Only anarchists are pretty...

Spike or Angel. Duh.

My Jinx order arrived today:



Fuck yeah.

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A listing of my tweets should tell you what I'm thinking about today...

-For those wanting an official bio of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: http://is.gd/F3TI She is absolutely qualified.
(about 6 hours ago)

-Sotomayor has the broad experience needed to be a justice, and has done so much that would serve her well on the Court.
(about 6 hours ago)

-To wit: stellar education, gov't prosecutor (crim), private practice/civil litigation, writing and teaching experience, service orgs.
(about 6 hours ago)

-Also, she kind of reminds me of The Oracle in The Matrix, which can only be a plus.
(about 6 hours ago)

-Some summaries of Sotomayor's appellate opinions, for the curious: http://is.gd/F6I9
(about 5 hours ago)

-What's wrong with Hollywood today: it actually wants to remake the Buffy movie, sans Joss Whedon. http://is.gd/FbZp Blasphemers and morons.
(about 5 hours ago)

-Wow. Way to wimp out, California Supreme Court: http://is.gd/FlmH
(about 3 hours ago)

-RT @anamariecox: "CA Supreme Court follows People vs. KFC precedent: no more gay marriage except for 18,000 who already used coupon." (v ...
(about 3 hours ago)

-Shorter CA S. Ct.: "Well, it's alright for SOME." Where the hell in American jurisprudence is that still allowed? This. Is. Ridiculous.
(about 3 hours ago)

-@bitterandrew I'm a lawyer, and I can't understand it. It's so half-assed, and I can't think of any precedent for it.
(about 3 hours ago)

-You know what you get when a "majority" gets to decide the basic rights of a minority? Slavery. Segregation. Discrimination.
(about 3 hours ago)

-I hereby make a motion to call Ross Douthat "The Douchehat" for as long as he writes like one, i.e., likely always. http://is.gd/Fw4X
(about 1 hour ago)

-Oh, and California? Time for a constitutional convention, seriously. Your amendment process is the fundamental underlying problem here.
(about 1 hour ago)

Sunnydale High School, of course. But only if I get to be part of the Scooby Gang.

Via antiquehighheel:

When you see this, post another Buffy quote in your LJ. Let's see how long this can go on.

"If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock. ... I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flowerperson, and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move."

-Spike, Episode 3 - School Hard, Season 2

...your breath on the air, the wind whipping people down the street, and the long janes you had to put on this morning under your work trousers. All of which is meant to convey to you all that it is bloody cold here in Chicagoland. It's always unsettling to get up and check CLTV on the telly and see the little temperature reader in the bottom right corner of the screen read 0 degrees. But that's Chicago in winter for you.

Even more unsettling is that it's supposed to get up to 50 degrees F by Sunday. Hmmm, global warming much?

Whilst trying to keep warm, I will be checking on coverage in Iowa (i.e., reading snarky blogs about what's going on in Iowa), where my prediction of the winners on NYE was Obama/Huckabee, but in light of Huckabee's latest gaffe, is now Obama/Romney. If you don't feel like checking out the Iowa stuff, I offer you this absolutely brilliant breakdown of the Republican candidates as Buffy villians from Cogitamus to look at instead.

(And by the way, Illinois voters, make sure you're registered by Tuesday, January 8, so you can vote in our primary - check out the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners for info.)

In no particular order...

-It's chilly out today, and I am loving it.

-My sister moves to the city tomorrow!

-In honor of my reading issues 1-6 of the Buffy Season 8 comic (which is excellent):

You scored as Buffy Summers, You are a very strong individual. You do, however, have some trouble admitting how you truly feel. You've experienced a lot during your life, but you more than manage. Always willing to help, you're a great friend. </td> Buffy Summers 67% Spike 63% Dawn Summers 58% Xander Harris 58% Anya 54% Rupert Giles 54% Willow Rosenberg 46% Tara Maclay 33% Which Buffy The Vampire Slayer Character Are You Most Like!? created with QuizFarm.com

*BTVS, Buffy vs. Dracula episode.

Buffy Season 8 comics from Dark Horse, Numbers 1 and 2:



Stopped into Graham Crackers over on East Madison (I was the only female in the place, natch, and I watched a couple of the guys in front of me drop 60 to 80 bucks each on stacks of comics) to finally pick up my Buffy comics. Yeah, I'm a geek. Yeah, I'm OK with it.

You may have noticed (or not, I don't know what you folks are in the habit of noticing all the time) that I didn't write on Friday. The reason for that is that I had a nasty hangover from going out to celebrate C's birthday on Thursday night. It wasn't fair, you know. I did everything right: ate dinner, drank roughly 6-7 drinks (as far as I remember, and I think I remember) over the course of about 4 1/2 hours, stuck with one kind of booze, drank a couple of glasses of water, slept in (I had taken the morning off in anticipation of being out late), etc. And then I still suffered through a splitting headache all day, fatigue, nausea, and er, I was sick (it was ew - let's just say it's a good thing I have an office now, 'cause I wouldn't have made it all the way to the restroom). This is not fair, damn it. Anyway, I was too ugh all day to even update. But I still managed to go see The Namesake with girlvii (it was quite a wonderful film) and to buy yet more books, because really, the piles of unread books I have stacked on floor already were getting, you know, lonely and starved for fresh company.

Saturday was shopping for C's birthday gift(s), including a trip to Chicago Comics to look for the new Buffy comics, which I have to go back and buy on Thursday. I've been getting back into graphic stuff lately (OK, in the last few days). I picked up Tales of the Vampires and The Crow (which was such a pleasure to revisit) over the weekend. I took this pic:

It's a spire on a church close to my place. As usual, my photography skills are blah, but that's a cool spire regardless.

Saturday night was C's birthday party, at which there was a real, live belly dancer. She was awesome. I envied her body-confidence (she was pretty curvy, and she just showed it off).

Yesterday I met up with some friends from Michigan and bought more fucking books. I'm addicted. It was a good day catching up and showing them a bit of "my" Chicago.

Random: Will someone out there in the world please buy me this place? Because really, I could be so happy in a little spot like that. I don't know that I'd ever need to leave it. *Swoon*

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