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2003-10-26T11:20:00.000-06:00

New Blog Showcase Another week, more blogs. This week, I'd like to vote for Demosophia's long Totalitarianism post. Also, Sebastian Holsclaw talks abortion. hln

2003-10-19T20:23:00.000-05:00

New Blog Showcase Yes, another week has passed. Yes, this has to go on both blogs in order to be counted. So. 1) This post from She Who Must Be Obeyed is wonderful. Beth's style reminds me of Big Arm Woman. 2) Vox Popoli appealed to my geek sense. Quite a few good ones this week; getting harder to pick. Visit the real blog. hln

2003-10-11T22:25:00.000-05:00

New Blog Showcase Got three this week (posting here because the Bear hasn't picked up http://angelweave.mu.nu yet.) I very much enjoyed the vivid writing of I Love This State from the blog Ain't Done It. Also, Alliance Member Madfish Willie educates us about Hangovers. And, Staunch Moderate has a very accurate list about the whinings of liberals and conservatives. (Which does a nice

2003-10-05T20:14:00.000-05:00

New Blog Showcase (I have to put this here to get it counted). Two new blogs of note this week. 1) I liked Eliminate the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, but I have a small complaint to the blogger. Tom - use spell check. You write well; you probably know you don't spell perfectly. Appease the readers; cut down on eyesores. 2) Also, I liked Trey's 111 things. I'm having trouble

2003-09-29T20:46:00.000-05:00

Goodbye Blogger There comes a time in our lives when all sorta-good things must surely end in favor of better things. I'm LEAVING BLOGGER for Movable Type. Sayonara, Blogger. Visit my new home at angelweave.mu.nu. It's very purple and warm. Change your bookmarks. Update your blogrolls. Get ready to comment. Wahoo! hln

2003-09-28T20:04:00.000-05:00

The Century I'm Not Gonna Finish Is what I called the ride midstream today. Our century ride met up with the normal group I ride with, Bicycle Fun Club (Trailnet). The rides converged in a big soupy mess of confusion - riders not sure whose rest stops were whose, which arrows to follow (most were blindly following other cyclists...because usually you can). So one guy asked me, "which ride

2003-09-27T17:20:00.000-05:00

Front Line Voices The project is taking shape. The URL is in place with a blog atop it, skinning to commence soon. The group of us who have volunteered have been sharing ideas about how this should and will take place. The whole thing is fascinating; the effect should be as well. If you have as few as two free hours per week and have an interest in the project, please visit the discussion

2003-09-27T17:17:00.000-05:00

Music to Whack Terrorists By Fulfilling my Alliance duties, I present to you a song for the mix CD, Music to Whack Terrorists By: Invincible, by Pat Benatar. Probably one of my favorite songs ever, and quite fitting. hln

2003-09-27T17:12:00.000-05:00

This Week's New Blog Showcase Voting time again. Here are my picks: 1) Citizen Lehew's Who Ate My Democracy? is worth a vote. While I may not agree with all that much that the good Citizen has to say, he says it very well and makes a good argument. And that's worth a vote. Nice site design, by the way. 2) My other vote goes to King of Fools for the post on the Caucasian Club.

2003-09-26T19:21:00.000-05:00

Talking Trash Tuesday night I had a dream about trash. In the dream, I was working at KFC, must've been college. And I fixated on the trash in the restaurant within the dream. I can still smell the trash there if I think about it - a mix of vinegary cole slaw sauce remnants, the scrapings off of the trays that held the chicken, too-old mashed potatoes, and, if you're in the "back," chicken

2003-09-25T07:30:00.000-05:00

Quick Links 1) Don't miss the Carnival this week. 2) Michael Williams has posted his Spherewide Short Story Symposium. 3) Harvey Olson of Bad Money feeds us another filthy lie about the press conference regarding the end of the Blog War as we know it. hln

2003-09-24T19:19:00.000-05:00

SBC - YOUR Telephone Company SBC is frenetically advertising DSL DSL DSL, Yahoo DSL everywhere I look. Brian and I tried to get DSL 3 1/2 years ago when we moved into this house. I can't remember what they told us except "yes" initially and "no" when we complained it wouldn't hold a connection and they sent someone out to take a look. I don't remember the why behind the no. So we looked

