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It's the March of the Typewriter project! Yes, I'm fucking taking forever and this might go into April. MARCH into April, as it were. Heh. Oh, keep quiet.
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TOPIC: Beautiful Minutia
This topic comes from the funk queen of the universe warriorpoet:

"Gush about a little piece of something you love. Like one shot in a film, or one chord change in a song. Love and appreciation of a meaningful thing on a microscopic level."

I FUCKING LOVE THIS QUESTION. So, so, SO many ways this could go! I love all so many little things in big things that I love.
Edith Massey's lines in my favorite film of all time Polyester, but especially the "au currant!" line! The way Vivien Leigh says "DuBois" when she gives her name to Karl Malden in A Streetcar Named Desire! But no, I'm limiting myself to just one thing. Just one, Benjamin.

( You know u curious... )

This is one of those moments that has me tearing up for no goddamn good reason. Early film tends to do that to me.

Whilst enjoying this video, I came upon a "curious" comment.



WHY CAN'T I STOP LAUGHING.

I'm not crying, my eyes are just sweating.



Long Abandoned Dixie Square Mall Finally Demolished

Walk with me, won't you? Walk with me as we enjoy Dixie Square Mall, the place that turned me on to "urban exploring" (at least looking, anyway) and stalking abandonedplaces. ( I said walk with me... )

I guess you could say my love affair with DSM also led me into This American Life since it was an episode someone mentioned in abandonedplaces that got me listening. That episode, by the way, is one of the best ever and you need to listen to it right now. Go here!

If I did a shot for each time I heard one of these, I'd be pretty tanked.

For anyone left who hasn't seen this.

Yes, it'd be much, much, much better if it was LGBT rights since if someone's going to hate homosexuals, they ain't gonna hate bisexuals any less (in some cases, I've found it's more, because we're "confusing"), to say nothing of what trans people face.

And yes, I didn't need to see Lady Gaga, particularly her "Bless God and bless the gays!" bit.

But this is vital, so important, and still so necessary. Watch to see how far we've come and how far (obviously) we still have left to go. I'd love to see this doc get made, particularly if it's given a bigger presence to the B & T of LGBT.

More about it here.

This would’ve been funnier/cleverer if they hadn’t used it for a female candidate. Enough misogyny, already.
Leaps and bounds more acceptable (opening bars of a) song: "Johnny Are You Queer".

Plz 2 b excusin meh, I haz soemthin in mai eye...

-Cross-posted-

WARNING! EXTREMELY GRAPHIC, DISTURBING VIDEO

I debated putting this on my LJ. It's exactly what it says. Does it really need attention?

Yes, even if you can't watch it.
Because it's tangible proof, evidence that this (still) exists. In what could be called the golden age of citizen journalism, atrocity is at least not afforded the silence and invisibility it once was, even if we can't directly end it.

On this Coming Out Day, I present this as evidence of why this work is still important. This video's description is given as just Africa, but many have suggested it's Uganda specifically (the UB article cites several media outfits reporting), the country with the proposed "Kill the Gays" bill.
While we in this country we are privileged enough to have such actions be illegal, we must not falter and fool ourselves into thinking our work is done here or anywhere else.

The subject of this video was someone's son. He was a little boy who played, he was an awkward teenager, he was a human being who was murdered brutally for no better reason than the fact he was gay and therefore "different". The group Support Gay Marriage Across America cites this senselessness as "the byproduct of what American conservative evangelicals have been exporting to Africa. Hatred pure hatred."

( Video Under here )

Use your horror and your outrage to do something, to speak out. Even if you aren't political and never have been, this is the perfect example of why you should be, even a little bit. Vote and keep public office free of people that think homosexuality is a sin, something to be "healed", akin to bestiality and pedophilia, and anyone else that thinks an obscure passage in ONE RELIGION'S holy book that is trumped by the greater message of said religion.
Accept nothing less than equality.

"Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr