Now that you mention it, it does feel like we’ve been trapped in a tin can underwater the past couple of months. However, given our choice of reference, we’re not sure we want to know how it ends.

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But we’ll grant that Cindy is scary. She reminds of the woman in The Thin Blue Line who makes up a shooting she didn’t see just to get the attention. Anyway, since y’all are buzzing about SNL’s QVC opener with Psychogeezer, here it is.

Ped and I went looking for protestors at Qualcomm yesterday, but we couldn’t find any. Instead, everyone was getting ready for a hastily organized rally in Hillcrest (San Diego’s Castro, sort of) that brought out what the photographer estimates as 7,000 to 10,000 people.

That would match my very rough estimate of 8,000 at the stadium, although the same photographer puts the HateFest at 15,000. HateFest organizers call it 33,000. The stadium seats 71,500. No way in hell was it even a quarter full.

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If you thought Tuesday was our chance to put Bush and Cheney in the rear-view mirror, think again. We still have to deal with them at family reunions.

Nojo & Pedonator photoblogging live from the Yes on 8 Prayer Spectacular at Qualcomm Stadium. All times Pacific.

San Diego HateFest 08 [Flickr]

May God have mercy on Nojo and Pedonator, because we’ll be photoblogging from the belly of the beast starting at 6 p.m. Eastern. The event itself begins at Qualcomm Stadium in the morning, but no way in hell are we getting up early for it.

The Call

Pre-election prayer day set [SD Union-Tribune]

Thousands to Pray, Fast Together for California Marriage Protection [Christian Post]

Center Stage [Gay & Lesbian Times]

No on 8

What you will need:

• rose petals
• one red candle
• black passion incense
• an athame (ceremonial dagger)

How it works:

Make a circle with the rose petals. Use the athame to draw energy. Once this is done, you recite:

“The circle is cast and we are now between worlds, beyond the bounds of time, where night and day, birth and death, joy and sorrow meet as one. It is in this place we invoke the tantric powers of Hecate. And now we are as one. So mote it be!”

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