2003-09-24T18:32:00.000-05:00

Visit Here And volunteer. hln

2003-09-24T18:27:00.000-05:00

Busted Electric Venom posts this, which I initially missed because I didn't click the link while I was at work. My husband, however, made sure to point it out to me when I got home, and while one might take that statement to mean he'd like to send me to one of those classes, that's not quite the case. Rather, I'm sure he was sure I'd have a surely grand time with this post. And, indeed,

2003-09-24T06:55:00.000-05:00

The War - Choose Your Battles I don't write much about the Iraq war, the events leading up to it, and the events that have occurred in the rebuilding stage. There's a reason - mostly because I become emotional and have trouble becoming, much less remaining, objective on this issue. But, here are a few months' worth of thoughts conglomerated. On March 21, 2003 at about 9:00 in the evening,

2003-09-23T22:26:00.000-05:00

Writing? Not Tonight. Didn't put up anything really for you to read. I've been reading instead of writing this evening, and tomorrow'll likely be a sparse posting day as well. I will point you five places and then put my empty brain to rest/recharging. 1) The Alliance gets serious. An excellent post by Frank J.. 2) My spouse did proxy posting for me this evening. As always, quite

2003-09-23T18:42:00.000-05:00

Waaaaa WASHINGTON (AP) -- The American Civil Liberties Union asked the federal courts Tuesday to prevent the U.S. Secret Service from keeping anti-Bush protesters far away from presidential appearances while allowing supporters to display their messages up close. The civil liberties group filed the lawsuit in federal court in Pennsylvania on behalf of four advocacy organizations that

2003-09-22T22:37:00.000-05:00

Monday Links (all but Michael) So many links, so little sleep (if I get 'em all in with commentary). 1) This blew my mind - from Across the Atlantic. I'm not much into current Europe news, so this was ALL news to me. 2) Venemous Kate reports on Gulf War illnesses, specifically ALS. Not to make light of this post, but seeing as Kate's an Axis member, perhaps we Alliance folk can do her

2003-09-22T21:41:00.000-05:00

Monday Links (sponsored by Michael Williams) Seriously, folks, Michael's on a roll. Before I start listing everything else, I'm going to give him a trifecta. You bet (bad pun). I just have to get them in the right sequence so that we all win. Michael Post 1: Bustamente must return Bustamillions elucidates the swirling opaque sands of campaign finance reform and how it comes into play with

2003-09-22T20:51:00.000-05:00

Monday, September 22, 2003. "Oppressed" Again Don't you hate when you learn you're oppressed. I mean, who knew? I found this link yesterday via Ravenwood's Universe (in the post where he's referring to me, incidentally) - a website named Redheads United. I gave it the perfunctory once-over, not really reading it, but bookmarking it for later. Well, today, I went back, and here's what I

2003-09-22T20:20:00.000-05:00

Latest Obsessions Hello all - I promise to write before linking, but linking is SOO (yes, two Os) much fun now because of....obsession #1. Hans has long extolled the virtues of his RSS feed interpreter reader thingee to the point that one day he said "put an RSS feed on your blog." I complied. But, with Blogger, there ain't no easy way. Hence, I have a hand-coded feed I update every time

2003-09-21T22:28:00.000-05:00

Sunday Links I promise to do some real writing soon. Perhaps...next! But, for now, more linkage. I've found quite a spectrum of posts throughout the course of the day. 1) The Dictionary.com word of the day is gesticulate. I have used this word before because I'm guilty of its action. It has nothing to do with gestate or matriculate. 2) Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine has an...unnerving (

2003-09-21T19:13:00.000-05:00

Duck Soup Via most of the Munuvians including but not limited to: Publius & Co Jen Larson Pixy Misa Me, I'm a Super Hero Duck. Of course. Quack. hln

2003-09-21T16:31:00.000-05:00

Worm Alert! Yikes! Please inform all of your non tech-savvy friends because this one could nab quite a few victims. Disguised as an official e-mail from Microsoft, the file comes attached to a note asking the recipient to install a "September 2003, cumulative patch" to protect against vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser and Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail

