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Monday, July 7th, 2008
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9:20a
he loves me not
i've had "how will i know?" by whitney houston in my head for like five months.
i had a really good long weekend ! on thursday, i came home from work and passed out for real. we got out of work at noon, i fell asleep around 3:30, and didn't wake up until almost 8pm ! i woke up and felt super disoriented and mouse and i took a quick ride on kelly drive and then went to whole foods.
on friday, the weather totally sucked, so i stayed at home and watched a king of the hill marathon and played warcraft :\ later that night, i took the train to mike's house and we went to see wanted. we saw the preview before "the happening" and thought it looked hilarious (not as hilarious as babylon A.D. but that isn't out yet !). WRONG. wanted is the most terrible movie ever and i don't even care about spoiling it for you so don't read this next part unless you want to know all the idiotic plot details of the movie. you are better off not seeing it.
cons
- the league of assassins are told who to kill by a loom. like, a LOOM loom, a loom that makes cloth, and they decipher the imperfections in the cloth to reveal names. they call the loom THE LOOM OF FATE.
- they have a bath of wax to put you in that mysteriously and immediately cures all injuries- except the injuries that look cool, like a cut across the bridge of your nose.
- the script was obviously written by 12 year old boys.
- "let's have a hot lady assassin... and her name can be FOX !!!!" (mouse suggested the name "vixen blayde")
- treatment of women is gross (his boss is a fat ugly woman and they make a point to talk about how fat and ugly she is and she gets publicly humiliated, his girlfriend is a cheating whiny BITCH, angelina jolie *SURPRISE* turns out to be assigned to kill james mcavoy, not help him !!! but she's an honorary man, and she gets naked, and always has perfect makeup.)
- why would james mcavoy care about following in his father's footsteps when his father abandoned him?
- why is killing people considered better than just being boring?! the ending of the movie is james mcavoy talking about how he changed his life from a boring one to the life of an assassin and he actually looks at the camera and says, "what the fuck have you done lately?". a: not killed anyone.
- how are trained superassassins not trained to look for an X mark on the floor?
- they killed an awful lot of rats. by having the rats eat peanut butter and explosives and then making the rats into bombs, instead of dead, poisoned rats.
- i don't understand the part with the russian guy.
- he is on a fucking train that falls off of a cliff and everyone dies but him, angelina jolie, and the assassin he thinks killed his father but is actually his father. what?
- james mcavoy isn't that great of an actor and his american accent is terrible. angelina jolie can only act bored or bemused.
pros
- the scene where he starts killing all the other assassins factory is pretty cool/funny and i bet it was gratifying to that scottish nerd to film something like that.
- um... there are some beautiful overhead shots of budapest and the czech republic?
- after people running faster than the speed of sound, jumping from building to building, curving bullets, magic baths, etc., angelina jolie ducks on top of a train to go through a tunnel and the guy behind us said, 'that's so fake'.
after the movie, we (ahem) played more warcraft. on saturday, we (guess what) played warcraft again and went to the grocery store to get ready for the fight ! i tried to make my famous vegan white bean chili but i used bush's beans and it came out terrible. i also made krista's peanut butter banana chocolate chip muffins and those turned out perfectly ! here is a picture she took of hers:
they were unbelievably delicious, even though i forgot to add vanilla (i added vanilla rice milk though instead of plain). then mouse came over so we could watch UFC 86 on pay-per-view. i was really nervous- i love forrest griffin but i didn't think he had much of a chance to beat rampage, and he won ! it was a great fight, really close, and i was so nervous the whole time. mouse, who really thought griffin had a chance, looked like a kid on christmas the whole fight. it was definitely one of the situations where watching mouse see the fight was as fun as seeing the fight.
the whole main card was pretty good, too. i hate josh koschek but i have to admit that seeing his dumb blond hair stained pink by someone else's blood was kind of cool.
