Some news

California now has five queer state legislators, the makings of the first lesbian/gay caucus on the state level, says this chatty and informative SJ Mercury News story.

Unionized dancers at the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco picketed the theater Tuesday to protest wage cuts and working conditions. Their contract's up in January.

There's lots of literary stuff at Alt-X, including this amazing Kathy Acker interview. (The fifth anniversary of Acker's death just passed; she died on Nov. 30, 1997.)

Today's link from BoingBoing, the best place for interesting links: a large gallery of weird LP covers.

Here at home, we're having done what we thought was a minor remodeling job. Of course, there is no such thing as a minor remodeling job. Removing a wall and obsolete stove pipe in the kitchen, workers discovered evidence of an ancient stove fire and managed to get fifty-year-old soot all over the place. Carcinogenic? You bet!