taken from a bunch of people

[sabotabby]

1. Comment with any subject that you would like me to rant on, with possible swearing involved. Any subject - but notice you might want me to rant *against* the subject and OMG I rant *for* it.
2. Watch my journal for your rant.
3. Post this in your own journal, so that you may rant for others.

Or, you know, we could all just have a group rant about how great it is that This is Wonderland is back on.

In other legal news, it turns out that a certain fellow whom I rescued from arrest several months ago (and who, accordingly, developed a crush on me because I saved his arse) just got arrested. You win some, you lose some.

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[frandroid.livejournal.com]

You still owe me a Mahmoud Abbas rant =)

[sabotabby]

So many people have ranted more eloquently, though. Can I give a completely uneducated rant in hick dialect, just to make mine stand out?

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's your call. But a link to an eloquent rant can work too, I'll bug you about something else. =)

[sabotabby]

ei has a bunch of articles; I'm particularly partial to the ones by Ali Abunimah because he's my boyfriend he tends to make a lot of sense. This one is also a good analysis.

I feel like I'm not entirely qualified to comment on internal Palestinian politics, partially because it's a Byzantine tangle, and partially because I'm not Palestinian. For the record, I would have voted for Mustafa Barghouti under a great deal of protest -- I don't think the elections were legitimate, but I feel that he might have accomplished some good in a very limited capacity.

I asked a few of the "insiders"; the general consensus seems to be that Abbas is dirty, albeit not in the particular way that Qurai is dirty (I tend to confuse the two). But that pretty much goes for anyone in the Fatah leadership.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Random note: Ali Abunimah published something in The Anti-Capitalism Reader, edited by Joel Schalit who is/was a regular columnist for Punk Planet.

Thanks for the articles.

[sabotabby]

Oh, now I just pictured Ali Abunimah as a punk, and that's making me want to have sex with him even more. Thanks a lot.

[1in8.livejournal.com]

ok.
Crazy people on the subway?
I am trying for something that is less political and more on the silly side. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_flyonthewall_/]

I would like to hear you rant about how the city of Toronto shipps "all" of its garbage into Michigan (to a dump about 20 miles from my town). grrrr! damn Canadians! I'm going to go digging through that pile o' trash one day and if I find anything with with Rachel Rosen on it.... oh man! Heads will roll! :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_flyonthewall_/]

normally ships only has one p but in this instance I somehow felt it needed two.

[amoonah.livejournal.com]

I'd love to hear a rant on SNOW...that would be interesting.

Never Eat Yellow Snow....And LIght a CANDLE online asap!!!!

[himy.livejournal.com]

Succinct Snow Rant:

Never eat yellow snow.

See, it's as short as the 2004-2005 hockey season! Ta Da!!!

;-)

Thanks Miss Negativity for the logo done gratis! It still rocks!


Now, warm yourLJselves up by lighting an online candle for tomorrow's 'Global Vigil' here:

http://globalvigil.tyo.ca/cgi-bin/lightacandle/lightacandle.cgi

Here's an eloquent blog entry 'splainin' it all succintly, enjoy...

http://www.sfist.com/archives/2005/01/25/light_a_candle_go_to_the_beach.php

[xol0tl.livejournal.com]

I'd like to hear your thoughts on the rise of the faux-hawk.

[mr-flabulous.livejournal.com]

lime green.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Or, you know, we could all just have a group rant about how great it is that This is Wonderland is back on.

Wouldn't that be a rave rather than a rant? I always thought raves were positive and rants were negative. Of course, that causes some confusion as to what "ranting and raving" means. Vehement mixed reviews?

[sabotabby]

Perhaps it's a generational thing, but "group" and "rave" in combination sounds like something I don't want to touch with a ten-foot pole.

Shamelessly Self-Referential:

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

"The critics rave."

Re: Shamelessly Self-Referential:

[sabotabby]

Well, yes.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

So that means you would or wouldn't like the movie Go (1999)? Part of it takes place at a rave but it makes vicious fun of ravers. (Shades of Reuben Bowling's "Placebo Drug Craze".) Plus: it has a telepathic cat. I liked it a lot. And, no, I'm not a raver.

[sabotabby]

I'm not sure; I haven't seen it. A telepathic cat is always a plus, as is raver-mockery. Most of the people who try to get me to watch it, though, have terrible taste in movies. You have good taste in movies (as far as I can tell), so I might be willing to watch it on your recommendation.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Now I'm feeling pressure.

The flick also has a charming gay male couple in it.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Now I'm feeling pressure.

Have you acted on any of my recommendations or are you just going on films I have mentioned that you have already seen?

On a tangential note, American Flagg and Go give me the impression that Jewish weddings are a lot more fun than you let on.

[sabotabby]

Well, I saw Hellboy. I keep looking for 1789 but so far no luck.

I've been to a few Jewish weddings now, and so far there has not been any attacks by shabbos goys sent by militant Hassidic groups. Then again, said weddings haven't involved people outside of the faith (my uncle was married in a civil ceremony and my mother by a Wobbly bishop.) I live in hope, however.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Well, I saw Hellboy.

Oop. That's right; I forgot about that.

I keep looking for 1789 but so far no luck.

Wrong date. You must be confusing the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776) with the ratification of the Constitution (1789). The musical 1776 is about the former. The French Revolution also started in 1789 so your confusion is entirely understandable. Plus, you are Canadian and stuff. Even if you had the correct date, it's a pretty elusive video to track down. I can enclose it in your next package, if you like.

I've been to a few Jewish weddings now, and so far there has not been any attacks by shabbos goys sent by militant Hassidic groups.

Well, I was actually referring to all the spontaneous sexual liaisons and nice Jewish girls hooking up with Irish guys (or English guys who pretend to be Irish in order to get laid).

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

In other legal news, it turns out that a certain fellow whom I rescued from arrest several months ago (and who, accordingly, developed a crush on me because I saved his arse) just got arrested. You win some, you lose some.

Hey, even Lyra lost some.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, this is the boxed set I was trying to describe over the phone, although this one looks good too.

[sabotabby]

I read this, this, and this. The first link has my favourite cover art.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Those are decent looking covers. I take it the first is the "superior Canadian version" you were talking about?

[sabotabby]

Yes.

Well, it might be a superior North American version. I'm not sure, to be honest.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

We're such design geeks. We need to stop before we start talking about our favorite fonts.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

I shudder when I hear people are doing their theses and dissertations in Times New Roman.

Of course, my hero is Donald Knuth, who went off and invented real electronic typesetting when he was miffed about the state of the art when bringing out the second edition of The Art of Computer Programming.

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

My first two volumes look like the first boxed set there, the Amber Spyglass is a bit different - I bought it in England, and it says of the cover: "Landscape from a photograph by the author", not that you can see the landscape that well.

[sabotabby]

I'm sure the landscape was very nice, but the design is utterly dreadful.

FYI: All of the different covers.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Americans who pretend to be Canadians while traveling abroad.

[chris-crust.livejournal.com]

The fact that the public mental health provider in Phoenix is a for profit company.

[sarars.livejournal.com]

gentrification in Echo Park, Los Angeles

[bike4fish.livejournal.com]

the Canadian postal system

[thenetwork.livejournal.com]

Lousy inedible bread in the supermarkets...

[princessrugger.livejournal.com]

paws.

[mcsokrates.livejournal.com]

pants.

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

You've got me curious, now. Alberta.