The Antisocial Socialist

On a happier note, I just watched The Eleventh Hour.

Every moment was pure squee and yay. Welcome back, show! Also, I am rather fond of the new theme and opening sequence. And the bowtie. Not everyone can pull off a bowtie, but I think more people should at least make the attempt.

Related: Are Teabaggers Daleks or Cybermen?

My To Do list today:

• Be outside
• Sit on a patio
• Drink a beer
• Have ice cream

I accomplished all of these things. While wearing a tank top. Happy sabotabby is happy.

You return home from work and find a box of cookies on your doorstep from bike4fish. You:

a) OM NOM NOM
b) SQUEE!
c) Go on the intertubes and praise bike4fish and his mad baking skillz
d) All of the above

It seems as though Terry Gilliam set out to make a movie with as much awesome in it as possible, and then put an extra heap of awesomesauce on it just because he could. Either that, or he just wanted to cast Tom Waits as the Devil and then made a movie out of it. Regardless of the intent, it is completely fantastic.

( spoilers for the best part )

So basically I loved it and you should see it too so we can squee together.

It seems that my little rant about the accessibility fail at the AGO has garnered some attention. It was apparently discussed at a conference (that I'd heard about through other means, and wanted to attend because it looked amazing) and then mentioned in the Ottawa Citizen!

"I'm so thankful that they put that out into the world, and that they put it in writing," said Syrus Marcus Ware, the program co-ordinator for youth at AGO.

She [sic] said the gallery has gone through a massive re-thinking of its existence, beginning as the new design was being planned, and has poured its efforts into trying to serve a wider population. This includes free nights for people who can't afford to pay admission, and better access for disabled visitors.

But she [sic] said there are always staff who feel defensive and resist change. The outside criticism, she [sic] said, "gave us a great push."

You guys. You guys. They are actually doing something about this, maybe. Words effecting concrete change that makes people's lives better and such.

Thanks a million to writer_grrrrl for passing said post around to the right people and for sending me the article.

EDIT: It is a lot dismaying to have learned that the article on accessibility!fail committed gender!fail. We have such a long way to go.

Seattle is just too hot, but we managed to dodge the worst of it by heading up to Orcas Island, where we're staying in the cutest ever Victorian hotel. It's brutally hot up here too, but there's a lake, so swimming was had. Tomorrow we are going to try to overdose on nature by hiking, whale-watching, and canoeing.

Comic Con was utterly amazing, and brace yourself for a massive photo dump when I get back. I'm in Seattle & surrounding area now and shall probably only be checking LJ and e-mail occasionally, so if you've got a really good post in the next few days, drop it in the comments to this post.

<3 you all.

P.S. snarkitysnarks, you should move to Toronto. Just saying. We don't have a lot of creepy 1895 carousels but there is hand sanitizer everywhere.

Woke up this morning(ish), cleaned up puke on my carpet (not mine, Luna's; I apparently wasn't that drunk last night), and had a breakfast of facon with maple syrup, tomatoes, and coffee (at the kitchen table not in front of the computer).

I don't remember much of last night but it seems I had a good time! And you were there, and you, and you...

Now I'm off to do something fun with my hair and maybe drop by the Tamil protest again if they're still around.

I may be the last person in the city to hear this, but in case I'm not: King's Café has re-opened. Huzzah!

On a related note, FAKE MUTTON CURRIES TONIGHT.