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How does it feel to be a walking, talking, cliche?
I think we may be in the End Times when a Helicopter Parent is no longer a metaphor, but is the thing itself.
FAA Called After Father Flies Teen to School
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Food Anglophilia
I saw an episode of Faulty Towers last night and now I really want an lemon squash. This isn't the first time I've heard of lemon squash (was it Narnia? probably), but I'd kind of forgotten all about it.
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Do not feed or tease the midwesterners.
We had a special meeting at work to discuss The Hurricane currently in the Atlantic Ocean and What Would Happen when it came to Cape Cod. Our Director is originally from Ohio, and really, that explains it all.
"We may get winds up to fifty miles an hour!" (Well yes.)
"There's a very slight chance it may still be a hurricane when it arrives here!" ( ( Read more... ) -
*whistles* Friday...here Friday...come here boy!
Is this work week over yet?
So far, I've had people get aggressive, pointedly ignore me, get upset, blow me off, argue irrefutable facts, we have auditors in, money has been lost and found, and the drama, the drama, there is just more drama coming down the pike all the time.
Shit apples. The whole lot of them.
And I need to clone myself to get ( Read more... ) -
Moving Pictures
Eeesh. I never do this, but I just bailed on a pan-Asian horror anthology called Three...Extremes. It's three stories from three different directors (Chinese, Korean and Japanese). It's very well acted and well produced, but essentially just sadistic gross-out horror (think "Saw"). Yuck. We then had to immediately watch two episodes of Trailer ( Read more... ) -
Bikes (and toy airplanes) make everything better.
After coming home from work this afternoon I hopped on my bike to go to the hardware store. I was just there to pick up cup hooks, but on impulse I also picked up a little balsa wood glider. This exact one.
I'm telling you, it was the bicycle. If I'd gone in a car, I never would have brought a balsa wood glider home. I brought it home, put it ( Read more... ) -
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Saw the drag kings All the Kings Men last night. I've seen them before and all I can say is that their performance and technique have matured almost beyond recognition.
One of the more daring things they're doing is they're incorporating female performance into their acts which paradoxically highlights just how much work is involved in performing ( Read more... )