Category: daily drivel
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a visit from the axe murderer
We had a visit from the axe murderer the other night. We were both very sure he was there. He creeps into our house every so often with his double-bladed war axe that drips with the blood of his victims, at least one of which he killed just minutes before he broke into our little… Read.
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changeup
My Darling B has a whole new attitude about mice since she opened her garden shed and discovered they’d pooped and peed on just about everything in there. Before she was on Mother Nature’s side, making me trap them live so we could release them in a nearby city park, but now that she has… Read.
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stung
In an article about the worst places to get stung by a bee, posted on the community web blog Metafilter, this comment from userid sonascope had the most (har har) venom: Very few “bee” stings are actually from honeybees, which will sting you if (a) you step on or otherwise mash them or (b) dig… Read.
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bonus day
The first films of the Wisconsin Film Festival will be shown tonight. We’ll see two of them, then we’re both off all day tomorrow, as well as all of next week, to attend the rest of the festival. In all, we’ll spend almost sixty hours in the dark watching 28 films. My Darling B took… Read.
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kaboom
The animals are running from Yellowstone! Fleeing! Just like they did before the earthquake! And before the tsunami! It can only mean that the supervolcano underneath is gonna blow! And government scientists are covering it up! The same scientists, maybe, who’ve been trying to tell everyone for thirty or forty years that we’ve got to stop crapping up… Read.
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Talk is cheap
“Where do you suppose this idiotic idea that money is the same as speech came from, anyway?” Rolls her eyes. “From people with money. Duh.” Read.
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discipline
WEB DuBois in a letter to his daughter, Yolande: Don’t shrink from new experiences and custom. Take the cold bath bravely. Enter into the spirit of your big bed-room. Enjoy what is and not pine for what is not. Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.… Read.
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getting started
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walkies
Just got back from my evening walk around the neighborhood. If you were considering for even a moment being impressed by how active I keep myself, don’t be. I’ve been so inactive this winter that I could probably be reclassified from animal to vegetable, probably even mineral. In fact, as soon as I got home… Read.
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before
Oh yeah. Totally. Read.
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