I have been browsing around some of the journals I haven't read in awhile an came across dandelionlady's post about Kleenex Klearcuts.

This is one of my biggest hot buttons in this life - everything is disposable. Cameras, cell phones, batteries, plates, cups, mugs, silverware, diapers, cleaning "wands," - EVERYTHING. It infuriates me ( Read more... )

Every now and again, a word lodges itself into the forefront of my brain and refuses quite adamantly to vacate the premises. It's an insidious process - I remember or write or hear a word that strikes my fancy and make a note to incorporate (or reincorporate) it into my more frequent vocabulary.

I mean well, really I do.

The trouble is that once I ( Read more... )

We can customize the titles of our friends page, our comments pages and so forth over here on LiveJournal. This can lead to much weirdness and confusion because I could call my various pages:

Tennis Ball
Beets
Snails
Toenails
Caboose
Bobcat

Which one is my friends page? Which one is my userinfo page?

Gotta click on 'em all, what fun!

There is ( Read more... )

For well over a year, I have read the unparalleled blog, The Outer Life. The man who writes The Outer Life is one of the most brilliant observers of the human condition I've read - and given the volume of blogs I read, that is saying something. OLG (Outer Life Guy, as he's often called) is one of those writers who can casually make the most ( Read more... )

Having attended a prestigious university, I studied many things - art, science, languages, history - and I inadvertently received an education that was both broad and deep. Though I did my best to avoid it, I must have absorbed knowledge through osmosis of some sort ( Read more... )

It is gratifying to know that even the most prolific and inspiring of weblog authors were once mere mortals, simple folk exploring a new medium. They were giddy with the excitement of publishing something for the entire world to drink in, their words got away from them, their fingers flew ahead of their better judgment and they published...normal ( Read more... )

We're going to breed ourselves to death. We'll be an enormous ball of flesh expanding at the speed of light because everyone thinks they're outstanding parents and that their children will save the world. Their children will solve the problems of cancer, AIDS and world hunger ( Read more... )

"I abhor weblogs."

Isn't that the obligatory introductory line that everyone is supposed to say? To prove that we're not like the rest of the sheep online?

"Oh, the irony - I hate blogs, and yet here I am! I will be different. My blog will be fascinating, because I am different. Hear me roar ( Read more... )