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I'm still in a really weird place regarding replying to comments. I'm not ignoring anybody who's commented on previous posts, I'm just finding my anxiety is spiking very high whenever I go to READ said comments, so mostly I haven't actually read them. Yet. I will get over this and read them (and reply to them) at some point, I promise.

In the meantime, have a really interesting article about a previous FIFA president, Sir Stanley Rous, in Stanley Rous Remembered, Re-Assessed. Rous was not financially corrupt, but he sounds like as big a bastard as his successor Joao Havelange and FIFA's current President-for-Life Sepp Blatter, in his own special way. He went to great lengths to support apartheid South Africa, and as for the Chile business... Well, the Chile business is detailed in the article. One thing it doesn't say in the article is that the National Stadium in Santiago was in active use as a concentration camp for Pinochet's enemies until TWO WEEKS before the exhibition game organized by FIFA. It says that in another article that I unfortunately forgot to bookmark and cannot find now.

And have a really interesting article gakked from

sucrelefey about James Rhodes, a concert pianist whose autobiography can only now be published, after legal challenges delayed publication (in fact, they wanted to PREVENT publication altogether) and forced Rhodes not to talk in public about the sexual abuse he suffered as a child. Not a particularly graphic article, but trigger-y all the same. The one thing I'm not clear on is why actor Benedict Cumberbatch is also in the photo of Rhodes at the top of the article. A supporter, possibly?

I feel like I should post something cute or funny to counteract these gloomy links. Alas, I got nuthin'. On the bright side, I have successfully persuaded my shrink that the Lyrica is not working on my anxiety AT ALL, and we are finally reducing it. He was convinced we just hadn't hit the right dosage yet. But I convinced him otherwise. Go me! And Young Miss Weaver is being very affectionate. Little does she realize that her veterinary doom has only been postponed, not vanquished altogether. Mwahahahaha! Mine is an evil laugh.

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Cumberbatch and Rhodes are exceedingly close friends who've known each other since Harrow, and is one of the people Rhodes credits with keeping him from giving up on the legal challenge.

Good for Cumberbatch! I try to know as little as possible about the personal lives of artists whose work I admire, in case they turn out to be assholes and my enjoyment of their work is tainted. But seriously, good for Cumberbatch. From the article, it doesn't sound like Rhodes was much fun to be around as he dealt with the nightmarish legal challenge, so good for his friends and loved ones sticking by him. I realize that's kind of the bare minimum one expects from a close friend, but sometimes people are acutely uncomfortable dealing with sexual and/or childhood abuse issues and drift away in cases like that.

As for the legal case, I'm not a lawyer, nor do I play one on the internet, but that seems FUCKED UP!

I'm sorry you're feeling rough. I'm thinking of you and YMW.

I'm feeling kind of better now. But good thoughts are always appreciated.

I have just had a three day weekend. Was supposed to take that demon cat back to the vet on Friday for take #2 on the biopsy, but she evaded my attempts to capture her, and left me bloody. But I had a day off to staunch my wounds. We've rescheduled for this coming Friday, and I hope like hell I can get her in the carrier this time. I think an entirely different approach will be called for.

Oh, and I saw Mad Max: Fury Road! I spent the first twenty minutes going "I don't think this is my type of movie at ALL," and then I surrendered to its bonkers glory and had a fabulous time. Charlize Theron's Furiosa is right up there with Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor in the pantheon of action movie warrior queens.