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Merry Christmas - whatever you're doing, don't work too hard. And join a union.

Petition to tell the government to stop demonising trans and non-binary people.

"Fifty thousand cis women have signed the Not In Our Name - NION Women open letter rejecting the demonisation of trans and non-binary people, and the false narrative that trans women are a danger to women.

It is overwhelmingly cis men who commit violence against both cis women and trans women. Trans women in particular face staggering rates of violence from cis men, especially trans women of colour.

The real threat to women has never been trans women. The real threat is a culture that enables male violence and then blames everyone except the men who perpetrate it.

Feminism must be intersectional. The liberation of cis women and trans people is bound together. Our safety depends on solidarity."

Read the open letter and add your name.

The recent half-marathon with robot competitors got me thinking. There will come a time soon when people are looked after in their old age, in their own home, by robots.

Imagine their kids' annoyance to find that the person has left their dwelling to their robot carer!

Gutted to learn that Michelle Trachtenberg has been found dead.

What a sad loss of a very talented young woman.

I went to see "Metropolis" at the Arts Centre the other day. It must have been amazing when it first came out, but I prefer a bit more science and a little less dramatics in my sci-fi.

What did strike me was a character called "The Thin Man", upon whom I strongly suspect "The Gentlemen" from "Hush" were based.

If you have trouble rubbing body lotion on the middle and top of your back, spread it on the back of your hand instead of the palm.

If your bath water gets cold too quickly, spread a layer of bubble-wrap over half to 3/4 of the surface.

It has taken me until the age of 65 to work these things out.

I mentioned in my diary 20 years ago that Eliade had written a bit of Season Noir for a donation I made to something or other, and I looked back at it, and checked AO3, and found that it had not been archived there along with the rest. So I added it in large chunks in the comments section. Hopefully whoever did the archiving will sort it into a proper entry.

There is also a comment from her about future chapters! I've been looking for that for age.

Find it all here in the comments section.

One film I have seen by him twice, which I would watch again, is "Lord of War."

Brilliant, from the stunning opening sequence to the end.

Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I don't think the Wyoming Tourist Board is going to be offering Annie Proulx a job any time soon! It sounds awful. I found it hard to care about most of the (way too many) characters, with their chaotic lives, which were mostly nasty, brutish and short. She could have titled the book, "Ways to Die in Wyoming." I'm sure it's well written, but the plots jumped around too much for my liking, in this desperately depressing set of tales. Weirdly, Brokeback Mountain is the most upbeat - at least Jack and Ennis had some good times together before one of them died!



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"Platoon" is NOT a gay romp.

ETA: Oops! I mis-remembered - apparently he said "Apocalypse Now" not "Platoon".