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More quotes
Of recent memory.
Actually Funny:
"Look at the ushers. See how they ush."
Tranny Boy (with whom I am still friends), at the Arclight Theater where there are indeed ushers.
"The cat expands to fill all available space. He's like a gas."
Tranny Boy again, watching my cat Gromit be a blob on my ottoman.
Increasingly Obnoxious:
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Things my parents actually said over the weekend...
...and which I love.
"If you lived with me, you wouldn't live with me."
My angry dad, to my sister's really obnoxious dog after it just ate my hamburger off my plate when my back was turned.
"It's the funny things that make you laugh."
My mom...just cuz. -
I think of too many Twitters...
...so I'm going to post them here, as I think of them. And I'm going to go over the character limit if I want because I can. Nyah.- Anne wonders if she's the only one who doesn't watch presidential or campaign speeches or debates, because she figures the whole thing is merely a cynical exercise in strategy and spin, and that their words have ( Read more... )
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The American Family Association needs you... to gleefully foil its plans!
It seems the American Family Association (AFA) has up an online form to send Hallmark hate mail for making same sex marriage greeting cards. What a shame it would be if people used it to send Hallmark support mail instead ( Read more... ) -
Crashing on caffeinated rocks
On Wikipedia today, researching info on sirens (as in singing maidens, not, like, on police cars).
To wit: a quote from one part of the page:"The term 'siren song' refers to an appeal that is hard to resist but that, if heeded, will lead to a bad result."
Then, from a lower part of the page:"The image remains popular and iconic in a woodcut ( Read more... ) -
Seriously...
A little random, but it made an impression...
A user named loftio made some Dark Night icons, specifically of the Joker. As the movie itself rarely quits moving -- and the Joker quits moving even less -- you don't often get a lingering look at him. Not enough time to contemplate what he is and what he's doing ( Read more... ) -
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If I read one more goddamn web-disseminated, non-ironic exhortation to "live life to the fullest" from some office-working, suburb-dwelling, Appleby's-visiting, pomegranate-martini-guzzling numbnuts -- or perhaps from some guitar-clutching, wispy-skirt-wearing, dream-catcher-displaying, biologically-sustainable-dog-poop-bag-buying, still-day-job- ( Read more... ) -
My latest Twitter
I put: "[Anne] hasn't got a hands-free device for her cell, so while driving she just sets a small fire in the passenger's seat and sends smoke signals. Safety first!"
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Inquiry about self-publishing
I had an idle thought the other night, while out walking the foster-dog-who's-getting-closer-and-closer-to-not-being-foster-at-least-in-my-mind-anyway.
If you want to self-publish a book, what does that cost and what do you get from it? What's a good service to turn to if one wants to do that? I might want to put together a bit of navel-gazing.
