My husband has a specific pair of cheap glasses which he ordered off the internet that are very small that he calls his 3D-glasses-glasses. As in, it’s the pair he can easily wear under the big 3D glasses. Helps for dealing with the double glasses scenario.

It’s definitely an action movie. It’s not going to be profound or make you rethink your world views or anything like that, but it’s really good for an action movie, especially if you know anything about the comics or have seen any of the previous movies that built up to this movie. I saw it at Southpoint in 3D IMAX and really enjoyed it. One friend of mine said they say it not in 3D (either at Southpoint or Brier Creek probably based on where they live would be my guess) and thought a few scenes looked odd for it like it was supposed to be in 3D.

The way I saw it was 3D IMAX at Southpoint, and that is something I’d recommend. Also the new/soft IMAX seats there are much more comfortable than the old seats in other theaters which makes it easier to sit through a movie IMO.

Going by wikipedia. Miami population =399,457, Raleigh NC (home of RDU International Airport which you can fly to, not just over) population = 403,892, Charlotte NC (has its own airport too, location of the upcoming Dem 2012 National Convention) population = 731,424. NC is in the top 10 most populous states in the US.

I mean if we want to narrowly define fly-over land, then yeah NC can be a part of it, but then I don’t think Miami stays in the mix either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_over_land

“Flyover country and flyover states are Americanisms describing the region of the United States between the East and the West Coasts. The terms, which are often used in a pejorative sense, refer to the regions of the country passed over during transcontinental flights—e.g., flights between the nation’s two largest cities, New York City and Los Angeles. Flyover country thus refers to the part of the country that many Americans only view by air and never actually see in person at ground level.”

Happy Transgender Empowerment Day! And congrats on the award!!! =)

I get being strategic and maybe proportional with the funds, but if there is ever to be a southern win before scotus gets into it, this is it. And imagine what victory in a southern state in may could do for momentum around the nation.

Random side note, but the ad I just got on PHB said this:

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“Dear Pro-Family American,
The Radical Homosexuals infiltrating the United States Congress have a plan:
Indoctrinate an entire generation of American children with pro-homosexual propaganda and eliminate traditional values from American society.
Their ultimate dream is to create a new America based on sexual promiscuity in which the values you and I cherish are long forgotten.
I hate to admit it, but if they pass the deceptively named “Student Non-Discrimination Act,” (H.R. 998 & S. 555) that’s exactly what they’ll do.
Better named the “Homosexual Classrooms Act,” it’s dangerously close to becoming the law of the land.”
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Maybe better they waste money advertising on your site than elsewhere where they might actually trick a less informed audience to their side, and maybe it’s all up to google ads or whoever is doing the ads, but I just thought I’d share.

They’re a little late to the game aren’t they? All of us NC has been doing workshops across the state since Sept of last year, Race to the Ballot just had their grand finale event today after touring the state, and the Vote Against Project has been touring the state for some time. It’s only 1.5 months until early voting starts. They’ve missed the boat on organizing people power. Now it’s largely a money and ad buy game. Give whatever you can (time, money, volunteering)!!!

Can you imagine the kind of momentum we’d have on our side for all the states around the country with ballot referendums likely happening this November, if a southern state were to turn back one of these amendments in May?

No out come of the vote on May 8th can possibly end up with marriage equality. Even though all their supposed “threats” that could happen if marriage equality are wrong, it should be pointed out that there is no chance of marriage equality resulting from the amendment vote, so at best their wrong points are moot.

Glad to see several NC mayors doing this. All of them were in the 919 area code though. Would have liked to see the marriage equality support spread beyond the triangle. Still, this is good news. Thanks to all the NC mayors that did!

I’m glad things worked out for now. I remember the not recognizing marriages performed elsewhere was an issue Romney tried to dredge up too back in the day.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/25/us/romney-won-t-let-gay-outsiders-wed-in-massachusetts.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

“Romney Won’t Let Gay Outsiders Wed In Massachusetts

By PAM BELLUCK
Published: April 25, 2004

Same-sex couples who live outside Massachusetts will not be able to marry in Massachusetts when gay marriage becomes legal here next month, Gov. Mitt Romney said.

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Gay rights advocates, including Mary Bonauto, the lawyer who in November persuaded Massachusetts’ highest court to legalize gay marriage, said that the 1913 law, which was created in part to prohibit interracial marriage, was archaic and discriminatory.”

I think it is very important to make the people understand that voting against this amendment will NOT make same-sex marriage legal.

I’m not sure the messaging from our side is tapping into that yet very much. Most of what I’ve seen is that “if this passes, it will damage the marriages of LGBT couples and their kids” which is an important and true message, and not the one the polling seems to say will work at all. The polling seems to say making sure people know this ends straight couples domestic partnerships, and gay peoples domestic partnerships, and prevent the possibility of civil unions, and end domestic violence protections for some gay or straight, and end other existing rights.

I would like to see ads that feature gay & straight couples from North Carolina that will lose existing rights if this passes.

“The results do not reflect opinions of the many people who only use cell phones.”

I hear what you’re saying about cell phones which is the only phone for a lot of younger people, but at the same time this will be a low turn out primary election during a GOP presidential primary. Cell phone users will probably be under-represented at the actual polling places too.

I think the message from the PPP is clear though. Among those who are likely to vote for the amendment, they might change their minds if they realize how far reaching this amendment is. I think that means we need to spread the word however we can, through letters to the editor, through conversations with people we know, and through working in organized ways by volunteering or helping with Protect Families NC’s efforts, Equality NC’s efforts, All of Us NC’s efforts, local college LGBT student group efforts, local PFLAG efforts, and any other way we can.

Letters to the editor I think are particularly important for getting the word out to people we might not otherwise reach. I’d be there is a good overlap between people who still read newspapers and who still use land-lines.

I think this blog entry would make a great candidate for re-blogging on Blue NC if you were up for it Pam. Maybe it’d help spread the word and encourage other municipalities to do the same.

Way to go Raleigh! I hope many other municipalities follow suit!

My quibble with this video campaign is that we need to see NC residents featured in this series; it’s clearly about the hurdles of our current federal DOMA that affect all same-sex couples. If you’re trying reach people where they are, you need to have a campaign that people can identify with

I agree. I just watched the video you embedded. I noticed they talked about hypothetically what happens to their relationship’s recognition if they were to travel “down south” for example. At a minimum that adds another level of “otherness” to the couple that wouldn’t be there if featured people who lived in NC, referenced NC locations/culture, sounded like they were from around here. I also know some, not all, people view being referred to with the term “down south” as a pejorative.

The video ends with an ask for federal level recognition which is important, but not the issue before us in NC for the next 5 months. I think they also said we’re married just like many of your friends parents are married, which made it sound like they were targeting a younger audience, if I heard that right.

It’s a very good ad for what it was designed for, but it wasn’t designed for a southern state marriage discrimination amendment fight. I liked atleast that it didn’t hide from featuring real couples. But that couple wont be directly affected if this amendment passes if they live don’t live in NC. The closer we can get to showing couples who will actually be affected (so not commercials focused on straight allies, and not couples who aren’t from NC), the better.