A 2pm conference call on Memorial Day Friday is just evil. Though I guess in Southern California, Memorial Day feels like any other weekend really.
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Dear West Coast Tumblrs
Is it weird that we haven’t met yet?
Can we remedy this?
If you’d go to a reading/signing of “Splitting the Difference” at The Last Bookstore in downtown L.A. on June 30, will you:
Follow/Tweet @lastbookstorela + mention #heartshapedmemoir?
Like their Facebook page + post on their Wall?
Reblog the hell out of this for L.A. Tumblrs?
If 50 people do it, I will come.
Loudly.
I promise.
Throughout most of Silicon Valley’s history, its executives have displayed a libertarian instinct to stay as far from politics and government as possible. But the imperative to change the world has recently led some Silicon Valley leaders to imagine that the values and concepts behind their success can be uploaded to the public sphere.
“It suddenly occurred to me that the hottest tech start-ups are solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand, because that’s who thinks them up.”
Little known corgi fact: their high rates of civic engagement #electionday #la
First Attempt at Pure Barre
Make it all of 15 minutes through the class before having to run to the bathroom and lie down to make sure I don’t pass out.
Maybe I should develop a level of fitness above “Taking the easy way up Runyon once every other month” before attempting again.
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Photo from R. T. Rybak from the Minnesota State Capitol just after the State Senate passed marriage equality. Bill will be signed into law by Governor Mark Dayton tomorrow, and everyone should have their dancing shoes polished and ready for weddings starting August 1st.
St. Paul’s Wabasha Bridge has been renamed the Freedom to Marry Bridge for the week by Mayor Chris Coleman.
I love this state so hard.
Live audio of the marriage equality bill in the Minnesota State House.
