Now I want to see the rest, damn it.

Current Music: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni OST

For some time now, I've answered the question "does Sweden allow gay marriage?" with "no, but it's just a matter a time, it will happen, any year now, etc." Well, good fucking riddance, and say welcome to my new answer:

Fuck yeah!

Seriously, took you guys long enough. We were in danger of losing our Godless Sodomite street cred.

Now there's a meme I can love.

When you see this post, quote from the Whedonverse.

"It has a certain Machiavellian ingenuity to it."
"I resent that! Or possibly thank you!"

-BtVS, Bad Eggs

"I'm gonna give you all a nice, fun, normal evening if I have to kill every single person on the face of the Earth to do it."
"Yay?"

-BtVS, The Prom

"A lot's happened. Not just Angelus. I've been... I've changed. I've seen a darkness in myself. I'm not sure you'd even begin to understand..."
"I flayed a guy alive and tried to destroy the world."
"Oh. So..."
"Darkness. Been there."
"Yeah. Well, I never flayed. I had a woman chained in a closet."
"Oh, well hey!"
"No, it doesn't compare."
"No, dark. That's dark."

-Angel, Orpheus

"Whoa, hey. Flesh. Um... Saffron... i-it-it ain't a question of pleasing me. It's more a question of what's... um... of what's morally right."
"I do know my Bible sir. 'On the night of their betrothal, the wife shall open to the man as the furrow to the plow and he shall work in her, in and again till she bring him to his full and rest him then upon the sweat of her breast.'"
"Whoa, good Bible."

-Firefly, Our Mrs Reynolds

de·fla·tion /dɪˈfleɪʃən/ [di-fley-shuhn]
–noun
1. the act of deflating or the state of being deflated.
2. Economics. a fall in the general price level or a contraction of credit and available money (opposed to inflation). Compare disinflation.
3. the erosion of sand, soil, etc., by the action of the wind.
4. Football. the feeling experienced when ones national team manage to equalize against a theoretically far superior opponent, and hold their own against them for the full length of the game, only to have the game lost by a shitty[*] goal in the 92nd minute.

in·fla·tion /ɪnˈfleɪʃən/ [in-fley-shuhn]
–noun
1. Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
2. the act of inflating.
3. the state of being inflated.
4. Football. beer.

[*] Quality of goal scored dependent on nationality of viewer.

Current Mood: melancholy
Current Music: Spanish national anthem

What is it about Harry Potter books that compels me to read them in one sitting? Thank Ratatosk it's Saturday; I think I finished Half-blood Prince at 3am.

( Yeah, spoilers )

It's not like I'm cluttering up my journal with anything else, is it?

When you see this post, quote from Doctor Who on your LJ. (seen via rimrunner)

"Look at these people, these human beings, consider their potential. From the day they arrive on this planet and blinking step into the sun, there is more to see than can ever be seen, more to do... no, hold on... sorry, that’s the Lion King." - The Tenth Doctor, The Christmas Invasion

Current Music: Yoko Kanno - Flying Saucer

Wii!

Current Mood: Wii!

So today's my twenty-seventh birthday. It's really not been a big deal; birthdays have gotten far less dramatic in the past years. Seems to me like after I hit twenty-five, it's the multiples of five that count (conveniently off-putting any age-related angst to when I turn thirty). No, this birthday's just an excuse for cake (and that's cake spelled "s-a-c-h-e-r").

Having had a great time at my last two New Year's Socials in Chicago, I have been giving some serious thoughts to going this year too. So I have a couple of questions:

Will there be a Chicago Social this New Year?

If there is, could I drop by?

I do have some other concerns, but without knowing about these two, they're kind of irrelevant.

So, we've got a new government now. Persson and his Social Democrats are out, the conservative/liberal Alliance is in. I'd like to say my vote helped, except that the party I voted for (the Liberals) was the big loser of the Alliance (a drop in six percent from last election). Ah well(*). The main issue for me is the marginalization of the Christian Democrats, and lo! they remained the smallest of the Alliance parties.

I'm sure I'll be cursing a blue streak over our new Overlords in a couple of months, but for now I'll raise my Guinness for a government without Persson, without Ulvskog, without Ohly and without Gahrton.



(*) Yeah, that Nixon thing? Probably didn't help. I actually felt embarrased voting for them.