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It’s Friday! Bring on the awesomeness that is the weekend.

Bridget Regan, you are so lovely, let me count the ways.

Okay first, she was a fan of the books (Sword of Truth Series) before she saw a script of the TV show.
She is a stage actress, so she is poised
Clearly she understands the character she is playing (BAMC!)
She is genuine and honest
She gives amazing interviews
She loves her fans, even the silly ones
She has a sense of humor

And! She is not only smart, but pro gay too!

Um, have you SEEN this woman. She is gorgeous, with her natural hair color or not.
She can fight with knives, and swords

She needs to be on the stage, screen (small and large) for a VERY long time

*cough WONDERWOMAN PEOPLE cough* Srsly. The perfect woman has been found, and she is living in New Zealand at current.

And yes, I KNOW what the song She Bop is about… do you? *snicker*

Speaking of songs, and meanings (yes I was, vaguely) 

Has anyone but me listened to the lyrics of ‘DOLLHOUSE’ by switchblade symphony  and gone, ‘huh, that is so like dollhouse the tv show’. Think about it!
I am just saying, it’s an interesting coincidence, no?

PUSHING, PULLING ME DOWN AGAIN
PUSHING, PULLING ME DOWN AGAIN
IT’S GETTING BAD I CAN’T BREATHE
I WON’T LET THEM IN
I WON’T LET THEM IN
CRUSHING, PUSHING ME DOWN AGAIN
CRUSHING, PUSHING ME DOWN AGAIN
I NEED TO GET AWAY

LISTEN NOW TO THEIR HURTING WORDS
THEY RIP AND THEY DO TEAR
PUSHING OUT ALL OF MY HIDDEN THINGS
HOLD MY HAND AND TAKE ME THERE
SICKENED EYES SEEM TO MESMERIZE
THEY’RE MELTING AS THEY GLOW
MEMORIZE YOUR ALIBIS
THEY’RE LAUGHING IN THE SNOW

PEOPLE CLIMBING UP THE WALLS
BREAKING ALL OF MY WRETCHED DOLLS
FINGERNAILS THEY SCRATCH OUTSIDE
IN THE ATTIC IS WHERE I’LL HIDE
PEOPLE CLIMBING UP THE WALLS
BREAKING ALL OF MY WRETCHED DOLLS
FINGERNAILS THEY SCATCH OUTSIDE
IN THE ATTIC IS WHERE I’LL HIDE
I WON’T LET THEM IN

And to not be overwhelmed by the awesomeness of this posts beautiful people.
I am somewhat annoyed that lesbians in media (TV, movies, books) either are insane, or die. Isn’t there a middle ground somewhere in all of this people? I mean, srsly. Do you think we are either demented sociopaths or deserve to die rather than have happiness? (yes I am still reading the 4th Sword of Truth book, The Temple of the Winds, and if you read it you KNOW) It just… is irritating. We are boring too. Live simple lives. It’s not all glamour, death and mayhem. We are not being punished for the way we live our lives in REALITY so why in FANTASY? Ugh. I’m am quasi guilty of killing of lesbians in my writing as well, but hey, when 90% of my characters are gay, it is going to happen. From time to time.
(/rant)
HAPPY FRIDAY!

Randomly weird, I just fast forwarded through four songs on my Zune… and three of them had the word ‘Faith‘ in the title… I think the universe is speaking to me! AND settling on the song that didn’t have Faith in the title (Skinny Puppy’s One Time One Place) it has the word Faith in it… THREE TIMES.

This week has been one of Buck Passing to epic proportions. For like everyone. Law makers, politicians, TV personalities, and my favorite, regular every day working folks. And it is getting on my nerves. Mostly because I too am not immune to it. I’ve been passing the buck too. And it is lame and should be stopped. Annoying.

Starbuck has the right idea, when faced with weeks like this we should all just drink the madness away.

DADT is finally being discussed debated. And the point seems moot, really. Because, even though you (being the supposed masses) think gays aren’t worth anything and that this is some new fad (srsly?) there have been gays in the military as long as there has been a military. And I am not talking about the American Military, I am talking about any countries military. Ancient Greece anyone? So really, the law was ridiculous, the same as the McCarthy Era witch hunts were ridiculous (and remember you liberal readers, we have the Clinton Administration to thank, for this as well as the SOMA). So I ponder, will this be the time where we see that DADT is antiquated and frankly UnAmerican, or will we just hold meetings and hearings and discuss it ad nauseum with nothing happening? Obama promised to do away with it, but then again… so yeah. I know for a fact that if DADT was not part of the landscape I would be in the Armed Forces right now, a lifetime member, a proud and effective soldier. But as it was, I could not lie. So I didn’t. My life turned out much differently, and hey, I like my life, so I am not complaining. It just seems to me that when you are involved in all these battles, where you are overworking your soldiers, and contemplating drafts… wouldn’t you want the fighting power of a group of people who would be willing to do it? And, oh, all those that think Gays wouldn’t be good soldiers? We spend our life time on the battle field, we are persecuted, attacked and shunned. We have enough rage, forward thinking and dedication to do anything. So suck that you beer bellied lazy ass.(/rant)

Apparently there is some sort of television event this Sunday. *shrug* There seems to be a lot of news about billion dollar commercials and men in tights. I am sort of clueless on that front.

