Postal ID Plan Creates Privacy FearsBy Alorie Gilbert ( Read more... )

I'm back... In Ann Arborrrrrrrr....

My friends in Portland are all wonderful, creative, and *patient* people who I love very much.

* more soon * more soon * more soon *

Vintage anthropomorphic taxidermy up for bid this September!

Potter's Curiousities on the Chopping Auction Block

(Miss Quinsters, please pass this on to abaratus and any other corpse-tinkerers you see fit. Same for the rest of ya. I know I won't be able to afford any of it!)

28 Days Later now has a new ending, tacked on after the credits. It's an *unhappy* ending.

When I saw it a couple weeks ago, when the lights came up, flastron turned to me and said, "You didn't like it, did you?"
"Well..."
"You don't like happy endings!"
"Well..."
"You don't like happy endings like that. You think she should've whacked his head off ( Read more... )

Sweet Christ....
Some birds always sound like they're screaming.

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Ann Arbor had a pretty terrific thunderstorm last night. I love playing in thunderstorms. But last night... totally... failed. Instead of feeling like the rain was washing away everything I didn't want and turning the tarnished bits back to silver, it felt like I was ( Read more... )

Would anyone care to join me at this tonight? It's at 7pm at the downtown Borders, the big one on Liberty.

Stiff: The Curious Life of Human CadaversMary Roach ( Read more... )

Have been out of town and e-mail's been down (sort of - scribble.com is ok) since last Fri. If you want to reach me before Thurs./Fri., post here, CALL, or stop by 4th Ave. (knock loudly on the double doors leading to the basement). What's going on tonight/Sat. night? Is anyone still up for City Club, or is everyone going to the Bang!?

Scribble.com - home of my main e-mail addy - got hacked. Ignore any e-mail you see from me for a little while. I'll post again when everything looks "clean" - should be by tonight.

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UPDATE 11:15: It's clean!

My Grandma has cut the toes off most of her shoes. The chemotherapy makes her feet swell. It's ok, because she doesn't expect she'll need to buy many more pairs.

Deeply inspired by our friends' homebrewing hijinx, Chris and I are making wine. Could you please help us out by saving us your empty wine bottles?

If it goes badly - really badly - we can use them for the bottle house, whenever that happens. But first things first.

Help us! *Drink more wine.*