Lissiel's Journal

So, I'd guess you're all really sick of hearing me talk about the election, but... It's important. We'll be back to regularly scheduled programming after the 4th. In the meantime:

http://theremina.livejournal.com/224143.html
This link is a video by a woman who wanted to capture the behavior of Yes on 8 protesters. She didn't interact with them or go closer to them than four feet until they approached her. She was screamed at, verbally threatened, had her phone stolen, and assaulted.

We can't let this kind of person dictate our moral choices. We CAN'T. We are BETTER than this.

I'm going to be joining the protests against Prop 8 Sunday and Monday here in San Jose. If you live in California, you can sign up at this webpage to join a protest in your city. Please-- talk to people. Display a sign, if you can get one, or wear a button or post in your blog or join a protest. Fight this. And most importantly--VOTE. This isn't an issue you can afford to leave to someone else. It's really not.

YOU ALL HAVE TO STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW AND GO WATCH THE BEST MOVIE EVER.

Destroy All Robots! and don't forget to watch the outtakes too!

WATCH IT OR REGRET IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.

This is such a bad idea, on so ridiculously many levels. Seriously, does anyone at the pentagon ever look at this stuff and go, "Hey, y'know what, guys? Let's NOT develop the technology to render a living creature a robotic droid helpless to whatever commands we upload to it's tiny brain. Let's just go get some beers instead."

Also, have an awesome comic on the subject.

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000435.html

Went and saw Cloverfield tonight. Holy shit. I am so motion sick. *Is green* But very very impressed.

( Click here for the rest of the review. )

That said? Sam will really really like this film, in a few years. Don't even think about taking him to see it now, though. That would be trauma on a massive scale. Everyone else I suggest should go see it right now.