http://blog.meaplet.com I support your art but that does not mean that I must support your revolution. Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:43:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the hours tick down to Election Day, I am getting increasingly nervous. I am considering avoiding my Google Reader account for the entire day; I suspect that instead I will check it compulsively. This is my last chance to remind all those of you who live in CA to VOTE ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/03/countdown/ Last night I had the best of intentions to go out to one or more Halloween parties. However, it was a long week, and so I went home and slept instead. To make up for it, tonight I did what all the cool Mission-dwellers do on a Saturday night: I baked ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/11/01/jacobean-post-apocalyptic-and-liverpudlian/ The Yes on 8 folks just won't stop. Not satisfied with blackmailing major No on 8 donors last week, last night they launched a DoS attack on NoOnProp8.com . The site is still down as we speak. Classy, Yes on 8, classy. You were supposed to be the ones on the ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/10/30/frustration-in-the-ca-trenches/ Today is Mountain Day, the Mount Holyoke holiday of canceling classes to eat ice cream and consider going up a Mountain. I may not be able to skip work today, or climb Mount Holyoke, but with the aid of my accomplices Inga, Rohit and Andrew, I do what I can. http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/09/24/mountain-day/ I've been watching hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com closely, but so far it hasn't. It turns out that this is because Martha Jones and Torchwood saved the world again, complete with questionable science. Meanwhile, here in California SLAC has no funding until November, and they won't even listen to my advice to make an awesome rap ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/09/11/not-dead-yet/ I just downloaded iTunes 8, and so far it has been a less than ideal experience. First of all, I can't play any of my videos from the iTunes music store until I upgrade to Quicktime 7.5.5, which Software Upgrade tells me does not exist. This includes videos I've had since ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/09/10/epic-fail/ There's something unsettling about the fact that the De Young museum allows photography of its exhibits. It turns the accustomed relationship between the art and the viewers on its head and fills its galleries with visitors who are seeing the exhibit not with an eye for the compositions that the ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/09/07/every-day-is-a-wonderland-tour/ From the ever-clever folks at "A Softer World" comes this gem. Delightfully enough I found myself thinking: "But I have hope again! This would have been much more apt during all those years of the Bush administration without hope." But given the speeches I've been hearing all week during the RNC, ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/09/05/98/ I'm back from Mendocino County after a weekend visit to my hometown. As tends to happen with every visit to the Emerald Triangle these days, I've got marijuana on the brain. Figuratively, not literally— my of youth spent desperately plotting to get away from there means that I'm one of ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/09/02/life-in-the-underground-economy/ I am well-known for my tendency to listen to some... unusual music. This isn't the "I have lots of indie cred" sort of listening to music other people haven't heard of*; it's the "what in hell IS this, Molly?" sort of listening to music other people haven't heard of. But ... http://blog.meaplet.com/2008/08/24/music-recommendations/