If I was president, I'd still have to rely on what Congress would let me get away with changing. But if we're going fantasy style president with total power...

What I would seriously do: Country wide gender and sexuality protection laws. Socialized health care. Add an option to legally identify yourself as neither M or F. Work programs like FDR ran (okay, I don't know if that's still feasible, but fuck if I don't think that's a major reason FDR rocked). Mandatory better sex ed. Make it impossible for public schools to make physical education mandatory to pass.

What I would do in I can do fucking anything and am awesome land: Remove the White House from D.C. I want to run the country from a Louisiana swamp. Establish a Secretary of Fabulousness, appoint the Lady Chablis to the position. Get an official White House juggler. Appoint WATSON (the supercomputer) to some cabinet position.

And good fucking going, America. You've just cut a major healthcare provider for the poor while choosing to continue giving money to NASCAR.

Fuck you.

No. PE has never made someone fit who didn't want to try to be fit. I am a fatass and have been since I was very young. All it ever did was make me hate every sport ever, which hasn't exactly made getting fit helpful, because every sport is associated with years of being forced into humiliating activities in front of everyone I knew.

It's sticking kids in a situation that just gives them excuses to make fun of each other (like kids can't make up their own), and it's giving the teachers/coaches an excuse to make someone's life hell if they're just not cut out for physical work.

Fuck physical education. I'm glad I took a military class instead of gym to get my necessary-to-graduate-high school credits.

Happy Saint Vally's Day!

Finally, finally, finally got my hands on the movie of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil! Of course, watched it immediately.

I could just list the parts I liked, blah blah, Jude Law as Billy, etc., or I could get to the real point of this post.

My love for The Lady Chablis KNOWS NO BOUNDS. AT ALL. EVER. I WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO EXPRESS MY FULL LOVE FOR THAT WOMAN. And she was just stunning at the debutant ball, dear god, in the blue shiny dress.

I'm gonna go watch every video I can find of her on Youtube now, and plot how I'm totally going to see her at the Clue One once I'm out of high school.

I've spent half the day trying to remember anything I can to identify one short story that I read once.

It might have been in Again, Dangerous Visions, but most of the stories for Again, Dangerous Visions don't have wiki pages, so I can't just go through all of them and check. I'm not sure I still own a copy of Again, Dangeous Visions either...

Lady Gaga. Which comes entirely from my intense hatred of her. I actually like her music, or some of it, but seriously? She's using racist terms and declaring herself a gay icon (not letting herself be made into a gay icon but DECLARING it), and she's just... ugh. She's not a bastion of liberalness and love, she makes songs for cis gay men, declares herself an icon, and then uses slurs against trans* and POCs. UGH. So yes.

Why didn't I know Sergio Aragonés had a cameo on Futurama?

I repeat: Why didn't I know Sergio Aragonés had a cameo on Futurama?

I just squeed like a fanboy. That's like, almost up there with Gary Gygax being on Futurama, and I think it's a notch above Leonard Nimoy.

I need to go stare at my autographed Groo collection now.

Also, why didn't I know Azazel was going to be in X-Men: First Class? He's like Nightcrawler, but red and kind of a demon. I like that in a comic book character.

Luke got a Kindle which, me being me, made me want a Kindle. Because I have to have one of whatever anyone else has (or even better, have one of whatever before anyone else has one).

I've got like, ninety dollars right now, so it shouldn't take long to save up. Kindles aren't that much (especially compared to the 3DS I was planning on saving for), and me and Luke have a tentative agreement that we could share a single Kindle library so we'd both get all the books the other one bought.

Also, pirating books: Totally for the win.

Not gonna lie. Half the reason I want a Kindle is so I don't have to keep track of my favorite books anymore. I'm really bad about not losing things, especially reasonably small things like paperbacks, which means I've lost a handful of Vonneguts, a handful of Discworlds, and all my Ringworld books to the void that is my room. Really, the only good book I've managed to never once lose is my copy of Brave New World (it's rat chewed, has water damage, and is extensively highlighted and written in, but I always know where it is!)

Also, the possibility of carrying around a Kindle in one of cases for it. Especially the Tree of Life or the Van Gogh's Sky.