Thanks, Lesbians!

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This piece of chalk art was in front of the store I work in this morning.  The artist must have struck in the night or early morning.  In case you can’t discern what’s going on here, or are simply too damn lazy to look at it, what we have is a drawing of two bare-breasted women in an embrace, with the caption, “Love who you are.”  It is titled, “Lesbians falling in love,” and it’s by somebody named S.L.F., whoever he/she is.  The women might be mermaids.

I’m sure that this piece of vandalart offended some of our older and more conservative shoppers, but I find it quite charming, actually.  It’s a positive and beautiful message, and it helped brighten my day.  I’m sure that by tomorrow, the property managers will have washed it all away, but it just sort of warms my heart to know that somewhere out there, a couple lesbians are falling in love.

Love is always beautiful, even when it hurts, and even, possibly especially, when it’s not condoned by mean old people.

Cosplaying Weirdos Now Officially a Religion in UK

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Druidry, perhaps the only belief system that requires you to maintain a character sheet, has been officially recognized as a religion in the UK, with charity status and all the perks that come with that, so now you and all of your rock-worshipping friends can all get together in your togas and rock out Merlin-style and it’s actually a religion somehow.  Awesome!

Good news, Betty Crocker Terrorist!

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Quick!  Run and tell Hello Kitty Darth Vader that you guys are all closer than ever to realizing your dream!

I'm Torn about THE SOCIAL NETWORK

On the one hand, it’s a new David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac) movie, but on the other hand, it’s about Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg, and a bunch of other rich, privileged twats, and who gives a damn about ANY of those people?

Facebook represents almost everything about the Internet that I despise (4chan provides the rest).  Why would I want to spend two hours in the company of the douchebags who created it?

Because it’s directed by David Fincher, and written by Aaron Sorkin, perhaps?

But it also has Jesse Eisenberg in it, and he helped ruin Zombieland, and I suspect he’s in almost every scene of this thing.

(But pssst: Fincher and Sorkin!)

My dilemma is clear.  I have no idea what to do.

"Gripping Tales of Men", Now with Comments!

I set up a Disqus comment box on the Gripping Tales of Men blog, so that you can leave actual comments about the stories I post there, and I can respond to them, just like a real blog!  It’s a shame that we have to resort to third-party applications and other workarounds to get basic blog functionality, but there you go.  So, if you have something you’ve been dying to say about a particular story, go there now: the Disqus box is at the bottom of each post.

pwrbttm replied to your post: I Just Noticed that I Can’t Enable Replies on the “Gripping Tales” Blog

If your secondary blog is attached to your default blog you can’t have replies on it. My current tumblr is a result of this. I broke out of my default non-personal tumblr so that I could finally have replies.

This is fucking idiotic.  I am amazed that Tumblr seems to have so many restrictions put in place to KEEP PEOPLE FROM COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER.  I have never seen a blog/social networking site so uninterested in actually encouraging its users to communicate!

Tumblr!  Can you answer or explain why the fuck you don’t want people talking to each other?  Because this is a TRAVESTY.