| round two:
Curtis Mayfield::Do It All Night
Sly&The Family Stone::Babies Makin' Babies
The Meters::THis is My Last Affair | comments: You Talking to Me?   |
| i'll make you laugh, and you'll make me cry
i believe it is time for me to fly | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| | i finished the black that i started the morning you irrevocably betrayed me | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| Lee-ward Strokes
Tell me tales upon a hill;
he says you must.
Come,
lay with and lie to me
on the ground, facing up.
We shall stay the night, watch the sky,
but come the morn: strike the tent
and say good-bye.
-GTr 20110110 | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| | and i say: little sister, don't you do what your big sister done | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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Richard Cheese does U2's "Bullet the Blue Sky" far better than U2 ever could.
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| the "lean gourmet" microwave meals are actually pretty tasty, 260calories, nothing horrible in the ingredients list, and at 88c, a reasonable quick prepared lunch.
and the packaging is paper, which can be burned or composted, rather than plastic that isn't recyclable everywhere | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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if the person was dead, only in the winter. and only to places that were below freezing. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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| defaults write com.apple.iTunes disablePingSidebar 1 // ?
defaults write com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown 1 // works | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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| | much to my surprise, the acer aspire1 is a better netbook than the asus eee900. usability is slightly, but noticeably, better. comes down the the keyboard and trackpad, i'm thinking. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| i'm going the Brain Games trivia contest as a TOS Klingon...
Poll #1529223
TOS Klingon Commanders
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6
which klingon should i be this sunday?
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| is so much fun, and we need to know it so we might avoid repeating it. listening to a 1957 radio show about MLK, and the announcer is saying "on thursday dec 1st 1955 a negro seamstress named rosa parks was riding on a bus here in montgomery..."
laws do not define right or wrong; defying laws that are wrong is not only a right, but a responsibility. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| | dorian is actually back home with a new chin - plastic mesh + loose extra flesh = repaired kitten. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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| managed to skate thru with little need for explanation, confrontation, or prostelisation as to why i simply don't 'do' "christmas."
dorian is falling apart, physically. i know what the vet is going to say tomorrow, and i know that i'll just pay the bill and walk away, with dorian, ignoring her advice, as that advice is centric to the human, and not to the patient (dorian) or the pack (the collective us).
i'll request an extended antibiotic Rx, bring him back home, and he'll continue to _be_ with us, until such time as he is actually bothered by his deterioration. at that point, he'll leave at home, with me, as i promised 14+ years ago.
diabetes = gangrene sooner than later. but sooner is still later than tomorrow. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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| dorian and maximus are curled up together on the papasan. this is the first time we've witnessed them curled up together with no humans in the mix. very cute. probably the wx.
tried to take a pic, but no AAs are currently charged, so the camera balks at function. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| i found out last night that the US version of Life on Mars, which I was actually enjoying, had been canceled by the network. and that in all the other excitement of the past four weeks, i missed the series finale.
easy enough to watch when one has a computer these days, or so i assumed.
two things: ABC's online interface for watching shows, especially when compared to Hulu, is terrible. It required that i install MoveNetwork's player, and it still wouldn't work with my firefox/noscript setup. i resorted to IE7, which worked, but then it still tried (and failed, thanks to successful blacklisting at the hosts-file level) to pop up an advert for a site known to distribute malware through "free" screensavers. (honestly, people, just turn on the energy saving features, you don't need "screensavers" anymore). beyond that, it had a horribly busy interface, and it made you interact with it after every advertisement, lest it not continue.
that's all the first thing.
second, yuck. what a lame-ass, 'happy,' and extremely weak way to wrap up the story. seriously, do americans really insist on being spoonfed happy endings, or do those in charge just think that we do? the british original was so much better, especially at the end. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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| Suicide Aside
suicide aside
try watching birds
regard them as they fly like salt to bread
spice up this crusty world
a giant spider web
their lines of flight
tie up and bind the world
they fly
birds jump up in the air and stay
you try it
flap your arms for all you're worth
no way you're stuck
they’re free to leave the world
the colors
lemon zest and lime and berry
sugar coffee cream
and all the rest
sublime delicious flavors how
our eyes drink in the world
and listen to them sing
the wind becomes a thing alive
with music whistles squawks and chirps
a melody of world
so tell me why you thought you'd rather die
check out pluck all the feathers
close the lights
alright don't tell me
but please me
stick around a while
with me to watch the birds
see how they swirl and turn the world
-"Suicide Aside" by Bruce Dethlefsen, from Breather. © Fireweed Press, 2009 | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| | it might sound like i'm gassin' ya, but it takes a long time to go from the back seat to the passenjah | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| i'd make this up if could, but i would have never thought to do so.
mjb is playing an 8-bit Mario game on the 17" TV, while I listen to Miles Davis' _Bitches Brew_ in vinyl on the portable turntable.