after the fight, i stayed at mike's again, and on sunday we went to the mall (haha, suburbs) and i got special scrubby cloths from the body shop, shampoo from victoria's secret, and (ugh) the warcraft burning crusade expansion pack. i um, actually got that last thing from walmart :( i also got a four pack of underwear and some undershirts ! after that, we played warcraft for a million hours and then mike took me back to the city, we ate dinner, and then he went home.
this was a really long entry ! tonight i hope to take a nap and watch tv.
current mood:  sleepy
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2:03p
The Roma and itinerant communities
I've been reading about the Roma lately, and I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations for good ethnographies about the Roma and other modern nomadic cultures like the Irish Travellers. I'm particularly interested in the relationship between itinerant communities and the state societies they come in contact with. Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
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(1 comment | comment on this) Sunday, July 6th, 2008
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2:38p
The show today is at People's Park in Tacoma at 4:30, as in 2 hours. Get your butt over there. Get MY butt over there!
Tomorrow's show in Olympia has been moved:
monday, july 7
benefit show for the olympia free school
music by: ghost mice, heathers, kimya dawson and june madrona
6:30pm doors / 7pm music
at the eagle's hall basement, 805 4th ave. E.
$5 - $10 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Yesterday Skyler (my nephew) turned 7. SEVEN. We got him a drum set. I will post pictures later! It was so good to be able to make it to his party and meet all his awesome buddies from school!
Okay, okay. I hafta go play a show.
I just flew in from New York and boy are my arms tired.
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1:40p
applied archaeology
I hope that this isn't considered spam, but if it is I'll be glad to delete or have it deleted. Besides teaching anthropology at a community college, I do cultural resource management. I have had the same set of questions rolling around in my head for a while so I thought I'd set up an online survey to see how other practitioners around here feel about these things. Questions about the problems inherent in doing CRM, the future of CRM, etc.
It's a quick and dirty survey. I've never used surveymonkey before so I hope it works reasonably well. If I get any kind of response to the survey, I'll post about it on my LJ eventually.
Here's the link to the survey: Click Here to take survey
Thanks!
*Cross posted in a few anthro/archy places.
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4:47p
LA CHANSON FRANCAISE DE LA SEMAINE : Sheryfa Luna et Mathieu Edward
La chanson n°1 des téléchargements cette semaine est une chanson française.
Pour ne pas être en infraction avec la loi sur les droits d'auteur, voici un extrait de la chanson de Sheryfa Luna en duo avec Mathieu Edward : "Comme avant".
En accord avec les lois françaises, si cette chanson vous plaît, il est possible de l'acheter en téléchargement sur les sites français de musique.
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(comment on this) Saturday, July 5th, 2008
r0b0tafflicti0n
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3:35p
new word.
NO.
He's been saying it alllllllll day. . .probably because he hears it 1000X per day because of the trying to grab electronics/cords/cat food/cat tail and get into all other sorts of mischief.
Moms: are there any toys your 10-month-old-ish kids really like?
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(2 comments | comment on this) Friday, July 4th, 2008
xquerenciax
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12:05p
Jesse Helms Waits Until the Fourth of July to Die
Former Republican N.C. Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86
BY DAVID ESPO and WHITNEY WOODWARD, Associated Press Writers
(07-04) 09:02 PDT Raleigh, N.C. (AP) --
Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86.
Helms died at 1:15 a.m., said the Jesse Helms Center at Wingate University in North Carolina. The center's president, John Dodd, said in a statement that funeral arrangements were pending.
"He was very comfortable," said former chief of staff Jimmy Broughton, who added Helms died of natural causes in Raleigh.
Helms, who first became known to North Carolina voters as a newspaper and television commentator, won election to the Senate in 1972 and decided not to run for a sixth term in 2002.
"Compromise, hell! ... If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?" Helms wrote in a 1959 editorial that foretold his political style.
