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Happy Halloween everyone! Enjoy the latest Made of Fail which is dripping fright and my sweat. The topic is scary movies with a long sidebar on bullying and Project Trevor. Good stuff that almost broke my computer and I. The episode isn't the longest MoF ever (that would be Episode 30 regarding the Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Something ( Read more... )

(Incidentally the name of my Harry Potter wizard rock band is Luna and the Limits ( Read more... )

Just some slap-dash musings on the nomination of Elena Kagan. See NPR for a fuller take ( Read more... )

Parts 47, 48, and 49 of a cryptogram

So been awhile, ya? I started writing Things I Like at a difficult period in my life. I felt like I was always complaining online so I wrote TIL to force myself to think about good things. I figured it was good for me (changing my frame of reference) and good for whoever was reading this (who wants to read ( Read more... )

On Election Night, Ohio passed Issue 3 allowing casinos in four cities including Cincinnati. I hate to say it, but I think the anti-3-ers had a point. It's only been two days, but check out this video I shot on my cell phone downtown today.

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Other than damning our collective souls to hell, things went very well on Tuesday. Most of my candidates ( Read more... )

It's an off-year election here in Cincinnati, so none of the major headline grabbers (Congress-peeps, Governor, President) are up; however, thanks to the bad economy, we have a full ballot (I heard 4 pages, front and back) to vote on as different organizations come to us voters asking for money. The ballot issue getting the most attention is Issue ( Read more... )

A 50 year old woman from Israel accidentally joined my local Unitarian Universalist young adults' group's e-mail listserv (long story). Here is her first and last post.

( Madness? THIS. IS. RECYCLED CLINTON-ERA SPAAAAAAAAAAAM! (Kosher) )

For the past month or so the New York Senate was stuck in a 31-31 stalemate with Republicans and Democrats both claiming power. This lead to scenes of Democrats and Republicans sitting on different halves of the chambers holding separate Senate sessions, each claiming to be the legitimate Senate. It was like a cross between the Babylonian ( Read more... )

Made of Fail episode 16, aka the MacBeth of podcasts, is up. Everyone associated with it had some sort of computer implosion within two weeks of recording it. Kevin, the usual host and editor had major internet connectivity issues so I was called in to co-host with Dayna and to edit it. It was supposed to be a 15 minute thing to touch on a few ( Read more... )