January 2009
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Two sentences concerning certain months in 2008
How brilliant of me: to have hesitated to write the full truth as it was happening, because I feared the consequences and hard work. Now I get to scrape through the detritus of tweets, direct messages, text messages stored on damaged phones, Flickr posts, blog entries, receipts, Google Documents, IM transcripts, emails, bills, receipts, notes written in the margins of books as well as magazines,...
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“Twitter friends: “You’re much funnier without a girlfriend!”...”
– @detweiler
Edited to add: If you’re not following him on Twitter, WTF is wrong with you?
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Minnie Pearl: Howdy | royalty-free sound fx | wav... →
If you do not experience the audio found at this link as “life-changing,” then I don’t want to know you. [via @jagosaurus]
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Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women: Going Down To...
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“Wife informed me that a little lime pulp fell from my drink to my beard to my...”
– my dear husband.
I am really not fond of being in this much pain.
Divided my live-tweeting of a hellacious neck/shoulder/back spasm situation tonight between two Twitter accounts and howling in agony in the direction of my hapless family members who have kindly waited on me since the onset of whatever-this-is. This is what makes me a fun party girl!
Lessee, tonight I’ve had:
muscle relaxers
Tylenol
oxycodone
topical analgesic
heating pad
ice
rum
...
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“If you don’t have critics, you aren’t saying anything.”
– @rands
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Girl Germs - Bratmobile
The first track of the...
Entr'acte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
So that you know how ignorant I am, I had to Wikipedia this word after this tweet (which had been in reply to this tweet, in reply to this).
(And now you know I’m a certified crazy, in addition to being ignorant.)
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“I love latkes, but I could give them up if it meant I’d never have to hear...”
– @Moeskido.
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“In other words, ‘Booo! It’s such poor taste to express anything...”
– Rachel Maddow, translating longtime George W. Bush confidante Karen Hughes’ entirely pathetic remarks about Obama’s Inaugural Address.
“Marketing mavens out there: Any pointers on how to tweet about despair, anomie,...”
– @Leather4Points
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Metal Hammer: Lamb Of God ‘Wrath’ Track-By-Track →
Metal Hammer has some good descriptions of the new Lamb of God album, Wrath. FWIW, ‘Fake Messiah’ is the song that followed Randy’s kind shout-out on my birthday, while ‘Set to Fail’ is the track referenced in the post before last (the video for which my husband and I appear in, although I’m in little of the footage, as I couldn’t get to the shoot until it...
“if your followers greatly outnumber your following, you fuck cheerleaders.”
– Oh don’t I wish, @shamelessplug.
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places you've lived....
…Those places I can remember right now anyway; my childhood (and much of my twenties) occurred in one huge geographic and cultural Cuisinart. Reblogged from glueslabs, who had a few of the same cities. All locations in the US except one. Also lived in many of these cities at different points in time, and at many different locations (in homes, apartments, squats, shelters, etc.) within them.
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“I realize that writting this could also me construed as commical and silly since...”
– An Amazon reviewer, who hadn’t seen the film, yelling at a reviewer who had, whose review had been informative (“Ice’s garish pimp suits, cheap sluts, and explaination of each type of ho are so comical it’s hard to imagine that even he takes himself seriously…The...
luckyshirt's 7 things →
I didn’t read many of the “7 Things” posts (my own ridiculous offering can be found here) when that was going around (is it still?), because I tend to gorge myself on others’ material when I need to be working on my own. But this was really good. Also, he doesn’t have comments enabled (quite possibly wise; I’ve done open, moderated, and no-comment blogs at...
Used books I'm getting rid of for gas money & such →
So times are tight. If you’re a used book hound like me and see anything you like, knock yourself out. Priced according to half.com’s algorithm for market value according to stated condition (when generated), with a few exceptions (e.g. volumes inscribed by author).
Notes on books’ conditions are as specific as possible. Any questions, holla.
Also: Is this not the most...
“Dear President Obama,
Here is a list of the first 10 things you should do as...”
– “This American Life” #372: The Inauguration Show. (via fishy) (via inauguration)
“Along with his mother, Ronan pronounced the games in Beijing “the genocide...”
– Ronan Farrow, Activist - The All New Issue — New York Magazine Mia’s boy done good, apparently.
MsNovember: FluxRedux - This is What a Super... →
MsNovember = awesome.
“He made the important point, that should sound familiar, which is that you gotta...”
– ‘Gettin Up’ With Q-Tip! « SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE (after a search prompted by the rightly enthusiastic yowhatsthehaps).
Halfassed theme edits in progress
So comments, tags, etc. may or may not appear at any given moment until I’m done tinkering with stuff.
As you were.
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“Use was to state a fact: ‘He was planning a vacation trip to Kauai. I was...”
– I always screw up “was vs. were.” But I think this neat encapsulation (found here) might actually stick. Also, I like that Kauai is used in the example.
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twibble for blackberry | The home of twibble →
The interface for this app has nothing on the neat simplicity of TwitterBerry, but there is, at least, a way to add tweets to favorites, which is pretty awesome.
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“SpellWeb (spellweb.com) makes it easy to compare two spellings of a word (or a...”
– Sad commentary on the state of spelling (albeit via a 5 year old article):Online Diary: Vive la Différence
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Paulson Bank Bailout in ‘Great Stress’ Misses... →
(Link recommended by @ThunderDolt, originally via @Maddow.)
One of many article recommendations shouted to me this evening from across the house as my husband’s medication kicked in (it makes him chatty and excitable) while I was attempting to back up my hard drive. (The fact that I am posting this link shall constitute proof that I at least intend to make good on reading this later.)
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“…a notebook with ripped-out pages is a violated notebook.”
– From a treatise on the handwritten word, and some of the better vehicles for same: Rands In Repose: Sweet Decay
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“We, at the more extreme left in Israel, always knew that we are, for some, fair...”
– Letter from an Israeli peace activist. link courtesy of Kalli.
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“Not only is it apparently earnest and not a parody, self- or otherwise, it seems...”
– Nothing Can Prepare You For The Microsoft Songsmith Commercial - Commercials - Videogum
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WatchBush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
Proust Remembered: Has Proust's Account of... →
Yes, I went off on a literally Proustian tangent tonight. Shut up, this shit is interesting! (Also: Full text PDF.)
Southern Discomfort / Seven things about two... →
From my Size Large blog. (I think I’ll stop calling it “The Mother Blog” now.)
Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come.*
I was born...
Maybe, if every story I write
…ends up backtracking into fragments of the Oklahoma Funeral story, I should write the motherfucking Oklahoma Funeral story already. (Besides which, I promised Ainsley.)