So, I'm an Oregonian. Born and breed. I grew up waking up to (in no particular order) possums, bears, moose, snakes, even once a coyote [and not the Texas kind, that just move people about ( Read more... )

I just realized what should have been obvious, but I'm a numbskull. One shouldn't read their ex's blogs. Under ANY circumstances. I'm actually fighting off images of me pumping a shotgun. I've never carried/loaded/fired a shotgun.

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"Everybody dies famous in a small town"

----Miranda Lambert, _Crazy Ex-Girlfriend_

I have fought for a relationship when I knew it was lost.

Now I know that the right relationship will get better value.

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In May of 1937, Jean Harlow died. The King of Britain abdicated. Both of these stories were pushed from the front page rather quickly.
Why?
Because a 17 year-old dancer, Patricia Douglas, working for MGM, responded to a casting call.

Except, it wasn't really a casting call. She had been called in to act as party hostess for an MGM convention to " ( Read more... )

On March 11th of this year, The UK military launched a military communications satellite named "SkyNet". Sound familiar?

Because maybe the "Gover-nator" was right. This year would be the 10 year anniversary of the machines gaining self-awareness.

We are so screwed.

"DM of the Rings", by Shamus Young:

"The rulebooks never say that players earn XP for finding ways to imply the other guys at the table might be gay, but you would never know this from observing their behavior."

"I see a lot of kids with those “'I Roll Twenties'” t-shirts. I don’t know what game they are playing, or where they get their dice. I need ( Read more... )

So, I was driving out to West Texas, when I saw a sign: Mean Gene’s Pizza. And I was reminded of Emery Oliver.

Emery was first recorded in Rendezvous, a book about Northwest stories. When he was a teenager he lived for 3 days under a collapsed barn that had killed his twin brother. Seems a stallion fell across him, and its neck was strong ( Read more... )