As he aged, Helms was slowed by a variety of illnesses, including a bone disorder, prostate cancer and heart problems, and he made his way through the Capitol on a motorized scooter as his career neared an end. In April 2006, his family announced that he had been moved into a convalescent center after being diagnosed with vascular dementia, in which repeated minor strokes damage the brain.
Helms' public appearances had dwindled as his health deteriorated. When his memoirs were published in August 2005, he appeared at a Raleigh book store to sign copies but did not make a speech.
In an e-mail interview with The Associated Press at that time, Helms said he hoped what future generations learn about him "will be based on the truth and not the deliberate inaccuracies those who disagreed with me took such delight in repeating."
"My legacy will be up to others to describe," he added.
Helms served as chairman of the Agriculture Committee and Foreign Relations Committees over the years at times when the GOP held the Senate majority, using his posts to protect his state's tobacco growers and other farmers and place his stamp on foreign policy.
His opposition to Communism defined his foreign policy views. He took a dim view of many arms control treaties, opposed Fidel Castro at every turn, and supported the contras in Nicaragua as well as the right-wing government of El Salvador. He opposed the Panama Canal treaties that President Jimmy Carter pushed through a reluctant Senate in 1977.
Early on, his habit of blocking nominations and legislation won him a nickname of "Senator No." He delighted in forcing roll call votes that required Democrats to take politically difficult votes on federal funding for art he deemed pornographic, school busing, flag-burning and other cultural issues.
In 1993, when then-President Clinton sought confirmation for an openly homosexual assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Helms registered his disgust. "I'm not going to put a lesbian in a position like that," he said in a newspaper interview at the time. "If you want to call me a bigot, fine."
After Democrats killed the appointment of U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle, a former Helms aide, to a federal appeals court post in 1991, Helms blocked all of Clinton's judicial nominations from North Carolina for eight years.
Helms occasionally opted for compromise in later years in the Senate, working with Democrats on legislation to restructure the foreign policy bureaucracy and pay back debts to the United Nations, an organization be disdained for most of his career.
And he softened his views on AIDS after years of clashes with gay activists, advocating greater federal funding to fight the disease in Africa and elsewhere overseas.
But in his memoirs, Helms made clear that his opinions on other issues had hardly moderated since he left office. He compared abortion to both the Holocaust and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
"I will never be silent about the death of those who cannot speak for themselves," the former senator wrote in "Here's Where I Stand."
Helms never lost a race for the Senate, but he never won one by much, either, a reflection of his divisive political profile in his native state.
He knew it, too. "Well, there is no joy in Mudville tonight. The mighty ultraliberal establishment, and the liberal politicians and editors and commentators and columnists have struck out again," he said in 1990, after winning his fourth term.
He won the 1972 election after switching parties, and defeated then-Gov. Jim Hunt in an epic battle in 1984 in what was then the costliest Senate race on record.
He defeated former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt in 1990 and 1996 in racially tinged campaigns. In the first race, a Helms commercial showed a white fist crumbling up a job application, these words underneath: "You needed that job ... but they had to give it to a minority."
"The tension that he creates, the fear he creates in people, is how he's won campaigns," Gantt said several years later.
Helms also played a role in national GOP politics — supporting Ronald Reagan in 1976 in a presidential primary challenge to then-President Gerald R. Ford. Reagan's candidacy was near collapse when it came time for the North Carolina primary. Helms was in charge of the effort, and Reagan won a startling upset that resurrected his challenge.
During the 1990s, Helms clashed frequently with President Clinton, whom he deemed unqualified to be commander in chief. Even some Republicans cringed when Helms said Clinton was so unpopular he would need a bodyguard on North Carolina military bases. Helms said he hadn't meant it as a threat.
Asked to gauge Clinton's performance overall, Helms said in 1995: "He's a nice guy. He's very pleasant. But ... (as) Ronald Reagan used to say about another politician, `Deep down, he's shallow.'"
