I suppose it's time - or maybe past time - to discuss what I've been doing of late, and why I haven't really been posting here. This is kind of complicated, so get some coffee or something first...and apologies for no LJ-cut, because I want this to be read ( Read more... )

A crazy day. The morning and afternoon, for I woke at both times, opened with a collision within my calendar: Kid-2 had an audition, but I had to get to papertigers and debboamerik's place to help them move. Got there late and pitched in as best I could with my comforting male presence and mighty moose muscles. Embarrassingly, I was so pooped by the end of it that I ( Read more... )

Really busy of late. Or, in the words of Monday Night Football (through hcuz), "AAAAAAAAAGGGG".

Very good news in that my mother has started physical therapy and is doing much, much better - in fact, having an episode where she was about to fall and caught herself, which was not supposed to be entirely possible, given her condition. So, good news ( Read more... )

( the long version )

A blogger has reported, and is standing by the story, that Fidel Castro has died. The problem: it's celebrity gossip Perez Hilton, who is of no use. I mean, I took the liberty of going through the blog to see what sort of thing this was. In the words of EC Comics, GOOD LORD [CHOKE!] This person is a human barnacle, his output is 100% noise, and ( Read more... )

A bunch of quick things:

• Here's the trivia question that I thought would really be cool, and damned if it didn't stump the experts last Tuesday: In the song "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66" - you know, as in, "Well, it winds from Chicago to L.A....more than two thousand miles on the way..." - yeah, that one - Route 66 winds through ten towns on the ( Read more... )

( another family medical issue )

Since some folks have asked, here's a speech that Cynthia McKinney gave at the Green Party national meeting last week.

Stay with me, here. First, mooninites show up all over Boston, prompting the alert and not-at-all-hysterical-why-do-you-ask Boston authorities to enact their special three-week emergency response to these hoax devices which were obviously set up to blow up the Charles, spew molasses all over the place, and cause the Red Sox to actually consider ( Read more... )

On my profile page, you'll now find a link to the Green Party's page on the impeachment of George W. Bush (and Dick Cheney, for that matter), including a link to our online petition calling for just that. The petition has definitely struck a chord; it received hundreds of signatures in its first ninety minutes or so of being on the Web, and it ( Read more... )