Hi all, given what I just posted as a comment to a meme-thing in chanlemur's livejournal, instead of propogating the exact meme I thought I'd invent one sort of and give people an invitation to ramble in my journal. Rant, ramble, declare, question (you can ask me things, that was the point of the original meme, but it's not the point of this one-- you are ( Read more... )

Well, it's... been awhile since I posted, it's the middle of Friday/Saturday night.

Yikes. That became long. I had better cut it. Snipsnip.
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So, yesterday, while I was at my mom's house waiting for her to get back from the store with Nick, watching Nora (well, being in the same house as Nora while Nora slept, sometimes difficult for her to do) and planning the next step in my intricate plot to fill in at work while my car was in the shop, I was looking at some children's books. And one ( Read more... )

"It's difficult for many Americans, especially those who've never traveled abroad, to realize the contempt with which America is often regarded overseas. The more I travel, the more I meet people and I become aware of what is going on in the world, I begin to think, well, wait a minute, we think we're so bloody great and so damned fabulous but we' ( Read more... )

I hate to talk about this, because I know some of you knew and will miss Faro. I talked to some people individually. I just haven't been up to posting about Collins, and now Faro has died. Suddenly. He was mysteriously ill, and then he came home from the clinic, and yesterday he had a normal day and in the afternoon he collapsed and died in his ( Read more... )

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http://www.tinyghosts.com/archive/tinyghosts054.html

I finally sat down and watched _Hellboy_, and one of the main impressions I took away from it was that the "good guys" were all for the red herring of antagonizing those sweet, goofy, drooly Labradors that were romping about scavenging things while Rasputin did actual evil stuff.

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Here is a list of some T-shirts I thought about buying for people while I was at the department store today searching for a reasonably priced polo shirt for work potential ( Read more... )