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I just read about tweetle beetles for the poetree community. If you remember Fox in Socks fondly, you should too, it's fun and takes literally only a minute or two! You don't need the book either, jjhunter has the excerpt.

(Actually the formative Seuss tongue-twister book of my childhood is the other one, Oh Say Can You Say?, the one with the bread/bed spreader and the shinbone pins, but SteelyKid loved Fox in Socks for a while and the tweetle beetles were my favorite part, so I could not resist. And now, WisCon packing.)

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http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/05/2013523224135470744.html

Nearly two-third of delegates vote to allow openly gay youths to join organisation, but ban on adult leaders remains.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/05/2013523224135470744.html

naraht

Very slowly working my way through Mary Renault's non-Charioteer contemporaries. I liked Return to Night much better than The Friendly Young Ladies, so am baffled to note that it seems to be much less popular. Only a few brief discussions over at MRF and apparently no fanfic at all, apart from a short mention in ITOW. Maybe because it's not as available in print/otherwise? Whatever the reason, I need this in my life at Yuletide.

It was published in 1947 and is the immediate precursor to The Charioteer--in writing order, thematically, and also in its setting, as it takes place just on the eve of World War II. It's fascinating to see so many of the tropes of The Charioteer in play already, just mixed around and reassigned. It is a heterosexual romance but a very queer one, so I would argue that it's a little bit more than just a heteronormativised version of The Charioteer.

The protagonist is Hilary Mansell, a doctor in her early thirties. She is in general practice in the Cotswolds, though she had wanted to go on for further surgical training. (Her former boyfriend got chosen over her--there is a lot about the experience of being a female doctor at this early period, and very interesting it is too.) The novel is about her relationship with Julian Fleming, a young man (eleven years younger) who has moved back to his home in the Cotswolds after graduating from Oxford. He longs to be an actor but his controlling mother disapproves. Oedipal issues ahoy.

Hilary is a really compelling and sympathetic character. Julian--well, OUDS types may not have changed at all since the 30s. As said, it's fascinating to see so many of The Charioteer's themes refracted through this lens. Between them, Hilary and Julian share out parts of Ralph, Laurie and Andrew, and I would love to unpick this at greater length one of these days. By having Hilary so much older than Julian, the novel partly succeeds in rebalancing some of the inherent power imbalance in a heterosexual relationship (and it's also just fairly novel!).

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Posted by Podkayne of Pasadena

http://www.metafilter.com/128349/SontarHa

Ask Strax! The famed warrior from the Sontaran Empire answers questions from miniature humans for Monster Day Out.
"The last time a human called me a 'Potato Head' I simply turned and walked away calm and collected ... once I had crushed him to a pulp him with my monster fists!!"

http://www.metafilter.com/128349/SontarHa

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Posted by Phil Yu

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angryasianman/hMam/~3/m6pT0IW5Fbk/sri-srinivasan-confirmed-to-dc-circuit.html

Today, the Senate unanimously voted to confirm Srikanth "Sri" Srinivasan to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit: Sri Srinivasan confirmed to judicial seat in unanimous Senate vote.

Srinivasan, who was confirmed in a 97 to 0 vote, is currently the administration's principal deputy solicitor general. He will be the first circuit court judge of South Asian

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skieswideopen

A television discussion comm.

tv_talk

Brand new and still looking for hosts. If there's a show you want to talk about, you can volunteer to host discussions for a currently airing (or on hiatus or soon-to-be-airing) show.

Also, I'm this close to signing up for

universe_the. I'm liking the wide range of activities, but do I want another commitment? Still, it looks like it could be fun.

Crossposts: http://skieswideopen.livejournal.com/135393.html

ivorygates

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ultranos

CONTINUING WITH THE "CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM".

(Sorry for the cryptic, I'm just really, really cautious right now. Just...*crosses fingers*)

numberland

I've been doing modding for My Little Ponies and thought I'd post them here. I'd appreciate any thought people have on how to post these - I'm going to always cut any large images but is this something you'd like to see on this journal? If I start producing lots I won't post them all here by any means, I might start doing an art journal. I currently don't filter much. But anyway, here are the first batch. My favourite is a Nightmare Moon:

Photo of a nightmare moon custom my little pony, a black pony with pearlescent hair

Photo of a nightmare moon custom my little pony, a black pony with pearlescent hair

( The rest of the photos under cut )
You can see more about them on my deviant art, my flickr and most are currently available on ebay. I'd love feedback!

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Posted by bitmage

http://www.metafilter.com/128348/to-know-which-way-the-wind-blows

A F5 tornado has ravaged Moore, Oklahoma. Hurricane season starts in a few days. The NOAA is struggling with budget cuts, failing systems, and weather balloons they can't afford to launch.

http://www.metafilter.com/128348/to-know-which-way-the-wind-blows

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Posted by Pruitt-Igoe

http://www.metafilter.com/128347/Calling-It-Quits

The former singer for Freshkills talks about playing in a band no one likes

http://www.metafilter.com/128347/Calling-It-Quits

recessional

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quarter_to_five

Everyone seems to like Elementary now. I guess i'll have to go back to watching it. And I so enjoyed embracing my disheartment with it early on too...

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Posted by roomthreeseventeen

http://www.metafilter.com/128346/BSA-for-all-boys

By a vote of 61%-38% the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America has finalized a decision to lift sexual orientation from the criteria to discriminate for youth membership. Previously and previously.

The change in policy will not apply to pack leaders or trans youth.

http://www.metafilter.com/128346/BSA-for-all-boys

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Posted by Iridic

http://www.metafilter.com/128345/Each-animal-reminds-one-terribly-of-certain-men

Next to a beautiful, elegant woman, between the silky spirals of her train, on the back of a chair, in a dark angle in the background, he accurately painted, although almost invisible, the animal that recalled the face of the protagonist. He thus had a series of ladies and gentlemen from the squirrel, from the lizard, from the sea horse, etc.

From "The Real Face," by Guido Gozzano, "first and finest representative of the Crepuscolari, the poets of the Twilight."

(The translators are Anna and Evan Connell. Evan Connell is himself a Neo-Decadent writer of no small accomplishment.)

http://www.metafilter.com/128345/Each-animal-reminds-one-terribly-of-certain-men

terriko

When Does Plastic Surgery Become Racial Transformation?

This article, about a young man who underwent surgery to look less Asian, is kind of fascinating. For one, I'm not sure what I was thinking he'd look like, but seeing the pictures my first thought was "actually, he looks kind of bi-racial." But also it's interesting to me because I've been told many times since moving here that I don't look that Asian, and it's weird watching people react when I say "that was intentional." (I switched to a different haircut and found I was having less trouble with racist jerks, so I keep getting similar haircuts; I still am pretty clear about my bi-raciality when it comes up.) I scanned the comments and they're all about how sad it is, but do people think that about hair dye? Cosmetics? My hair cut? Weight loss? I don't know that I find it that sad; it's kind of neat that he figured out what would make him happier in his own skin and was able to afford it, and he seems pretty honest with himself about why he's doing it.

And... I don't know, I have some complex thoughts about the whole thing but I just wanted to post the link even though I don't feel like writing an essay to go with it.