Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

...to rms_butterfly and victorthecook!!!! Have a great one!!!

Welcome to The Underground Rail -- 21st Century Edition

For folks interested in discussing pocketnaomi's idea of The Underground Rail, we've created a pair of communities:

• underground_rail on Dreamwidth
• undergroundrail on Livejournal

We're hoping that most of the action will stay on the Dreamwidth side, but wanted to provide the alternative for people who don't want to move or want to keep their two identities separate. Unfortunately, for reasons that are obvious when you think about it, communities can't crosspost.

See you one place or the other, or maybe both.

Done yesterday (20120225 Sa)

A good day.

Went out to Japantown with Colleen so she could pick up the yukata she'd ordered for me. Gorgeous -- black with white and gold dragons and pine needles. Much gaudier than I would have picked for myself. It needs to be shortened by quite a lot. We met jilara in the parking lot. Fun!

I made a very bright guacamole, followed shortly thereafter by carnitas. Yum. I saved the liquid in the crock pot and tossed in a quart of water and some yellow split peas, for tonight's soup.

When we got back, we went for a st/roll around the Rose Garden. We stopped in Goodwill on the way home (always dangerous) and spent about $20 on an off-white silk jacket and a green cotton Hawaiian print shirt for me, and half a dozen little vases for Colleen.

As for links, a comment on my Signal boost for the underground_rail (you will note that it now has a community) links to this short story: ILU-486 by Amanda Ching. I hope it doesn't get that bad.

And here are 5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police Search (Even if You Have Nothing to Hide), via thnidu.

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Songs for Saturday: Underground Rail

In honor of the communities I set up this morning (underground_rail on DW and undergroundrail on LJ) to promote pocketnaomi's idea of a new Underground Rail, I give you the song that inspired it: catsittingstill's song "Underground Rail".

Here is Lookingglass Folk's version, from our concert at Conflikt.