dianora2 ([personal profile] dianora2) wrote2006-05-07 05:42 pm
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i am the laziest person on the planet.

No, seriously. They should study me in a lab or something. It's incredible.

I had a lovely day yesterday with [livejournal.com profile] bexatious and [livejournal.com profile] leftofcenternyc -- we went to a street fair sponsored by the Tribeca Film Festival, then walked over the Brooklyn Bridge and had yummy pizza and homemade ice cream in Brooklyn. Represent, yo. Weather could not possibly have been better. God, I love May in the city.

Last night I did manage to see Bradley on Real Time with Bill Maher (although [livejournal.com profile] kradical, I would still very much love a DVD of it if that's okay). You know, as much as I loved the funny, and the sex talk (especially the butt plug comment which will now live in infamy), I think my favorite part was when he seriously and thoughtfully confronted Republican governor guy about the disconnect between "pro-life" and the death penalty and essentially took over the show. The audience was eating out of his hand and it was like Bill wasn't even there for a minute. Just fantastic. God I love him.

Speaking of Brad, this week he is on the MSNBC It List. If you love me you will go raise his ranking.

Today was supposed to be spent vigorously cleaning my apartment in anticipation of visitors next weekend. Instead, I managed to watch the three most recent Doctor Who episodes (Ten, not Nine). I never felt the need to compulsively watch Nine, much as I loved him, but Ten is a different story all together. He also brings out the shipper in me in a most violent fashion. Which means I did not like Mme. de Pompadour getting all up ons, if you know what I'm saying. I'm also not thrilled about Mickey joining the team -- I like Mickey well enough, but as occasional comic relief, not as a regular. Am amused by the blatant Torchwood stuff being set up. Didn't watch the old series but still found the Sarah Jane and K-9 stuff absolutely adorable. Mostly, though, David Tennant is a hottie. And he and Billie Piper have smoking rapport. Sigh.

For anyone who hasn't read it yet, the greatest West Wing fic ever can be found here. Republicans accidentally unleash zombies upon the world. Sam pilots a chopper and CJ has a hockey stick. Just take my word for it and go read.

In contrast, the most frightening article ever appeared in today's New York Times: Contra Contraception. Examines how factions of the right are focusing their efforts on contraception in addition to abortion. Includes this gem:

"Sexual union in marriage ought to be a complete giving of each spouse to the other, and when fertility (or potential fertility) is deliberately excluded from that giving I am convinced that something valuable is lost. A husband will sometimes begin to see his wife as an object of sexual pleasure who should always be available for gratification." -- Dr. Joseph B. Stanford, appointed by President Bush in 2002 to the F.D.A.'s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee [Boy, do I feel sorry for HIS wife!]

and this:

"Meanwhile a government report later found that Dr. Janet Woodcock, deputy commissioner for operations at the F.D.A., had also expressed a fear that making [Plan B] available over the counter could lead to 'extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the medication taking on an 'urban legend' status that would lead adolescents to form sex-based cults centered around the use of Plan B.'"

Our government at work, ladies and gentlemen. God, it just makes me want to go out and have lots of dirty dirty sex. I should do something about that, before they decide that clitoridectomies are the next way to go.

And on that happy note, I should go wash some dishes or something. After all, my place is in the kitchen, right?
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[personal profile] lagilman 2006-05-07 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That article made me want to lead a March for Non-Procreative Sex, or something. Sweartagod.


Dudes, if sex was meant to be unfun, Nature wouldn't have made it so much, well, fun.

And if you're not having fun, you need to rethink your partner(s). Seriously.




[identity profile] skywaterblue.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
My next one night stand will be dedicated to fucking a Republican. With a buttplug.

[identity profile] caz963.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 10:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Didn't watch the old series but still found the Sarah Jane and K-9 stuff absolutely adorable
Now, sadly, I'm old enough to remember Sarah-Jane and K-9 the FIRST time around! But I thought that ep was wonderful (especially given the fact that I teach in a comprehensive school and the Doc's comments about the kids (hoodies and asbos - do you have those? anti-social behaviour orders) were fabulous!) - because of all the 'shippy' stuff - how S-J waited for him and he didn't come back, the fact that they finally got to say goodbye - it was a welome change from the light-heartedness of the earlier episodes, and really emotionally driven, I thought.
And um, yeah, David Tennant ... my eldest (6 and a half) thinks he's "adorable" (her words!)

[identity profile] gatsbyfan.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I totally agree with you on Brad's comments. I always find it interesting that so many professed Christians are so pro-life but don't even bat an eye at the idea of capital punishment. Um, hello? I love Brad and could listen to him for hours. It probably helps that I agree with most of his opinions. Oh, if only science could find a way to clone him (but not in that scary Multiplicity sort of way) so that we could all have our very our Brad.

By the way, LOVE your icon.

[identity profile] no1-antielitist.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
If I were really crass, I'd make a joke referencing Charlton Heston's "pry it from my cold dead hands" quote, and replace hands with vagina, but I am nothing if not a lady. Who am I kidding? I'm no lady, and I was hella unladylike when I read the Times article this morning. So angry and disgusted right now!

[identity profile] dudley-doright.livejournal.com 2006-05-07 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure they're just looking for the real nutjobs, to get us nice and riled up.

Still, scary as hell.

[identity profile] qill13.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
::pops in from [livejournal.com profile] em_meredith's flist::

I adore Nine, but I find Ten to be ever so much more...smutty. He's quite lovely, and David Tennant is adorable.

Must read that NYT article and vomit repeatedly. Gah.

[identity profile] dianora2.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Mmmm, smutty is a good way to put it. Yes.

[identity profile] amykay73.livejournal.com 2006-05-08 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Hi! I've been lurking in the shadows lately reading your WW recaps and fic. I had to comment tonight to not only say I totally agree about David Tennant's smoking hotness, but also when I saw the NYT magazine's front cover this afternoon my blood began to boil as I read the print on the condom. I couldn't even make it to the article because I knew my head was going to explode.

[identity profile] dianora2.livejournal.com 2006-05-09 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
It's probably just as well I read it online, because visuals would have made me even angrier.