This is what people look like around here

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 Ahhhh, September....the time for the leaves to begin turning golden, birds to make plans for southward departure, and people  to consider who to snuggle with  when the cold winds blow across the land in the coming months. Blechhh...:-)


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 Ain't it fun when you're always on the run
Ain't it fun when your friends despise what you've become
Ain't it fun when you get so high that you, well you just can't come
Ain't it fun when you know that you're gonna die young

It's such fun... such fun

Ain't it fun when you're taking care of number one
Ain't it fun when you feel like you just gotta get a ( Read more... )

 I am not sure how it was I stumbled onto the subject, which has preoccupied my mind for the last week...perhaps it was the murder/suicide of some people I was casually friendly with, or perhaps something entirely different, but I ran acrosss this paragraph on a website devoted to grief:

- Everyone has heard about the famous "Dear John" letters that ( Read more... )

Pieces of an odd documentary about USA in the 1970s, called "Jabberwalk".   I used to own this on VHS, having found it in a video store called Tivoli Video, which the local arthouse movie theater ran for a few years.
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 As a child of the Cold War era,  the belief in coming  nuclear annhilation was so deeply embedded in my head in my teenage years thatI have never fully been able to let go of it to this day, despite all signs that say it's not going to happen.

On a similar note, I have always believed and obtusely and stubbornly continue to believe that I will ( Read more... )

 Lately I've wound up watching a lot of zombie movies. I don't know why exactly, that just seems to be a sub-genre which is easy to agree upon on our regular "movie nights".
The last one that really stuck w/me was a Spanish film called [REC] (later re-made in Hollywood as "Quarantine")

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While we watched it, I was struck by the realization that "zombie ( Read more... )

Refrigerators are an odd extension of ourselves, through technology. Clothes, book, and music collections, may or may not reveal the deeper nature of the owner due to space constraints and circumstances (e.g. the recent loss of a library in a flood by jackbabalon23 ). A fridge, on the other hand, is a modern convenience few people do without, even in the most ( Read more... )

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 I just won't learn.....