Ankle-Strap Wedgie

I don't have much to scribble because I just got done with four pages of writing and that sort of used up my productivity for the evening, but I offer this Google pictorial of an Ankle Strap Wedge and Flickr pictorial of the same, because being a male of the sort completely uninterested in fashion, I had no idea what the hell Harlan Ellison was talking about when I began reading his story "Miss Ankle-Strap Wedgie". You can only imagine my disappointment to discover it was a shoe, and that the story was in the Nebula 2007 collection when it had absolutely nothing to do with science fiction.

On a more disturbing note, here's a wonderful story from the Southern Poverty Law Center just because I don't feel like keeping it to myself. That's right, someone(s) in Idaho vandalized an Anne Frank memorial not once, but twice. Even if you don't believe in the Holocaust, what's the sense in vandalizing community property, and in vandalizing a statue dedicated to a little girl? Hate. It's just hate. Some days it seems to drive an awful lot of things in the world.

"[ID] Anne Frank Memorial Vandalized - The Olympian / May 21, 2007
A memorial to Holocaust victim Anne Frank was toppled and damaged by vandals two months after being plastered with neo-Nazi stickers."

Unicylists and the KKK

Unfortunately, those things in the title aren't related. That would be really interesting. But I can't even find a picture on the Google, so at least some things you're not likely to see in this lifetime, even if you go in search of them.

Boss, from work, is always asking questions about unicyclists I see while I'm on rides. I've recently joined the Adventure Cycling organization and they sent me a e-newsletter with fun adventure cycling links. Like this one, about an adventure unicyclist. 100 miles? Angkor? Insane. I like his statement, "Adventure Unicycling is about pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone". For me, that would be about 60 seconds after climbing on the damn thing.

It's been a while since I linked to Orcinus. But he has a funny - in the really scary way - post up about a KKK Confederate flag flying over a Michigan picnic. The idea that we don't care is the same as we're not racist is amazing. Not caring if people are subjected to a KKK flag is a serious issue - it makes you an ass. Take the f-ing thing down or call the police and have them take it down.