From Twitter 08-24-2010

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Win But Fail and Wednesday Link-o-Rama!

Yep, this week sees the triumphant return of Win But Fail. This week, I take on Good Dick, a 2008 indie romance flick about a video clerk who tries to win the affections of a woman who rents stacks of soft core pornography. Read it here.

When you’re finished (and if you’re interested), I also suggest “Feminism 101: Your Underdog Lovelorn Romantic Could Be My Rapist” as related reading. [Insert obvious trigger warning for stalking and sexual assault here.]

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Life is trying to resume this week. I’m still sleeping off some of the exhaustion, but regular routines are starting to establish themselves again after the usual mad transition into the academic year. Traffic aside, the whole thing is pretty swell. I can start figuring out what my life will actually look like until mid-December.

Writing is back on, and I’m coming back to two in-progress stories and my novel draft with fresh eyes. I’m doing this on a fresh netbook as well, which is a tremendous relief. It’s nice to work without disk space warnings popping up every forty-five seconds.

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And now, more links than you require!

I have been completely remiss in boosting the signal on work colleagues who are raising money for Race For The Cure and the MS Bike Tour. Tyler and Eric are great guys, and these charities do important work. Support them if you can.

YouTube triple feature:
- I am generally skeptical of trailers for books, but for Dawn of the Dreadfuls I will make an exception.
- Ceelo Green’s “Fuck You” is the feel-good song of the season, and currently topping the list of songs I cannot sing full-voice at work.
- Ted Olson, one of the attorneys who pled against Prop 8 in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case, being interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News and systematically disassembling the “activist judges” argument.

Speaking of reasons not to mess with the LGBTQ community in California, Target is having trouble getting zoning permission after blowing off the Human Rights Campaign. Memo: sometimes endorsing discrimination pisses people off.

HeadsUp Design Co. makes interesting clocks. I’m particularly taken with the Sasa clock (which displays time with a long string of beads) and the natural wood birdhouse alarm clock, though I’m not sure I want to train myself to wake up every time I hear birdsong.

Anyone remember a cartoon called Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers? Well, apparently some geeks in Russia do, and they’ve started a cult around Gadget Hackwrench. No really, they have. The most perplexing thing about it — at least to me — isn’t the existence of the cult itself. It’s the sheer hostility that some people seem to have in the face of it. Really, people. What’s it to you that a bunch of people have taken an interesting cultural symbol and elevated her to a goddess of technology? It’s not like media has taken the place of traditional storytelling or anything…

Over at Apex, an essay about reading authors with squicky politics. This is an idea I’ve been struggling with for a while. It’s nice to see people engaging it in public.

This article about the intersection of trans life and marriage law in Texas is an excellent illustration of why it’s pointless for me to consider marrying. (Well, that and my current state of delicious singledom.) Not that I live in Texas, but consider that if it’s this complex in one state, and it’s different state-to-state, and then weird on the Federal level…

From the Department of Immanetizing the Eschaton: Ways that adapting to global warming could exacerbate things.

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And now I shall make some tea and get a few hundred words in before it’s time to fall over.

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