2003-09-21T16:25:00.000-05:00

Beautifully Said My answer to this question (1st paragraph) is "almost every day." Truly blessed and trying to always acknowledge it, hln

2003-09-20T20:28:00.000-05:00

Links of the Day I've been collecting RSS feeds like some other intelligent/lazy folk, and I've assembled a pretty good list of diverse links of the day. I hope you enjoy. 1) Tuning Spork of BLATHER REVIEW links to Newsmax.com! Really, he does. Go see why. 2) Ith reports that a Seattle restaurant named 5 Spot gets a bit snarky by requiring patrons to sign a waiver exempting the eatery

2003-09-20T19:08:00.000-05:00

PETA Post Amazing. I actually agree with PETA on this one (and its methods aren't even over the top here). Too many healthy animals are euthanized because there are too many companion animals available and not all are able to be cared for by humans. So, I disagree with the sale of animals by pet stores. I won't even go into puppy mills. I am and always have been one bleeding-heart animal

2003-09-20T18:52:00.000-05:00

New Weblog Showcase Votes I have two votes for the New Weblog Showcase. Please visit these new bloggers. 1) DFMoore presents More on Moral Relativism. This subject always catches my eye, and I'm pleased to see that DFMoore does it justice. 2) Ilyka Damen offers A Happy Epiphany, a post about reactions to the war, its outcomes, terrorism, terrorist groups, and opinions/views. It's quite

2003-09-20T12:48:00.000-05:00

JetBlue Hiring for PR Positions Wired (and everyone else, really - I found one on the NY Times later) has an article about the JetBlue debacle. JetBlue Airways began sending out apologetic e-mails Thursday to customers who are infuriated that the airline gave 5 million passenger records to a defense contractor investigating national security issues. The form letter, provided by

2003-09-19T22:40:00.000-05:00

Classical XXX! Hot! Wahoo! No commentary necessary...yet. (Link). Handel Masterpiece Gets 'Explicit' Label SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - George Frideric Handel has at least one thing in common with Eminem and other modern artists: his music was slapped with an "explicit" warning at Apple Computer Inc.'s online iTunes Music Store. The baroque composer's 1742 masterpiece, "The Messiah,"

2003-09-19T22:34:00.000-05:00

A Positive Step I was very pleased to read today about the trend of hotels completely disallowing smoking. From New York to California, small and mid-size hotels have gone smoke-free, cleaning, deodorizing and redecorating rooms once reserved for smokers and designating them nonsmoking. One major reason is that fewer guests are requesting smoking rooms. But hotel managers point to

2003-09-19T22:23:00.000-05:00

A Thought for Spring Hey, if they can have the Axis of Isabel, we mid-staters should align our blogs as the Axis of Tornados (but we need a more clever name). I'll bring this up again, in, oh, April or so. hln

2003-09-19T22:17:00.000-05:00

That's. Just. Great. SAN DIEGO - A fire that destroyed three homes under construction early Friday was the work of a radical environmentalist group, officials said. Investigators are also looking into a second fire at another construction site. Yeah, great. The zombies of the Earth Liberation Front are likely behind this latest mess. Hey, zombies. Just where do you live? Caves

2003-09-19T21:47:00.000-05:00

Gently-Bash-Liberals-With-Rational-Thought Night I found two gentle but accurate pokes at liberals and decided to begin a post of themed links here. This may or may not get updated throughout the night as I do or do not find more. 1) The Yeti offers two links to Liberal "Rules" for Arguing. And they're dead on. 2) Michael Williams of Master of None writes about Idealistic Fools and

2003-09-19T20:58:00.000-05:00

Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day I refused to talk like a pirate today, but I will offer you Frank J's Know Thy Enemy: Pirates. Jolly Ranchers have no relation to the Jolly Roger... that I know of. To be on the safe side, though, if you see a bunch of Jolly Rancher wrappers lying about, be prepared for a pirate attack! (Link found via Jennifer's History and Stuff, though I shouldn't admit

2003-09-19T20:54:00.000-05:00

Glenn Reynolds' Favorite Book Glenn Reynolds' favorite book is Hands, Hands, Finger, Thumb, by Al Perkins. The cover should tell you why. Rumor has it, I tore this book to pieces when I was a wee lass. Of course, it was in support of Frank J. that I destroyed the monkey. Even though young Frank was not yet born. hln

