Category: Random

It’s very important that you all get over to The Nexus immediately and read the first person account of the Battle of Seattle (The Core). It’s incredibly moving stuff. Here’s a brief excerpt:

“The whole way I was hoping that this story would get out. Hoping that the level of violence inflicted on non-violent protesters, peacefully assembled, would wake a lot of people up and show them the level of democracy in this country. Hoping that people would see what the level of force aimed at people who peacefully oppose the interests that are dominant in this country and the world. I returned home to have this hope crushed. The local news stations were reporting on the broken windows of businesses and not the broken bones of protesters. They reported on things like “police fatigue.” Which I assume is when your arms get tired after you beat people for hours. They talked -and continue to talk about- the extremely “restraint, openmindedness, and gentleness” displayed by police.”

Epinions just can’t stay still! Now you can post comments on other people’s reviews. They’ve also redesigned the review pages – again I am not convinced by the new look. We shall see if it grows on me…

I wrote a review of Fight Club. Don’t read it. I have no idea what I think about it.

Oh cool – I’ve figured out how the archiving works (duh). Have a look at my life over the last month. I’ve had a funny time…

A range of important information that everyone should know about:

• Terrence Higgins Trust — Information about HIV and AIDS in the United Kingdom
• CDC National AIDS Prevention Information Network — from the Centers for Disease Control
• Gay Men’s Health
  Crisis — one of the oldest AIDS service organization
• The NAMES Project AIDS
  Memorial Quilt — remembering those we have lost, using the
  world’s largest community art project
• Children With AIDS Project
  — information about HIV, AIDS and kids
• AEGIS — a comprehensive
  database of AIDS information, updated hourly

Check out the beginnings of microlith (currently content-free) and the beginnings of my new stark monotonous grey aesthetic. If you complain, I rip out your spine…

Bit of a change of pace today, as barbelith is updated directly from my place of work whenever I take a break.

I have stumbled upon a benefit that is happening in Los Angeles later this month. Gillian Anderson (Scully on ‘The X-Files’) is hosting it, and it is in aid of The Trevor Helpline. This is the first round-the-clock national toll-free suicide helpline for gay teens, who are three times more likely to attempt to take their life than their heterosexual peers are.

I don’t normally go for advertising charity events, but gay suicides are robbing America and the world of sexual dissidents. What kind of system generates such mind control that those who can’t follow the rules feel their only option is to kill themselves?

[Today’s weblog comes to you live from Tom’s place of work, Time Out in London]

Microlith proceeds apace. Heh heh heh.

OK. So let’s get something out of the way first. I know that not everyone agrees with my epinions (and I am sorry to go on about it so much, but I can’t help thinking it’s a great idea), but I don’t understand why some of them are much read, and some haven’t been read at all. It’s got nothing to do with what the film is – Forrest Gump and Natural Born Killers are read a lot, while The Matrix, My Fair Lady, South Park, Head On and The Astronaut’s Wife – well, no one seems to want to go near them with a barge pole. WHY!?