Okay, time to get to filtering the cumbersomely large friends list.  Torin showed me how to float it at the top of my journal, so any new folks coming in can decide just how much Klicrai they can really handle.  As you have recently seen, I am sometimes very much NOT a bastion of sweetness and light, and that fact occasionally comes out in my ( Read more... )

I've been away from LJ for far too long, Facebook having lured me with it's shorter post lengths. Like candy for the brain ( Read more... )

While I'm glad Obama has been able to get this healthcare reform bill passed I'm sad to say that what he has accomplished is little more than a corporate give away. The insurance companies are being given a huge pool of new clients forced to buy their services, with no requirement that those companies actually compete with one another. The fight is ( Read more... )

We went to the Asylum Street Spankers concert tonight at the Triple Door. It was awesome, of course, though not quite as funny as when we saw them at the same venue two years ago. Sexy blues, country rock gospel fusion with harmonica, fiddle, guitar, washboard, cello, saw, and freakin' hilarious lyrics. Check em out!

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When I was 13 years old my grandma gave me a book called Spirit Walker of Native American poems by Nancy Wood together with beautiful artwork. Here is my favorite poem of the collection ( Read more... )

Do you love the Muppets? Watch this!www.youtube.com/watch

I just watched an AMAZING movie called Ben X. It got 5/5 stars from me, which is difficult to do. If you know (or are) a person with Aspergers or who has ever had to deal with epic bullying - watch this movie. It hurt *so* bad to watch it - but the ending was absolutely amazing, worth every single tear I shed for the kid cause of the movie's all ( Read more... )

I'm thankful for weirdness...

This pretty much sums it up.

We just had one of the oldest books we own rebound at Ars Obscura.  "The Universal Self Instructor" published in 1883 is a beautifully illustrated volume of everything a well educated man or woman needed to know in order to thrive in the 19th century.  Sport, business, manners, math, history, grammer... it covers a lot of ground.  It's entertaining ( Read more... )