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Good morning all, and welcome to Radio Free Monday!

Ways To Give:

darksideofstorm linked to an article about a gay couple in Texas, Joshua Harrison and Jeremy Jeffers, who have been on the receiving end of hate speech in their small town and can't afford to leave it. There's a new-ish website called Owldolatrous that further documented the harassment and is raising money to help them with a rent down payment and moving expenses so they can find a safer place to live.

subluxate is raising money for travel to Iowa City in January to see a specialist for Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. They're writing drabbles and offering editing services in return for donation, here on Dreamwidth and here on LJ.

highlyeccentric linked to Tom on Tumblr, who is raising money to apply for a visa so he and his partner can move home to Australia where her prospects for medical treatment are better. Their story is here, and their chipin fundraising page is here.

an_sceal linked to a fundraiser to help pay medical bills for Baby, a service dog who was attacked by feral dogs and seriously injured. Her owner, an artist, is selling amazing works of art at his Facebook to try and cover Baby's bills. Even if you can't afford to buy, check out his art, it's super cool.

Doola linked to a petition to try and stop the destruction of a buried Buddhist city, a significant cultural site in Afghanistan, which is being threatened by a proposed mining operation.

melayneseahawk linked to an indiegogo fundraiser to help research the potential of a cancer-killing virus currently lacking the funding to be developed. Big Pharma apparently won't fund it because it's in the public domain, so there's no profit to be made from it.

Housing For Fans:

tesserae_ is looking for a housemate in a historic building in downtown Los Angeles. Private laundry, three cats, and fan friendly; you can email for more info at tesserae4405 at yahoo.com.

Just For Fun:

mycatsellsclues linked to an awesome tumblr called What Should We Call Art History, which I think any scholar or lover of art will enjoy. I know I did. :D

And this has been Radio Free Monday! Thank you for your time. You can always post items for my attention in comments here (or on any post) or email me at copperbadge at gmail dot com. If you're not sure how to proceed, here is a little more about what I do and how you can help (or ask for help!). Remember, brevity is the soul of RFM.

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I crashed Notepad.



I didn't even know it was possible to crash Notepad. It's Notepad. It's one step up from writing something on a post-it note and sticking it to your sleeve.

The end of days may be at hand.

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One boss is out sick, the other spent the morning stuck on a broken down train (this does sound like the start of a blues song), two of my colleagues showed up hours late and a third is out sick. It's apparently "fall apart as a cohesive unit" day here in Research. I'm using this to my advantage to goof the hell off.

Also, I've been meaning to post this for a while, once I finally got it finished. I have a friend who recently departed for interesting adventures in a new country, and I did her up a poem to go along with.

( For Eimear, Overseas )

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I got a call this afternoon that my stepfather's mother, ornery grandma octogenarian Mama Tickey, died this morning. She'd had a bad fall and was in the hospital already; I actually sent her a get-well card which...probably arrived today.

Much as I loved Mama Tickey and am sad she died, my first thought was At least it wasn't my fault. A year or two ago I sent her a birthday card with some dumb joke about cows in it, and she laughed so hard she had an asthma attack and ended up in the hospital. She took it in good spirits, but the entire clan razzed me about it for days.

I am sure if there is an afterlife she heard me think that and fell about laughing again.

I didn't know her especially well, so I'm not as hard hit as her sons, who are devastated. It's fortunate that her will provided for her funeral -- her estate is paying my plane ticket down for the services, so I've spent much of the evening packing. I'll be on a noon flight to Houston the day after tomorrow. I'll be in Houston most of the week and then head up to Austin with my folks on Saturday, and leave from there back for Chicago on Monday.

Which means Radio Free Monday is cancelled for next week, but I'll do my usual "RFM post, leave your blurbs in comments" thing I do whenever I haven't got time to actually compile them myself. I'll have my laptop with me, but we're staying in Mama Tickey's townhouse (convenient, if creepy) and it has no internet, so I expect to be relatively silent for the second half of the week.

I'm okay. Mum is much more freaked out than I am and Lucky is much harder hit. My job at the moment, mostly, is to make sure I'm not a worry to the rest of the family. Which is easily enough done.