Baby Steps, Baby Steps

For today (and maybe the week because of the holidays...):


Mexico City Legalizes Gay Marriage!
(via Pharyngula)


The Cannabis Clusterfuck, or, Why the hell do I still live in Missouri?
You know what, though? We're gettin' closer all the time :D


How Everything Goes to Hell During a Zombie Apocalypse
I'll bet you Lori Beth Denberg didn't teach you any of this.


Also, I'm on the cover of PKP Forum (national honor fraternity Phi Kappa Phi's periodical publication). I'm covered in sweat and dirt, wearing only a wife-beater and camo cargos, standing next to four sticky, grungy, dusty lady-friends of mine. The reason I am on this cover? The girl on the left, my friend Jen, won a study abroad award for PKP. But I am still on the cover, you know? I'm kind of proud of it, even if I wasn't the one who won the award...


<--- clearly, I get around.


I hope you have a happy-whatever-you-choose-to-celebrate-at-this-time-of-year, and try not to strangle any immediate relations.

wildcoyote

Here's Johnny!

I return! I'm sorry I've kept you waiting for so long (life happens), but I'm back like a boomerang and it's all going to be much better from now on, I promise.

I have a few things on my mind these days, namely: I got an A in 4 classes and a B+ in one. *smiles arrogantly* However, some of those As are actually A minuses... which doesn't really bother me except that for 3 years I never had to worry about it, and now as a senior in my bachelor's program I have to deal with this new +/- shit tearing my GPA to pieces (I waved goodbye to it sometime after London, I think). It's just that they dropped it onto all of us rather than integrating it as each new generation of college-bound hopeful-cum-bicycle target freshman joined the ranks of America's educated, and largely jobless, young adulthood. It just seems fairer to me I guess somehow, but I suppose teachers would have to give two different groups of people in each class two different groups of grades and that would just be terribly tedious and foul. Ah well. I digress.

Pues, I have a few things for you on my hit list since I've been gone, darling, and I wanted to share them with you:


The Road

Showing at The Moxie, downtown Springfield. Based on the Pulitzer-prize winning book by author Cormac McCarthy.

Cat Rocketship's Blog: Please Obey

Need I say more?
theoatmeal.com

Best one I've seen in a while.
Dragonslayer (1981)

Ah, but better still! (☆☆☆☆☆)
The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra

Spacious Thoughts
N.A.S.A. Project ft. Tom Waits and Kool Keith

In fact, Boing Boing is just a wonderful place in general.

I won't provide free advertising pictures for the rest of them, but I will provide you with a list (you lucky little bastard, you):

Music You Should Be Aware Of:

• Bjork and Kelis, Scissor Sisters, Souxsie and the Banshees, Annie Lennox, Coldplay, and Beirut
  
• TV On the Radio, The National, and The Format

Video Games I Am Currently Enjoying Very Much:

• Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Wii)
  
• Resident Evil 4 (Wii)

Movies You Should Have Already Seen:

• Ghostbusters, Hook, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the animated one, duh)
• The Black Cauldron, The Sword in the Stone, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Excellent Reads:

• Bill Bryson: Lost Continent
• David Sedaris: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
  
• Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens: the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
  
• Don Miguel Ruiz: Los Cuatro Acuerdos: Un libro de la sabiduria tolteca
  
• T. S. White: The Once and Future King
  
• C. S. Lewis: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (my personal favorite of the Chronicles of Narnia)

I think that's quite enough for today, don't you?

wildcoyote

Unity

Here's something that caught my attention:




How very touching, and refreshing. The world is already becoming a better place.

And this is just plain hilarious:

The Galactic Empire Joins the Catholic Empire





















I do believe that's all for today.

WildCoyote

That Quintessential Human Quality

For the first time in a long time I really have hope for the human race.

I believe that the world is going to be a better place because of my generation. I think we're really going to make an effort. And I think we're going to have a great fucking time while we do it.

We may not be able to accomplish all of our dreams, but we're sure as hell going to try, and I bet we get some amazing things done on the way.



It's kind of refreshing to have an optimistic day, no?

WildCoyote

Progress

Obama Hosts Gay Pride Reception, Vows to Overturn 'Unjust' Laws

Hooray! I just hope he puts his money where is mouth is...

But. It's a start. And it's about damn time.


WildCoyote

None, really.

Dude, sometimes people have mega baggage that they bring with them. The trick is, you have to know if that baggage will fit nicely next to yours in the overhead luggage receptacle.

And that's the way I look at life.

validation

this whole thing is worth it, just because you read it.

thank you.

WildCoyote