2003-09-19T11:45:00.000-05:00

Links of Lunch Phew, just a few mins, so these'll be brief: 1) Romulus of Judicious Asininity unveils the Secret Weapon in the War on Terror. 2) The new Hunting of the Snark is up! The aforementioned post by Romulus is in it (as am I). 3) Jennifer has a new War Message. Do be sure to click on the Message to Ethel. This behavior will not be tolerated. 4) Pixy Misa of Ambient Irony

2003-09-18T07:18:00.000-05:00

Cathexis John Cole waxes insightful regarding his feline companions. And it's delightful. When I reach down to rub their bellies, I am usually bitten. When I work on the computer, I am usually greeted with the perfectly placed southern end of a northbound cat- this is Tunch's idea of giving me affection- cat booty in the face while I am trying to read. When friends come over, the cats

2003-09-18T06:29:00.000-05:00

Doom! The World is Ending No, really. Instapundit is #2. What IS this? What quest awaits us as humanity? What demons must we slay? (Frank J., is that you?) hln

2003-09-18T06:00:00.000-05:00

Monsanto: Taking Yourself TOO Seriously Yesterday, Overlawyered posted Monsanto vs. Free Speech and has this to say about its title. The giant chemical and agribusiness company is suing the Oakhurst Dairy in Maine "for promoting its products as containing milk from cows who are not treated with artificial growth hormones. Monsanto, which makes the leading artificial hormone for cows,

2003-09-17T17:02:00.000-05:00

Conservative Exercise Secret Hey, I'll share an exercise secret with you. The idea is to get yourself in a mindset so that you can do NOTHING else but exercise. How, you ask? The good old-fashioned adrenaline rush, I answer. 1) Pick up a Ted Rall column. This one will do. 2) Tell yourself you're going to fisk it (before reading). 3) Read and fisk at the same time. Like this!

2003-09-17T12:19:00.000-05:00

Adult Happy Meal Yeah, really, according to today's news: CHICAGO — McDonald's Corp. (MCD) has enlisted the aid of Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer to promote an adult version of the Happy Meal (search), the fast-food giant's latest effort to offer healthier products. Instead of Happy Meal standards like a burger and a toy, the new Go Active Meal (search) will include a salad, an

2003-09-16T20:53:00.000-05:00

Chicken on the Barbie Following up on my post Not Surprising about Barbie, the Evil Jewess Infidel doll (indeed!), I found that Cox and Forkum's cartoon for today hits the spot. Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Very...hypnotic). Link via dcthornton.com. hln

2003-09-16T20:40:00.000-05:00

Brrrrrr The Meatriarchy would be serving up some frozen burgers if the blog were based outta Calgary. Brrrrrrrrrr!. hln

2003-09-16T07:43:00.000-05:00

Party! Throw a party and invite the Senate. Get them all drunk and make them admit their worth. What do you get? You get this, though I bet it was compiled by more scientific/valid means than a drunken survey. But you get my point. Not what you would expect, eh? Still, would be interesting to see if just a few skew the whole thing. Naaaaaa - more fun this way. hln

2003-09-15T19:00:00.000-05:00

Filthy Lie #4 This is disgusting, disheartening, and wrong. I caught Glenn Reynolds going through my TRASH out back. No, really, I did. I was suspicious when I heard a familiar bell, and I looked out my back window in my kitchen toward the patio, and there he was! The small child's bike was parked against my fence. Glenn had set the bags of used cat litter (yes, Mom, I edited that

2003-09-15T18:51:00.000-05:00

Glenn Reynolds' Favorite Song Atomic Dog, by George Clinton. Why must I feel like that Why must I chase the cat Nothin' but the dog in me Do the dogcatcher, dogcatcher Do the dogcatcher Do the dogcatcher, dogcatcher Do the dogcatcher Do the dogcatcher, baby, do the dogcatcher Ooh Ooh! hln

2003-09-15T11:45:00.000-05:00

Nigerian E-mail Conference! My friend Tim forwarded me the link to this. It's good lunchtime snickering. hln

2003-09-14T22:02:00.000-05:00

Brian's a Goof The Shidoshi of Paranoia Speaks about Ingestion, and, well, you'd better listen. hln

2003-09-14T21:42:00.000-05:00

Tracking Activity While I was looking for information on Missouri's State Government page about the override of governor's veto of the Concealed Gun bill, I stumbled across this. Why not? The dates work - just started, so I signed myself up. I went for intermediate because I found this on Thursday, and, well, with the foot issue, I didn't think I could get five days of cardio in this week.

