Exactly Seven Days After Reading This Post, You Will Die.

That's because this is the first post on my Ring filter, the one where I plan my proposal to ojouchan. If you feel like you don't want to be a part of this filter, then let me know, and I'll take you off. So, if you just feel like you wouldn't be able to keep a secret if she asked you what's been going on, you might want to jump the ship before you have a chance to loose your lip.

Otherwise, there are a lot of people who are on this filter who don't personally know me or her other than through LJ, if at all. I figured you might want to be able to read what's going on too. I mean, that's the point of a usually public journal, right?

Filters.

It's been brought to my attention that my earlier post wasn't entirely clear. I have not yet proposed to ojouchan. I was merely telling my parents that I intended to. Soon.

In fact, I'm establishing an LJ filter so that I can talk about my plans for proposal. I already made the first post, so if you can't see it and you'd like to, let me know. At the moment, if I consider you to be mostly a friend of Jonaya's you're not on that filter at the moment. You will be called upon to keep everything you see secret. Really secret. So if you ask to be on that filter, be prepared for that.

And, on an entirely unrelated matter, it occurs to me that I should rehabilitate my sex filter. I have one, but it's old, and very few people are on it. I don't add people to that filter except by request, though I'm assuming that if you wanted to be on it then, you still want to be on it now.

Hey, I haven't done a poll in a long, long time. Let's do a filter poll!

[Poll #918684]
Also, by request:
WedNYTX: 8(?). ThuNYTX: 7:30.

"It's Kind of Important to People."

Peter Berdovsky and Sean Stevens, the two respected Boston artists who were hired to place ads around Boston that the city government now claims looked like bombs, have been released after posting bail. They have treated the situation with all the seriousness it deserves, which is brave, considering that the situation for them personally is much more dire.

After the hearing, they confronted the press by giving a press conference on haircuts of the 1970s, and like the current White House Administration, they refused to hear questions that were off message.

However, there was an important postscript that it appears is not getting the same attention:

But as he walked off, Berdovsky gave a more serious comment.

"We need some time to really sort things out and, you know, figure out our response to this situation in other ways than talking about hair," Berdovsky said. "So if you could just give us some privacy for a little bit. . . . I will be trying to make sense of all it real soon."

So news media? I hope you can you see this, because I'm doing it as hard as I can.

Why Did I Do That?

So, I take a shower, I get ready for bed, then I start reading about Boston trying to set a precedent to severely limit public speech, l and now I'm too damn angry to sleep.

If you're wondering, this is the Massachussets statute involved.

You'll notice that a key part of the crime is "the intent to cause anxiety, unrest, fear or personal discomfort to any person or group of persons." This is why, instead of just trying to use the (goverment-induced) panic as a justification for arrest, the assistant attorney general had to claim that the intent of the ad campaign was "to get attention by causing fear and unrest that there was a bomb in that location."

There's absolutely no way that argument is going to fly. First of all, the ads don't look like bombs, evidenced by the hundreds of people who have seen these ads and not experienced bomb-based fear and unrest. Second of all, seriously, how the fuck can Boston claim that anyone would come up with that as a marketing strategy? They're moving us into fucking South Park Land here, folks!

SEKRIT DOCMETN FOUND BY BOSTON:

TURNERS PLAN FOR MOVIE BUXX!

STEP 1: PLAN FAKE TERROR ATACK!

STEP 2: ? ? ?

STEP 3: PROFIT!

I am disgusted right now.