Because our legislature apparently thinks Nebraska is a utopia free of social maladies, senator Carroll Burling has drafted a bill that would change our state song to something that 'fits better today.' The current song, "Beautiful Nebraska" was written by Russian immigrant Jim Fras back in 1960. The proposed anthem is "I Love Nebraska", written ( Read more... )

Studied Jimi Hendrix in my History of Rock class today. We watched a clip of him from the Monterey Pop Festival and it was rife with auto-eroticism. Guess Hendrix followed The Who's act. Naturally they had trashed the stage- how do you one-up a stunt like that? Why, by making sweet sweet love to your guitar. Dude seriously laid it out on the stage ( Read more... )

Remember when you were four years old, and the only thing you had to worry about was getting your arms in the right holes of your jacket? Wasn't that a sweet, tender time? Dear God, how I wish I could go back, if only in my dreams ( Read more... )

Oooh- Lincoln is an arctic wasteland today. No school for the little monsters, which means that my mother and I had to take care of two of my nieces. Lauren doesn't like snow. What kind of seven-year old is that ( Read more... )

I knew the warning label said to avoid direct sunlight, I just chose to ignore it. My medicine has made me ultrasensitive to our closest star, and now I have a sunburn that looks like a port wine stain. Not unlike Mikhail Gorbachev's. Feh. Now I'll just stay inside and get rickets ( Read more... )

Haven't been to the computer at all in a few days. Pity. Oh well ( Read more... )

Oh, Mr. Rickman, but you are a gorgeous man. Purrrr ( Read more... )

I watched Scientific American Frontiers last night. Alan Alda is our ubiquitous renaissance man- he's everywhere you wanna be, baby ( Read more... )

Wow, first entry.  I've tried (unsucessfully) to be a good blogger before, but it hasn't worked.  Let's see if I can keep on updatin' with this one.

I actually got in to see Prisoner of Azkaban on Friday afternoon.  The majority of the audience consisted of 16 year olds, fresh out of their last day of school, one of whom, sitting behind me, ( Read more... )