The Writing Desk of Jakebe Rabbit

For toob's birthday dinner, we went to Maggiano's, which is apparently an Italian family-style dining restaurant. One or two appetizers are ordered and brought out in quantities big enough for the whole table, then the salads, and then the pastas, and then the entrees...so forth and so on, right down to dessert. It was some of the best Italian food I have ever had in life; the stuffed mushrooms were make-you-weep-for-their-beauty good, and that was some of the tastiest chicken saltimbocca ever. Usually most places I've ordered from think that dousing the chicken in a whole vat of liquid salt for 24 hours is the way to make it, but these guys had the perfect blending of ham, chicken, sauce and cheese. Add creme brulee and tiramisu, and you've got yourself a great dinner. :)

Afterwards, we went to see the new Coen bros. movie, No Country for Old Men. I could totally see how this movie would really piss off a lot of people, but I really liked it. I think being told something about the structure of the movie helped me reset my expectations for it, so I wasn't quite as jarred and peeved when it went down the way it did. That's all I'll say for now, really.

We got to see Futurama: Bender's Big Score today too! Wonderful movie. Any fan of the show should love this one. It was an awesome day all around, really. Tomorrow promises to be cool as well: I shall use my Borders coupon to buy the Twin Peaks Gold Collection DVD box set. All shall be right with the world.

Tomorrow starts another week of work, which I don't mind. :) I'm getting more comfortable with the position all the time, and having people (hopefully) well from various illnesses should certainly make things easier. Of course, it'll help if I'm well-rested for it, so I'd better get my happy ass to bed. Good night.

P.S. - Kwitcherbitching about LJ already. We GET it. Censorship bad.

All right, I know that incorporating the ability for someone else to flag your personal journal as inappropriate for minors is one step closer to Orwellian thought-crime, and yes, it is pretty obnoxious. But out of all of these scads of posts of people decrying the move, I have yet to hear one person come up with a good alternative. 6Apart is caving to pressure from religious groups or lazy parents or whatever, yes, but still...think about it from their perspective. They're just trying not to get sued somewhere down the line, and given how vocal the community is about every change that's being made here (a lot of the complaints are legit, too), I think they're going to be pretty sensitive about making any changes as non-intrusive as possible. They *know* better.

Personally, I would like to believe that we can censor ourselves, and that parents can be responsible in where their children go and what they're exposed to. But unfortunately, not everyone shares that view, so what can be done? Is there a system that makes it easy for 'adult' material to be blocked from minor's eyes that doesn't involve making each and every journal post vulnerable to busybodies and hyper-sensitive people? Let's hear it! If you were running the company, how would *you* handle this situation?

OK, now I'm really going to go to bed.