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#*&^%% phones
So cupcake dropped my phone's stylus in Rackham auditorium last week at a chamber music concert, and we couldn't find it. And then the crabby usher told us we shouldn't have been using the phone anyway. I was sure I had purchased extras from Sprint when I bought my car adapter, so no worries.
Turns out I hadn't purchased extras--I had purchased ( Read more... ) -
Praise Song for the Tedium
Praise song for the tedium.
Before we were cheering, standing in crowds, waving our flags, talking to the media or not, about to smile or smiling. All about us was jubilation. All about us was happiness and celebration, triumph and glory, each one of our children rapt with attention. Someone was waving a flag, someone was saluting, clapping, ( Read more... ) -
Prop 8: The Musical
If you haven't seen this, you need to.
Warning: some suggestive language/motions.
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Wish List
It's the holiday season and my sister wants to know what books I want, so I'm posting my shelfari wish list here, since she can't see it without being a shelfari member, and on Amazon I only have a professional wish list. Since she's not on lj, I have to do a public post. So this is for her, and other family. The rest of y'all can ignore it.
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A Fight Breaks Out at the Used Book Sale
So our church used book sale, which I'm largely coordinating, started today. I've had complaints from members about 1) the fact that I chose to do the sale in the social hall rather than the religious education (RE) building because it interferes with coffee hour (my reasons: it's larger, it interferes less with RE, and members can shop while ( Read more... ) -
Yes, but I prefer the Library of Congress system
Couldn't resist this when I saw it on cjmr 's lj.
cynodd's Dewey Decimal Section:
898 South American native literatures
cynodd = 354544 = 354+544 = 898
Class:
800 Literature
Contains:
Literature, criticism, analysis of classic writing and mythology.
What it says about you:
You're a global, worldly person who wants to make a big impact with your actions. ( Read more... ) -
Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator
According to the Sarah Palin Baby Name Generator, if I was born to Sarah Palin, my name would've been:
Rake Trinket Palin
If this were my name, I'd have to go by my middle name because "Rake" definitely sounds like a male name, with the multiple connotations of the word.
This is kind of funny to me as in a high school theater class I was a clown ( Read more... ) -
If you're not sick of Sarah Palin yet
Or if you are, but, like me, just can't stop yourself from reading more...
Here are three good articles.
1. This Is Your Nation on White Privilege by Tim Wise
2. Can You Say "Sexist"? by Anna Quindlen
3. Sarah Palin's Myth of America by Joe Klein
I'm putting these here because I keep wanting to refer back to these three in particular, and I keep ( Read more... ) -
Top Design
I'm glad that "Shear Genius" is off now and "Top Design" is back on before/after "Project Runway." I always seem to miss the first viewing of project runway, go to my TV expecting to see the rerun, and arrive just in time for the secondary show, whatever it is. "Shear Genius" is the suckiest of all of them, hands down. "Top Design" is much better, ( Read more... ) -
Ups and Downs
Had a really wonderful time watching the DNC tonight at our beautiful old downtown theater. I won 5 tickets to go see Barack Obama later this weekend.
Came home and found my beloved cat dead, suddenly. We had no prior warning that he wasn't doing well. Came in to find cat poop near the front door, which Cupcake discovered. She was talking ( Read more... )