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For people interested in the OWS movement (Occupy Wall Street) - here's some reliable sites where the OWS speak for themselves and not through the filter of the national news media, which still isn't quite sure what to make of them. NY1 is just reporting their activities and government's response. While the Metro - is doing more or less the same.

http://occupiedmedia.com/ - This the Occupied Wall Street Journal, with articles by the protesters.

Here's a Facebook page with a listing of all the movements around the country:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/notes/mary-clinton/daily-occupations-report-tuesday-102511
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The Facebook page details their plan of action and what they are about fairly well. Better than the news has.

And here: http://www.freespeech.org/

Apparently they are doing more than just occupying now. There are websites offering email addresses of CEO's and information on how to Occupy Corporate Web Sites on the internet and protest on the net. This is a lot more organized than I thought, with a very broad approach. This week they marched on St. Vincents protesting the lack of decent health care benefits. They also marched down Broadway and around City Hall - I think that was yesterday? Not to be outdone, there is an Occupy Albany, the seat of the NY State Government, where the Governor lives, along with our State Senate and Congress. I hope someone has donated a shelter and heat - it's supposed to get down to 36 degrees tonight and it is pouring.

Revenge and Big Bang Theory

Sort of in a bad mood and a tad depressed, I blame it on the weather. And other things..but to say more would be whiny and not good for either of us.

Watched Revenge this week - which was fun. Machniations upon machinations, manipulations upon manipulations. We basically have two con artists circling each other and the Graystone's at the moment. Meet Talent Mr. Ripley vs. Countess of Monte Cristo. The writers have literally merged two literary tropes, Patricia Highsmith and Alexander Dumas.
Kudos.

It's building at the moment, so no nifty revenge of the week wrapped up. Was oddly disappointed, I like the nifty revenges of the week - it's a fun, if unintentional satire, on the save person of the week trope.

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Also watched Big Bang Theory tonight - which again managed to make me laugh. Need a bit of laughter - it dispels anger. I've come to the conclusion that anger is not a productive or useful emotion. And hurts mainly the person feeling it. If allowed to fester, it will eat you alive. Rage is even worse. I've been struggling with anger...pushing it away from myself. Letting it go. Because I've seen first hand what it does to people who haven't been able to do this. It's turned them bitter. But that's easier said than done. My least favorite emotions? Anger/Rage, Jealousy/Envy. Two of the Seven Deadlies per the David Fincher film Seven, not the Bible, it's sad but I remember the film better - blame it on a visual memory. Hence my difficulty with horror films. The film that I won't see, but the description haunts my imagination is the Japanese Dutch 2010 film The Human Centipede which is described as the grossest and most horrific sci-fi horror film out there amongst horror film geeks. I won't describe it to you - just that it's about a mad scientist who decides it would be a great idea to create...well a human centipede. [ETA: not to be confused with the infamous and hilarious South Park parody.] Now, that does not take the mind to the most pleasant place on the planet, does it?

Big Bang Theory - has two plot-lines tonight. ( very vague spoilers )

Rather loved Neil Gaiman's comment about taste several months ago and how it's good thing everyone has different tastes because otherwise he wouldn't be able to make a living as writer. While I'm ambivalent on Gaiman's writing, it's hit or miss most of the time, I adore his blog. I have a few writers and actors that I still admire, partly because they've been very careful about what they reveal - wise, very wise. Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Stewart Head, Neil Gaiman...are amongst the few.