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Does anyone know how to take the subtitles off of VLC media player? I tried exing out of the little box and deleting the filename, but apparently that doesn't work.
I mean, I really enjoyed "The Rocket" but reading shit about franco oppression and the managers wanting to trade Richard is a little distracting while I'm watching back episodes of "Doctor Who."
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| why i'm not going to any prop 8 protests |
[15 Nov 2008|10:21pm] |
originally posted by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sin_nombre , spotted by daddysambiguity
Did they protest when TN LGB people got screwed over yet again back in 2006? Did they protest when other states had similar things happen? Did they put any resources toward the adoption referendum in Arkansas?
Organizations like HRC pour money into states and races they deem 'winnable'. Yet they'll take anybody's money, regardless of geography. Why the hell should I give to a national organization that isn't going to fight on my behalf when they don't give two shits about LGBT issues that actually affect me on a local or statewide level. My money and time are better served in local and statewide organizations.
Also, I personally do not like being part of a scapegoat group for why Prop 8 failed, especially when the justification is based on a poll of 2240 people, of whom 224 were black. That's right, somehow 224 black people can magically speak and vote for the majority of those who share their ethnic background because, donchaknow, we're a monolithic entity and black LGB people are all closeted and self-loathing. As I've said in other places, if even the Mormons can get over their racism long enough to reach out in mostly black neighborhoods but supposedly 'progressive' organizations can't even bother to have ads that *gasp* feature people of color, then that is what's called bad campaigning. Preaching to the choir produces few victories. It's kind of like jerking off; it feels good but you're only screwing yourself. Yet there have been reports of white gay men yelling the N word at black men holding No on 8 signs at a protest in front of a LDS temple, people being threatened, and we can't forget the racist comments being left on just about every so-called 'progressive' blog that has covered this. And there have been people (online, admittedly) who have justified this boorish behavior by saying 'well, people are angry about it' and 'they were just trying to show how hurtful the word faggot is' (like no black gay man has ever been called a faggot before). You have supposedly progressive people claiming that the hordes of homophobic blacks are far more threatening than the 'handful' (to use Dan Savage's wording) of racist white gays. And then there is the 'look at all we've done for you people?!' reaction from people who somehow think that voting for Obama was purely a charitable and noble gift from white LGBTs. When was the last time you took action in response to a case like Troy Davis', informed others about the lack of access to health care that poor people face? Have you ever stood in solidarity with those groups about their issues, or do you complain about how backward and ignorant they are for not voting for your issue? Marriage equality is a civil right, but so are access to health care, equitable school funding, truly equal opportunity employment and education, and a plethora of other things. Keep in mind that the Democratic Party will not always be able to count on black votes; the Repubs are courting black ministers and leaders with some success. Where do you think school vouchers came from?
And if I hear any variation of 'gay is the new black' from anyone else, I will stab someone with a rusty spork. That comparison is tasteless because no two sufferings are ever comparable. Period. Also, it is an overly simplistic comparison and one that is guaranteed to piss off many older black Americans who survived the civil rights era and happen to be opposed to gay relationships on religious grounds. To them, this is a religious issue, not one of equality. Appropriating something that they lived through for your own ends is not a way to make friends and influence people. Many people who do use that comparison have no idea of the context in which all of the marches, sit-ins, bus rides, and court cases took place. Using that comparison without bothering to inform oneself of the history surrounding all of that (it was more than Rosa Parks, MLK, and Brown v. Board of Education), is the epitome of cultural appropriation.
Whining that 'well blacks know oppression, so they should know OUR oppression' is simplistic and utterly stupid. Implying that '"they're" all evil meanies for taking away OUR rights' doesn't do anyone any favors and falls into the category of assuming that a minority group is a monolithic entity devoid of autonomous individuals. And it also implies that blacks should somehow be grateful for not having to endure de jure segregation and 'owe' every minority group with a legitimate grievance. The sense of entitlement in that mindset is staggering. Votes are earned, not 'owed'.
No, I have better things to do. Let me know when Californians get a start on protesting Amendment 1 in TN, Amendment 2 in FL, the adoption ban in AR, the gay marriage ban in TX, or anything at all that has happened outside of Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York. They've got a lot of catching up to do. Let me know when white LGBTs remember that there are LGBT people of color who also lost the right to have their relationships recognized by the state, and many of those same people have been unfairly called brutal terms best left behind in darker, meaner times. Let me know when there are no more apologists for those people. Let me know when white gay activists start making noise about the plight of people who are poor, black, and gay without it being a pity story and acknowledge that people of color who are also LGBT (especially T) face discrimination on two fronts and are highly susceptible to being victims of hate crimes. The demographic face of bashing is not that of Matthew Shepard, it is likely far closer to Sakia Gunn, Nizah Morris, or Gwen Araujo.
