Cemitas om nom nom

We tried Dorado last night. I got the portabello tacos and Molly got the portabello cemita. The portabellos were perfectly grilled, the avocados and tomatoes nice and fresh, and the sauces totally had crack in them. The chips are also fabulous, and they have Mexican Coca-Cola (in glass bottles with cane sugar instead of corn syrup, so like KFP Coke). The reviews on Yelp say that their meat items aren't as good as the portabellos, but I don't care about meat, so Dorado is awesome. Will eat there again. Possibly right now. Nom.

When are people going to get that racism toward indigenous Americans is racism just like any other racism?

Over on Ohdeedoh, which I usually like (aside from some of the classism and the overgendering of children that usually pops up on shopping/decorating blogs), there's a post about how someone threw their kids a "teepee party," complete with a cake decorated with plastic models of poorly stereotyped Native Americans. The post on Ohdeedoh states that this was a great party idea because "kids love playing in teepees." Sure, most kids do love homemade forts of all kinds, and I think that a plain teepee without any racist imagery on it is a fine toy for children. I'm just not sure how this leads to the conclusion that children therefore also need racist depictions of teepee-dwelling people in order to get the most out of the playing in a cone of fabric.

How the hell did someone think that's an appropriate thing to do, and how did a fairly savvy website think this was OK to post? I'm guessing Ohdeedoh wouldn't post about a party where people dressed up in blackface and decorated the yard with images of negative stereotypes of Black Americans, so why are Natives an acceptable target of objectification?

But wait, there's more!

Darthmouth!

I just had a brilliant idea

NPR is talking about how fragrances are the best way to monetize (yes,
monetize) a celebrity.

I so totally would buy a Delores Handy fragrance.

Speaking of whom: "add-visories," "proww-grams."

Delores Handy word of the day

"juont"

Delores Handy redeemed herself

"enjuries" (but said in close proximity to "insurance") and "pinpuont"

Noooooooooo!

Delores Handy just sounded totally nondescript and average just now.
This had better not become a trend. Come on, Delores, say something
awesome!

Delores Handy word of several days ago

A reader, Diana, sends in this word of the day from last Thursday:

"moos-lims"

WTF

Why is there a white guy with a rickshaw going down Huntington Ave?

(It's reasons like this that the iPhone with flashbulb needs to hurry
up and get invented.)

Delores Handy word of the day

Delores Handy did not say anything awesome today. Sorry.

This whole situation is horrible, but it proves the transphobes wrong, doesn't it?

Every time bills come up about passing laws requiring that gender identity is respected, the transphobes spend huge sums of money trying to convince people that trans-sensitive legislation will allow men to go into women's restrooms and rape the women. These people obviously aren't particularly logical, because there's never been anything stopping anyone from entering any restroom. The signs with the skirt-wearing gal and the pants-wearing guy don't actually prevent anyone from entering the restrooms, and people who are in the process of committing a felony assault aren't usually dissuaded by stopping to consider whether the particular jurisdiction will also charge them with a misdemeanor of ignoring a restroom gender sign (or whatever the applicable law would actually be).

Apparently someone who identifies as male allegedly went into a women's restroom and allegedly raped a woman in there. The story doesn't say, but it would seem that the woman symbol on the door didn't stop him from entering, nor did he assume any sort of female gender temporarily or long-term. He just walked right in! He didn't need the help of any newfangled laws or anything. Astonishing.

Delores Handy word of the day

"point"

Laws in Cambridge don't apply on private property

Today I went to Cambridge Honda and noticed that, as usual, the
mechanics were putting finished cars "right out front" for customers.
In the two marked accessible parking spots. I asked the service desk
person if they could maybe not do that, taking the angle that you
never know when someone will need the spots, and I wouldn't want them
to get in trouble. Service person told me she's been asking them for
years not to put the cars there. Right.

I called the Cambridge Police non-emergency number and asked if they
could maybe spot by or send a letter or something. They said they
couldn't do anything since it's private property. I told them that I
thought state laws still applied and localities certainly ticket
people on private property. He said they wouldn't do anything unless
it was on public property. I asked if, for future reference, they were
able to enforce it if someone with a placard called and needed the
spot. He told me again that it was private property.

Hey everyone in Cambridge! Feel free to break laws as long as you're
on your own property!

(On a more serious note, maybe it would help if people took note of
this practice and wrote the dealer letters saying they've driven by
and noticed it or whatnot and wished they'd reserve the spots for
people with placards.)

Yyyyeah, I'm going to go ahead and have you come in on Saturday

Usually when people say they're going to go ahead and do something,
it's a bad sign.

My bank called and wanted to go ahead and set up automatic payments
presumably since I routinely pay my mortgage a few days late. Uh, then
stop having a 13-day fee-free grace period and I'll pay it on time.
How about you go ahead and do that?

Delores Handy word of the day

"ennosince"