So, today, IP and I built a neighborhood.

Well, technically, we helped build one ( Read more... )

Originally posted February 11, 2009 by apiphile.

HEY GUYS IT'S NEARLY TIME TO EXPRESS YOUR AFFECTION FOR SOMEONE ON THE MANDATED DAY THROUGH THE CAREFULLY COMMERCIAL BARRIER OF TACKY PRESENTS AND IMPERSONAL CARDS!

About three years ago I wrote this:
[...] a pretty big step towards acquiring my [heart] is wanting to. Be interested. Want to be near me. If ( Read more... )

Original post by pecunium, here.

I want to expand a bit on something I said in my last post. “This is not the country I signed up to defend. It’s not the country I, with reservations, went to war to serve.” Ignoring that there are no idealists in foxholes (atheists can be found), I did enlist (in part) from a desire to serve.

Not to “defend liberty”. No ( Read more... )

Originally posted by steelbrassnwood. The original post is friends-locked; comments are enabled here by request of the author.Buddy died last week. I'd known Buddy my whole life. He lived down the block from us in a small green house with dark blue trim and multiple cars in the driveway. He was a repairman, a gruff guy with a big birthmark on his face who loved ( Read more... )

Originally posted by rejeneration, here.Ryan is nine when she is seven ( Read more... )

Original post by filthspigot, @ 2008-11-12 15:33:00

Re: Goldendoodles.

(LJ Cut, to end of entry: "Perhaps you should reconsider purchasing a Goldendoodle for your daughters")
To President-Elect Obama

Thank you for the time, effort, and dedication you have shown thus far in your campaign and early presidency.  I am enthusiastic about your upcoming term in ( Read more... )

Original post by ursulav @ 2008-11-14 10:28:00

So last night, Kevin and I went to a reception/dinner for the Iraqi sculptor and journalist, Ahmed Fadaam.

For those of you who don't follow NPR obsessively, he was an artist, a native of Baghdad, who saw his studio and life's work destroyed in the looting following the overthrow of Saddam, and began working ( Read more... )

Originally posted by intrepia, here.I am tired of a society that believes that sanctity depends on exclusion. I am tired of the discrimination, the intolerance, the disdain ( Read more... )

Originally posted by city_of_dis, here.There’s nothing like being ahead of the curve to give one a lifetime of sighing, head-shaking and waiting for everyone else to catch up. If you know me well, you probably already know what I’m on about, as I do a slightly varied version of this rant every year or so: I’m talking about the puerile, backhanded little bitch ( Read more... )

Originally posted by brightflashes as part of the LJ Idol competition, here.In the far reaches of the southern part of the Amazon rain forest in a place where human feet have not tread there is a clearing with a lone tree in the center ( Read more... )