State of The Me, Plus a Movie

Ugh, I am not doing well today. Some kind of unpleasant infection has my guts all unhappy. Also, I'm pretty pissed that I grabbed Honest Hearts off the Bethesda DLC half off sale, and now NV keeps freezing at the loading screen after the Honest Hearts opening. I
am going to fiddle with some memory settings later to see if that can fix it. I could switch over and see how Mothership Zeta is doing, but I forgot to get the patch yesterday and don't want to drag everything to the other end of the house to hook it up to the internet again.

Still watching movies! Case 39 was really good. And I was pleasantly surprised to see Callum Keith Rennie with a major role! Also, Jodelle Ferland is the horror girl. If you need a creepy little girl of some sort in a horror thing, she's who gets called. I started joking about it way back when she showed up on Kingdom Hospital fresh off of a string of guest appearances in supernatural/horror shows. Then after that she popped up in Silent Hill, Dark Lake, and Masters of Horror. Now, I'm more surprised if a little girl in horror isn't Jodelle! Hell, she's even headed into videogames with Bioshock 2.

Case 39 really showed off her acting chops, though. It delivered everything the trailers promised, and there were no cop outs or cheap bait and switches. It was an eerie, slow building, paranormal creeper. The violence was negligible, with the only 'bloody' scene shown from above and at a distance, with blood beneath a body rather than showing anything directly. It was all beautifully directed and filmed, and sits pretty damn high on my own list of favored horror movies.

I may watch Session 9 today, as I've already seen it twice (I think?) and it's nothing I need to pay deep attention to. This is if I can't fix my DLC so it works right. :/

I need to figure something out for Oktoberfest. It's a pity Toto doesn't lend himself well to horror. :(

Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood Amendment". This amendment would grant fertilized eggs and fetuses personhood status.

Putting aside the contentious issue of abortion, this would effectively outlaw birth control and criminalize women who have miscarriages. This is not a good thing.

Jackson Women's Health Organization is the only place women can get abortions in the entire state, and they are trying to launch a grassroots movement against this amendment. This doesn't just apply to Mississippi, though, as Personhood USA, the group that introduced this amendment, is trying to introduce identical amendments in all 50 states.

What's more, in Mississippi, this amendment is expected to pass. It even has Mississippi Democrats, including the Attorney General, Jim Hood, backing it.

The reason I'm posting this here is because I made a meager donation to the Jackson Women's Health Organization this morning, and I received a personal email back hours later - on a Sunday - thanking me and noting that I'm one of the first "outside" people to contribute.

So if you sometimes pass on political action because you figure that enough other people will do something to make a difference, make an exception on this one. My RSS reader is near silent on this amendment. I only found out about it through a feminist blog. The mainstream media is not reporting on it.

If there is ever a time to donate or send a letter in protest, this would be it.

What to do?

- Read up on it. Wake Up, Mississippi is the home of the grassroots effort to fight this amendment. Daily Kos also has a thorough story on it.

- If you can afford it, you can donate at the site's link.

- You can contact the Democratic National Committee to see why more of our representatives aren't speaking out against this.

- Like this Facebook page to help spread awareness.