rants and ramblings of utter randomness

Link from pegkerr:




Pink Shirt Day stems from this story of two boys from Cambridge, NS who started the campaign in support of a fellow classmate who was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school. The movement is apparently growing all over the world now, something I didn't know until pegkerr posted the link in her LJ.


So, yeah. Go search your closets or make a trip to the local thrift store and get yourself a pink shirt. You still have a couple of days to do it. IT'S IMPORTANT, GUYS.

Oh, yeah, and the Facebook group is here.

I found this completely by accident. What an introduction to this band. I officially love them even before hearing anything else they've recorded, just because they did this. Everyone go buy their albums. With money. Pay twice.





In case you missed the link at the end, the address is kidshelpphone.ca. There are groups like it in the UK. There's not much in the US, unfortunately. Wake up, America. These are your kids.

And then there's this one:



I've been in love with the song from the second I heard it years ago, and the video is gorgeous. My only criticism is that the men kissing look too much alike, which I think takes away from the point. But the girl with the braces? That was me (only without the braces). I thought she deserved an icon; it's one of my oldest.