(I am not in any danger from the hurricane -- I am many hours inland from it, but in the same state.)

I am watching TXCN, which has given their channel over to station KHOU from Houston and has continuous live coverage of the hurricane. The latest report is that Brennan's Restaurant is on fire and will be a total loss. There are two fire trucks ( Read more... )

thefridayfive:
1. If you were to die today, what would your last words be?
Good bye. Remember I love you all even if I’m not physically here with you. And please vote for Obama.

2. What would you want your epitaph to say?
Liz:
born - 1960; moved on to the next great adventure - 2008.

3. What song would you want played at your funeral?I would rather my friends ( Read more... )

*Hugs* to everyone on the Gulf coast. Stay safe! I am keeping you in my thoughts.

Okay, so, let’s talk about something happy and fun!

SIMS!

( Cut for tl;dr description of my semi-success and semi-fail at Simming )

( I sent the following email to NPR and my local NPR affiliate, KERA, this morning )

The cover article of this week's Parade magazine was written by my sister and has an excerpt of her book!!!!

You can read it online if you don't get the newspaper, but I don't think the online version has the excerpt.

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Okay, so far we have had:

-Photoshopped pics of Palin;

- Sockpuppeting to revise Wikipedia pages;

- A flounce; and

- Accusations of persecution by the Mean GirlsMedia.

Since then:

No concrit!!! Only fluffy comments, please!!!

BNF Oprah Winfrey says, You can’t be on my show, n00b!!I’m not sure what to call that 9-11 "Tribute" the Repug Thugs ( Read more... )

I don’t know what happened to NPR, but they’ve gone all Mr. Hyde on me. This morning I had to turn my clock radio off because they kept repeating the most offensive parts of the Palin speech on a continuous loop. Or maybe NPR hasn’t gone as Mr. Hyde as I thought and they’re subversively repeating the worst of it in order to get the sane people ( Read more... )

My icon was created by the lovely, talented and very funny crossbow1.

Does cancelling an interview and refusing to appear on a cable channel because they were Big Meanies count as a flounce? I think it counts as a minor flounce, but not a ~Grand Flounce~.

So far we have had sockpuppeting on Wikipedia , and now this flounce (and a near-miss with Snacky’s ( Read more... )

This morning was not a good start to the work week ( Read more... )