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YouTube - Reno 911 [4x05] Reno Renaissance Faire
Glad to have this clip pointed out to me; I recollect seeing this one tv some time ago and really enjoyed it.
Another from YouTube, even has a Predicta in it: PMS Survival Tips.

God, I miss Creem.
Sitting here at some ghastly early morning hour listening to an infomercial for a collection of sixties music while reading random Wikipedia pages.
I don’t know why the people who have known me the longest tease me about it. I started reading the children’s encyclopedias for fun as soon as I [...]

So, I’m walking around in the local Kame Apart, intent on picking up a prescription. The store is overwhelmingly crowded with screaming women and aggressive brats and a whole host of other people driven to the lowest common denominator by the mad consumerism of the season.
Every time some woman screams at one of her [...]

Finally have a tree up this year, largest tree we’ve had in years. Silly expensive; there is a part of me that can not wait to get to the 5 ache holding in Viroqua, start buying trees with root systems for Yule, planting them after the season passes.
But then I think about leaving the [...]

Good: Saw Thorvald, Ghita & children, Suiliann. Spent lots of time with Margaret! Taught a class. Had lots of laughs during court. Grimmund elevated to Pelican, YAY! and ..oh, what name is she using now? I still think of her as Tarja… Tarja put on vigil for Pelican. I was happy with the way the [...]

Acephalous: Measuring The Speed of Meme: An Experiment in which You Will Participate, Or Else…
Are you an online diarist/blogger reading this online open diary (I don’t really get enough interaction here to really call it a blog, and I’m golden with that)? Have you not yet seen the post linked above (I’ve been too busy [...]

Guess who worked from home because she couldn’t get out today?

Nano girl, oh my little nano girl…
The end arrives in a few hours, but I am done with the novel writing part! This was undoubtedly my worst effort, though, I think. It got very Gertrude Stein. You’d think I was eating me some Alice B. Toklas.
Ah, I have to go lay down, I’m [...]

PETA mistakenly targets nativity scene
This was fricken hilarious. I can just imagine some tight-assed PETA bonehead all up in righteous arms about those cows.
I can’t stop laughing.

Somehow, by 2 PM, I’m supposed to have the house clean and a fabulous feast on the table. Yeah. ::sigh::
Meanwhile, a lecture I enjoyed:
Do schools today kill creativity? (TEDTalks, Ken Robinson) - Google Video

Mostly too tired to write much this last week. As I have whinged about in the past, I don’t do so well with long stretches of work; last weekend, Michael and I did the Chicago Radio and Jukebox show, so there was my weekend, working for Predicta for free. Of course, I will easily confess [...]

My dog-tag, C-Rations can opener, and the key to my barracks room on Fliegerhorst Kaserne
LOL. Looking at the P-38 (the can opener), I can’t help but drift into memories of CRats and MRE’s… I was so happy when they changed over, so glad I’d never have to face the utterly gruesome ham and eggs again… [...]

Hey, Leon, wherever you are:
I hope you’re having a grand time celebrating the Marine Corps’ Birthday.
Semper Fi.

There they are. Another book bites the dust in the One from Each project. The recipe was copied into this blog here.
After 10 days in the malt vinegar, the beans were patchy in color and tasted of nothing but malt vinegar. I may have made the pickling brine too strong. I boiled them, as instructed, [...]

I was at Half Priced Books yesterday. It was hushed; the usual background noise was absent. Through the walls, I could hear the sound of drums and a bass line, and something about that drum and bass line was so wonderful that I walked out of the book store and into the record store to [...]