January 2012
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Did you buy your new Lamb of God album,...
Inevitable albeit belated reblog on behalf of our homies. (Sweet bonuses: My husband’s name in the liner notes; hearing him squeal with happiness on playing one of the tracks and saying “I remember when this was just a little riff!’ - Because he spent countless evenings over at Mark’s while all this was in development.)
thunderdolt:
“But it’s available online for free.”...
I AM HUNGRY [edit: and also a tad demanding]
Also: To the one of you who is married to me and is more likely to read this on his goddamn phone in the next room than pop his head back here to see if I was still hoping to hold him to that hours-ago promise of dinner: I love you, now please feed me.
(An ode to bean soup) Still My Commode Gently...
It is not only our commode which weeps; we all weep when my husband makes bean soup (although the soup is, itself, delicious, in spite of its consequences that inevitably follow).
thunderdolt:
I look at the wall see the roll there that’s cringing, while my commode gently weeps. I leave the bathroom and the fan is still blowing, still my commode gently weeps.
Decades after the fact, I realize Chrissie Hynde...
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“Should we feel weird about the computers and phones we use, all the clothes that...”
– Ira Glass, citing and quoting Paul Krugman, This American Life (Ep. 454: Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory).
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The teenager wants to volunteer with a peace...
Whatever happened to peace begins at home?
I have no doubt (having met one of the organizers - himself a survivor of genocidal campaigns in neighboring Burundi) that it’s a good and trustworthy project,
But - see - if it’s ‘peace studies’ she’s interested in, she could simply stay here and try to get along with her sister. This - in addition to being loads cheaper...
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My 11 year old is saying something about a Jersey...
and I must have passed out because I can’t remember anything between the Jersey Shore thing and now, when she’s talking about girls in the locker room and their various methods of bra stuffing and WHO IS THIS KID AND WHERE DID SHE PUT MY BABY GIRL?
The Kindness Swear Jar →
No way I’m going to stop cussing like a sailor, but this is pretty fuckin’ cool: donations benefit the Richmond Organization for Sexual Minority Youth (ROSMY).
"Shorty Ray," the Gospel Chicken House beagle... →
Web meanderings being where they are, I have no explanation for how I ended up on the website for a local ministry, “The Gospel Chicken House Express.” (Yes it is really called that.) Then I ended up reading this story of Shorty Ray, the ministry’s resident beagle, who could
…howl any part, bass, tenor and any in between. It didn’t matter if he was invited to the stage...
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Thank you, autocorrect
for offering “pornography” as an alternative to my correctly spelled colporrhaphy, because that correspondence concerning “surgery to repair the anterior or posterior vaginal wall” WASN’T AWKWARD ENOUGH.
“A day after they took control of all of Richmond, Virginia Republicans began to...”
– Va. Republicans assert themselves - The Washington Post
“Took control of all of Richmond” = THIS STATE IS SO FUCKED.
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So, I finally started physical therapy.
Hardest thing thus far: Realizing the extent to which I had been using dissociation as a means to block out pain.
That is: I’m not actually in more pain than before I started (it might even be less), but I’m 3,000 times more aware of the pain (and 7,000 times more hyperbolic).
So it’s great, and it’s awful. ‘Great,’ at least, is gaining ground on...
“‘Moderate levels of exposure to marijuana don’t seem to have any...”
– Pot smoking not so harmful to the lungs, study finds
Asthmatics with severe fibromyalgia rejoice! (I hear.)
After yet another mother-daughter discussion about...
me (dreamily): Tina Fey is a national treasure.
teenager: I want to meet her. No-- I want to hug her.
me: Maybe meet her first.
Twitter as parenting tool: When the now-almost-12...
What I said: “Brush your teeth and prepare for bed.” What she did: Coated various items in the bathroom with Vaseline. Close enough, right?
— Victoria Marinelli (@vmarinelli) November 9, 2009
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Randonesia: Blabbering mouths, the rotting corpse... →
Two things:
If you thought the person (known variously as “Randy,” “D. Randall Blythe,” and “D.,” among other monikers) responsible for the Cookie Monster vocals on a series of recordings in a hardcore metal genre couldn’t also have a great deal of serious thoughts in his noggin, you were wrong, as the 7000+word below-linked post indicates. (Also, see...
Conversation fragment I wasn't sure, in my sleepy...
Him: No, no - I don't mind making the coffee. But first, does Tumblr know you're a hasbian?
Me: Thanks. And yes, of course they know. [*rubs eyes*] Wait-wwwhat?
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Nation & World | Rape redefined for FBI to include... →
1. Yay, but also
2. How in the hell was this not already policy?
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I miss my mother's cornbread.
There, I said it.
“The manufacturers of index cards seem intent on frustrating me in my quest for...”
– Index Card Hacks
(I KNOW, RIGHT?)
“When we handed the Bechdel graphic off to the committee members whose job it was...”
– elisem (in comment thread), reflecting on organizing efforts on behalf of what was then (ca. ‘87) ‘The Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay College Conference.’
[My 2¢: As a bisexual organizer of Olympia, Washington’s first queer pride march in ‘93, I can thoroughly relate...
“Weazus!”
– redcloud (replying to this).
[Genius, sir. Genius.)
Notes toward an 11 year old's motif of "crucified...
Annalisa: What's that you're listening to?
Me: Gospel music.
A: From here, it sounds like weasels.
M: Well, the speakers on this netbook aren't great. Plus, you're all the way in the kitchen, so—
A: So they're Christian weasels!
M: ...the sound can only travel so well—
A: I can just picture a weasel, on a cross—
M: As I was saying, it's by a group called—
A: [pantomimes weasel on a crucifix, sticking tongue out to one side and making a 'bleehhh' sound]
M: 'Sounds of Blackness,' and—
A: [rolls eyes around in head to indicate, presumably, a deceased Christian weasel]
M: I'm glad we're both getting something out of this.
I am having a text conversation with my mother.
An equally likely scenario: Martians have landed, and are on a quest to steal all our office supplies.
(Sooooo… Happy New Year?)
December 2011
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“It once was a gas station. Then it became a porn shop. And in a span of a few...”
– Developer Douses Former Porn Shop With Hot Sauce | News and Features | Style Weekly - Richmond, VA
I have nothing to add to this.
Diets are fucking bullshit.
Hey, so, I’m in a rush here but I just wanted to check in with my Tumblrers and say that this Chrome app I installed is pissing me off.
That is to say, it is being terribly useful and making me limit certain of my net-things to a goddamn 20 minute per day (according to my customized settings).
So, it’s like a parent, giving you stink eye when you’re supposed to be doing...
“You know and I know that she’s not young enough or pretty enough to be the...”
– Newt Gingrich, ca. 1980, describing his first wife to then-friend/confidante Leonard H. “Kip” Carter (source). Niiice.
(Something something ‘Stepford upgrade.’)
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“A year after Virginia overhauled its review process to improve the quality of...”
– Error-plagued history books’ publisher to bypass Va review by marketing directly to districts - The Washington Post
Hey, Jim and Stephanie! DO YOU MISS US YET?