I got the good news and the bad news

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Bad news first (two days late):

Rest in Peace, Rosa Parks. You were a symbolic icon of the US civil rights movement and may you always be remembered as such. Great things don't have to be big things, some time the smallest change can make the biggest difference.

Okay.

GOOD NEWS! (please to be sitting down first):

My mate, K, saw Jarhead at a screening a few nights ago, and rang me to inform me that my favourite scene in the entire film would involve one Mr Jake Gyllenhaal, copious nakedness completely naked, and a Santa Claus hat.

Christmas will arrive 4th November, people.

NAKED JAKE GYLLENHAAL!!! OMGWTFBBQ1!1

ETA: Look at the icon green_queen made for me! Isn't it fabulous?

Comments

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I hear you. I just have a feeling we're in the minority as far as knowing what else she did. Or maybe I'm being unduly pessimistic. But I saw several posts on LJ the day she died to the effect of "OMG, she was still alive??" And that just makes me sad, you know?

Now, granted, I probably got the idea she was an "old lady" when I was a kid--when you're 7, 40 seems really old. But I remember being angry when I was in college and realized how very much my high school history classes glossed over about her. that's all.

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That's just -- that's so fucking sad. You are right about the relative perception of old. I mean for us, 30 is the new 20, 40 is the new 30. i see high school age kids and want to pat them on the head and send them home to mom.

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On another note, can I just say that this is the highlight of my morning?

NAKED JAKE GYLLENHAAL!!! OMGWTFBBQ1!1

YES

need iconses. not necessarily naked, but icons nonetheless. yis.

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Okay, look at what green_queen made for me! If you ask her nicely, maybe she'll make you one too!