If you like unspoiled natural beauty, better go to Utah NOW. Tracts of land right up to the borders of major national parks are being auctioned off to gas and oil companies. Bush really does not give a fuck about how he's going to be written up in the history books, and now he's giving the whole country the finger on the way out.

So much for a brand new day. Racially-motivated hate crimes are up all over the country. You know what? Fuck the united stuff. Let's give the racists and haters a few lame states and kick them out of the country. We'll be the USA, and they can be the Reject States of America.

Why should Democrats need 60 seats in the Senate? If they'd tried to filibuster everything the Republicans did in 2000, there would have been cries for blood, but it's okay for the elephants to sit in the middle of the aisle and fuck up the legislative process? What the fuck.

A Salvation Army in Colorado is testing a new debit/credit card attachment to the kettles. Well, that's new. Kind of takes the fun out of tossing coins in, but would definitely help with the whole counting money until ass-o-clock thing.

Net neutrality~~~ So you can get your porn just as fast no matter your ISP. :D Hooray for not catering to businesses!

7.5 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia. I only have one thing to show about this:


On the topic of the end of the world, you know how to stop overpopulation? Feminism, bitches. Giving women the choice to control their reproduction would dramatically cut down on infant death rates, which everyone is pissy about... well, fucking don't make the babies, and the best way to keep that from happening (is not abstinence in areas where rape is commonplace, so shut up, mom) is to teach women about their bodies and give them the tools to make their own choices.

A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis. I will admit, I didn't really understand the cause-and-effect of the problems the country's facing economically until I saw this. Now it makes sense.

Playgirl is out of business. And so passes the only porno magazine catering to straight women, underfunded and understaffed and backstabbed by the more profitable for-men aspects of the industry. It was always good for scaring boys with surprise pictures of peeners. Farewell, Playgirl.

Imminently, an actual post about my day, and a poll.

The Shriners came to the Salvation Army today for some special tour and dinner thing. I ended up helping my mom from 4:30 until almost 9, making salad and tortellini and serving people and cleaning up tables and stuff.

Man, those Shriner fezzes? ARE WEIRD. Seriously, old men walking around in velvet hats with rhinestone-outlined words on them? Uh. Okay.

It was fun, though. I really don't mind doing things like that, community service type things, helping with soup kitchens and food shelves and just generally helping people out. Not that this was a soup kitchen, it was... more upscale? Slightly. xD The execution was basically the same.

I made it home in time for Heroes because my mommy loves me, and then I spent an hour squealing in delight. Contentment with the plot motion, I has it. (and also the romances are almost all made of win this season?!)

Okay. I am not doing so well with the sleeping early thing, but at least I am sleeping, and soundly, so I'm going to go do that for a while, and I'll probably see all y'all after the downtime. ♥

[Poll #1299519]

Hey, geniuses: if you clicked "yes, I would like a Christmas card from you" in the poll, that was your hint to CLICK THAT LINK and give me your address. (You know who you are.)

My tentative judgment on the server move: Failboats! The site is sloooow. Of course, that may just be because everyone and their sockpuppets are checking LJ right now. We'll see how it runs by tonight.

It is snowing like a motherfucker. Boo. Too scared to look out at the ground, again.

You guys, I can't read books any more. Words on pages are putting me to sleep and it makes me want to cry because I love books, they're my first love, I have had my face in books since I was two years old and I can't. fucking. FOCUS.

Blahhhhhh.

This requires its own post.



That lovely long body is Zachary Quinto. Doing a handstand.

I neither know nor care why. I am simply grateful that someone took the picture.


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Welp, I just fucked my sleep schedule up somethin' fierce. I felt so exhausted at 8 that I decided to go to bed... and unsurprisingly, I did what I've done EVERY TIME I've gone to sleep without Ambien in the past era, and woke up two hours later. Brilliant.

So tonight I am going to make those blondies I've been talking about making, and actually clean my room, and do some laundry, and if I can find the yoga DVD I know I have around here somewhere then I will motivate my lazy ass to do that too. I'm finally giving in to what I've been told: you can't sleep right or feel right if you don't get some motion in your life.

...not that that's stopping me from eating chocolate right now, but whatever. xD

So far most of you like my link posts just as they are, which makes me feel fuzzy on the inside, guys! :D The most requested change is more commentary, so I can try to be a little more serious about things... not like that will stop my scintillating wit, don't worry. I might put little section headers up for each general area of links.

ALSO now I kind of want a more official title for them than just "hey it's a linkdump", any suggestions? All I can come up with are lame-ass things like "Dani's Directory" and... that's lame.

Ooh. If I get all that stuff done tonight and still have energy to spare, I'm going to start on my Uber Awesome Christmas Card Thingies of Doom. \o/