Eric finally managed to get a picture of all three furballs napping together:


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( It's weird how things can work out fine some times, and then go really wrong other times. )

The Current is playing a 2-hour "Tonal Recall" block of goth music - ah, memories from my high school days.  The main MPR site featured an article that got me thinking even more about how Halloween (my favorite holiday, BTW) has changed for me over the years.

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I started writing a whole big entry about how my views of Halloween ( Read more... )

Just listened to "Rise" by Public Image Limited, followed by "Nemesis" by Shriekback, "Soundtrack to Mary" by Soul Coughing, and "So Alive" by Love and Rockets. Man, I love the Total Recall program on MPR's The Current.  Everyone should stream this on Fridays.

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I just wanted to see if this works - and the song is pretty darn cute for some brainless Friday fun.

I've been pretty quiet in cyberland lately. It's probably due to a combination of factors: we're in our busy time at the day job, I've been working on a submission (just one quick read-through and it will be ready...yeah right!), and I have a couple of manuscripts that I'm beta reading for fellow writers.  My brain may go kaplooey soon, but I am ( Read more... )

I have always had the uncanny ability to find an object that gets lost ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon, I participated in a panel at my Alma Mater, the U of M. It was a panel called "What Can I Do With an Art Degree?" and consisted of six alumni, including me. One woman works for Springboard for the Arts while pursuing her own projects. Another woman is a full-time painter, represented by a gallery, and also works part time as ( Read more... )

I've been less than dutiful about posting to LJ ,and instead spending time with Facebook.  This is mostly because FB keeps dropping alerts into my email inbox (invitations, friend requests, and such), and I hate to see pending messages, whereas LJ has been quietly waiting for me to spend some quality time with it.  So, I stop over on facebook to ( Read more... )

If you ask a convenience store clerk to give you all ones as your change for a purchase at 7:00 in the morning, he looks at you like you asked him to roll around naked in a fire ant hill.  Then he says no.  This happened at two different stores before I found someone that would break a ten ( Read more... )