Helms went out of his way to establish good relations with Madeleine Albright, Clinton's second secretary of state. But that didn't stop him from single-handedly blocking Clinton's appointment of William Weld — a Republican — as ambassador to Mexico.
Helms clashed with other Republicans over the years, including fellow Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana in 1987, after Democrats had won a Senate majority. Helms had promised in his 1984 campaign not to take the chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Committee, but he invoked seniority over Lugar to claim the seat as the panel's ranking Republican.
He was unafraid of inconveniencing his fellow senators — sometimes all of them at once. "I did not come to Washington to win a popularity contest," he once said while holding the Senate in session with a filibuster that delayed the beginning of a Christmas break. And he once objected to a request by phoning in his dissent from home, where he was watching Senate proceedings on television.
Helms was born in Monroe, N.C., on Oct. 18, 1921. He attended Wake Forest College in 1941 but never graduated and was in the Navy during World War II.
In many ways, Helms' values were forged in the small town where his father was police chief.
"I shall always remember the shady streets, the quiet Sundays, the cotton wagons, the Fourth of July parades, the New Year's Eve firecrackers. I shall never forget the stream of school kids marching uptown to place flowers on the Courthouse Square monument on Confederate Memorial Day," Helms wrote in a newspaper column in 1956.
He took an active role in North Carolina politics early on, working to elect a segregationist candidate, Willis Smith, to the Senate in 1950. He worked as Smith's top staff aide for a time, then returned to Raleigh as executive director of the state bankers association.
Helms became a member of the Raleigh city council in 1957 and got his first public platform for espousing his conservative views when he became a television editorialist for WRAL in Raleigh in 1960. He also wrote a column that at one time was carried in 200 newspapers. Helms also was city editor at The Raleigh Times.
Helms and his wife, Dorothy, had two daughters and a son. They adopted the boy in 1962 after the child, 9 years old and suffering from cerebral palsy, said in a newspaper article that he wanted parents.
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8:31a
Archaeologists find Washington's Boyhood Home!
So I know historical archaeology is rarely---if ever---discussed here, but I was an archaeology intern at Ferry Farm last summer and I was there when they found a lot of crucial artifacts, so when they finally went public, I was excited! Being the 4th of July, this article is especially appropriate. Here's the article in the NY times:
Washington's Boyhood Home is Found!
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(8 comments | comment on this) Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
iloveroadtrips
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4:46p
Scientology Protest in Connecticut July 12th, 2008
City: NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
Meet-up Location: ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE "CHURCH"
Meet-up Time: 11AM
Protest Location: 909 WHALLEY AVE. NEW HAVEN, CT
Protest Time: 11AM
URL with more information: CTANONYMOUS.ORG or http://forums.enturbulation.org/140-usa-east-coast/new-haven-ct-19073/
Notes: MAKE SURE TO BRING ALONG AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE. MASKS [V for Vendetta masks, available on Amazon.com] ARE SUGGESTED FOR PRIVACY. REACH OUT TO AS MANY LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS, NEWS OUTLETS AND COMMUNITIES AS POSSIBLE TO GET THE WORD OUT. TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN SUCCESSFUL.
The church of Scientology [basically a money making scheme] has for some time now ruined lives, separated families and run many people into debt with their persistent mind games. This is not an attack on the people who have gotten sucked into their cult.. This is a protest against the so called churches ridiculous and cruel practices.
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3:49p
an ocean of calamine lotion
they surprised us at work today- we were told we were getting free breakfast, but we got free breakfast AND lunch (and they had the caterers bring veggie burgers for me !) and we didn't have to do work all day and just played board games. i destroyed everyone at taboo and yahtzee ! and then we got to leave at 12.
we also got an extra paid day off any time in july !
i just read with you and without you by ann m. martin and cried hysterically the whole time and now i feel really sad. it was surprisingly well-written for the person who brought us the babysitters club.
current mood:  sad
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