I have a grey cat named Penny. I now have a virtual cat named Penny. I have a dog named Minty. I now have a virtual dog named Minty. both of these animals are in the next room, but I am playing with and petting their virtual doppelgangers. There's a lesson here somewhere about how more and more actual experiences are mediated and understood ( Read more... )

Family dysfunction is like hereditary eye disease; you carry it with you for years and only slowly start to notice how much it's disabled you. I was able to have surgery for my eye...now I need a memory transplant.

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Noted musician and ford truck advocate Toby Keith is opening a country theme resteraunt slash music venue in OKC tomorrow, and then one on Vegas next week. I used to feel bad that ol' toby was from OKC, but then I learned that he's actually from Moore, which kind of makes sense. Anyway, the resteraunt is going to be called, I shit you not, Toby ( Read more... )

Mysterious charges keep appearing from the hotel. What makes it even stranger is that the people at the front desk apparently know nothing about it; we had them print off an itemized list of everything they've charged me for, and it comes to a grand total of 60 bucks in deposit and room service, not the 120 dollars plus in charges that have shown ( Read more... )

So thanks to some strange and as yet unexplained charges on my debit card by the hotel, as well as some poor purchasing decisions previously (read: adventureland) we're now very close to being out of money-I think we have about 5 bucks in change-, and of course the banks are all closed today.

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there isn't much of anything in des moines. We went to ADVENTURELAND, which answers the question "is there a crappier regional theme park in the midwest than Frontier City?" with a resounding YES, GOD YES. It's kind of endearing, really. The roller coasters were ok, but they didn't seem to have been well maintained in the 40 years since they were ( Read more... )

Huzzah! Forsooth, one score and 8 years ago, Lisa Wright was birth-ed in the city of saint diego, caly-for-ny-a. Since then she has fought Gamera, cured lupis, and built the largest dog robot to be able to successfully identify and communicate with other giant dog robots. She has been busy.

Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

We're in Des Moines.

So I'm in Kansas City right now. So far we're having a pretty good time, but that's not what I want to write about ( Read more... )

(First of all, if any of you OKC people can help seanp round up a PA before July 28, it would be great. He's coming through OKC on his way to the Happy Happy Birthday To Me Popfest in Athens GA and will be playing a show here, but The Electric Chair doesn't have a PA for some reason. I was playing some of his music earlier and Lisa remarked that it was ( Read more... )