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bkwrrm-tx are still kinda new to each other, so I'm doing their meme.

1) Is there a singer or musician whose complete works you absolutely enjoy, no exceptions ( Read more... )

2011: good riddance


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Oh, for cryin' out loud. I am Having A Day and apparently am too stupid this morning for even the most basic internet chores. I have been looking at this web page for five minutes and still cannot find where the download button is for the vector version of the wing images. Can you? And if so, can you tell me?

EDIT: The generous, glamorous, ( Read more... )

Well, my dearest savant_da_rat is off in Pennsylvania and won't be home for another week, so it's bachelorette time here ( Read more... )

pyat put this up yesterday (in honor of Canada Day?) It's a sweet song, a little mournful, shot at a local landmark. I like her voice and the melody and the visuals so much, here y'go. It reminds me of the refineries alongside 55 near Joliet, or the ruined steelmills of my South Side upbringing.

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So I was explaining to my Brit flister belle-marmotte, soon to be an emigré, the U.S. diffs between sedate pumps for work and CFM pumps which are not for work unless you are a sex worker, when I ran across this woman's shoe and fashion journalHo boy, she's into shoes. She's a cosplay person. And to my surprise, her enormous tummy tattoo (a strand of large hollow ( Read more... )

Ace left us on April 27, and I am still very sad. Three days ago, the gutter man came to clean out our roof gutters. In the fall, he pulls out the leaves; in the spring, it's the maple seeds.

"Where's your dog?" was his first question. I had forgotten that he and Ace had a Major Love Thang goin' on. Ace loved this man from the very first sniff ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Memorial Day here in the U.S., but today is special, too. On Wednesday, six days back, I called Bethania Cemetery outside of Chicago and ordered grave decorations for my gramma, her mom, and her son, my Uncle Danny, who died in WW II and whom I never got to meet. Gramma gets a flowered sign which says "grandmother" and her mom gets ( Read more... )