You've every cause to doubt me
So . . . despite getting up for it at six-thirty this morning, we still don't have a bed. We have part of it upstairs. After several phones calls to the delivery service and the company we ordered it from, we are waiting for the rest. And hoping. And very tired. If we slept a combined total of three hours last night, I'd be surprised. I have said I'll be at home, awake, and near my phone until this situation is sorted out, however, so I think that's the rest of my day.
Some other things make a post.
1. Auditions! Upcoming! The Post-Meridian Radio Players are holding theirs next Monday and Tuesday for Tomes of Terror: Nevermore and Theatre@First at the beginning of September for The Trojan Women. Do you like Edgar Allan Poe? Do you like Euripides? I am afraid I cannot offer a crossover, but you could audition for both shows and it would almost count. Seriously, sign up now. Theater in Somerville this fall is going to be great.
2. Can I get someone with a liberal Christian perspective on this issue? (Called to my attention by
shirei_shibolim, who wanted to double-check the Latin for "argument by shrimp." I believe we settled on argumentum a squillis.)
3. Robot Hugs says intelligent things about harassment. Also about scheduling and identity, but I kind of want to see the harassment one reblogged everywhere as a PSA. Also, because it never gets old: Cativan.
4. It wasn't on the dollar rack, but the Harvard Book Store has now furnished me with a used copy of M. John Harrison's Viriconium (2005), the omnibus. I faintly feel
ashlyme was responsible.
5. Thanks to the AV Club, I am intrigued by the pilot of Outlander. Cunnilingus in a castle.
There had better be a bed and some sleep soon. I am tired of making lists.
Some other things make a post.
1. Auditions! Upcoming! The Post-Meridian Radio Players are holding theirs next Monday and Tuesday for Tomes of Terror: Nevermore and Theatre@First at the beginning of September for The Trojan Women. Do you like Edgar Allan Poe? Do you like Euripides? I am afraid I cannot offer a crossover, but you could audition for both shows and it would almost count. Seriously, sign up now. Theater in Somerville this fall is going to be great.
2. Can I get someone with a liberal Christian perspective on this issue? (Called to my attention by
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3. Robot Hugs says intelligent things about harassment. Also about scheduling and identity, but I kind of want to see the harassment one reblogged everywhere as a PSA. Also, because it never gets old: Cativan.
4. It wasn't on the dollar rack, but the Harvard Book Store has now furnished me with a used copy of M. John Harrison's Viriconium (2005), the omnibus. I faintly feel
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5. Thanks to the AV Club, I am intrigued by the pilot of Outlander. Cunnilingus in a castle.
There had better be a bed and some sleep soon. I am tired of making lists.
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I will say that I think the argumentum a squillis has a valid and non-anti-Semitic angle, albeit one that comes bundled with problematic alternate interpretations. The point to me is not that only stupid people think God hates shrimp; rather, only stupid people claim they read the entire Bible as the inerrant and utterly literal word of God, and then ignore the parts of it they don't feel like dealing with. There's a great deal of hypocrisy in the standard white evangelical hermeneutic; even if Peter's vision meant the dietary laws (but only the dietary laws) can go away, where's his vision of mixed-fiber clothing? If you can wear cotton-poly blends, why isn't gay sex okay? I disagree with the people who do in fact take all the laws of Leviticus as rules society must follow, but my disagreement with them is different from the one I have with the white evangelical tradition.
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(My eyes sort of glazed over a couple paragraphs into that article the message I got from it was that no argument against oppression that doesn’t presuppose and depend on the author’s particular Correct interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures is worth making. By anybody, whether they adhere to that particular tradition or not.)