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November 7th, 2009
someposifeed
| 07:22 am - [SP] A Bloody Mess pt 6
http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp11012009.shtml
If there are any problems with the comic or website, or if you have any questions, comments, or complaints you would like to address directly to Randy, please email him at choochoobear@gmail.com.
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whedonesque
| 11:55 am - Joss is "really excited" to direct Glee episode, says cast.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/22289 http://hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2009/11/06/joss-whedon-is-really-excited-to-direct-glee-episode-says-cast/ Cory Montieth (Finn) tells MTV's Hollywood Crush that "it's good to have a talented fan directing the show".
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dglenn
 | 05:26 am - QotD
"My wardrobe is threefold: Things I wear during sex,
Things I wear to have more sex and most importantly, 'I
don't give a shit.'" -- Twitter user
VaginaDrum,
2009-10-26
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devils_panties
| 12:00 am - Devil's Panties - Nov 7, 2009
http://thedevilspanties.com/d/20091107.html Devil's Panties comic for Saturday, November 7, 2009
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whedonesque
| 05:50 am - CSTS Global Charity Donation Tally has just hit a new record $116,936.18.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/22287 http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com/ Whoo-hoo! And still climbing. Equality Now $104,764.02
And Other charities
1,500lbs in food for Greater Boston Food Bank
Al Wooten Jr Heritage Center = $378
BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre Foundation = $727.95
Donors Choose = $874.66
House of the Good Shepherd = $1,160.00
Humane Society = $395
Kids Need to Read = $7006.49
MADCAP Cinema = $269.00
Nashville Cares = $200.11
PDX Browncoats = $500.00
Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona = $660.95
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shakes_sis
| 12:33 am - Cheering news for a Saturday
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ShakespearesSister/~3/1ldlsz1rgWU/cheering-news-for-saturday.html You think you got problems? Hah.
Japanese Fishing Trawler Sunk By Giant Jellyfish
The trawler, the Diasan Shinsho-maru, capsized off Chiba`as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura's jellyfish. ...
The crew of the fishing boat was thrown into the sea when the vessel capsized, but the three men were rescued by another trawler, according to the Mainichi newspaper. The local Coast Guard office reported that the weather was clear and the sea was calm at the time of the accident.
One of the largest jellyfish in the world, the species can grow up to 2 meters in diameter. The last time Japan was invaded on a similar scale, in the summer of 2005, the jellyfish damaged nets, rendered fish inedible with their toxic stings and even caused injuries to fishermen.
As you go through your day, remember, it could be worse.
This concludes our cheering message.
Carry on.
giant, jellyfish, Nomura's, Nemopilema nomurai
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asylum_promo
[mugetsu]
 | 04:14 am - Batman, The Joker, Vagrant Story, The Pirates of Dark Water fandom asylums
![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) octopon - Pirates of DarkWater fandom asylum. Completed!
gotham_gazetteCompleted!</i>
vagrant_story - Vagrant Story fandom asylum. WIP; will be deleted unless more interest is shown.
And,
Please feel free to join commedia; a personal project of mine, aiming to review and analyze comics (and other selected media) that feature DC Comics' The Joker.
It is currently a WIP because I am still going through my 500+ hardcopy!issues collection. I do not download torrents/scans.
I'd like to point out that currently I have two polls up for debate, as can be seen here explaining two routes the asylum's project can take. IE: spoiler free reviews, spoilerific reviews, and whatnot. =) Otherwise, the FAQ and The Rules are already up. The tags/memory post is still a WIP.
I am also open to affiliating with other comic book and/or Batman related asylums, except for RPGs.
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whedonesque
| 01:31 am - Julie Benz is just busy.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/22286 http://blog.buzzymultimedia.com/julie-benz-just-busy/ Buzzy Multimedia spoke with her about her various roles and the common thread they seem to have. "Julie Benz is one of the sweetest-looking people on Planet Earth, and yet somehow she winds up in a lot of films and TV shows dealing with violence."
