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| It's official |
| 07.30.03 (9:36 am) [edit] |
I've finally paid off all of my student loans. This is my first day without debt in... 15 years?
(I think I'll use one of Rocky's new emoticons now)
:shock:
Now I feel like doing something reckless. But what?
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| toast |
| 07.24.03 (9:07 pm) [edit] |
Today I saw a museum exhibit of "futuristic" kitchen appliances from the 1930s through the 1960s (have to help the little sister get cultured). As I was gazing at the missile-shaped, chrome baby bottle warmer and all manner of toasters and cocktail shakers, I remembered one of my favorite web pages from a few years back.
=http://www.thoughtviper.com/i...Toast party!
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| mauled |
| 07.23.03 (10:08 pm) [edit] |
I just spent 8 hours in the Mall of America with a 15 year old. Does that count as exercise?
Feelin' the burn...
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| kitty hangover |
| 07.15.03 (10:54 pm) [edit] |
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Ok, maybe listening to those guster songs was a mistake. For 2 straight days I've had nonstop meows stuck in my head. I am probably one step removed from schizophrenia at this point.
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| Better than Cats |
| 07.13.03 (7:46 pm) [edit] |
The New York Times reported today:
[i]Anyone trying to download the new Guster album, "Keep It Together" (Warner Brothers), from the unauthorized file-sharing service KaZaA received a surprise: the vocals were replaced by a man meowing the lyrics, occasionally adding harmonies. The intent was to deter music freeloaders by having the band's monitor engineer, Matt Peskie, spend three days sabotaging the songs. But the meow mixes actually make for great listening. The meows - variously serious and funny, sustained and rapid-fire, low-pitched and high-pitched - convey unexpected humanity, largely because they are the sound of a person who loves the music having fun. So, rather than creating a deterrent, Guster has created a rival for its own album.[/i]
Although I'm not a Guster fan, some of these songs are truly top notch. My favorite is the kitty-fied "Come downstairs & say hello." Must be heard to be believed! Download your own semi-legal copy today!
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| one more lie |
| 07.10.03 (9:24 pm) [edit] |
So, =http://www.cbsnews.com/storie...CBS reported their big story tonight - Bush knew he was lying about Iraq's weapons.
From the story:
[i]"The White House officials responded that a paper issued by the British government contained the unequivocal assertion: 'Iraq has ... sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.' As long as the statement was attributed to British Intelligence, the White House officials argued, it would be factually accurate. The CIA officials dropped their objections and that's how it was delivered.
'The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,' Mr. Bush said.
The statement was technically correct, since it accurately reflected the British paper. But the bottom line is the White House knowingly included in a presidential address information its own CIA had explicitly warned might not be true. "[/i]
I wish I could be confident that the American public would give a damn about this. The level of government fraud we have experienced in recent years should be causing riots in the streets, and, yet, nothing...
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| Humor in unlikely places |
| 07.06.03 (9:31 pm) [edit] |
Who would have thought that the Weekly Standard could have produced anything this funny and =http://www.weeklystandard.com...self-parodying?
Hegemon-o-rama!
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| Ann & Joe |
| 07.04.03 (10:21 am) [edit] |
It looks like Ann Coulter's =http://www.salon.com/books/re...new book tries to reinvent Joe McCarthy. Doesn't she know that [i]nobody [/i]liked him, even people in his own party?
I could go on and on about this and what a bastard Joe really was, but why explore the obvious?
What I really want to know is, if Coulter wants to be the hot babe of conservatism, shouldn't she learn how to put on =http://www.anncoulter.org/ima...eyeliner?
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| faking it |
| 07.01.03 (10:03 pm) [edit] |
I started watching a show on BBC America called "Faking it" (apparently TLC has a version of it too). I went into it thinking I'd see something amusing about someone trying to fool someone into believing he's something he's not. At the end of the first hour, I was hooked. I have not seen anything so compelling or touching in a long time.
The first episode I saw was about a short, skinny, gay Oxford student from the countryside who tried to pass himself off as an experienced East End bouncer. He had only been to London twice in in his life (and never to the type of neighborhood where he'd be living). When he showed up he was meek and frightened. Over the course of a month he was taught how to box, given a new haircut, clothes, and lessons in his accent, and suffered serveral humiliating attempts at being a bouncer before being subjected to the Final Test.
More captivating than his success or failure, however, was watching the mutual affection and understanding between the contestant and his hard-edged coaches grow over the course of the month (and I don't think it was some twisted version of the Stockholm Syndrome). In all the episodes I've seen, the contestant has emerged deeply changed by the experience, such as the case of the vicar who tried to be a used car salesman, and the housepainter who tried to be an artist.
To be honest, I felt a little jealous of all of them. How often do any of us get the chance to start over like that?
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