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"It's a hollow play, but they'll clap, anyway."

greygirlbeast Jul 04, 2024 22:17

I can't help but think that this could be America's last Independance Day. I think that's the sort of pronouncement that Bret Easton Ellis would refer to as "clutching pearls." And yet. And it was hot. Our heat advisory continued. Sunny and cloudy by turns, the high 97F, with a heat index of 106F. Near sunset, as all of Birmingham readied for the ( Read more... )

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Entry No. 7,264

greygirlbeast Jul 03, 2024 19:21

Very hot today. Our high was 93.9F, with a heat index of 102F. We have a heat advisory that extends through the night and tomorrow ( Read more... )

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"I'm on the outside looking through."

greygirlbeast Oct 22, 2021 18:19

Sunny today. Our high was 73˚F, and it is now 67˚F.

There's not much to see here, I'm afraid. Mostly, I'm trying to stay off this leg while it heals.

I did watch the extended cut of Peter Jackson's Return of the King (2003), and while it's not my favorite of the trilogy, there's still an awful lot there to love - Pippin's song, Eowyn taking out ( Read more... )

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"On and on, I don't know if I want it."

greygirlbeast Dec 23, 2018 20:33

The sun reappeared today, after a cloudy morning, and we made it to 60˚F.

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So, I said last night that tonight I was going to talk about the New York Journal of Books review of The Dinosaur Tourist. Probably, I ought not. Lord knows that over the years I've taken a veritable mountain of shit for responding to critics. But this review, which is ( Read more... )

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