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whedonesque
| 12:11 am - Bianca Lawson joins The Vampire Diaries.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/22285 http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0493161/ She was in it for only a couple seconds of the last minute of the eighth episode. Apologies as this must have been posted before but just in case.
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whedonesque
| 12:03 am - The Buzz on 'V's' Morena Baccarin.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/22284 http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/the-buzz-on-morena-baccarin--762 The web is abuzz about the 'new' face we already knew. The main Yahoo! page asks 'who is this mysterious face?'
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November 6th, 2009
shakes_sis
| 06:55 pm - More Polanski Fail
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ShakespearesSister/~3/5uUO8Hh_pXc/more-polanski-fail.html by Shaker Faywray.
Hi Shakers, this is faywray. Liss has offered to let me turn a rambling I'm-about-to-explode e-mail I sent her into a guest post.
[Trigger warnings apply, especially for the external links.]
I found this article by Bernard-Henri Lévy (the creator of the original "Free Polanski" petition) on a French site the other day, and I wanted to translate some of it for you. Turns out the HuffPo has already taken care of that. It sickens me that the man gets a platform for the bile he is spewing.
In this new pile of utter bullshit, Mr. Lévy once more tries to educate the simple-minded on why arresting Roman Polanski should be a moral no-no. He should know. After all, his own website describes him as "dedicated to all struggles for human dignity."
For those who can bear to do so, let's have a look at some of his arguments. The gist of his text is that the way everyone is behaving in the Polanski affair is just shameful. He keeps repeating this word, over and over again, like he invented the anaphore.
Since we're at this point, since time is passing and everyone seems to find nothing wrong with the situation, since Roman Polanski's supporters are losing faith and, sometimes, are even starting to doubt [yay!], since the pack of gossipers have even succeeded, it seems, in convincing the French minister of culture that he spoke too hastily, and under the influence of emotion, though he only did his duty, I want to say again, once more, why this affair is shameful. [...] It is shameful to see the regulars of the global Café du Commerce [the French equivalent of bar-room politics], whose Pavlovian anti-Americanism never leaves them at a loss for words when lambasting America on any and everything, are suddenly silent, become gentle as lambs and, when it comes to Polanski, just repeat: "Ah, that's America... better not mess with American law... dura lex sed lex (the law is harsh, but it is the law)..." Those people (who are they, anyway?) couldn't possibly have come to the conclusion that he should be extradited, could they? No, they are suddenly, inexplicably intimidated by America, that's it!
It is shameful to see the intellectuals, whose role should be to calm the frenzy and cool popular anger [elitism anyone?], ratchet up, like Michel Onfray in Libération, the moment when "the worst are full of passionate intensity" (Yeats) and to indulge, in the name of abused childhood, in the most obnoxious amalgams [Onfray had said that if you think a pedophile sex tourist should be punished, you simply cannot say otherwise about Polanski]. Right. Because Maude help us if the intellectuals aren't there to think for the masses. Also: I feel passionately about this issue. Does that make me one of "the worst"? Ouch.
[W]hy don't we hear these intellectuals denounce with equal ardor, the limitless outrage that is the martyrdom of child soldiers in Africa, or child slaves in Asia, or the hundreds of millions of children dead of hunger, according to the estimates of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), for the last...32 years? You want to bash your peers for willful ignorance of other people's suffering? Go right ahead.
I have to ask though, what the FUCK has this got to do with Roman Polanski? Why is there something worse, something more important that punishing someone for something he did to another human being? Oh, that's because, like dignity and human rights, justice is only available in limited stock, and we can't be going around handing it out to just anyone, now, can we?
It is shameful to see Luc Besson rush to television, cloaked in ingenuous probity, inveigh against Polanski, like in the worst era of the McCarthyist witch hunts, and denounce his friend. As a reminder, Luc Besson, when asked, basically said "I like him, but the law's the law."
