Daily Archives: 10/29/2011

(Community Matters) Fun issue!

COOKS at home: John Besh, Liz Lambert, Jack and Bryce Gilmore, Shontae Moeller, Mason Arnold, Eliza Gilkyson, Graham Reynolds, Owen Egerton and Will Packwood

(Community Matters) I’m hearing it’s possible Joaquin Castro & Lloyd Doggett may not be running against each other after all. Seems to be a lot of betting that CD-25 (Doggett’s existing district) will regain more of Travis County, a strong 54 – 55% Democratic majority – that is, a safe seat that Lloyd could run & win.

This could leave CD 35 with a sliver of East Austin  extending down to Bexar. This would be best of all worlds – Lloyd able to run in his existing district and Joaquin stepping up as an additional Democratic, Hispanic congressional representative, bridging Bexar and Travis counties.

(Community Matters) “We may be reaching an inflection point, the moment when the terms of the political argument change decisively. . . . [GOP] losing control of the political narrative. . . . efforts to taint Occupy Wall Street as nothing more than a bunch of latter-day hippie radicals haven’t worked. . . . Obama, by sharpening his arguments about what’s fair and what’s unfair, has finally stopped his slide in the polls.”

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(Community Matters) Alisa & Lynn in Culture Map

It is the mission of the L Style G Style staff to create a universally appealing product that will educate the reader about a person’s life without turning all of the attention on the subject’s sexuality. “If you’ve never had an experience with a gay or lesbian person, and then you read one of our stories and think, ‘That person is cool, and I’d like to know them,’ that to me is working to build a bridge and transcend between two groups of people.”

(Community Matters) Loved the movie. It’s pace and tone were more theater-like than cinema – a nice change, though disconcerting. I haven’t read enough to know if it’s Goldman Sachs voyeurism, but from friends, the premise of being first suggests it’s representational.

This isn’t an action movie, not a chaotic, energetic wall street floor scene. It’s nuanced human motivations, trepidation and how we sometimes just take orders to keep a job. If we lobbed a few zeros off the salaries, would we be more sympathetic to the players taking orders? Regardless on which side one lands judging the decisions’ morality, that the first responders move saved the firm must factor into deliberations. I haven’t decided. There’s morality and there’s legal – I fear the gap between the two is wider than our current economic chasm. The film and a defensive essay I read this week from a 21 year old Wall Street analyst have me thinking about this issue as spirited and appetitive souls derailing the rational. Most of these people are young – who else shares responsibility?

I’m an even bigger Zachary Quinto fan today than before, right up there with Jeremy Irons. Paul Bettany is new to me & I like him too.