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[sabotabby]

I've been told that today is Buy Nothing Day. I'm not normally a consumer whore or anything, but I think I will celebrate it by being one. You know, just to be contrary. Also, I've already bought a coffee -- at the Second Cup, no less! It annoys me that a lot of people think that Adbusters' notions of switching one sort of consumer capitalism to a "better" consumer capitalism is actual activism.

The magazine has very pretty pictures, though.

In other news, career criminal and whiny baby Lord Black is asking for his Canadian citizenship back. I guess maybe he shouldn't have said those nasty things about us when he renounced it in the first place. Excuse me for a sec...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh man, I hope they give his citizenship to the poorest Haïtian refugee they can possibly find -- preferably a poor Haïtian communist refugee. Who has converted to Islam. And is gay. And drives a cab. That'd be the best thing ever.

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[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

It's tomorrow over here... or at least that's when People and Planet are marking it. I think there's plans for a Critical Mass cycle ride too.

Thing is, today was payday... and there's things I could actually do with buying, and I've got a free weekend for a change!

Anyway, sod it, I don't go for that sort of hair-shirted version of environmentalism anyway. (Though P&P are excellent folks in most respects.) :)

[sabotabby]

Did I mention that (now that I've seen Serenity and all the Firefly episodes) I utterly love your icon?

It was technically payday for me a few days ago, but today is when I get to deposit it, and either a) go drinking at McVeigh's or b) go dancing at Vazaleen. And I like to support my local musicians and/or eccentric DJs. Oh, and if I don't buy cat food today, my darling Marinetti will starve. And there is no food in the house.

Critical Mass is always worth doing, BND or not.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

now that I've seen Serenity and all the Firefly episodes

Now you'e all caught up! And, sadly, done.

My favorite episode is Out of Gas. That's some excellent televison!

[sabotabby]

I'm sad that there won't be more. There really should have been at least five more seasons and a shitty seventh season so that when it ended, we wouldn't totally miss it.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

yeah, but no formerly awesome show has EVER done that...

oh.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Sequels! There may yet be sequels! Apparently the box-office figures in the US weren't up to the required level, so everyone has to buy a dozen copies of the DVD or something (preferably not on Buy Nothing Day I guess) to give it a shot.

[human-loser.livejournal.com]

from my understanding of how the industry works, it doesn't matter what this movie makes now. What matters is domestic box office. Yes it's probably made its budget back by now, but just barely, and only after 2 months. It's really a shame that this very good sci-fi movie was killed by shitty marketing and a lack of "names". The name issue I wouldn't change for the world, but they could have marketed this as something other than a movie for the fans, which i think is what ultimately killed it.

Don't get me wrong, I WANT sequels, but I'm not betting the farm on them happening.

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I can't remember where I gacked it, though I'm fairly confident the person I gacked it from wasn't the original author, just one of the ones going around. I hope this doesn't make me a bad icon thief. :( I'd seen a couple of Mal icons with that quote, and badly wanted one, but took ages to hunt one down.

Marinettis and Sabotabbys should definitely not be allowed to starve in the cause of BND.

Might well go to Critical Mass; some people have been linking it to BND, as in "do it on a day when it will block the shoppers and not the workers." But the 'official' info isn't making that link, so I can go without feeling like a complete fraud.

[sabotabby]

Can you really steal a Mal icon? You know he'd be LiveJournal's biggest icon thief if he were a real person. "The people on the Rim planets need this icon more!"

Marinetti will not starve. Nor will sabotabby restrict her alcohol consumption on a Friday night when she's been dry for a few weeks.

When I finally get a bike, I'll probably do Critical Mass.

[terry-terrible.livejournal.com]

I'm sure if you exlain to him, Marinetti will be happy to take one for the revolution...or maybe not. :)

[sabotabby]

You clearly haven't met my cat.