It is shameful to keep repeating, like some are doing, that justice should be "equal for all" while, if there is indeed an "inequality," if there is a double standard, it is to the detriment, not to the advantage, of Polanski. I've tested it. Last October 2, on the NPR show On the Point, I confronted Geraldine Ferraro's refrain, which she repeated ad nauseum: "Polanski has had a lovely life; now, he has to pay." I sent out a challenge to listeners: "Show me a case, a single one, of an anonymous person, guilty of the same crime, who was tracked down thirty years after the fact." To this day, no one has found a single one. Point utterly proven. People who haven't gotten caught are still free, so even those who are caught should go free.
One minor correction, though: If you have a look at the NPR's comment section for that show, there are actually several people on the first page who have found cases of a "nobody" being brought to justice 30 years later.
But if not for justice, why is Polanski being arrested now? According to Lévy:
[Y]ou had to be Polanski, you had to be an artist renown [sic] over the globe for an elected prosecutor, soon to embark on an electoral campaign and starved for publicity, to resurrect the case from oblivion, to which, even in the United States, popular wisdom relegates the very old case files of non-recidivist delinquents. Non-recidivist meaning, in this case, never caught before or after. "Dating" a 15-year old two years prior is clearly something completely different.
Note how there is now a good thing called popular wisdom. Compare to popular anger above.
It is strange -- shameful, and strange -- to see how the same people who, intoxicated by suspicion and seeing conspiracies everywhere, spend their time investigating the secret agendas of the States, but do not seem at all bothered by the timing that is, undoubtedly, extremely bizarre... 'Cause the decent thing to do would be to uphold your prejudices against all logic. This reminds me of a comment he made on the above-mentioned radio show to a caller who said that he was wrong to say everybody had forgiven Polanski during the last 32 years - she for one had tried to "boycott" him. Lévy's reply: "At least she's consistent. My problem is those people who not only gave him awards...and who suddenly organize this man-hunt." We are allowed to believe a rapist should be arrested, but we have to prove that we had this opinion for 32 years for it to mean anything.
Because it is shameful, finally, that we can't, when we talk about his life, evoke his childhood in the ghetto, the death of his mother in Auschwitz, the murder of his young spouse, eviscerated along with the young child she was carrying, without the prayers [I disagree with this translation. The original said "braillards". French-speakers, correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like howler, as in howler monkey, a very disrespectful description, but at least he is consistent in this.] of the new popular justice crying, "Blackmail!': even for the most abominable serial killer, the prevailing "culture of excuse" jumps to scrutinize the difficult childhood, the broken family, the traumas -- but Roman Polanski would be the only person in the world under judicial jurisdiction not to have the right to any kind of attenuating circumstance... Right, because people who mention his past suffering usually do so in an attempt to explain what "made him" rape a child.
Except they don't. They say he didn't, and besides, AUSCHWITZ. That is a very different line of argument, and Lévy fails to see the difference.
His closing statement:
I hardly know Roman Polanski. But I know that all those who, from close and from afar, join in this lynching will soon wake up, horrified by what they have done, ashamed. I've run out of words. Using the imagery of typically racially motivated mob-violence to describe not protesting the lawful arrest of a fugitive child rapist?!
I wonder if Mr. Lévy has felt shame lately. The kind that is physical, the pressure in your head, the lack of oxygen in your lungs, the lava in your bowels. I don't think he has. I think shame, much like morals, is an abstract concept to him that can be used in sophisticated arguments. His concern is not even really about Mr. Polanski, just about the "inconsistency" he perceives in the whole affair.
To Mr. Bernard-Henri Lévy, luminary, I'd like to repeat what caller Andy from Ft. Myers, FL had to say on the NPR show:
I have to say [...] I agree with Bernard in that I'm surprised he hasn't been brought into custody sooner. Beyond that, I'm sorry, Bernard, you may be an intellectual, I have to say I think you're an [asshole]. Emphasis all mine.
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shakes_sis
| 04:55 pm - This, too, is a real thing in the world.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ShakespearesSister/~3/yKE9HXfMC4w/this-too-is-real-thing-in-world.html 
Robert Pattertoningson eats corn.
