Month: October 2012
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tired of bronco bama & mitt romney
Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney make me want to cry too, Abby. Read.
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well scuffed
I got a very strange phone call today. While I was sipping coffee and reading the daily paper on my lunch break in the coffee shop down the street, my cell phone buzzed. The number wasn’t one I recognized, but it was in the local area code, so it wasn’t the usual telemarketer. “Hello?” I… Read.
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how the moon lights up
There was the most amazingly full moon visible through the front window of Our Humble O’Bode this morning. I sat and watched it set in the early-morning gloom, big and bright enough to read by, not that I was nutbrained enough to go out into twenty-degree weather to read anything. It’ll be full tonight. Maybe… Read.
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I am so awesome
I have been way too productive this week. Gaze upon the laundry list of my accomplishments and weep as you realize that your feeble efforts cannot compare to mine: the storm windows are finally up, so if you’re one of the Merry Little Breezes that has been blowing through the front windows of Our Humble… Read.
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no! not the bees!
The woman selling goodies for Honey Bee Bakery at the Monona Farmer’s Market was dressed as a giant bumble bee this morning. “Bet you can’t guess what I’m supposed to be,” she said to me as I approached her booth. “John Belushi?” I answered. If she got the reference, she didn’t let on. Honey Bee… Read.
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corbomite
The Corbomite Maneuver is one of those Star Trek episodes that I thought was the absolute cat’s ass when I saw it back in high school, but when I watch it now it’s so full of cornball I can hardly see anything else going on. It starts off with a mystery: A giant multicolored cube… Read.
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why do we have them?
I’m not sure how much longer I’m going to be able to keep living with cats. Sure, they’re cute enough when they’re kittens. After they grow up they can still be cute, but — and here’s the important thing — only when they want to be. And when they don’t want to be, they can… Read.
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music to my ears
If you can hear a whole brass section going DUNNNH DUH-DUH-DUH-DUNNNH! as you gaze at this cinegraph, you must have wasted at least as much of your youth watching Star Trek as I did. Read.
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mouse is a dish that’s best eaten live
Bonkers wanted up in my lap. I was blogging. I said no. He sat and pouted for a while until he fell asleep sitting up. When he jerked himself awake, he sauntered off toward the dining room, probably to slop water from his bowl all over the floor. He’s getting good at that. Several minutes… Read.
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How to see Milwaukee on just $500 a day – Part 3
Just a bit more drivel about Milwaukee and then I’m done for a while, I promise. Almost as good as being in the audience for one of our favorite radio shows was having the great good luck to find a place to stay for the night as comfy and warm as the County Clare Inn.… Read.
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