But in TV news… not much is happening! Bah! Though, caught Mercy last night. For some reason I love this show. Being the Jersey-ness, or the Irish-ness, or the angst-ness, or the Emily Gilmore not as Emily Gilmore-ness I do not know. It is good. *nods* And hello, Life Unexpected? Not that bad. Actually. Huh, who knew. Though, they make Portland so pretty… *stops myself before any weird ass comments about Portland* Dude, WTF with that show Supernatural? It’s been on the air for about 38 years and I have never once seen it. I think that explains so much.

Ooooo. BONES is on tonight. *fan girl squeeee* Normally I just smile at the thought of oogling CAM for an hour, but as this week has been

a)lame

b)a bitch

c)lacking in TV

d) all the above

I am more excited than usual. Or it could simply be that it’s early in the morning and thinking about something fun to do after work makes the day more bearable. You choose.

the gay-stapo

Steven Colbert. Hilarity. Honesty. Funny as hell. And I crack up when I think that there are people out there who think he is the ‘real deal’. Seriously. How many brain cells do you need to be lacking to think this is anything but a comedy show? Wow. When I think about that and I think about the lack of smarts that the majority of the American public has it makes me shake in my stylish yet functional boots. Seriously.

Political Update: polls are showing that Ref 71 is being approved, but polls are just that, a stranger asking you what you will vote, and you don’t want to let your bigot flag fly with a stranger, so I am still waiting with baited breath. Because here in Washington we do mail in ballots. So in the privacy of your home you can be whatever you think you want to be. So if you haven’t voted yet, get to it, and mail that ballot out! Democracy only works when the people are involved in the process.  And…. APPROVE REF 71!

In news of the thank goodness – and yes I know I am late on this one – when I heard Morrissey had to be helped off stage or collapsed or what ever at a show in the UK last week I nearly chocked on my triple vanilla latte. No No NO! No harm must come to the MOZ. I adore him and all his ambiguity and long lasting lisping. He is the Bomb. And I am so glad to hear he is doing better. Maybe I can see him again soon. Performing that is. It is not like I have a direct line to him, and we sit and have tea and all that. because, well, on paper that would seem totally cool, in reality I feel like he would be a disapproving Uncle. Telling me how wrong it is that I have leather shoes, and eat meat (meat is murder) and how I am too obvious, and that I should be more unknown and not so happy all the time. See? It would just go badly. But! I ADORE his music, and I like watching him live. He isn’t high energy, but he is entertaining. So pull your self up by your boot straps MOZ, and get healthy and get out there and rock! (rock… oh dear)

All the news is a twitter (ugh, they took the joy out of that word) about a certaincompany moving its certain assembly line to a southern state. Er, doh. It is cause and affect. You treat a company like crap, make them loose money, they will do what they need to do to make more money. It’s just the way things work. And that is all I can really say. Because… well YOU know. LOL. Not that I have any insider information, because I don’t. I just know logic. That fickle mistress.

CASTLE’s Halloween episode was EPIC! It was funny, interesting, and damnit it was a fan girl’s happy day! Though I did not find the hidden Firefly Easter Egg that has been on the set (kudos to the fan who did) I was still in a state of utter bliss seeing Nathan in the Mal outfit. And the quippy comments between Castle and Alexis, his daughter. Awesome! I adore the relationship between father and daughter on Castle. He is the father every girl wishes she had. *sniffle* And just a hootenanny of pop culture references. From Buffy, to Underworld, to Dark Horse, just… awesome. I will be watching it again. And soon. And you should too!!

I am 85% done with the sacrifice web update. Yay! This makes me still happy, and a little freaked. Because I am running out of time. AH! I better move my day around and get at least an hour of time to do the work on it. Lots of typing code. Which is always so much fun. Well actually it is. I’ll hush now.

What’s For Dinner?

I am not 100% Sure… I will edit this section later once I figure it out. ;p

Friday seems like a week ago, and it was only two days. It’s always interesting how time feels versus time is. Or perhaps that is just my experience of it.

Two things I noticed on Friday, okay maybe three.