Part of Vanity Fair's "Robert Pattinson: The Bruce Weber Portraits," from the December 2009 issue.
Another example of something that just made me LOL for its sheer absurdity. The vaguely nauseated look. The corn, dangling, not even being eaten in a cheekily phallic way. (Is it post-blowjob corn?) The lobster bib. The Rolling Rock bottle. The vague sense I'm meant to find it sexy, for some inexplicable reason.
When I showed it to Kenny Blogginz yesterday, he captioned it: "The dainty lord doth deign to masticate 'pon some maize with his precious porcelains." Which sent me into gales of laughter for, like, ten million years.
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shakes_sis
| 04:55 pm - I Get Letters
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ShakespearesSister/~3/v-NretmL540/i-get-letters.html My recent letter addressed to the Nation of Teabagia drew the ire of a certain individual who blasted my inbox with a truly wondrous screed. The highlights:Space Cowboy,
You're a stereotypical liberal, always wanting something for nothing, or something you didn't earn or work for, but glad to take from someone who did. ... Like most liberals, your [sic] condescending, self-righteous, pompous, a hypocrite. My guess is you don't pay any taxes (47% of Americans don't), so maybe you don't have a stake in the game. I do.
...Liberals claim to be the "tolerant". I say liberals are the most intolerant bunch of people I've ever known. Your [sic] referenced one person holding a sign you didn't like. So what. There were literally hundreds of signs. Who are you to say.
...You're a clown! PLEASE WAKE UP AND TELL OTHERS!!! I don't want Obama's HopeNChange, as a majority of Americans don't. Do you know what the unemployment rate is now nationally? 10.2%
Have a great Day!!!! And now let's break this one down, shall we?
You're a stereotypical liberal, always wanting something for nothing, or something you didn't earn or work for, but glad to take from someone who did Categorically untrue. I paid good money for every Who and Floyd-related concert I've ever been to, and was damn happy about it.My guess is you don't pay any taxes (47% of Americans don't), so maybe you don't have a stake in the game. I do. That's one hell of a leap. Too bad it's completely incorrect. According to my last paycheck and mortgage statement, tax has, in fact, been taken at every level. However, when I do figure out how to trick ADP into giving that withheld tax back to me, I'll be sure to let you know first, since you have a stake in the game.
But here's where I'm going to shock you. See, I am perfectly happy with my taxes going towards some form of publicly funded health care, because I feel that even a dipshit like you should have access to health care in this country as a fundamental right without your having to worry about how to pay for it or whether the really friendly profit-motivated insurance company will cover what you need.Your [sic] referenced one person holding a sign you didn't like. So what. There were literally hundreds of signs. Who are you to say. Who am I? Who am I?! I'm Heeb Laureate of Shakesville, asshole!
By the way, there were plenty of people who didn't like that sign for the very plain reason I already stated: There is no valid comparison between a publicly funded health care system and the mass extermination of people. If you think that's a valid comparison, then there's not much I can do for you aside from suggesting you take a remedial history class.You're a clown! PLEASE WAKE UP AND TELL OTHERS!!! You know, you got me there. In the right circumstances, I could be a right clown but I've never really admitted it to anyone before. I want to thank you for recognizing this so that now I can stand before all of Shakesville and declare, without fear:
I AM A CLOWN!!!I don't want Obama's HopeNChange, as a majority of Americans don't. Umm...actually a majority of Americans did. See, that's how Obama was elected President. I can see by that staggering number of people who showed up to your party (what was it? about 4,000?) how the majority are really worked up about things. I also found it interesting how willing some of those attendees were willing to accept true government health care from the Capitol's physician office. Why couldn't they stick to their principles and demand to only be cared for by private practitioners? Hypocrites!!Do you know what the unemployment rate is now nationally? 10.2% Wow - you're a statistician too? That's great! (Maybe you can scan your credentials and send them to me.) Do you by any chance remember an economic crash that happened before Obama was even elected? Didn't think so.
But you know what? Don't feel bitter about all this. I understand you're scared of any kind of change that makes us equivalent in any way to European countries. It'll be ok. Really.
