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VQU + My Life as a Gymnast UPDATE! With Video of Olga AND Nadia!!!!
First the VQU: Just got back from the ER. Not the one I work at; in fact, I didn't go to work. I was minding my own business today, trying to get rid of a perfectly mild migraine .... my first in a month, again, contributing to my theory that now that I have them relatively under control they're just going to come on a particular day of the ( Read more... ) -
The Cold War and My Part In Its Downfall....a short story / chapter draft
Just practicing writing. This may or may show up in some way, shape or form in my Cold War project. It's a true story, but the names have been changed to protect me from getting sued.
Helen Karras walked into her French I classroom in August 1975 and let out an audible gasp. There were students everywhere. We were sitting in seats, on desks, on ( Read more... ) -
Notes to self (and anyone else who stops by)
I've just spent five hours putting up two entries on my other LJ. So I'm not even going to bother trying to enter the three-plus posts I wanted to do here this morning from home. But at some point I'd like to say something about...
--The fact that yesterday was the 44th anniversary of the Beatles' first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show (not ( Read more... ) -
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Must be the health habits of the people my parents hung out with.
got an e-mail yesterday that another friend passed away...not a super-duper close friend, but the brother of my brother's best friend (does that make sense)?The late dude was also an early boyfriend of my youngest sister.
Will you people stop dying already?
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Water Additive Warfare UPDATED! and illustrated!
I traipsed all around looking for iodized salt yesterday. In south east Michigan. What's up with that? I was in Meijers, and OK it was after 1 am, when their stocks tend to be low (and on a weekend night to boot), but there was not a single brand of salt, sea salt, kosher salt or even "diet salt" (whatever that is) that wasn't labelled "This ( Read more... ) -
random acts of news about me. ME. MEEEEEEE!
Yeah, I know, that last post sucked....
I meant to talk about Brando as a "Cold War" era icon, and sneak in something about how his being a tower of method acting and student of students of the great Stanislovski made him heir to the Chekovian stage, sort of. Which should have entailed at least a bit of explanation of Method Acting. Meh. I'll re- ( Read more... ) -
Brando
Though enemies in ideology, the US and Soviet Union remained bound together throughouth the cold war by three common things:
over-the-top cheesy patriotism, an ever-growing military budget, and....METHOD ACTING!!! Or, perhaps more properly, Stanislovsky's Method. And in this hemisphere, at least on the Big Screen, Marlon Brando may have had no ( Read more... ) -
Would you believe...
Got home from running errands earlier this afternoon and who else but Nikita Khruschev was waiting for me, right at my door.
It was a book I'd ordered on Amazon Marketplace for I think 10 bucks or something.
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He's a minister! He's a rock star! No, he's a rock star, AND a minister!
So, I go to this "Discovery Class" tonight for this new church I've been attending, and enjoying, for the past , oh, twelve weeks or so, which is supposed to give you information about the church, see if you want to join, etc. I expected, well, maybe forty people would be there.
It was a frickin' wedding reception! There must have been three ( Read more... )