The first is that while I have done a lot of traveling in my time (nearly 100% of it for work) and I have seen a lot of sun rises (because when you travel for work 9 times out of 10 you are up before dawn heading to a meeting) in my time, and I have to say that an autumn sunrise in the Puget Sound area is by far, hands down the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Hands Down. Gorgeous. I wish I could mental reproduce here for you how amazing the sunrise was on Friday morning as I drove south back to Issaquah from Redmond. Amazing!

The second thing I noticed on Friday was that if Fox Network spent HALF the money on advertising for Dollhouse that they spent on advertising for the ALCS GAME#1 then they would have about a gazillion more viewers. And what I find funny about the whole thing? EVERYONE knows there is a playoff baseball game on, so why spend so much money on advertising? Hello!?

The third thing is that hornets, wasps, whatever are aggressive and asshats. I was minding my own business… okay okay, when I saw it on the porch I was moving to get my book to smack it, and then it wasn’t there, and not one minute later the fucker stung me! Good news; I am not allergic to stings. Still think the critter was an asshat.

I have to say that I am totally crushing on Dr. Arizona Robbins from Grey’s Anatomy. Now, I think the show is sort of snooze ville. But we do watch it here at the casa, usually some time after Thursday, but after watching the speech Arizona gave Torres’ dad?  OMG. I love her. You need to see the speech. It was… so good. And the scene between Torres and her dad where they both quote scripture? Priceless.  That was some damn fine writing, and I say that not as a TV junkie, but as a gay. It was almost 110 percent spot on. So thank you writers over at Grey’s Anatomy, you are getting a whole lot closer to getting it right. Too bad you don’t have any actual gay people on your show anymore, just ‘gay for pay’ but I will live with that for now. It is acting. I get that.

Started watching ‘The Tudors’ yesterday, and have to say I am digging it. It will be interesting ot see where they end up (you know, besides where we KNOW they will end up). And bonus! I am getting Mare hooked on ‘Damages’. Which is so very awesome. I picked up Season One on DVD last week, and we watched a few episodes today. Yay! It is so good. Check it!

This week is going to be down right nutty, but I will do my best to blog a little in the evenings. To tell about about the excitement that is deployment of equipment.

What’s For Dinner?

Tonight it was homemade chicken noodle soup. And it was the BOMB. I am not a big fan of soup (most soup is a beverage, not a meal to me: Pho is excluded from that statement though) So I liked it! There won’t be much cooking this coming week, due to schedules, but, soon to be back with a autumn vengeance!

And remember my fellow Washingtonians! APPROVE REF 71

This post goes out to all my Sapphic Sisters out there. There are things we do, that we really shouldn’t. Now I am not one for arbitrary rules, but there are some SOP (standard operating procedure) that should be followed. If you are a BBW there are a few things you should do. First and foremost is WEAR A BRA. Sure sure. You want to be empowered, embrace your femininity by being masculine, I get you sister! But I still think that those DD’s you have should not be swinging around under a t shirt. They don’t need to ‘be free’ and flopping around. it is just NOT ATTRACTIVE. Now, let me make sure you understand; I have tried on all the hats. I have been androgynous, butch, stone cold butch, a boi, tom boy, and moderately passing for fem. I have been all over the board in my years as an out woman. And I have to say, my ‘girls’ have always been restrained. Even when I was in DRAG these puppies were wrapped and strapped down under layers of duck tape. It is just what is done. And that is why I can be 33 years old and have pretty awesome B (er C) tits. I do not walk around in a flimsy tee shirt with them slamming back and forth. It is just not hot. Now maybe, MAYBE if you are sporting A’s you could get away with occasionally going bra less, if your top works with your chest. But I am so tired of seeing BBW walking around in their butch glory with their tits falling all over the place. It makes you a hot mess, not hot. Strap those babies down with a sports bra if you want to ’stick it to the man’and not wear a bra. But if you ask me, (not that you did) if you love women and want women to love you… then how about being a woman. Wearing a bra is part and parcel to that, my sisters. Just like the monthly flow. It is what it is.

It always strikes me as funny that we are all drooling and fawning over hot ass women, and yet so many don’t take the time to make themselves a hot ass woman. I DO understand the irony there, as I write this I am wearing cargo shorts and a hoodie, but I am in my house, and not out and about looking for a hook up (or love of my right now). You get what you give, generally. So all you strong butches, if you want that put together fem? Try putting your butchness together. Being gay isn’t about being sloppy. *Getting off my soap box*

In other news, Oo! I am having so much fun with Virtual Echo! You need to click the link and download her too. Let the random fun begin. *grin*

Come on, you know it is awesome to have Echo walking across your desktop randomly. Even Eliza thinks it is cool (per her tweets)