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Wow... that was satisfying.
I feel less then completely alienated. What a strange sensation. -
I was having a think this morning...
...and I remembered how, at least in the early nineties (okay, maybe late eighties), it was said that you were making an appropriate income if you were earning your age. In thousands, that is... I realize that inflation might have adjusted this a bit, but I was thinking about the fact that I only managed that once in my life, and it didn't last ( Read more... ) -
Laughingrat has informed us that Eartha Kitt has gone.
I saw her perform in SF about 15 years ago when she was in her mid-sixties, and she was amazing. My mother saw her perform about 30 or 35 years ago when she (my mother) ducked into a bar to get out of the rain in P-town. It turned out to be a gay bar (in P-town, of all places!), and Earth Kitt happened to be performing. She said it was the best ( Read more... ) -
Hey, tiny anthroflist...
Is anybody assigning anything new or especially cool that you can recommend me this semester? Anything undergraduate friendly in general, or on war or violence in particular? -
With so much end of the semester stuff to do...
I've been engaged in introspection. I've decided that part of the problem is that I don't fully identify as human. I think, to a large degreee, I'm a large, kind of stupid dog most of the time. Either that or a squirrel. I'm not sure which. -
Ugh... nightmare..
I usually don't get those nightmares about the apocalypse... you know, the ones where the world is ending, and everybody is just waiting for the mass die off? Actually, I haven't remembered a dream in ages, but last night I had one of those apocalypse dreams, until it morphed into an almost worse dream in which Christian Nazis were using the ( Read more... ) -
In which I am please to discover a stillwell related coincidence.
Hey, stillwell! Guess what? My bankruptcy hearing will be ON YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!!
I feel that E.S. should buy us drinks, but he may disagree. Or maybe we should buy him drinks. Or maybe someone else should buy all four of us drinks. -
I'm not sure if I'm being too own-horn-tooty here, but...
I just got a review where somebody gave me the nicest compliment I can possibly imagine regarding my writing. To whit:
"But twotoedsloth has a singular ability to condense a story to its most basic facts and transform it into a kind of haiku." -
I am a day late for this post, but...
HAPPY 100th BiRTHDAY, CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS!!!