GM continues its lurching advance to bankruptcy, and the President dared to take his wife out for a night on the town. In New York City.

New York City isn’t experiencing any economic trouble, of course. And the opening of a Broadway revival of an August Wilson play shouldn’t mean anything to a President. You know, August Wilson, that guy who won a couple of Pulitzers.

Listen, you idiots, when Obama decides to take a four-week “vacation” on his “ranch” instead of paying attention to what’s going on in the world, you may have a foot to stand on. Dinner and a show are a pretty normal, mainstream diversion, the kind that even poor people can achieve once in a while. Not that the Rebublicans know too much about what regular people do for entertainment.

Yay!

So kewt! v v shiny, also.

Added a GB of RAM on general principles. It’s the N280 processor.

Running UNR and really digging it. May hackint0sh also.

Via Andrew Sullivan.

The lovely and talented Woodrow Phoenix (can you call a guy lovely? well I think he is), a super-talented artist and writer (he created the very font in my very own header, even), has had a nice mention in the Times Online. Well, I thought, “It should be made mandatory reading for everyone, everywhere,” was a pretty nice mention.

W00t!

…not to please man,” does that mean that (a) God likes you with bigger boobs than he originally gave you, or (b) you’re going to take out those implants you got the California pageant people to pay for?

Just sayin’.

First! Go Canucks, GO! or Goat, Canucks, Goat! The Canucks are up against Nikolai Khabibulin, and so far, so good. And then there are these guys I heard about on the radio this morning who are raising money for goats for people who could use a little livestock, in Africa. So go see that site and see if you have $15 or $25 (I forget) to spare for a goat for some people who couldn’t even dream of affording a hockey jersey or a playoff ticket–or a goat, for that matter.

Second! Judy Blume, whose books helped most of us North Americans roughly my age and younger through adolescence, wrote a greeting for Planned Parenthood, suggesting that it’s a nice gesture to make a donation to PP as a Mother’s Day gift. For the ignorant who equate PP with abortions for everyone! on demand! right now! late term! YES KILL ALL THE BABIES!!!!!!! BWA HA HA HA HA, this was unacceptable, and so they asked their acolytes to excoriate Judy Blume. True to form, this response included death threats (the irony apparently being lost on them). Way to go, haters!

I wonder how long it will take for all that anti-Liberal, anti-birth control, anti-education hate and bile to translate into bleeding ulcers–and whether they have health insurance to cover that. Hating is so tiring, too. Maybe they all just need a little nap.

Amanda Palmer is the person whose tweeting brought that to my attention. Go Twitter!

I think I haven’t had a proper, you know, blog post, for more than a month.

And what a momentous month it’s been, too!

The MD and I had our actual one-year anniversary, versus all the monthaversaries we’d celebrated heretofore. It was swell. We checked Choobie in to the daycare for the weekend, and went to the Planetarium, and stayed at a little B&B in the West End so we could do stuff in the city and wander home after on foot or a cheap cab. We went to dinner at the place we first had dinner together, and then we went to see a friend’s band, which was fun.

Next morning we got up for breakfast, which I can’t remember at all what it was. We went to the Art Gallery and saw lots of Art. We went to the movies and saw Duplicity, which wasn’t really very good. We went back to the room and relaxed for a bit and then got dressed and went to The Sylvia to watch the sunset from the bar and have a delicious cocktail. Then we went to l’Altro Buca, which is the replacement restaurant for Parkside’s location, and that was extremely good, of course. Then we stumbled home…no, we took a cab, my shoes of extreme cuteness were not suitable for drunken stumbling.

Next day was gorgeous and sunny and we went to Science World on the way back to the homestead. it was a v nice weekend, we both enjoyed it

Since then, the MD’s Stuff has arrived. There has been a lot of moving of stuff, throwing out of stuff, taking stuff to the storage, and related stuff.

This past weekend (13 monthaversary!) we went to Seattle, to see the long-awaited My Bloody Valentine show (YES! it was AWES!). We also got to have dinner with Peter and Cecilie and their friend Richard, and it was lots of fun. We may be heading south again to see Metric next month, depends on a couple of things.

So aside from absorbing stuff and stuff like that, the MD’s parents are coming to town for a visit in just over a week. Concurrently, my parents will be down for a weekend (OH NOES! PARENTAL SUMMIT!) We have restaurant reservations already although we haven’t decided everything that will be going on. They’ll be staying with us so there is some amount of cleaning/arranging of stuff. this weekend we’re organizing the laundry room. Which excites me more than I would have thought it would.

I found this on coolhunting.com, a way to feed shelter dogs and cats! it’s called Free Kibble and it was started by a 12-year-old girl.

Play the trivia game or buy your dog some cookies, for a great cause.