2003-09-14T20:30:00.000-05:00

Free Will - My First Visit I cracked up at the first post I read. Guess I'll keep reading. hln

2003-09-14T16:51:00.000-05:00

Do That Again, Bow Bow Bow Hans responds! This is about NICOWater, and even if he thinks it'd be a good study aid, I'd still run far, far away (while thoroughly encouraging others to feed this particular addiction). Then again, I eschew caffeine, too :) hln

2003-09-13T23:01:00.000-05:00

Poetry I put up links to some of my poetry there in the left-hand corner. I used to write pretty often, but Sisyphus that I put last week was the first in five years. Prior to that was cicada. Most of these have been published some place or another - I have a few in two different volumes of In Our Own Words, collections of poetry that vary from really, really, really bad to quite good. I

2003-09-13T22:31:00.000-05:00

Shredding I file all of the household papers, and for the last six months to a year or so I've been putting off the task of cleaning out the filing cabinets, having done it about a year ago and the things are STILL stuffed with paper. Paper we don't necessarily need. So, today, Brian and I journeyed to Office Depot and bought a little $9.99 shredder. I've found some interesting things

2003-09-13T22:17:00.000-05:00

Pssst! Moving off BlogSpot.... hln

2003-09-13T21:07:00.000-05:00

Geeks! Kelley of Suburban Blight had a recent post about geeks, dorks, and nerds, oh, my. I didn't think her geeksplanation was quite good enough, so I commented thus, and several of her readers agreed. You're missing a few things - where is the dweeb in all of this, or is he too proletariat? The dork - usually says the wrong things in all situations. Using a sock metaphor - he is

2003-09-13T20:58:00.000-05:00

My Review of this Week's New Blogger Showcase Over at Truth Laid Bear, there's this little thing called the New Blog Showcase. The Alliance is helping to rank the blogs, and so I am involved. Check out these posts. Eye on the Left tells us in a quote about The Exclusionary World of Money. Brainstorming expresses outrage at a political fundraiser held on 9/11/2003. This is not her

2003-09-13T18:44:00.000-05:00

Free the Chickens (PETA Post) Via The Center for Consumer Freedom, I found this article. Kweisi Mfume, president and chief executive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has signed a letter in support of an animal rights group's campaign against Kentucky Fried Chicken. Norfolk, Va.-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, a low-budget group

2003-09-13T15:42:00.000-05:00

Arriva, NICOWater, and Heather's Unabashed Opinion I read this article yesterday and earmarked it for blogging. First, anyone who doesn't know that nicotine is addictive, please raise your hands, shake 'em a bit, and then visit this website. Then come back. (No one left, I know). Now, that being said, how much does it take to kill you (since, as my loving husband pointed out,

2003-09-12T23:35:00.000-05:00

Filthy Lie #3 Glenn Reynolds' doesn't have a favorite song. But he's transfixed by the song meme Lola. Here's why. Remember the movie Telefon, starring the late Charles Bronson? People were "sleepers," activated by the text of Robert Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening." Glenn, Evil Glenn, is activated by any song about a woman named Lola (he's safe from Clapton's Layla -

2003-09-12T20:09:00.000-05:00

Gag, Cough, Spew, Spit Hi, I'm famous. I'm an "expert" (in something). Buy my weight loss book! hln

2003-09-11T22:15:00.000-05:00

Smackdown! Uh, honey. Fabrications about our private life on the blog. Bad. (I note that the spouse has spoken thus:) I don't even let my friends listen to my tapes or CDs for fear of violating my licensing restrictions, and I even forcibly prevent my gym-buffed wife from reading books I purchase for my own private, non-transferable enjoyment. Pleh. You refuse even to

