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Hello! It has been some time. But a quick recipe to hold you over ( Read more... )

It's deadlines what are making me post so much.

First, I would like to direct your attention toward this: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Gx6bCREhz4

Then, there was a classified ad in the back of Harper's for a provider of 'imaginative conversation' and 'fetish and fantasy', a ( Read more... )

Well, three days in a row. Crazy ( Read more... )

I am not going to talk about Celebrity Big Brother. Part of the reason I'm not going to talk about Celebrity Big Brother is that I don't have anything on which to watch Celebrity Big Brother. This is because if I had TV, I would absolutely, 100% be watching Celebrity Big Brother. I was in a hotel early last week, watching Celebrity Big Brother (I ( Read more... )

I'm only updating this morning because I'm going on Nadine's show to talk about my uneasy relationship with whatever it is I am keeping here. It's not that I don't mean to update, it's that I don't really have time, or I feel like I would prefer to write something with more of a focus, even though I quite enjoy having this LJ as a brain dump. ( Read more... )

I was looking to see if the text of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" was online, and it is, in a number of places. If you've not read it, it's absolutely stunning: http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/pdocs/bradbury_martian.pdfRead more... )

Dear Middle-Aged Ladies Of Dublin (and some old men ( Read more... )

Ever spot some square-framed glasses and baggy jeans from a distance and discover all too late that this was not a cute little indie hipster boy, but an old man, ready to cram his paranoid fantasies down your delicate little neck? Ever think, "If I had a euro for every time I crossed the road to avoid a potential old man with a not-very-sober face ( Read more... )

Setting: A DART Station, 10:20am, Tuesday

The Cast:

Jane........played by Jane
Ticket Bitch.....played by the DART ticket agent
Sinead.......played by Sinead.

Jane: [into phone] Yeah, hang on a minute, I just have to buy a DART ticket.

The Ticket Bitch is sitting motionless in the ticket booth. Jane stands there for a moment, then knocks ( Read more... )