Saturday's all right for fightin'. Saturday night's all right.

[erastes]

So "Lost" series 3 is going to Satellite.  Yay!  I can't say I'm sad about that, AT ALL.  Best place for it, I say. Can we launch it any further into space? Puleeze?

How do spammers KNOW?  I've got about 20 emails in my spam filter saying "Hi erastes" as my subject line - but the thing is, it's being sent to boudicca @ icenii .... I don't understand how they know... *paranoid*

I have to strongly disagree with Miss Snark's comment :. Writing about "hot button" issues like being gay, and dating outside your race, in the hedonisit 60's and 70's is the absolute antithesis of 'fresh and new'. This is particularly true if you lived through it and are writing your own thinly veiled story. The world has moved on. Time to catch up.

OK - so I agree that it's not "fresh and new" but... hedonistic 60's and 70's?  *chokes*  Yeah. Right. If you lived (perhaps) in San Francisco or New York.  For the rest of us things were anything but hedonistic.  Being gay meant you HID, hid yourself, your nature, your tastes, your music, your true self.  I don't think Miss Snark is in her 40's or 50's - so I rather think her perception of those decades are rather coloured by Hollywood and the media in which she lives.  Reading about people's experiences in those decades would be interesting, I think, particularly in comparison with our anything goes "naughties."

I also have to disagree with people glorifying war at this - or any - time.  Sorry.

Comments

[julesjones]

"you're not American & therefore aren't familiar with the spirit of the day and what it's about."

And of course, only Americans remember the war dead on this day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
http://www.poppy.org.uk/

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Nod nod. That's basically what I was attempting to say - and I think miladyhawke got annoyed with me because I didn't agree with her quoting a poem on her site saying it was soldiers who gained any rights for us, not politicians, passive resistence, or the power of the people.

However she seems to have deleted all her comments. That's never happened on my LJ before!

[rwday.livejournal.com]

I didn't agree with her quoting a poem on her site saying it was soldiers who gained any rights for us, not politicians, passive resistence, or the power of the people.

Yes, I commented on the poem too saying basically that while soldiers secure and defend our rights, they're not the source of them. At least in U.S. political theory, our basic rights derive from the fact of our humanity (or from God if you're inclined that way), they're inherent and innate, and all the government/army is supposed to do is protect them. It doesn't do a very good job of it, imo, but that's the theory.

[julesjones]

I'm no pacifist. I know too many people with direct connections to the death camps of the Third Reich to think that no war can be justified. But there are also wars that are started for territorial gains, for personal or national ego, for the profit of those who will ensure their own sons and daughters are never sent to the front line. And it's too damned easy for those who start them to manipulate people.

I regret the fact that in another year or two the very last of those last few old men from the war to end wars will be gone. They are the living reminder that war is not glorious, but capable of being what one of the Making Light crowd described as "the very definition of a rotating clusterfuck".