May. 24th, 2010

cassidyrose: (Great American Music Hall)
We attended Maker Faire yesterday and it was mostly fun. S. had a rough start but warmed up and had fun after a couple of hours. He is terrified of fire so we had to steer clear of the fire-producing installations and everything around them, so we mostly had to pass on the art cars which was too bad. He was mostly happy doing craft projects, building with the LEGOS, looking at the odd vehicles, and poking around the craft bazaar. He came home with a set of hairpins with felted wool adornments (he wanted them "for decorations"), a couple of fabric craft projects, a bar of soap he made with a toy dinosaur inside, two new building kits (from a toy tore vendor), and an owl amigurimi doll from a vendor in the bazaar (I decided it was easier to fork over the cash for the "owl yarn monster" he became obsessed with than making one myself). I enjoyed just looking at everything and [livejournal.com profile] ptor liked the electronics stuff and purchased a microcontroller kit he wanted. I got myself the Port of Oakland cranes/At-At t-shirt and got one for L. as well. Too cute. One of the cooler things at the Faire was a teletype machine rigged to print messages sent via text. I sent one to Matilda who tried to retrieve it but the distributors couldn't find it (boo!) and we forgot the pick up the one I sent [livejournal.com profile] ptor. Oh well...it was still fun doing it. I also took lots of pictures. Below is a link to the set of non-kiddo-containing ones:

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cassidyrose: (Harlie claw)
I always thought Mick LaSalle was a big 'ol asshat. This just cements it:

A couple of weeks ago I got some nasty reaction to my review of JUST WRIGHT, the new Queen Latifah movie in which she is the romantic lead. She plays an average woman who becomes the love interest of an extremely desirable man -- an NBA superstar who could presumably have absolutely anybody. In the most delicate terms imaginable, I questioned how the movie could present its hero's attraction for (let's just say it) an obese woman, without in some way accounting for the unusual nature of that attraction. (warning: many of the comments are just horrible).

Because, apparently, someone who could "have anybody" would never actually choose to be with a fat woman, according to LaSalle. So, in LaSalle's world, men who love fat women only love them because they can't get the skinny ones? Really? Is he really saying that? Oh yes he is.

And really, on what fucking planet is Queen Latifah anything but a super-desirable female? I mean, I thought that was a given.

And let's not forget that female leads in Hollywood have progressively gotten skinnier over recent years--size zero is the new four. Hollywood isn't having any "fat delusions"...it is the same old crap but worse than ever.

What a self-important asshat! Urgh.
cassidyrose: (Harlie tongue)
Saying this here so I won't say it elsewhere...

While I do believe that children need exposure to germs and do not need to doused in antibacterial crud (we use nothing "antibacterial" in our house or on the kids), I do not think "I rarely wash my kids' hands" is an example of stellar parenting. Especially if these are children who handle their own bathroom activities (as in out of diapers and are wiping themselves). That is just gross.

Ick.

Children need to be taught proper hygiene, and, yes, that includes washing one's hands more than "rarely".

Frequent hand washing is important. It is just important to do it with regular soap, not antibacterial stuff in everyday, non-medical environments.

Furthermore, saying that you don't vaccinate to "allow the immune system to strengthen naturally" is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard. Because, you know, your child losing his/her sight to measles, or the ability to walk from polio just makes her/his immune system stronger.

What. The. Fuck

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