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My name is nearly impossible for anyone to get right on the first try, and usually it takes people about 5 tries to get it right. Because of this I use the name "Sue" when I order take-out food. Anyone can understand and say "Sue" no matter where they're from, right? Well tonight my take-out phone experience proved this wrong ( Read more... )

I've heard it said that whatever you are doing the moment the new year begins, you will find yourself doing all year long.

Oh sweet gods I hope it's true.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/10/america/NA-GEN-Canada-Murder-Trial.php

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8NV00luZurw

machinima is 3-d computer video content and logic/behavior, like weapons or vehicles, for certain types of videogames. no, i don't think the definition is interesting, i just like the word. don't you?

ma-sheeeee-neeeeee-maaaaaahhhh

no i have not been shrooming this afternoon. i'm just bored to tears and trapped inside.

Let's think of all of the different places I would rather be than where I am now (which is sitting in a client-site office doing tedious monitoring ( Read more... )

 are you old enough to remember hee haw? or wait, don't tell me, it's probably on nick at nite or somesuch these days. well anyway, you get the grand prize if you can sing the melody to this song:

gloom, despair, and agony on me
deep, dark depression, excessive misery
if it weren't for bad luck i'd have no luck at all
gloom, despair, and agony on me

um ( Read more... )

 
At the bus stop I was standing away from the other waiting people,
near the newspaper boxes, reading the Seattle Stranger. A 17ish boy
with a buzz cut, 6-sizes-too-large clothes, and light-up sneakers
approached me nervously and asked me how my day was going so far. 
We exchanged niceties and then he told me what was on his mind:

Boy: I wrote a poem ( Read more... )

I'm in a coffee shop drinking some sort of chamomile thing. There's a ( Read more... )

See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!

See, they return, one, and by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind,
and half turn back;
These were the "Wing'd-with-Awe,"
Inviolable.

Gods of the wingèd ( Read more... )