Thought I'd put up a few pictures from the Brooklyn Bridge 125th Birthday thing I went to last week (Thursday?).
As a side note, I just noticed that this is also my 125th post to this blog. How fun.
Anyhoo.
Monday, May 26, 2008
Look, It's Some Stone, and Metal...and Tourists and Cars...
Quickie: Murdered Harry Potter Actor
I wonder how many people will read that and immediately panic that I meant Daniel Radcliffe or Rupert Grint. You know, out of both the people that will actually read this.
Rob Knox, who plays Marcus Belby in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was stabbed to death in a London bar. He was only 18.
Video.
The movie is coming out in November by the way. For all of my geekitude, and the 827 million times I've read the series (that's a precise count of course), I can't place where Marcus Belby fits into the story.
Cannes You Dig It?
I apologize for that; I couldn't stop myself.
So the Cannes film festival ended yesterday. This is the first time in 21 years that a French film has won the Palme d'Or. Laurent Cantet won for The Class, the last French film to win was Sous le Soleil de Satan in 1987.
Benicis del Toro won best actor for playing Che Guevara and Sandra Corveloni won best actress for Linha de Passe. The best feature film was Hunger, which is about someone dying after 66 days on a hunger strike.
Really the reason I mention Cannes is because of this article I found saying that this year's films show a trend toward women's empowerment and humanitarian issues rather than violence. Woot.
Quickie: Love Yourself, Screw Better
Sometimes it's astounding what Google Alerts will send me. My alert for "abortion" turns up some scary (and misinformed) crap. So does "feminism." And some of the others I have will send me things that don't even relate to the topic at hand.
Seriously. I just clicked on one that was some kid's Live Journal entry about how he had been accepted to the University of Georgia (woot! must be a smart kid). And I don't have a "University of Georgia" alert set up.
This one is actually on-topic, though. A blog post about how body image can affect your sex life. Though it seems like common sense to me. If you are self-conscious, sex won't be as good. Inhibitions are bad.
And it even came in attached to my "body image" alert. Way to get one right, Google.
Quickie: Nasal Genetics
This is a bit more personal than usual.
Since my grandmother died in March my dad's side of the family has been taking turns traveling upstate to clean out her house. I've sort of taken over the organization of thousands (not an exaggeration) of old photos. Which has taught me something...
...wait for it...
...all the men on my dad's side of the family have the same nose. The men. Yet somehow, I got it too.
I may not like it but at least now I see where it came from.
Oh yes, I did just post a blog entry about my nose.
Friday, May 23, 2008
Mmm...Yogurt
OK, so I love me some yogurt. Really; it's tasty. But as we all know, it's also the quintessential female-oriented diet food. Which is incredibly annoying (I'm sorry, nothing that comes in a little plastic cup qualifies as "cute best man good").
Well, this video about the marketing of yogurt to women has been making the rounds of blogs that I read over the past few weeks:
Hilarious.
Go Whatever-Wash-U's-Mascot-Is
So when Washington University announced it was giving an honorary degree to anti-feminist, anti-woman, right-wing assface Phyllis Schlafly, students and faculty were (rightfully) horrified. There are several Facebook groups against the degree and there was lots of debate on how to go about opposing her.
About 75% of the 2800-person graduating class plus several faculty members stood up and turned their backs while she was being given her degree (got that little fact from Feministing). Ignore Wolf Blitzer's condescending douche-y "What's the controversy this time? [sigh]" comment and focus on the story.
("A bunch of losers"? Stay classy, Phyllis Schlafly)
Also, photos.
Isn't accepting an honorary degree (and having her own Bachelor's and law degrees) hypocritical of her? She thinks women should stay out of the workforce and be at home, why isn't she leading by example? She should have refused her degree on the grounds that she doesn't want to be treated like a man.
In case you missed it, this is a woman who said it's perfectly acceptable for a man to rape his wife.
Ellen Is Getting Married Now That She Can
Because California is one of the few states that doesn't suck. I'm looking at you, New York, it seems like you should be next. Anyhoo, here's a video.
She also took on John McCain over gay marriage:
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Dorky Charm City Cakes Love
I went to volunteer at the Milkbone 100th anniversary event with Animal Haven today. I'm a big dork because I was very excited that they had a cake from Charm City (a.k.a. the bakery on Ace of Cake) shaped like a Milkbone. Not only did I get to have a (very tiny) piece, I briefly met Geoff.
Observe:
If you've never watched Ace of Cakes, I highly recommend it. It's the best show about stoner cake bakers I've ever seen.
Friday, May 16, 2008
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