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My old buddy, Shiraz, is back and as a result I have in my hands a complete detailed plot for a new book, working title: "My Awful Novel".
Bring on the angst!
Now I actually have to type the damn thing up, which means my brain will be darting around, looking for any damn excuse to avoid the actually work.
So, I dedicate this post to
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I know just the right guy to nominate for such a post: Kyle Cassidy.
Apart from being an excellent photographer, he's been a LJ user for a long time and he has a good understanding of the troubles (or fears) we tend to have with LJ.
But you don't have to take my word for this. Go to Kyle Cassidy's journal and read what he has to say about this.
Then vote. Preferably for him.
http://www.kylecassidy.com
He has some very cool projects, along with the Who Killed Amanda Palmer book.
His tag for "Cannibalism" is disconcertingly large.
The Supreme Leader promised violence and he's delivered.
Protesters are being shot, hosed down with fire hoses and helicopters appear to be dumping acid on crowds.
There's a video circulating of a young woman who was standing on the sidelines watching the protests with her father. She was hit by a government sniper.
She's laying on the ground, covered in blood, her jean-covered legs sprawled. There's people bent over her, one a doctor who is trying desparately to stem the blood that's gushing from her chest. She was hit in the heart so hard that her heart has burst.
The camera pans around jerkily, and her head seems to follow it, lolling, her dark eyes following the movement of the person holding it.
Her eyes meet the camera, to the right of where she's lying in the street, covered in blood. Her face is pale. She must be all of 16 or 17.
Six or seven rivers of blood burst from her nose, violently, flooding her pale skin, covering the hands of the doctor. At that moment, the confused plea, the demand for understanding that lit the back of her black eyes fades. She's dead. Her questions have died with her.
Her father bends over her face, screaming in Farsi, probably her name, touching her face and blocks the view of the camera.
Khamenei and Amadinejad have a lot to answer for. When you have to shoot your own little girls to keep your power, you've already lost it.
Wounded protesters are being urged to go to European embassies for care, as the Baseej are shooting protesters as they approach ambulances and disappearing the wounded from hospitals.
Australian, Finnish, German, British, Dutch, Norway, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, and Portugal embassies taking in wounded. Canada is not. The US, of course, has no embassy in Iran.
Where is the UN?
"Iran isn't falling -- it's standing up."
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If you are reading this right now, you have more luxury than someone in Iran could ever hope for right now. If you are watching TV or a video on youtube, updating your status on Facebook, Tweeting, or even texting your friend, you are lucky. If you are safe in your home, and were able to sleep last night without the sounds of screaming from the rooftops, you need to know and understand what is happening to people just like you in Iran right now.
They are not the enemy. They are a people whose election has been stolen. For the first time in a long time, a voice for change struck the youth of Iran, just as it did for many people in the United States only seven months ago. Hossein Mousavi gained the support of millions of people in Iran as a Presidential candidate. He stands for progressiveness. He supports good relations with the West, and the rest of the world. He is supported with fervor as he challenges the oppressive regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
On Friday, millions of people waited for hours in line to vote in Iran's Presidential election. Later that night, as votes came in, Mousavi was alerted that he was winning by a two-thirds margin. Then there was a change. Suddenly, it was Ahmadinejad who had 68% of the vote - in areas which have been firmly against his political party, he overwhelmingly won. Within three hours, millions of votes were supposedly counted - the victor was Ahmadinejad. Immediately fraud was suspected - there was no way he could have won by this great a margin with such oppposition. Since then, reports have been coming in of burned ballots, or in some cases numbers being given without any being counted at all. None of this is confirmed, but what happened next seems to do the trick.
The people of Iran took the streets and rooftops. They shout "Death to the dictator" and "Allah o akbar." They join together to protest. Peacefully. The police attack some, but they stay strong. Riots happen, and the shouting continues all night. Text messaging was disabled, as was satellite, and websites which can spread information such as Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and the BBC are blocked in the country. At five in the morning, Arabic speaking soldiers (the people of Iran speak Farsi) stormed a university in the capital city of Tehran. While sleeping in their dormitories, five students were killed. Others were wounded. These soldiers are thought to have been brought in by Ahmadinejad from Lebanon. Today, 192 of the university's faculty have resigned in protest.
Mousavi requested that the government allow a peaceful rally to occur this morning - the request was denied. Many thought that it would not happen. Nevertheless, first a few thousand people showed up in the streets of Tehran. At this point, it is estimated that 1 to 2 million people were there. Mousavi spoke on the top of a car. The police stood by. For a few hours, everything was peaceful. Right now, the same cannot be said. Reports of injuries, shootings, and killings are flooding the internet. Twitter has been an invaluable source - those in Iran who still know how to access it are updating regularly with picture evidence. People are being brutally beaten. Tonight will be another night without rest for so many in Iran no older than I am. Tonight there is a Green Revolution.
For more information:
PICTURES:
here and here
NEW INFORMATION:
Here - near constant updates
Here - ONTD_political live post
ON TWITTER:
@StopAhmadi, @IranElection09, @persiankiwi, @NextRevolution, @Change_for_Iran
دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election
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one_hoopy_froodHoward Dean is leading a fight to pressure congress to keep the public option in the health care bill they create and vote on. Through his organization, DFA (Democracy for America), he's trying to get public support either through monetary donations or signing an online petition or both. DFA is hoping to get 500,000 signatures to send to congress.
If you would like to sign or donate go to this website: http://standwithdrdean.com/
Thanks.
Happy thoughts, people - happy thoughts, eh?
It's not just us that's gotta change. We've all got to get on the ball.
So, lets cheer on our fellow homo saps in Iran as they work to make change in their country as well.
Manics - Damn Dog
From the movie "Times Square" http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9
Trivia: "Roses in the Hospital" was also inspired by this film.
For Brian Jones, and all the other dinosaurs that got kicked out of the band... Nicky Marrata
If you have nothing but an accident of birth to recommend you, you have my pity, but not my sympathy.
"To the uninitiated would-be writer, the book industry can seem variously like a glamorous dream factory, an unfeeling monolith honeycombed with toff cabals, and a kind of clapped-out Zeppelin piloted by monkeys that randomly distributes food parcels."
Tim Clare
Truer words never spoken - the rest of them are HERE
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.
BARACK OBAMA"
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Basics; must be automatic. I prefer small cars. MUST have decent mpgs 'coz I have a 40+ mile daily commute.
Ones I've seen that I like; Mini Cooper Convertible, Toyota Celica, Jag X-Type, Mazda3 hatchback.
A few of these, the price is right but the mpgs are iffy (Jag), a couple the price is a bit more than I want to pay (Mini)
Some of them I just can't find in a decent color (Mazda).
So... Help me pick out a car. Comment with the kind of car you think that *I* should have, extrapolated from whatever you know about me.
I don't see myself as a "big car" person, but maybe I need to grow up a little. I don't really even see myself as a sportscar person, either. I sort of see me as the kind of person with a 11 year-old Japanese car with 140,000 miles on it. Probably because that's exactly what I am.
I could even go and get another Japanese car and put 140,000 miles on it.
Suggestions?
ETA: I'm a little terrified of American cars, so that's a factor. If you have a really good experience with one, by all means, let me know.
From the highly underrated Roger Taylor
DROWSE
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"A word about writer's block here. I think writer's block probably suggests that you have an artist's instincts. Bad writers never get blocked. Writers who write from their heads and are comfortable doing that -- they always have some garbage to put down."
A Very Blessed Beltaine
