I just saw The Wind That Shakes the Barley. It's utterly awesome. I mean, it suffers a bit from Ken Loach's anviliciousness at the beginning, but it more than makes up for it in other ways.

( spoilers for shite that happened 85 years ago )

Anyone else seen it yet?

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In unrelated news, click here for a photo of what appears to be a three-way brawl between neo-Nazi Paul Fromm, members of the fascist JDL, and a cop that happened yesterday morning. I wish I'd been there. With popcorn.

Right, so I've got tickets to go see Flogging Molly. Squee! And I'm having an extra kitty for the weekend. More squee! And about 10 prisoners in Missouri just mailed me wanting copies of Ye Drunken Sailor. Squee! No...wait, that makes me really sad, because it's that kind of thing that inspired me to keep the 'zine going long after it should have died, and I'm feeling vaguely guilty that I won't have anything to send them after this issue.

::sigh::

emak_bakia managed to get the split in the AFL-CIO and the disarming of the IRA into one post. Awesome.

Warning: I might post-spam today because I ought to stay home with the kitties and make sure they don't kill each other, and it's a good excuse for gratuitous cat-blogging later. It is a Friday, after all.

In other news, why am I such an incompetent ditz who can't figure out how to book a flight to Halifax and back online? Both WestJet's and Air Canada's websites are utterly confusing and the rates seem excessively expensive. Help?

Never mind. I figured it out. Well, the booking-a-flight bit, anyway, though the website and actual reality are confusing and contradictory when it comes to Aeroplan. Ah well. At least I'm going to Halifax next weekend.