So the TV just said someone "bought half of an airplane." They co-own the airplane with one other person, but that's how they put it.

You know how you can buy half a cow, and they send it as a bunch of little packets wrapped in butcher paper, labeled? "rump roast", "ribs," etc. And you stick them all in a chest freezer and eat them for a year.

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So my mother Linda and I found a fantastic documentary on Paramount+. The Smithsonian did a few short docs on Princess Diana, and one of them was specifically about the funeral, called Diana: The Day We Said Goodbye. They talked to the florist, the military men who did the procession and were pallbearers, a choir boy, etc. Mom loves Diana and I ( Read more... )

The other night I put my computer aside and went to the bathroom. Upon my return to my chair, I retrieved my computer and resumed my activities when I noticed something moving slowly on my touchpad. It was the biggest bug I had ever seen. Approximately four inches long and an inch wide, it was pure black and looked very menacing. Bugs don't ( Read more... )

• red for states where you've not spent much time or seen very much.
• amber for states where you've at least slept and seen some sights.
• blue for states you've spent a lot of time in or seen a fair amount of.
• green for states you've spent a great deal of time in on multiple visits.

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Jackson Pollock said, "Art is coming face to face with yourself." I say Jackson Pollock must have had a really splotchy face.

Lately most of my thoughts have been bite-sized and therefore I tend to post them as Facebook status updates, since a lot more of my friends/family read that than they do my LiveJournal. Most of them are just funny things Dad says, either while awake or sleeping. Don't know when I'll post here again but perhaps I'll get inspired at some point.

When I was little, I had a fundamental misunderstanding of "viewer discretion is advised." I knew what discretion was - it's the thing my parents had taught me that meant I should not tell a pregnant woman whom I've never met the things I know about how the sperm meets the egg, etc. It meant you don't talk about things sometimes to some people ( Read more... )