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Peace is Restored
Vincentine (a.k.a. greenvincentine) has decamped, taking the Geranium Enrichment Project with her. Please friend her if you care to. Predictably (given her waspish disposition), she currently has no friends.
Slumber will now resume.
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Vincentine Lets Me Out of the Closet
She says I can post this one thing: It's so good to have Jason Varitek back. It almost feels like a real baseball season.
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Where Are We Going, and How Did I Get into This Handbasket?
Because cathyj never posts, I have taken over her journal. She can still comment on her friends' blentries, but she is no longer allowed to post. She blew it. Also, there is a misspelling in her last blentry ( Read more... ) -
Shocked -- Shocked!
We take a break from withering on the vine to bring you this update on the anti-drug classic Go Ask Alice.
From Wikipedia:
The epilogue tells us that "Alice" died of a drug overdose, though the only drugs she regularly used (i.e, used more than once for pleasure) and could easily obtain at the position she was in at the end of the book were LSD ( Read more... ) -
At Last the 1998 Show
Fifteen years ago (I spent some long moments last night freaking out about that number), I turned in a paper for a class called "Problems in Cultural Criticism" (teaching fellow: Ambreen Hai). The paper was called "Cultural Criticism from a Roof Top," and it was one of several that year which I typed up on and laser-printed from the new (color ( Read more... ) -
Confidential to Mr. Smearcase
Dear Mr. S, I know. I've read some old Austin media, and one thing that interested me was finding out how prevalent and consistent the "Austin is nothing like it used to be" feeling has been ever since the early eighties. But, all that aside, it's still Austin, and I still miss it. Very much ( Read more... ) -
Now to the Truly Important News
I miss the old Shane. I'm serious. She was my friend, and now she's gone.
I keep trying to tell myself we're all so upset about TLW this season because it's lesbian TV, and we're lesbians-like we have some kind of duty to keep lezTV honest. But that's not it. It's just that TLW is television, and we're television-watchers. And television- ( Read more... ) -
I Fail in My Bid for a Phoenix Letter-Page Trifecta
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What's So Civil About War Anyway?
In his increasingly desperate public-relations campaign, Dubya the other day did something he hasn't done in three years, according to NPR: he took a question from Helen Thomas, the fiery eighty-six-year-old White House correspondent. She said:
Q: I'd like to ask you, Mr. President, your decision to invade Iraq has caused the deaths of ( Read more... )