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lavenderfrost at ...WTF.Well, there goes my good mood for the day.
NYTimes, the bastion of quality reporting, reported on the gang-rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas that's led to charges against 18 high-school boys so far - all well and good so far, right? Shit like this NEEDS publicity to raise awareness.
Only problem is, they repeated - without refutation or critical commentary - the claims that the girl brought the rape on herself because of the way she was dressed.
Choice Quotes (No cut b/c everyone needs to see this - DEAL.):
“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.” As opposed to the victim, who's gonna bounce back lickety-fucking-split, right?
Residents in the neighborhood where the abandoned trailer stands — known as the Quarters — said the victim had been visiting various friends there for months. They said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s. She would hang out with teenage boys at a playground, some said. TOTALLY BEGGING FOR IT.
THIS IS RAPE CULTURE, PEOPLE.
Now, what's being said and done in this community is bad enough, but the NY Times should be fucking ashamed of themselves right now.
( Here's how to contact NYT: )
NYTimes, the bastion of quality reporting, reported on the gang-rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas that's led to charges against 18 high-school boys so far - all well and good so far, right? Shit like this NEEDS publicity to raise awareness.
Only problem is, they repeated - without refutation or critical commentary - the claims that the girl brought the rape on herself because of the way she was dressed.
Choice Quotes (No cut b/c everyone needs to see this - DEAL.):
“It’s just destroyed our community,” said Sheila Harrison, 48, a hospital worker who says she knows several of the defendants. “These boys have to live with this the rest of their lives.” As opposed to the victim, who's gonna bounce back lickety-fucking-split, right?
Residents in the neighborhood where the abandoned trailer stands — known as the Quarters — said the victim had been visiting various friends there for months. They said she dressed older than her age, wearing makeup and fashions more appropriate to a woman in her 20s. She would hang out with teenage boys at a playground, some said. TOTALLY BEGGING FOR IT.
THIS IS RAPE CULTURE, PEOPLE.
Now, what's being said and done in this community is bad enough, but the NY Times should be fucking ashamed of themselves right now.
( Here's how to contact NYT: )
Are there any movies that you absolutely loved when you were younger that you've watched again and found awful or ridiculous?
Delirious with John Candy. Loved it when I was a kid, every time I went to my dad's from age 5 to 9 we rented that film. We were the only reason the corner store kept a rental section. Bought it from EBay a few months ago to watch with my sisters and it is the most awful thing you have ever seen, the plot makes no sense, the actors can't act and I'm not entirely sure its a comedy. I'm now refusing to re-watch Flight of the Navigator, which we also bought. I don't want to destroy any more of my childhood.
Day 04 - Your favorite book
This one I can actually pick one favorite... Day of the Triffids. I had a friend in college who read it as a school study thing and when I was complaining that I couldn't decide what to read she shoved it at me. It was not something I would ever have picked myself, at the time I was stuck in cheesy horror (Stephen King) and crime (James Patterson) and wouldn't have even thought about picking up a book written before 1990. I pretty much started reading it so she wouldn't complain that I never took her advice. Since then I have read any John Wyndham book I can get my hands on, and a few other authors from the time period. From there I went onto H.G.Wells and Jules Verne, got a tiny bit obsessed by Ray Bradbury and fell in love (and hate) with George Orwell. This is the book I have to thank for all my procrastination problems, as I will inevitably pick up an old book if I have to do anything that is not picking up a book :)
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This one I can actually pick one favorite... Day of the Triffids. I had a friend in college who read it as a school study thing and when I was complaining that I couldn't decide what to read she shoved it at me. It was not something I would ever have picked myself, at the time I was stuck in cheesy horror (Stephen King) and crime (James Patterson) and wouldn't have even thought about picking up a book written before 1990. I pretty much started reading it so she wouldn't complain that I never took her advice. Since then I have read any John Wyndham book I can get my hands on, and a few other authors from the time period. From there I went onto H.G.Wells and Jules Verne, got a tiny bit obsessed by Ray Bradbury and fell in love (and hate) with George Orwell. This is the book I have to thank for all my procrastination problems, as I will inevitably pick up an old book if I have to do anything that is not picking up a book :)
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Day 03 - Your favorite television program
OK shorter list this time.. I'm getting better! Glee and Criminal Minds. I can't pick between them as I love them for very different reasons.
Criminal Minds I love because of the action, I love the characters of course, especially Reid, Hotch and Prentiss, but I watch it because it's a different sort of cop show. I have always loved cop shows, I did my first degree in Forensic Science for pretty much that reason (a very stupid reason which is why I'm now doing Bio Med.) I remember watching Columbo with my dad when I was very little, 5 or 6, and having him call me into the room after the first 10-15 minutes so I could try and figure out who did what, and why. Criminal Minds brings that back for me, with intelligent plot lines that, while exaggerated, are just on the edge of believable. (Also I think Emily is hot)
Glee is ridiculously fun. As I said yesterday life should be about busting into song, Glee does this but makes it a little (a very little) more realistic. Its escapism, full of stereotypes and cliches, but aware of it and not caring. There is also a serious side, shown especially with Kurt and Burt. I am a massive fan of the Kurt storyline, firstly because I think the actor is amazing at conveying all that emotion, and secondly because it resonates with me. His relationship with his father is much like mine with my mother. She loves me for who I am but doesn't quite get the lesbian thing. I know she loves me and I love her but we both feel a little off kilter at times because she has a lot more in common with my sisters.