One last thing: more blacks voted against the Arkansas adoption ban and Oregon, a very white state, also has a gay marriage ban in place thanks to its voters. Where are the threats against and disappointment with white people?
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[15 Oct 2008|02:30am] |
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Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"The mobilization of a substantial proportion of the population in the cause of nationalism characterized this difficult period, which was affected by adverse economic conditions and a sharp decline in agricultural activity."
Ugh, yes, I am grossed out that Quebec: Nationalism in Crisis was the closest book to me, yes, I'm grossed that I apparently have such limited interests, and I am also disgusted that I read this shit for fun (read: senior thesis). BEDTIME READING
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| a plug |
[17 Sep 2008|11:19pm] |
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Alex thinkbettersick is distributing my button!
You should go buy it, and also some zines and coffee, because she's good at what she does.
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| ahahahahhahahahaha |
[12 Sep 2008|03:10am] |
from an email from canada mike:
Do you know why her eldest son is called Track Palin? BECAUSE SHE AND HER HUSBAND ENJOYED TRACK MEETS. i'm so calling my firstborn Blowjob, or possible Pie.
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Kenny Loggins is my #2 most-listened to dude this weekend according to Last.fm
::shoots self in face::
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[03 Jun 2008|10:37pm] |
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Well, I feel incredibly dorky. I just added a Dutch production of Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" to the top of my Netflix queue. This is what they'll send me to me after I return Top Gun.
In bigger, better, awesomer news: my mother got a job in Detroit. I AM NEVER GOING BACK TO PETOSKEY AGAIN~!
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[30 May 2008|07:07pm] |
21st birthday > 20th birthday. :)
knina kicked my ass at big buck safari, though.
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| things i plan on cooking this week |
[19 May 2008|05:03pm] |
yes it's summer, so i'm cooking again.
- vegan cassoulet
- vegan toutière
- black bean dumplings
god its boring at the office today.
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[13 May 2008|09:05pm] |
These are the 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch 22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi : a novel
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex (only read it for the Petoskey mention)
Quicksilver
Wicked : the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian : a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
Anansi Boys
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible : a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
The Prince
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes : a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States : 1492-present (although my copy is from '84, i think)
Cryptonomicon
Neverwhere
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake : a novel
Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Freakonomics : a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
L O fucking L at some of these making you seem "smart."
Also, I apparently went to a pretty dumb school, because the person I swiped this from had way more stuff underlined than I did. :/
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| attn: ladies |
[08 May 2008|12:57pm] |
yay or nay (no pun intended)
i could probably get more wear out of these
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| I AM DOUBLING OVER TONIGHT |
[04 May 2008|12:55am] |
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amanda: is it montreal or toronto that's maple leafs? amanda: LEAFS. that kills me.
jeska: why the fuck wont soulseek let me download steely dan
amanda: HAHAHAHA!
amanda: because soulseek wants whats best for you
amanda: fuck steely dan, seriously
amanda: also when i was maybe 9 i had a dog named rush amanda: AFTER THE BAND
amanda: HAHAHAA STEELY DAN JUST CAME ON AN INFORMERCIAL
amanda: did you know i'm named after a boston song?
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| white trash post |
[03 May 2008|04:23pm] |
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i have bought half of staples' m line in the past few months. i have the little notebooks, the 16-folder file sorter thingy, the folders, and a few other thingys. yep, i buy my stationery at staples.
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[02 May 2008|07:46pm] |
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So according to Coll I guess I'm eligible to graduate with a French minor, since I'll get six credits in Quebec (on top of the fifteen French credits I have now) I'm thinking of taking my IS to a minor, as well, but I think that might make me have to stay in school for an extra two or three classes.
What are the benefits of having a major and two minors? Will it do anything for my grad school applications?
For the record, I'm majoring in history. I started out as IS, and then took on history as a double due to them being so integrated, but I've kind of ignored IS because the classes are really boring. I was just going to drop IS altogether.
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| oh my god |
[25 Apr 2008|02:46am] |
this is both the greatest and most terrifying thing i have ever seen
MOTOCROSS FANS
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