And you have a nice day too now!
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whedonesque
| 09:00 pm - Vote for Dollhouse + other shows in TVGuide November Sweeps Survey.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/22282 http://tvguidemagazine.com/feature/sweeps-preview-poll-enter-to-win-1000-3105.html Chance to win $1,000. You can vote for Dollhouse for November (LOL Cry) sweeps, HIMYM, Bones, V everything but Castle. TVguide (Nov. 9-15) magazine has an interview with Nathan Fillion with full page pic. Also there is a pic of Barney Stinson for the Nov 9th episode under the caption "BARNEY BLOWS UP!".
Seems you can vote as many times as you like but your email only counts 1 time for chance to win.
I really enjoyed marking a lot of shows do not watch and marking Dollhouse and several other shows live.
Direct link to survey
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dglenn
| 04:26 pm - What's Up With Me, and User Interface Opinion Questions
Uh, did somebody just buy me a gift subscription to
Science News? A copy of the current issue just
arrived in today's mail ... and I did
recently mentioned (and
a
little less recently) mention having been a reader
of it in the past.
If so, thank you. A lot. I've missed it. It's a
bit thicker now than I remember.
I could probably get all the same news from the web
nowadays, but someties it's just easier -- feels more
relaxed and recreational -- to read stuff like that on
paper. And by just turning pages instead of scrolling
up and down and then deciding which links to click next.
(I love the web, but I'm glad we still have dead-trees
publications as well.)
[Note: primary copy of
this
poll is
at Dreamwidth -- that's where the copies of this
entry on sites where I can't post polls will link to.]
Poll #4558 Command-Line Interfaces
Open to: All, results viewable to: AllFor folks who use command-line tools: if a command has both a
"display version number" option and a "more verbose output"
option, which of these is more intuitive (and/or less likely to
be annoying)? If some combinations of command-line arguments might produce
not-completely-obvious results, but those combinations are
potentially useful so they should merely be warned about
rather than disallowed, which of these seems more useful? Let's say you have a bunch of files in a directory (say,
"arbeau.abc", "machaut.abc", and "frtrad.abc" in a directory
named "french") and some or all are hard-links to (not
copies of) entries in another directory (perhaps "french/arbeau.abc"
also appears as "dance/arbeau.abc" and "french/machaut.abc"
is the same file as "songs/machaut.abc") ... and you decide
to modify all the files in that directory ("french") in a
batch, using a tool that replaces files with edited
versions and optionally saves backups (named *.bak or *~).
Which of these sounds like the most correct behaviour
(most likely to be desired, least likely to induce
cursing)?
[*] Not really, but it's related. A symbolic
link is like an alias. A hard link is where
a single file on disk has two names -- an occasionally useful
error in an MS-DOS filesystem, an established, intentional
feature in Unix -- and neither filename is any more or less
"real" than the other. I don't know whether recent versions
of Windows have added this feature or not, but in older
versions you could force it to happen, at the risk of
CHKDSK "repairing" it later.
I'm not sure whether I'll get back to the project that
sparked the questions in that poll (see below), but the
responses will pertain to some future project too, I'm sure.
Despite the welcome arrival of a copy of Science News,
it's been a discouraging week. The Mac won't boot, and it died
just as I was fine-tuning the interface for a program that was
nearly ready to share, beautifully comment, with a man-page and
everything ... that I had not yet copied elsewhere to try
compiling on a different OS, or to post yet. There was a lot
else not backed up, but most of that will merely
annoy and inconvenience me; this bit is the "somebody kicked
over my masterpiece sand castle just before I finished it" kick
in the gut. (Hmm. Much of what was backed up was
backed up to DVD. I'm not sure yet whether any of my other
computers can handle that. Experiments to put on my to-do
list.)
Couple that with the main Linux workstation -- the bedroom
machine -- which I hadn't been using much since I was given
the Mac, no longer talking to its monitor, and I've been getting
by with an itty-bitty Windows XP machine with a tiny screen and
a so-so X server on it for the past few days, and it's been
really putting a dent in my enthusiasm. So, in the immortal
word of Charlie Brown: AAAUUUUUUGH!