2003-09-11T21:47:00.000-05:00

Free Adrian Lamo There's a website that wants to do just that. Contrary to the 2600s (not Atari) lying about my house, I'm not part of the hacker culture, and I know little about it - my geekiness is pretty mainstream in the code perspective. I read about Lamo turning himself in on CNN's website, and I had to know more. Wired gives a better profile. More than a year later, Lamo

2003-09-11T21:26:00.000-05:00

Lileks on 9/11/2001 If you read Lileks, then you expect nothing less than what he delivers today. If you haven't or don't read him, today is a good day to begin. hln

2003-09-11T07:30:00.000-05:00

Voices If you've not visited Michele's Voices project, please do. I'm borrowing the text of Meryl's (Meryl Yourish) to show you how powerful these stories are. My how-I-heard-it story is of no matter. It's not very interesting. I left work early, stopped and pick up some extra groceries, talked with neighbors until after dark. What I found far more visceral was the first time I

2003-09-11T07:02:00.000-05:00

Bizarre, Bizarre Is it just me, or is this story especially vague? First, (and foremost) "a rare form of cancer." That could be anything. I dug deeper. (I'm ignoring the parents' rights versus government "rights" - I have to work soon. There's potential for a really, really long post there, and if someone wants it, go ahead). Ewing's Sarcoma. (Here's more info on the cancer.) In

2003-09-10T12:03:00.000-05:00

Not Surprising Barbie dolls are a threat to morality. Really, they are. If you are a Saudi male, anyway. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining that the revealing clothes of the "Jewish" toy -- already banned in the kingdom -- are offensive to Islam. The Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and

2003-09-10T11:52:00.000-05:00

Obese Pets! Isn't there anything else newsworthy this week? You know, like bombings and killings in Israel/Palestine (too many links to even begin - we're all aware of these things, and if you aren't, well, there's always CNN). American pets are obese! Damn McDonalds! Er, I mean, how terrible. You know, I think that's the vet's job to warn you if your animal packs on a few - and then

2003-09-10T11:43:00.000-05:00

Carnival of the Vanities, #51 The Carnival is up at Admiral Quixote's Roundtable The host has had a terribly dramatic week, and I'm sure he would appreciate some encouragement for a job well done. hln

2003-09-09T21:14:00.000-05:00

Indeed Honey, these are probably the same kids that always play in the street even when cars are coming, no? Brian has a post about some dumb kids in the St. Louis area. Here in Casinoport, Missouri, one 15 year old said to a bunch of friends, hey, I just cracked myself over the head with a skateboard and it didn't hurt, I am invincible (or words to that effect). So he asked his

2003-09-09T21:04:00.000-05:00

The Gender Card In one of Reason Magazine's online posts for the day, Cathy Young points out some rather amusing adults-are-big-children moments in the California Recall campaign. My favorite is about Schwarzenegger. She states: "Would you let your sister vote for this man?" screams a headline in a recent issue of Salon.com, the left-of-center online magazine. The article quotes

2003-09-09T20:45:00.000-05:00

Who is Asparagirl? And where is she? I mean EVERYONE links to her (and now, well, so do I). When I first started reading blogs, I'd pop in on her because, well, everyone links to her, and she has such a cool name. But she's mostly AWOL. TTLB has her listed at #189 - she's a Large Mammal. What a legacy! hln

2003-09-09T12:03:00.000-05:00

Amazing, and Disgusting The Patriette discusses phraseology and September 11, 2001. Perhaps to save bureaucratic time and money, we should stop trying to explain/study/describe the day and rather blindly disseminate things that other countries have to say about the event. You can all spit now. hln

2003-09-08T22:22:00.000-05:00

Suburban Blight Brings You....Cul-de-Sac Kelley outdid herself - lots of posts. Visit, but plan to spend some time. hln

2003-09-08T22:06:00.000-05:00

80's Song Via Brian. "Sweet Dreams" (by Eurythmics) Sweet dreams are made of this Who am I to disagree? Travel the world and the seven seas Everybody's looking for something Some of them want to use you Some of them want to get used by you Some of them want to abuse you Some of them want to be abused Which 80's Song Fits You? brought to you by Quizilla Brian is "When Doves Cry"

