Just to bring everyone up to speed:
Deana is moving to Michigan this week. She starts her new job as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology (yay!) at Grand Valley State University this fall.
Karen is helping Deana drive to Michigan by way of Flagstaff, Albuquerque, Cheyenne, mumble mumble Nebraska something, and Chicago. They have a pair of digital cameras and a laptop, so they’re armed and dangerous.
This will make sense to no one, but so far the drive to Michigan includes lots of lightning, elk warnings, alternate air conditioning (on then off) and the “Hey young ladies. Beautiful evening.” scary guy at Denny’s.
This is the desert, near Yuma:
And this is us, finally at the Fairfield Inn in Flagstaff:
Exciting stuff! We’ll keep you posted…
I moved the images to the globalspin.com server and reduced their file size. ~chris
My brother Carl wandered by and noted that he had listened to a bit of Rush Limbaugh Tuesday, for the sake of fun, and learned Rush was taking credit for the argument that marriage isn’t about affirming one’s love for another person, it’s about having children. Apparently others on the right side of the pool are making the same argument and Rush wants us to know he thought of it first.
I suggested that elderly couples shouldn’t be allowed to marry, by this token, and that single women should lose the right to marry as soon as they hit menopause. Carl told me to be quiet. Someone might hear me and run with the idea!
In a mood, I did some web searching and came up with this fun thing from a while ago by a heterosexual guy in Vermont. It actually is a fun thing, and it’s called Civil Unions Destroyed My Marriage.
You may already be familiar with this, but here is one of my favorite (harsh) parody sites, BettyBowers.com. Betty Bowers is a Christian fundamentalist (I was going to say a caricature of a Christian fundamentalist, but I’m not so sure there’s actually any exaggeration going on) with a lot to say on a lot of issues. The site always makes me happy….
For instance, Is Fabulous President George W. Bush a Fabulous Homosexual? analyzes the evidence! I had been whining about the word “fabulous” before, but they take it to a whole new level. Betty and co. even designed a protest letter.
My friend, anthropologist and new mother Laura Stanley sent me the following note:
Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions – This is a site where “science fiction fans can
now compare the sizes of various sci-fi spacecraft regardless of genre.
All models are true to scale!” For some reason, I thought you and “your
crowd” might find this amusing – if they haven’t already discovered it!
So, “my crowd,” have you discovered this yet? Do you find it amusing?
(It’s kind of interesting, a bit techy for me….But lots of you are decidedly more tech, so enjoy!)