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seven years of wedlock
How can this be?
I remember so much of it with this weird clarity that makes it all feel totally recent.
Didn't we just meet like last month?
Wasn't it last week that Midge tried to overdose on prescription painkillers?
Didn't Plan Biology begin yesterday afternoon?
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suck my facebook
This is that "random 25 things" meme and I'm reposting it from the other place.
This is supposed to be about me, but I guess it came out to be more about other people.
( 1. The Colonel and I grew up together. We were world-weary even as teenagers, and we spent many nights reminiscing about the good old days, back when Spinal Tap was real and Iceland was fictional. ) -
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Giftwise, my birthday party was ne plus sweet. I got a flask full of Irish moonshine and a Braille issue of Playboy, which will be a comfort to me when I drink myself blind. Also received some D&D figs -- the rare Voracious Ice Devil has already slotted himself into an upcoming encounter -- and a cute little box of wine, and a Poopa Troopa, who I ( Read more... ) -
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I moved to Seattle in 1999, just a few months before the WTO meetings.
Since then, the sound of choppers overhead has always made me think of the night when the cops rampaged up into my neighborhood, firing off pepper spray in Exxon Valdez quantities ( Read more... ) -
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I'll be down at APE, the Alternative Press Expo, this weekend, hawking Comfort Guides and Greeters. I'll have a couple brand-new non-Greeter non-CG things as well.
I'll share those here shortly, but right now I want to mention that I've donated all 2008 proceeds for the Matrimony Comfort Guide to the No On 8 campaign, and I encourage all you ( Read more... ) -
kids = all right
Apocalyptica was completely awesomelyptica, exceeding my already sky-high expectations. Their covers were fierce, their originals seductive, their stage antics charming, and they gave us four encores.
And remember back when I asked what could be more metal than Priest's double album about Nostradamus? At the time, I thought it was a rhetorical ( Read more... ) -
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Inspired by the Confurvatives, the Conservative Furries...
"We shared the dream again last night. As always, she comes at me like a Stuka, but this time, while the pack scatters, I am steady, my feet rooted in the muskeg. Her bullet, which like her is gentle and irresistible and absolutely real, takes me in the breast.
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next session, puppies
(I apologize, but this will make no sense to people who aren't huge dorks like me ( Read more... )