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So I wasted valuable resources at the Evil Empire to stream CNN.com's coverage of the Michael Jackson sendoff, and yeah, I cried at certain points. I also had to snicker a wee bit, like when Brooke Shields shouted out to Prince, Paris and...Blanket. And when Usher was serenading the box. I have thoughts about the whole shebang, but for now, I'm ( Read more... )

From Neil Gaiman:

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness ( Read more... )

The Netflix instant viewer player thing is quite handy, I have discovered. I'm on a wireless network and it streamed very nicely without ever cutting out, and I just tried the Crunch Candlelight Yoga show. I was surprised at how well I managed, considering I have shunned the gym for a while now thanks to trying to get my head in order. The host ( Read more... )

And absurd, which is what this Digital Short was:

Back from Vegas. Lost my ass, of course. Ironic that on the day of my birth, I couldn't lose harder at anything I tried. I mean, I'd win here and there each day, but certainly not enough to make up for the twenties I was slapping into various slot machines. The MGM Grand's a nice place to stay. My room was very comfortable, I had something of ( Read more... )

As you know, I live with my two elderly parents - my mother is 71 and my dad is 77. Mom is in generally good health, still works, and enjoys a cocktail or 90. Dad has mobility issues thanks to peripheral neuropathy, COPD, and spits out non-sequiturs at wildly inopportune times. I've had to witness some fairly icky things as a result of living ( Read more... )

...I broke my fucking glasses this morning. Snapped right in the bit that goes across my nose. Thank Christ I found a spare pair I didn't think I still owned a couple of weeks ago, even though they make me look about 900 years old (instead of my usual 300-400 years old). I wouldn't give that much of a damn if I had the cash to trot over to ( Read more... )

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I saw a wee bit of the Neighborhood Ball where President Obama (hee hee hee yay) and the First Lady did their first dance to Beyonce covering "At Last" (she did a very nice job), and was amused by many things in a short span of time, whether it was the President doing a hip bump with someone dancing on stage around him during "Signed, Sealed, ( Read more... )