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YESSS!!!!!! (“Kiera Knightly; Acting while beautiful”)
Speaking of Jon Stewart, check out the Daily Show and Russian Update (on the front page). God – scary scary SCARY!!  (on the same note: oh good! an eco-friendly bomb)
 Watched Some Like it Hot on Wednesday night – Herdis and I cackled the whole way through. Brilliant film.
 

Work has been rough the last 2 days. The coffee machine broke 3 times (on the first day we had 30 people in). I fixed it the first 2 times, then struggled with it for over an hour and a half and it remained broken. Then the copier started screwing with me. Never have I understood, “PC Load Letter – what the fuck does that mean?!?” quite so well. Ah well – I had a yummy salad for lunch, I FINALLY got AMPHIGOREY AGAIN!!!!! (It has both Figbash Acrobate and the Black Doll’s Imbroglio), my mom got cats (more on that below), and my brother officially got accepted into his teaching masters program (CONGRATS ROSS!!!). I walked home from work in the rain yesterday and there was a perfect sky-spanning double rainbow out. Over the rugby stadium, btw. And today I went to the Java café for one of their delicious bagel sandwiches and an iced mocha. Up and down.
 Did I ever mention that I work at number 47? Pomona rocks.
 

Yes – I realize this post is forever long, but I’ve been saving stuff up for 3 days. I feel bad when it shows NDBT to be one of the most active blogs on bootsnall since it isn’t very travel oriented at the moment.
 Liberals minds work differently from republicans. No, really?
 

I LOVE THIS. Seriously if “the president of Burundi” means anything to you, GO WATCH NOW!!
 What’s going on with elections in CA (And why electronic voting IS A BAD IDEA).
 

More reasons to love SF: “No matter what neighborhood you flirt in, it’s impossible to escape our cool air of dark mystery, as seen in every filmic rendition of The City from “The Maltese Falcon” and “Vertigo,” to “Jade” and “Interview With a Vampire.” There’s a reason films like this are set here, though you don’t have to think like a vampire to get nibbled on after dark. But if you want to, we certainly won’t judge you.” – Violet Blue. Oh my god, I soo have to go check this out when I go back, “Third Thursdays at the California Academy of Sciences are turning into one tasty mixer; on this evening the aquarium is open with a cocktail bar set up in the back. (Hello, penguins!) DJs spin beats and people mingle and linger at the turtle tank and other curious exhibits.” HA!
 More on naming of the kitties. We have a problem. They’re 2 girls and there aren’t a ton of female duos. (Pics here) Recent ideas:
Ross: Mina and Lucy. Dashing and derring-do.
Me: I really like Lucy and Mina as an idea. Women duos: laverne and shirley. Poison ivy and harley quinn. Maureen and Joanne. Lisa and Maggie. Columbia and magenta. Anastasia & Drucilla. Betty and Veronica. Cagney & Lacey Lucy & Ethel, Willow and Tara, lilo and stitch. salt and pepa. Frasquita and Mercedes. There are very few female duos. Most are male-female or male-male. Or you could go inanimate. Or name them 2 women with something in common, but who aren’t a pair. (Morgana and gweneviere. Mimi and Musetta. etc.) Or: Green eggs and ham.
My mom: Or two of the Little Women?  Or Jane and Elizabeth?  Or the two more flighty sisters, Lydia and Kitty?  (good name for a cat) I named Frederica after a character in a book.  How about Georgette and Agatha?
Me: I vote Ngaio and Agatha. I still like Mina and Lucy better. Susan and Jane? Susan and Sally? (I don’t really like sally as a name). Cloak and dagger!! All my friends are voting for that one. Jo and amy. ooh – I like that.
 

I also currently like Grace and Janis (yay SF singers), Toni and Margaret (for authors), or Anna and Cathy (for fictional heroines).
More suggestions welcome…
 My video store is called Alice in Videoland. (It’s the specialty video place in Chch). Anyways, I didn’t get a chance to turn in my DVDs on Thursday (I forgot them at home) and the next day I got an e-mail that read, “You’re late! You’re late!” Hee.
 

San Francisco rocks. Also – thank god for certain non-insured 20-somethings moving there…
I love this, “Whether such a program might be replicated elsewhere is difficult to assess. In addition to its unique political culture, San Francisco, with a population of about 750,000, has the advantages of compact geography, a unified city-county government, an extensive network of public and community clinics and a relatively small number of uninsured adults.” I’m from a city with a “unique political culture”!! YAY!
 I am madly in love with this car. Plus, it’s called a Tesla, which makes me think of David Bowie, so it’s really even sexier.
 

The Power of Voluntary Actions (a response to this article)
  Other green news; worm to grow, pacific grey whales, $10 million for carbon offsets in CA, Towards a win to regulate cars in CA, Oil and trouble, 200 species added to the IUCN red list, Pray tell: religious leaders discussing climate change, Green mortgages, Newsflash: Our Stolen Future still a problem, Green schools (like Pomona!),  Awww…. RIP Anita Roddick, Dow chemical continues to be assholes, I’m not sure the link to the whale hunt I posted about the other day, Walmarts eco-initiatives. Wait, what? Car labelling for performance, Reasons not to work for the EPA, Geographical features changing in the Atlas due to man, NPS not listening to us, Navy allowed to test sonar, Clinton and envtl justice, EPA fails to clean up superfund sites, The 10 most polluted sites on Earth.
 Biggest news; the Vital Signs 2007-2008 report from Worldwatch. Yup, we’re in trouble.  
There’s also a study on meat eating, but I’ll post that separately. I feel like I should post something inspiring and like the world isn’t going to hell in a handbasket. I looked around for an inspirational quote from Affluenza or New American Dream, but didn’t find anything. Ummm… go watch Eddie Izzard again?

Getting out of Iraq.
 
My brother has taken to writing awesomely brilliant columns on facebook, and I’ve strong-armed him into letting me re-post them on their own blog. They can be found here – I highly recommend them. My brother wrote (what I think) to be a really good column on Sept. 11th – you can read that one here. My favorite writing about Sept. 11th was Neva Chonin’s Live! Rude! Girl! from last year, about how liberals never got a chance to grieve for the tragedy because it was co-opted so quickly by the Bush administration. Anyways – it was a very good, very appropriate column for 5 years on. 6 years on, and now it seems like its mostly the immediate family and friends of those killed who are attending memorial services and such. I’m not sure what I’m trying to say here.