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OK shorter list this time.. I'm getting better! Glee and Criminal Minds. I can't pick between them as I love them for very different reasons.
Criminal Minds I love because of the action, I love the characters of course, especially Reid, Hotch and Prentiss, but I watch it because it's a different sort of cop show. I have always loved cop shows, I did my first degree in Forensic Science for pretty much that reason (a very stupid reason which is why I'm now doing Bio Med.) I remember watching Columbo with my dad when I was very little, 5 or 6, and having him call me into the room after the first 10-15 minutes so I could try and figure out who did what, and why. Criminal Minds brings that back for me, with intelligent plot lines that, while exaggerated, are just on the edge of believable. (Also I think Emily is hot)
Glee is ridiculously fun. As I said yesterday life should be about busting into song, Glee does this but makes it a little (a very little) more realistic. Its escapism, full of stereotypes and cliches, but aware of it and not caring. There is also a serious side, shown especially with Kurt and Burt. I am a massive fan of the Kurt storyline, firstly because I think the actor is amazing at conveying all that emotion, and secondly because it resonates with me. His relationship with his father is much like mine with my mother. She loves me for who I am but doesn't quite get the lesbian thing. I know she loves me and I love her but we both feel a little off kilter at times because she has a lot more in common with my sisters.
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Day 02 - Your favorite movie
Okay I think it should be established early in this meme that I can never pick just one favorite anything, that being said my favorite genre is Musicals followed by Horror. Movies I love are Phantom of the Opera (Musical), Memphis Bell (War Film ish), The Hills Have Eyes (Original Horror, Not Remake)and Battle Royale.
For this exact moment I'm going to go with Phantom of the Opera. I know purist say you shouldn't like the movie as much as the stage performance, but I can't get the stage performance into my house. I love the romance and heartache of the show, plus I love to be swept away so much that the singing just feels right, people should break into song in real life, it's passion that can't be show with just words. So yeah, Phantom rocks (also Joseph with Donny Osmond, but that's just because it makes me giggle ;D ).
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Okay I think it should be established early in this meme that I can never pick just one favorite anything, that being said my favorite genre is Musicals followed by Horror. Movies I love are Phantom of the Opera (Musical), Memphis Bell (War Film ish), The Hills Have Eyes (Original Horror, Not Remake)and Battle Royale.
For this exact moment I'm going to go with Phantom of the Opera. I know purist say you shouldn't like the movie as much as the stage performance, but I can't get the stage performance into my house. I love the romance and heartache of the show, plus I love to be swept away so much that the singing just feels right, people should break into song in real life, it's passion that can't be show with just words. So yeah, Phantom rocks (also Joseph with Donny Osmond, but that's just because it makes me giggle ;D ).
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HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 97
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 110
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: No
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: Again, I'm going with fandom whore.
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: SGA
AND THE SECOND MOST: Torchwood
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: McShep
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: Yes
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: Occasionally
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: Not for any technical detail, but I like them.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Ridiculously addictive.
Coding can be found here
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Okay thought I'd try this 30 days of meme thing.
Day 01- Your favorite Song
For me this changes pretty much daily or hourly. I listen to folk, rock, pop, opera r'n'b rap, blues, dance, swing, broadway etc etc etc. depending on my mood or what I just heard on the radio so it's impossible for me to pick an all time favorite. At the moment I'm enjoying Marti Webb - Take That Look Off Your Face, Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man and Dionne Warwick - A House is Not a Home, yesterday it was Men Without Hats - Safety Dance and Aerosmith - Dream On (I should not watch Glee before work). Godhead - Penetrate just started on my playlist and I'm about to go out so I think I'll be having a Metal day today.
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Day 01- Your favorite Song
For me this changes pretty much daily or hourly. I listen to folk, rock, pop, opera r'n'b rap, blues, dance, swing, broadway etc etc etc. depending on my mood or what I just heard on the radio so it's impossible for me to pick an all time favorite. At the moment I'm enjoying Marti Webb - Take That Look Off Your Face, Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man and Dionne Warwick - A House is Not a Home, yesterday it was Men Without Hats - Safety Dance and Aerosmith - Dream On (I should not watch Glee before work). Godhead - Penetrate just started on my playlist and I'm about to go out so I think I'll be having a Metal day today.
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Got given photoshop on Friday so decided to give some icons a whirl. Going by the rules on 10x10 variated. They suck at the moment but practice makes perfect (I hope)
Plus the one I'm using in this post.
Anyone get the ST reference :( Also does anyone know how to make one of those icon bar things that make them all look pretty in a frame with headers and stuff?
- Current Mood: accomplished
- Current Music:Law and Order SVU Season 2
1) Look at the list and italicize those you have read.
2) *** those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -- most of them
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
2) *** those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare -- most of them
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare -
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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