so many technological advances really were for naught in value. | | comments: 4 wiseguys or You Talking to Me? |
| ever since the new taco bell/kfc was announced, it was inevitable that taco johns would close for the third and one imagines final time.
and paul harvey no longer around to tell us the rest of the story. | | comments: 2 wiseguys or You Talking to Me? |
| i started to watch an episode of "SAG" (Stargate:Atlantis), and realised it must be where SciFi stars go to die...Mitch Pillegi, Robert Picardo, and Jewel Staite all in the first five minutes. didn't bother finishing, instead watched a classic BSG, if for no other reason than to remind myself how hoaky it was.
which only led to more wonderment: Apollo from the new BSG (Jamie Bamber) is a star of the new L&O:UK version. and now that i've seen a bit more of it, Freema Agyeman (Dr. Jones) is also in it. WTF? i realise that every actor and actress in the USofA has to be in a L&O at some point, but now the virus has spread to England.
so weird to hear Apollo speak in a non-American voice, much more weird than Hugh Laurie. | | comments: 2 wiseguys or You Talking to Me? |
| "Fox Valley women avoided elimination on NBC's 'The Biggest Loser: Couples'"
if they avoided elimination, i'd think they'd be off the show, but that's apparently not what happened. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| the other day, i ordered a new turntable. yes, i know i have two already. but neither do 78 (DJ turntables tend to just do 33 and 45), and my old non-DJ belt-drive Marantz that did 78 is long dead and recycled.
it obviously isn't the best of turntables. but is portable, can play records using batteries and a built-in speaker, and will let me digitise the stack of 78s that i have, as well as the ones that are piled up at the brother's farm (i sense a project in the future).
next week i can once again listen to such gems as:
"Hobo" Jack Turner:::The Big Rock Candy Mountains [Diva 2807-G (147414)]
Georgia Yellow Hammers:::Pass Around the Bottle [Montgomery Ward M-8054-A]
Bud Billings (Carson Robison):::The Wreck of Number Nine [Montgomery Ward M-8054-B]
Not only are there no more monkeywards, but there haven't been records from monkeywards in longer than that. i guess sears won? neither produces catalogs or adverts that are suitable for use as a substitute bog roll these days.
up early thanks to falling asleep too early; took advantage of the relatively warm wx by doing delayed under-car work, soaking myself to the bone in cold salty runoff. exhausting and somewhat pneumonia-escent. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| Read Alert!
They say a great author
writes what he knows-
Stephen King I can believe
(monsters lurk in his mind)
but where does Tom Clancy
find the time?
-GTr 20090201 | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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| today has officially overloaded me.
i'm gonna listen to some cribshitter to try to make it all better. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| i was working in the garage, come into the basement to find dorian spyder running around. all i say is "hey! you know you're not supposed to be down here," and he runs towards me, up the stairs, stops mid-flight, level with my head, and barks in my face. then runs upstairs and away.
i have no idea what that meant. now he's curled up in my lap as i type.
i've been enjoying watching neil gaiman's progression into a dog person, in a similarly miserably old and cold house. i wish i could escape south. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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| | as much as i admire mouse's sheer amazing skill on wheels, i am glad that the unholy rollers _finally_ beat the resdolls. wish the snow and ice on these hills hadn't kept me trapped and unable to go. | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| I felt a funeral,
in my brain.
There came a day
at summer's fall
From cocoon forth
a butterfly
We grow accustomed to
the dark
My life has stood -
a loaded gun.
koans? a poem? a really esoteric shopping list? | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| if you lie to a police officer, that's obstruction, and a crime. if a police officer or detective lies to you (i.e. says "we have evidence" and they don't), that's called "good police work" and not a crime, especially if it gives them a confession (real or false) and/or plea bargain (under duress).
let it burn. wanna. | | comments: 1 wiseguys or You Talking to Me? |
| it's coming down
snow pains on the motor veins
keeps your business on the ground
it's coming down
slow day for the teacher
and her wheels are spinning now
on account of winter,
mrs. braintree,
all the roads are closed
and the stores are loot for vagabonds
it's coming down
go home!
it's coming down
snow lays on the chainfields
there's a blessing on the ground
it's coming down
if your lanes are crammed with children
there's a blessing on your town
on a lucky monday, mrs. braintree
all your lanes are waxen silver
and the stores are loot for vagabonds
it's coming down, yeah!
so go home! go home and take a snow day, mrs. braintree!
mrs. braintree you're a chilly northern woman
go home from yonder bus stop
because there's a blessing on the ground
mrs. braintree, it is written
when the snows come over dixie
all the roads are closed and the stores are loot for vagabonds
it's coming down
snow lays on the chainfields
there's a blessing on the ground
it's coming down
if your road's patrolled by children
there's no order to be found
on account of winter,
mrs. braintree
all the roads are closed
and the stores are loot for vagabonds
it's coming down
go home
go home and take a snow day | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
| | day brie left at the base of the glass ear::debris left at the base of the glacier." | | comments: You Talking to Me? |
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