Happy 4th, everyone! Time for the traditional posting of an amusing Independence Day-themed YouTube clip (literally this time):

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Everyone have a safe and happy holiday!

Mom's consultation appointment in Seattle is set and scheduled for July 8th, and they should set the date for her surgical biopsy then.  She says I can come up and visit for the surgery, which boo surgery but yay traveling (and seeing Mom for the first time since...since I don't even remember, it's been that long)!

In other news, I sent out a mass ( Read more... )

How Many Ways Are There?
On this date in 1736, Benjamin Franklin printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette two hundred now-forgotten vernacular euphemisms for "drunk."  These included: pigeon-ey'd, moon-ey'd, drunk as a wheelbarrow, half-way to Concord, crump-footed, double-tongu'd, dizzy as a goose, jambled, going to Jerusalem, contending with Pharaoh, ( Read more... )

Movie star Alec Baldwin has set the date he'll retire from acting - March 2012.

The Cooler star insists he'll consider himself a former actor when his current contract on TV show 30 Rock expires in three years.

He tells the new issue of Playboy magazine, "In March 2012, I'll wake up and say, 'What am I going to do now? Am I done?' I think I will be ( Read more... )

I just wanted to point out my current music as that may be the awesomest song title I have run across in quite a long while.  It's not much of a song, but....

In serious-time news, now Mom's doctor is backpedaling like whoa and saying that they're not sure about their initial diagnosis and it might not be cancer after all (they want to do a surgical ( Read more... )

Finally found out about Mom yesterday.

It's not the good kind of news.

We'll know more on Thursday when she goes in to the doctor to discuss her options.  Right now we're not sure if it's localized cancer or if it's the kind that can spread, so she could either end up having a lumpectomy or chemo (or something else I guess, but Mom's intrepid ( Read more... )

Mom has extended my "find a cheaper place in order to stay in LA" deadline until August 1st, but that may be moot because there may be bad news coming 'round the pike that I'll want to move to Washington state to be by her side through. Hopefully not, but ( Read more... )

...which reminded me that this is one of my favorite things in the history of ever.

Finally get to bust out the PA icon again because am working on a commercial for at least two days! That's money in the bank, baby ( Read more... )

[Let's see if the internet even lasts long enough for me to post this ( Read more... )