So, yesterday, I posted what was possibly the most exciting news I have ever gotten. And I get crickets and cobwebs.

I think if I had posted a general "I suck and I hate me and my life", I would have gotten more response.

So, yeah. Think I'm pretty much done posting on LJ.

Happy Christmas Eve, everybody! The blessings of hearth and home, warmth, friends and family and enough to eat on one and all.

Let me just say this. If you do *not* vote, please do not complain to me about your dissatisfaction with the government or any part of it. The way I see it, the reward I get for voting is the right to complain when I am outvoted. If you don't vote, you don't get that reward ( Read more... )

It really has to totally suck to be the absolute center of the Universe, what with God hating you, and all.

(sorry, all, sometimes it just needs to be said to bring some perspective back.)

EDIT: and no, this is not actually self-directed.

Happy Independence Day!

::runs off to listen to some George M Cohen music::

Anybody got a line on a really dirt cheap but playable (and possibly relatively clean) trumpet or coronet?

28 years ago, we broke up when you told me you were joining the Navy. You were just too young, but had your parents' permission, so the Navy was going to take you. I couldn't imagine you in the military, having known you as a soft-spoken boy who made me feel special and looked at life with seriousness and silliness through long dark hair and ( Read more... )

This is my next big event... go check it out and if you can, COME ON OUT! I will be relatively resplendent in my wild west steampunk finery! (And yes, Pixel will have his stilts...)

http://steampunkworldsfair.com/

My Mom sent me this link. It's the employees of a hospital who got together to make this video to raise breast cancer awareness. They mostly dance like I do (badly), but they are having a lot of fun doing it. The key is, at a million hits, Medline will make a rather large donation to the hospital *and* offer free mammograms in the community. ( Read more... )

http://www.transcendingboundaries.org/Read more... )