2003-09-08T17:19:00.000-05:00

Comments? Do they work? Should I keep them? Are they non-intuitive? Will it rain tomorrow? Will virtual erasers take flight and wipe out all of Blogspot's content? Answer me these! (Please). hln

2003-09-08T17:17:00.000-05:00

Blog as Means of Shaming Those Who Would Attempt to Shame Us There - title will be longer than the post. Adam and cohorts encounter jerko car salesman and scathing commentary doth ensue. hln

2003-09-07T20:42:00.000-05:00

Sisyphus Sisyphus --------------------------------------------------------------------- On barren crest a craggy crooked overhang stands smashed against a hill. Each morn it bleeds against the sun, juts an angry ledge that leads beyond the view. Closer now, a man defines his task, the sound immense in motion. Rolling. Briefly it sits against a nook. Silence. Cunning once, he

2003-09-07T20:40:00.000-05:00

Perfect Wistful Song Under the Milky Way Tonight, by the Church. And it's something quite peculiar Something shimmering and white Leads you here despite your destination Under the Milky Way tonight hln

2003-09-07T20:31:00.000-05:00

Salad! I am a master (mistress) in the realm of salad. Look at this beauty. Ingredients, you ask? Lettuce (bagged is all right) Baby carrots, chopped into flat discs 1/2 oz cheese (monterey jack and cheddar in this case, I believe) 1 tomato, sliced and then halve the slices 1 oz dried cranberries 1/2 oz pecans, split in half 2 oz sirloin steak, cut into bite-sized pieces 1/

2003-09-07T17:14:00.000-05:00

Weekly Blogroll Updates I added some of the new members of the Alliance. Go and visit ALL of the Alliance members if you have the time. Also, two more to the main blogroll, Tales from a Yeti Suit, who is local, and The Blog of the Century of the Week, in spite of his current status as "On the Atkins Diet." Yes, I read all of these, and so expect the blogroll to grow even more

2003-09-06T22:29:00.000-05:00

Look Ma, a Use for Ankle Weights So, with my restlessness of being home today, I decided to put the home gym to use. I'm so thankful for it. I did a full body workout today. I learned/reminded myself of a few things. Plate mates rock. I don't do concentration curls correctly. Gotta fix that. Doing crunches while experiencing a rolling stomach: bad. There

2003-09-06T15:04:00.000-05:00

Not Quite the Darwin Awards; Still, Mind-Baffling Reality So, here's a good idea. You're in love with your friend's wife. So you kill your friend. Simple, right? Miller, 49, of De Soto, said he fatally shot Larry Holman at the request of Holman's wife, Tammy. Miller said he was in love with Tammy Holman and had hoped to move in with her and her children, then ages 10 and 12.

2003-09-06T14:54:00.000-05:00

Thelma and Louise Meet To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar Because no one was injured, this is the local ha-ha of the day. Two men in women's clothes held up a credit union employee in north St. Louis County on Friday morning, forced her into the building and got away with an undisclosed amount of cash, police said. The robbery happened just before 8 a.m. at

2003-09-06T14:41:00.000-05:00

PETA Party I found this on Consumer Freedom. Ha ha ha ha. What if you threw a party, and nobody showed up? Guess this is that. What'd PETA have to say? U.S. Marine Cpl. Ravi Chand, who just returned from his tour of duty in Iraq, has rejoined his old "unit" at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), but he’s not through fighting the war on terror just yet. Cpl. Chand,

2003-09-06T11:28:00.000-05:00

Disappointment Afoot I'll quote Dante from Clerks, "I'm not even supposed to BE here today." By this I mean home. Today is the MS 150. In Columbia, MO, not St. Louis. I'm in St. Louis. Home. This post will get really personal. I don't often do that, and I probably won't do that again until November 1, 2003. If it's too much or uninteresting, well, there are other things noted

2003-09-04T22:35:00.000-05:00

So Am I Jane? Tarzan! What movie Do you Belong in?(many different outcomes!) brought to you by Quizilla hln

2003-09-04T11:57:00.000-05:00

Voices My post is up on Voices. The site is really starting to take shape. Michele wrote that she had over 100 remaining to review. I found this at Electric Venom, and it's quite amazing. I'm sure Kate's post will be up soon, but you can catch it before having to weed through the minions on Michele's site. hln

2003-09-04T08:01:00.000-05:00

Extending Metaphors If Johnny Depp says that America is a puppy (I'll spare the adjectives that make his statement more asinine), and Glenn Reynolds blends puppies into energy shakes... Maybe we should all move to France in fear of our lives? Maybe Depp meant that we are MANY puppies (individuals as puppies?) and are therefore safe? Someone should call Depp and ask. I'm a bit worried.

