i feel stupid, and contagious

+ I just read about Amanda Palmer's latest fail (a bit late, yes). Ironic hipsters are going to be the death of me.

Instead of ranting against her, because she's only one famous person and this stuff happens all the time, I will just link to the sparkymonster's post on the issue, because it's all about why calling the KKK 'ironic' in any context would make someone an asshole of the highest order, and it needs to be seen by as many people as possible.

+ In other news, I have so much respect for the staff over at Dreamwidth. I wish the LJ staff could be one tenth as mature when they get called out for things.

Most of you know this, but I do have a DW account; (feel free to add me there). I mostly use it to keep up with friends and communities there, and I crosspost from there to LJ because hell -- it's really easy to do. I'm not sure if I'll ever completely stop using LJ; there are still so many people and communities I follow there and I'm not annoyed with any of them even if I'm annoyed with the LJ staff a lot of the time. But I know a lot of youse are switching or have switched.

Anyway, this and a conversation I had with a friend this morning about Tumblr vs. LJ have got me thinking about e-relationships and social media and fannish drift. Or something.

( Mostly inconsequential babble borne of a couple email convos )

+ In still more news, I bought a Kindle and it will be arriving today! I AM EXCITE. I've been wanting one for a while (I was going to go for a Nook but I got wary of the first-gen thing), and it's one of the few chunks of my tax return not going to bills or things that need to be replaced. Wheeeee.

+ I've had a pretty uneventful, but good, week. Work-wise, I got myself over the limit of vacation hours that I can hold without using them, so I took of Tuesday, yesterday, half of Wednesday and half of today to use them up. And unless I take another week straight off (not really feasible at the moment given the projects I have going), I'm going to have six vacation hours to kill every two weeks until I get back under my limit. Which is ... nice, really. Kind of wish I had somewhere to go and some cash to go there with, but you know, it's good to have the time to take and get things done. Also, yesterday was GORGEOUS and I didn't spend a minute of it at work so yay for that.

+ ALSO I'm getting my tax money back ridiculously fast considering when I filed, which is ACES. It's not vacation money, but I at least have some change to jingle around, a little to save, buy some toys and clothes, and just breathe a little bit.

+ Alice in Wonderland this weekend, FINALLY.

+ Being a grown-up sucks but we have been over this.

Linky links. Most are Telephone-ish but:

+ rec: Kinda Busy by yeats. Lady Gaga/Beyonce, R, Telephone verse. Yes, it is a verse. YULETIDE YAY.

+ related rec: bossymarmalade's post about Feministe's failtastic article on Telephone. What is with the pedantic posts I've been seeing about this video on most feminist blogs? It's got some problems for sure, and might not be everyone's cuppa, but there's an undercurrent of resentment in feminist critiques especially, IDK. And in their haste to tear it down they're bringing fail in other areas. The Feministe article's particularly bad though.

+ related related rec: Heather Cassils, Gaga's prison-partner in Telephone, gives good interview.

+ UNrelated rec: Lass's Genderswapped Supernatural Dream recasting. Complete with teenyfic interspersed throughout. Man oh man.