Some Inbox Goodies

Along with the 8track link in the previous post, my friend Sonya also sent me these:

Black Magic

Something There <== in her message she says this is Beauty-and-the-Beast-esque

My Blood Beats Dark

Warning: I haven't heard much of these 8tracks but my friend Sonya is a lovely fairy grrrll with very dark, electronic tastes in music (she recently went to see GWAR in concert) but this balances out with how much she loves kittehs and puppehs and everything cyute.

Sonya also sent me this: Favorite Costumes at the Tompkins Square Park Halloween Dog Parade from which the opening shot of Scarlet "Pug" O'Hara comes from.

Then another friend, Tonya, sent me this piece from The New Yorker: Pride and Prejudice: Behind the Anti-Gay Bullying which I haven't actually got to read yet.

I also found (not in my Inbox, but on Google News) this NYT opinion piece: Islamophobia and Homophobia which was very, very interesting.

Next to last, my friend Nick sent me this article The Plot Escapes Me which talks about how we read and read and read and, yet, retain so little of what we read. If we can't remember what we've read, does what we read actually change us? I say yes, as does the article.

And, lastly, in response to some of Sonya's emails, I sent her this: