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Going along, doing other things, I suddenly get foam in the mouth rage again over Torchwood. I was watching thingswithwings's vid "Though the Glass." which can be found here.

And even though Jack and Ianto are both on the same side of the glass, it's still there.

Two days ago, Mark R. Probst and a group of other's noticed something odd was happening on Amazon.

Now it's hit the mainstream media, with The Los Angeles Times posting about the shenanigans.

Oh, and have a Google Bomb: http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/amazonrank/ Because there are two weak spots in any cooperation: their PR and their monies. As I have done my little part in destroying both today, especially since I was eying a lovely little Welsh grammar.

And Powell's Books may be having a GLBTQ Book sale. The idea came from Twitter #amazonfail trend, which proves that there's always someone looking to fulfill a demand to make a quick buck. I'm finding all sorts of book vendors online from this. = )

I just got an email from the campus GLBT office about the one of the coolest study abroad opportunity. A summer session called "Gay Paris."

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I just find it's really neat, and refreshing, that someone's thought to put together a summer session that bundles GLBT studies with something else besides politics. And gives me another reason to work on my transcription other than doing well in class: chase up on one of the ideas in my socio-linguistic texts on a feature that was shared by heterosexual men in a language community vs. the women and gay men who did not share this language feature. Because your language reflects on what social grouping you belong to, I could chart a large grouping of people and see how one census group ( homosexuals ) are either mixed into other social groups or mostly in their own.

I would guess mixed because Bloomington is Really, Really Gay. Bloomington has the fifth highest homosexual to heterosexual ratio in the US, behind San Fransisco, Santa Fe, Portland ( Maine version), and Miami.

Which is one of the reasons why when General Pace has to meet with the Diversity and Affirmative Action Committee when he visits in April since he accepted a position at the Kelly Business School giving a series of lectures. = D

And when I opened the window to write this entry, I was totally going to write about how much I liked DC's "The New Frontier." I shall post about it - and my local comic shop - another time because I just remembered I need my strong/weak classes in English still to type.

Today was my last day at Essltate. I may miss the people, but I will not miss the bruises, paper cuts, and peeling cuticles.

At our first break, Cherrie was flipping though her People magazine and commented that Thomas and Nancy Beatle had their baby girl. The most of the room ( all seven of us, as the rest were outside smoking ) thought it was unnatural, once the whole situation was explained. Because, really, "a man gave birth to a baby girl" would give a few WTF comments if just for the "how would that even work?" angle. ( I still think it's sweet, and said so. ) Not only that, but the idea of the existence of transsexuals was also unnatural and abhorrent.

This is, obviously, not the first time I've heard this shit.

Remember the diversity talk on my floor this spring? Several of the girls when off on a homophobic tangent, how gays and lesbians act against gender roles. Specifically, how effeminate gay men were far less threatening than lesbians. I pointed out, hi, lesbian sitting right next to you, and she backpeddled and said something along the lines of "Oh, but you're not obvious about it."

Which brings me to "The Making of Me." I've still not watched it, despite my interest in both John Barrowman in pretty much anything and GLBT studies. Partly because on the science part it's not telling me anything new, partly because I've not heard a single positive review of it. And partly because of the invisible lesbian problem, which is a bit silly because it's a gay man comparing himself to others, and while straight men and straight women have at least one gender or orientation overlap, lesbain women don't have an orientation overlap. ( In orientation, I mean "attracted to men" or "attracted to women." Plus invisible bisexuals, which only has the justification "trying to explain being gay is hard enough!"

I think I'll just curl up with a book tomorrow.