(The bedroom Linux machine shows the POST messages on the
monitor -- which is itself having major problems, but I have
an even larger monitor to use ifwhen I ever feel capable of
getting it up the stairs -- but at some point the screen goes
blank and nothing I do to the keyboard or mouse will light it
up again. I can SSH to it, and throw X apps to the itty bitty
XP screen (a VAIO that only works when plugged into the wall),
but I don't get the benefit of the decent-sized screen or the
larger keyboard.)
The small screen is fine for web surfing and email; not so
good for editing source in one window, editing docs in another,
looking stuff up in a third, and viewing output in a fourth,
or comparing two PS/PDF pages side by side. Or maybe I'm just
spoiled from having a Mac to use for the past several months.
I haven't had the heart to start reconstructing a week of
coding from scratch (get a filter working: a couple hours;
add enough comments that I won't be embarrassed if anybody else
sees it, usefully robust command-line arguments and options,
and somewhat reasonable user documentation: a week) -- and
I'm still clinging to the faint hope that the files can be
recovered -- so I tried to dive back into composing and
arranging, and am finding the tiny screen even more annoying
for that than for programming. Or maybe I'm just too acutely
frustrated and discouraged to cope with even small inconveniences
right now. Maybe I'll feel differently about this in a month.
But right now, it sucks.
The plan is to head down to Virginia to see whether
![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
justgus37,
who has more Mac tools, more Mac experience, and OS install
media, has any more success ressurecting the Mac than I've had.
Wednesday I wasn't feeling well enough to drive that far; last
night I got a late start and then ran into some kind of mess
that turned I95 and the Beltway into obstacles instead of arteries,
and turned back after it became clear I wouldn't get there at any
sane hour. So: trying again tonight, if I'm up to it, which at
the moment is iffy but I've still got little under and hour to decide.
(By the time I got home again last night, it hurt to steer,
and I've got power steering. But on the plus side, I got more
sleep this morning than the past couple of days, so let's see
what my body decides to do with that.)
I want my code back. I want my files back. I want my tools
back. This business of knowing I need more backup media and
a big disk for a live backup, but not being able to afford
either ... well it's starting to wear me down.
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shakes_sis
| 03:23 pm - This is a real thing in the world.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ShakespearesSister/~3/sMCKFcmhziI/this-is-real-thing-in-world.html 
[Click to embiggen.]
Maybe I've just reached the point of maniacal slap-happiness on a troubled Friday afternoon, but I'm pretty sure this is genius.
Everything about it is making me weep with laughter. The fact that this story is an "exclusive." Jon says "namaste!" The yoga expert weighing in on what his form means. The related content, especially "Report: Jon Gosselin Avoided Jon Gosselin Lookalikes on Halloween." The baby back ribs ad. And the photo. Oh Maude, the beautiful, glorious photo. It's a fucking picture of Jon Gosselin doing yoga! OMG.
Even better? This exclusive photo gallery is linked from: "EXCLUSIVE: Jon Gosselin Does Yoga!"—a story which informs us that "The latest stop on his quest for inner peace was a yoga studio at a Los Angeles hotel Nov. 5," and quotes the yoga expert gravely noting, "I'm sure with all that has been going on in Jon's life, things are out of whack. He's got to let go of external distractions and tap into his spirituality."
Totes. Megatotes.
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[In case it's not evident, I'm not making fun of Jon Gosselin; I'm making fun of the media coverage. This is not an invitation to wantonly mock Jon Gosselin, or ridicule Kate Gosselin, or pass judgment on their reproductive choices.]
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whedonesque
| 08:04 pm - Serenity nabs place in top SciFi tear jerkers.
http://whedonesque.com/comments/22281 http://www.geeksix.com/2009/11/science-fiction-tear-jerkers/ Twitterfied list includes the Big Damn Movie among notable others.
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