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It's not final, but it's a nice first step.

But this raised my hackles:

"You don't deserve those marriage rights unless you are a man and woman. No other relationship is equal to it or should claim to be," Thomasson said. "Awarding marriage equivalent rights to non-married couples cheapens the value of every marriage in the state."

Hey, asshole! Yeah, you. Two things. First, if my having the rights this bill would give me weakens your marriage, then your marriage isn't worth the paper the license is printed on, and both you and your wife should be ashamed of yourselves. And "value"? This is marriage, not a product on "The Price Is Right", for crap's sake.

Second, how does it cheapen your marriage? No, seriously. Enumerate the ways in which my having the ability to tell the Doctors to do what my husband wants instead of what his parents want cheapen your marriage? How does my having the ability to leave my possessions to Mike without burdening him with a huge tax bill make your marriage any less than the wonderful committment of two people to share their lives it is supposed to be?

Asshole.

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I can't believe I forgot this, but yesterday was the 14th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest/disaster.

Hmm. I can't do it this week, but I'm really wanting to see Gate of Heavenly Peace soon. Lograh, any chance I can convince you to borrow it next week, either for the weekend or even a weeknight viewing?

Anyone else interested?

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I watched Die Another Day with Mike last night (he hadn't seen it). I'm happy to report it bears up to repeated viewing.

Keen Eddie is one of those weird shows full of quick cuts and zoom shots. However, it's also fairly funny, though that may have been due to Alexei Sayles' prescence in the pilot. If you're interested in seeing it, shout out and I'll keep the tape for a while. If nothing else, the show is decent summer fun fare.

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I promise not to delete this one!

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I figured out what it is I'm missing in the game I run.

The game's fun, and I do enjoy the story and how it is turning out with the players and their characters derailing some things and spawning new plotlines (you players will never know how bloody many plotlines you've closed and how many your chance remarks have spawned). But there's been a sense of something missing for a while, and now I've got it. There are two things, actually.

First, I still don't really get why these people are traveling together. I still don't get the sense that they're a "dysfunctional but close family" a la Luke, Leia, Han, etc. And there's nothing WRONG with how the PCs interact, really. It's just not what I was hoping to see, completely.

Second, I don't see the adventurous side of the PCs. I know the storyline has a lot of depression in it, but the one-liners and heroic banter Star Wars is known for is seriously lacking in this game of late. And that's a bummer for me. Even when Han Solo is going to his doom, he cracks jokes. Even when all is seemingly lost, and Han and Luke are being dragged before Jabba for sentencing, they manage to wisecrack their way through it. And I miss seeing that in the PCs (it was there in the beginning).

So. I'll try to encourage more of that with Kasche, and also try to remember that while I'm the GM, I'm not the sole author of this tale, and thus I can't have all the dialogue the way I want it. That kind of control is reserved for my own fiction. Which I'll do more work on eventually.

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I decided to watch something I haven't seen in a while, so I put the Elizabeth DVD in. Gah! I'd forgotten just how much I love that film.

Anyway. Get thee to something else.

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Fellow English Nuts:

If, as I did last night, you find yourself trying to explain the evolution of the English language, and trying to explain that no, Shakespeare did not write in Old or Middle English*, try this page. I'm not entirely happy about the passage used, but it does have the virtue of being well known.

*They taught me that in High School. What did the rest of these yahoos learn?