Just some miscellaneous ramblings from an Upstate New Yorker.


Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Sasha's commentary for April 2, 2014: Weird and Happy Stuff

"Meet the Catfish Couple Who Actually Made It" the headline from PEOPLE Magazine read. Lauren Meler is my age. Wow. Mind-boggling that I'm still stuck at home, my life in a holding pattern. Needless to say I wish her and her fiancee, Derek Shullenbarger, my best wishes, as I would any happy couple. And they're situation is unusual: two honest people on the internet communicating and them showing their true selves. No wonder they're getting married: it's rare to have a genuine online relationship. I'm watching their Catfish special, and on watching it, I'm feeling Lauren is a bit like me in that regard, hard to let go of someone special. She's hung up on a mystery guy, and said mystery guys is partly intimidated, nervous as hell-makes for a great happily ever after story!

Dysfunctional politics: Jake Rush is running for Congress in Florida's 3rd Congressional District as a wholesome family man. Right...unlike cosplay, what he does is much stranger.
Mind’s Eye, or MES, is a nationwide community of gothic-punk role-players who come together to take on personas of vampires and other supernatural beings (known as Kindred), dealing with night-to-night struggles “against their own bestial natures, hunters, and each other.”
Voters will desert him as soon as the networks pick up this story. Or maybe not. Republicans at times can do no wrong in the eyes of many voters.

Since the state Legislature has signed off on abolishing the Electoral College (joining the popular vote compact), I urge Governor Cuomo to sign the bill into law.

Alright. I only have a few hours to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day, so I'm going to do just that.

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