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Highlights of the weekend (mostly MOF show edition)

1. Stopping in La Pryor for some of Trine’s famous tacos
2. Walking around Texas State and UT campuses feeling old
3. Conversations with a bee, featuring my brother, a bee, and a cinnamon roll
4. Curry City at Veggie Heaven
5. Two very tall dudes letting us stand in front of them so us short people could see Monsters of Folk at Stubbs
6. True dat, Conor moment during ‘We Are Nowhere And It’s Now’ when he sang ‘I’ve got no plans and too much time. I feel too restless to unwind’
7. My sister saying ‘Hey, that’s us!’ when Conor started singing about Mexican children
8. ‘Dear God’ performance like heaven
9. Pretty much everything Jim James sang in his staggeringly beautiful voice
10. Getting lost trying to find The Parlor, only to get there just as they were closing
11. Getting free CDs from the band that had just played at The Parlor
12. Crashing at Tio Beto’s in San Antonio
13. Ximena Sariñana at the Macroplaza in Piedras, especially when she played ‘La Tina’ and ‘Monitor’
14. Missing La Academia, then hearing that Rodrigo is back in

BLOG OF THE WEEK | Mark of the Beast

Mark of the Beast is a great blog about critter-inspired design. It features everything from flea market finds to Ebay auctions and pieces right off the runway, and I want it all. Especially everything in the Alexander McQueen Spring 2010 collection.

The Stupak/Pitts Amendment makes me wanna vom

The Stupak/Pitts amendment violates the spirit of health care reform, which is meant to guarantee quality, affordable health care coverage for all. In fact, this amendment would create a two-tiered system that would punish women, particularly those with low and middle incomes, the very people this bill is intended to assist. The majority of private health insurance plans currently offer abortion coverage, and the Stupak/Pitts amendment would result in the elimination of private abortion coverage in the ‘exchange,’ the new insurance market created under health care reform, as well as in the public option, if one is created.

House members who voted for the amendment are a bunch of sin verguenzas. Read the rest of the statement issued by Planned Parenthood here.