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During their recent “Summer for Marriage” tour the National Organization for Marriage played a Peter, Paul & Mary recording of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land” during their rallies, without the permission of the artists.

Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey, surviving members of the group who performed as Peter, Paul & Mary (Mary Travers passed away in 2009) contacted NOM (weird acronym!) to politely ask them to KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF.

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All plane tickets have been purchased (at heart-stopping rates, but then, I only found out that I could get this time off just over a week ago). Hostel in Chi-town booked; SF housing arranged; am off to Barnes & Nible, to brush up on my tourism "to do" list. Back on the 11th; Avanti!

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Yeah, it's a Cthulhu dildo.




...'nuff said.

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Awesome: the place where I'm staying in Chicago is about five blocks from Millenium Park! Next up: finding the Thorne Rooms.

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Oxford English Dictionary "will not be printed again."

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My LJ peeps:

Please don't crosspost anything flocked from my journal to Facebook/Twitter/whatever. Bad bad bad.

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I'm still thinking about what I wanted this space- originally created as a backup for my Harry Potter fanfic- to be. For many reasons, many but not all of which involve the problems LJ has created for itself and its users over the last few years, I find myself more comfortable, in certain ways, expressing myself personally in this somewhat smaller format. (I was browsing back through some old LJ entries- wow, I really do post 95% links posts nowadays, don't I?

Digression: tucked away in the UN, once you get past the airport-several security at the front gate, is a meditation chamber. You walk in, and the sounds of the city fall away, and you have a chance to invite your soul, to listen to your thoughts. I doubt that I use it as often as once a year, it's such a hassle to get to- but those few, far-between time are a still, reflective center in the chaos and chatter of daily life for me. I'm hoping that DW can be a bit of that for me as well, and that I can share a bit of it with you along the way.

Let's find out.