Seventeen... no, twenty-one things--uh, twenty-three things make a pos.... dammit. twenty-seven...

[cyrano]

This is perhaps the greatest piece of over the top bombast I've seen during this entire campaign. I was staggered, and I admit greatly impressed, by this production from www.personhoodusa.com.

"" (Watch on YouTube)

However, I still want to know, if a two week old fetus is a Person, does it have to have its own ticket on an airplane? And how will it manage to put its legal name down if we don't know its gender yet? Will we have to start naming all children 'Chris' and 'Taylor' and 'Jean' to cover our bases? Will pregnant women use carpools lanes? Will they have to wear two seatbelts--one for them and one for their Person? And don't get me started on the all you can eat buffet.

I can tell I'm in a manic phase. There are a lot more idiots out there, and I only realise I've overdone things when suddenly everything hurts so badly I can't get the cap off the Ibuprofin.

And I'm more involved in classroom discussion. Sometimes we actually talk about something class related instead of how the term 'scapegoat' comes from the old tradition of symbolically loading a goat down with physical representations of the sins of the village and then sending it out to wander in the wilderness or get eaten. So I guess that lions might have been the original sin eaters. Which I still think is a *fascinating* concept. I was glad when I finally got to include one in one of my campaigns.

Also? I tend to leap from subject to subject with no warning.

I've been listening to MBV a *lot* the past few days. Just this one song, over and over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyYMzEplnfU&ob=av3e

There's the quiet part that sounds like Cocteau Twins down to where I don't even hear the lyricss except as part of the melody. But there's that underlying tension, and you're waiting for the guitars to explode out and romp around the song until they exhaust themselves and fall over, and then their guitar-y heartbeat lends the frame so floaty ethereal Bilinda can sing some more.

EDIT: Oh yeah and also, Rivendell Rose pointed me towards this site where they take public domain book covers and make spendy t-shirts with the art. Animal Farm! Outsiders! Death of a Salesman!

Hunh. We should go to the Hallowe'en party as Greasers and Socs.

Comments

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

That is truly... something.

Our local theater has 'no one under 2 admitted'. A pregnant woman flying with a post-born under-2 child would have to buy a second airline ticket, since you can have only one under-2 child sharing a seat with each adult.

There are no casinos in Colorado, so the age limit there wouldn't be relevant (there may be casinos on reservations, but that's not an issue...) And I suppose pregnant women should stay out of bars anyway. They wouldn't be allowed into NC-17 movies, but I have a hard time picturing that bothering any supporter of this law.

But firefighters, in evaluating "maximum occupancy of this room", would have to ask all the women in the room whether they were pregnant.

They'd have to rewrite all the laws governing things like seat belts - instead of saying 'under 6' or 'under 18' they'd have to say 'from zero to 6' and so on. Till that time, pregnant women would have to put their stomachs, or themselves, in rear-facing infant seats, since the law says "until the child is N months or X pounds", not "from birth until..." Would make driving somewhat inconvenient.

And of course, a pregnant woman would immediately qualify for AFDC. She'd qualify for the tax break for a dependent as well.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

I have to say, there is a small element of win/win to this set up, but unfortunately I don't know enough people in Colorado I could convince to actually enforce the law if (god forbid) there should be enough people in Colorado whose brains were eaten by zombies to pass it.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Also? I love the whole 'million dollar abortion industry' thing, with these shadowy conglomerates sending their freemason minions out to threaten recalcitrant senators or to reward them with Hookers and Blow for compliant votes.