you're risking your life. And you're fighting against a powerful status quo. And because the only compensation you need is the simple knowledge that you are doing the right thing. That, and a cut of the merch."

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Oh, I can die a happy kitten, now that I've finally seen Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo.
Some of you who know me better know that I have a great fondness for drag. I'll bet none of you know that I spent a good part of my childhood slightly obsessed with ballet. The Trocks really touched something deep in my psyche, I think, and I feel somehow cured, as if I'd been suffering from a disease all these years, one that I had no idea I even had.
It was high camp, but without self-deprecation; gorgeous dancing; incredible comic timing. It was much more than that, too, but I'm too tired to try to describe it any more for now. The review that's linked on their website goes into a bit more detail.
Go see them if you can.

Melting Pot of Blood

Salon:
Melting pot of blood

time and love

There's not enough time, there's not enough time, there's not enough time. I am neglecting so many people right now. Life is too short, life is sweet. I'm making plans. I'm making changes. I'm having ideas. Spring is here. It's raining. Things are happening. New friends. Old friends. People are moving. People are loving life, people are hating life, people are surviving. The hard stuff passes, new stuff hurts, we move on, we move on, there are people we love, and it keeps us going; the hard truth is, scientifically speaking, the fact of love is what keeps us going, the little mechanical gizmo keeps ticking, and it's beyond our control. Don't get over it. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and listen to the tick-tock. It's there.