why obama's pet evangelical speaking at inauguration is so very unspeakably not okay

Gay rights activists and gay people are pissed off - or would a better term be 'smacked in the face' - by Obama's choice of evangelical Christian minister Rick Warren, a leader of the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign, to speak at his inauguration. darkrosetiger points out that the Yes-on-8 crowd have gone beyond previous levels of hate by asking the CA Supreme Court to nullify all previously performed same-sex marriages now. Obama and other democrats are defending his need to conciliate the Christian right and even defending his choice, who is not crazy on economic issues and has worked with Obama before on AIDS.

Oh really? Fuck that.

Honestly, I don't and didn't expect great strides in gay rights in the US within his term of office, really. It's coming, but it's obviously coming a bit slowly there.

But I still remember my joy and hope on election day - the hope that was reborn in so many people's hearts, people who were too shocked to respond emotionally because they, we, had given up on the US political process. And I respect Obama. He's the real deal, more genuine, more idealistic, than any other leader to come up through the Democratic party in a long time. I was enjoying that hope, you fucktards.

So thank you, Obama. Thank you for spitting in the faces of the LGBT constituency who overwhelmingly supported you and stomping on the tiny bit of hope that we might have dared to have for ourselves. Thanks for reminding us that being second-class citizens in most of the country might be the biggest social issue on our minds right now, might be consuming our thoughts again and again, but that it's so vanishingly small to you that you can fucking well forget it in a symbolic gesture of compromise, and thanks for doing all of that before your term of office even begins.

Soooo I'll just be staying here in Finland for a bit longer then. Like... probably forever.

gay therapy & shoe therapy

So, Fast & Furious is going to reunite Vin & Paul Walker in South America, right? (Which is so reminiscent of so much fanfic - !) And Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster are back too. SO. I wonder if Kristanna Löken is there too, sunbathing topless and doing bodyshots with her boo and whatever else you do on a debauched movie shoot in a tropical clime? ... At any rate, this thought pleases me. Muchly. ^_^

In other delicious news, remember the gold and white Puma Mystere Chevron sneakers I posted about in October? (The pale gold backing behind the metallic side sweep is actually a herringbone tweed pattern in a colour called on the product pages, no joke, "white asparagus". LOLOL colour marketing names.) I found some within the EU at the much-reduced price of 49 euros and what with one thing and another (shoe cravings, mostly, and puppy eyes), have ordered them in exchange for a promise to be pro-active about learning to speak Finnish and seeking work in my chosen profession (daycare of children, remember) as soon as it's January (and the sidewalks are safe to walk on from New Year's Eve vomit. I just tell it like it is).

>.@

Dear Producers of Engrish,

There's a big difference between a "bootie" and a "booty", and only one of them is a shoe. (The first one.) The second one is either a prize, or someone's ass.

Thanks for your attention to this matter,
Cim

o timothy

These felt ornaments appear to be a trend. They're everywhere this year.

( Wax performing tree surgery on Timothy there with a cheese knife )

american foods i miss #1,600,042

Dill pickles. Dill hamburger chips straight from the jar with a fork omnomnom.

delicious purple-on-purple oxford action (which sounds like a euphemism, but isn't)

Modcloth.com continues to fill all the places on my top-most-wanted shoes list with these adorable and funky lilac and violet cone-heeled oxfords. Their crack team of people who would never be allowed to name anything at all if I ran the universe have dubbed them "wine bar brogues" even though they are not in fact brogues.