2003-09-03T18:05:00.000-05:00

Spoons Shocks Me I was doing my early morning before-work reading today, and I happened upon this on Spoons' website. I'll cut to the scary part: (quoting a quote) The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced the weapon to the Blue Island Gun Shop, which received the gun from the manufacturer in 1966 and sold it to Milton R. Beuck. The last official record of

2003-09-03T17:42:00.000-05:00

Carnival of the Vanities Carnival #50 is up at Rhetorica.net. Brian and I both have pieces in this one, so do please visit. I've not read everything yet, but here are some of my favorite posts thus far: Cascading Failures and Politics - as found on a Voyage to Arcturus. Preemptive Health Care (or run a mile) - brought to you by uncategorical. (I mean, yeah. Wonder how I'd do on

2003-09-03T17:30:00.000-05:00

Johnny Depp, Come on Down Johnny "Mouth Should Be Taped" Depp made some interesting comments recently, and they hit the news today. I was going to give my thoughts, but I find others have done a far better job than the post that I envisioned, so here's some linkage. Rachel Lucas gives you the whole "news" story and then some goodies. And, Big Arm Woman gives us 67 cents worth as well.

2003-09-03T17:25:00.000-05:00

Comments! Yes, really. I went and got some because I didn't want to code my own. So, there you have it. hln

2003-09-02T21:01:00.000-05:00

PETA suing you today? PETA harassing you tomorrow Wow, no one saw the PETA post coming today, eh? Hah. Yum! Brands caved. Yes, that's right. KFC gave in to the harassment, which bodes well for PETA and its nutbars everywhere. There's no room for debate and disagreement - only discord and celebrity-backed over-the-top obnoxious campaigns that malign facts everywhere, regardless of any

2003-09-02T18:52:00.000-05:00

Filthy Lie™ #2 As I was walking up to the local GNC, I noticed a familiar child's bike parked against the exterior, near the door. There were three other autos in the parking lot - not very busy for a Tuesday evening. Thinking little of it beyond that, I entered the store and commenced shopping for edible supplies for this week's upcoming MS 150. The counter clerk was thoroughly

2003-09-01T22:29:00.000-05:00

Hey, Wait a Minute My main page is only showing yesterday and today. I'd suppose that's due to all that posting I've done today. Still, there's a lot of good stuff from last week and...well, Saturday. So I'll link to it for your ease of use. hln

2003-09-01T22:18:00.000-05:00

Voices - from A Small Victory This is the post I submitted to Voices, which is Michele's project from A Small Victory I encourage you to also write something and submit it. -=-=-=- As days begin, this was Anyday™. I was running a bit later to work than is usual - no idea why now. I stopped for a bagel at the local grocery, and as I was in my car and exiting the parking lot, KMOX,

2003-09-01T22:02:00.000-05:00

Tim Blair on Hamas - Appropriately Wry New Hamas, Now 25% Unfriendlier His words: The formerly moderate Palestinian fellowship collective known as Hamas has become radicalised, according to The Guardian: The death of Abu Shenab has radicalised Hamas. I guess that’s the end of civilised negotiation, then. UPDATE. Another Hamas activist has been killed, reports AFP. The

2003-09-01T21:21:00.000-05:00

Cycling Races in the Rain The RiverfontTimes has an article this week about the Gateway Cup, that took place this weekend in St. Louis. I'm sure that was a grand time; it rained almost the entire weekend except for parts of Saturday. I'm sure that adds an element to the torture, described in the last paragraph. For, as the very best in the sport often claim, road racing is

2003-09-01T21:02:00.000-05:00

Udderly Disgusting Carbonated Milk hln