I try, very, very hard, not to indulge too often or too deeply in schadenfreude. I've had that turned on me far too often to feel any kind of good about turning it on other people, no matter how deserving. And so while every so often, someone's disaster gives me a moment's squee, more often than not, it's the other way around ( Read more... )

I got my journal backed up on ljarchive. So should this place disappear overnight, the last six years would not have gotten completely flushed away into the cosmos ( Read more... )

I sometimes think that there are some real nutburgers on LJ ( Read more... )

While I appreciate the thoughtful inclusion of a spiff new header on LJ for Halloween, I would much more appreciate a website that actually worked for more than an hour at a time.

Seriously.

No love.

Just sayin'.

I'm sitting here procrastinating, and I was going back through some of my previous entries, only to find that one of them has assigned to it a userpic I've never seen before ( Read more... )

Wallace actually came out from under the bed last night when dinner arrived, and in a fit of guilt, I shared a larger than normal portion of my cheese fries with him ( Read more... )

I haven't been around much lately--there has been busy-ness abounding, and I haven't even paid much attention to reading here. And I apologize for that, because, in catching up this morning, I've found that I've missed a LOT ( Read more... )

But I thought that it would be much worse than this:


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Yesterday, I was waxing rhapsodic about the good old days of rock radio, and I mentioned the name of one DJ who has been described as "The King of Philadelphia Radio"--and not without reason. He was without question the most well-known of all the Philly DJ's, and one with whom everyone was familiar ( Read more... )

Wow--you guys went wild here today, didn't you?

In considering all the things surrounding the Boob Project, and in reading all the objections to it, I don't find that many people have hit on exactly what disturbs me about this whole thing.

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