Online Travels

Here are the articles, blogs, and etc. that have been catching my eye lately:

Politics (yea, though I am tired of the stress and just wish it were over already, a part of me still follows public opinion:
Daily Kos' 25 Reasons
There is no question Obama is an icon of hope. And despite ridicule to the contrary, hope does matter. When people join movements to realize raised hopes, our nation has a chance of changing for the better.

The Race Factor (from Angry Black Woman)
There’s this underlying idea that gender and race can be separated and that when people speak of women that umbrella means that all women (regardless of ethnicity) have the same concerns and so in this election getting to see a woman in power is far more important than any other consideration.

Dear Geraldine (from Angry Black Bitch)
Let’s get real, Geraldine. You don’t give a flying shit whether you offend the hell out of some people as long as your message gets through to the right people. The kind of people who hear a quote like that and are thankful that someone said it…fucking cheer when they hear it then eagerly e-mail it to five friends…and can’t believe you’re catching hell for it.

The Pain of Others (from Adbusters)
Considering the degradation with which homeless people are treated, it’s no surprise that these ideas have begun to weave their way into pop culture as well. 'Bum Fights' is a series of amateur style DVDs that are available for sale online and at one time were available for sale at corporate chains such as Borders and Best Buy. Various titles in the Bum Fights series include Bum Hunter and Bag Lady Beatings. In these DVDs, homeless people are coerced with drugs, alcohol and food into performing dangerous stunts or degrading acts.

Books and Pop Culture:
I was Beth Ellen (from Jezebel)
The Long Secret, the sequel to Harriet the Spy, understands having a BFF is extremely complicated even when no one is blowing the UPS man. (Don't get me wrong. I love SATC and its ilk in a greasy, 1:00 am, fried-chicken-in-a-bag way. I've just never understood how anyone could be friends with Carrie without therapeutic intervention.)

Haikuvies
(The Princess Bride)
Iocane powder
brings end to battle of wits
ha ha ha ha... flop

Inside Tommy Westphall's Mind
If St Elsewhere exists only within Tommy Westphall's mind, then so does every other series set within the same fictional sphere.

Freakangels (from the mind of Warren Ellis)
23 years ago, Twelve strange children were born in England at exactly the same moment. 6 years ago, the world ended. This is the story of what happened next.

Fugtify My Love (from Go Fug Yourself)
IGGY: I wonder what it'd taste like if I used Madonna's fearsome guns to tear off that kid's young flesh and eat it.

Sacrilegious Comic Book Porn from Neil Gaiman (NSFW)
Okay, there is no quote for this, it's about the pictures, folks.

Fancast.com is pretty fucking awesome

There you have it. A slight peek inside what's eating my brain these days...