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February 24, 2005
"I'm Not Going!!" says the Queen
"The Queen's surprise announcement that she would not be going to the town hall has added a new twist to the saga. Buckingham Palace insisted her decision was not a snub and said she was trying to respect the couple's desire for a low-key ceremony."
"But for the House of Windsor, already tainted by scandals, divorce and tragedy, the debacle has been another blow. "It is humiliating and embarrassing for Charles," said royal author Judy Wade. "This is a PR disaster turning into a farce. Royal ceremonials always go like clockwork. Now they cannot even organize a wedding in a town hall," she told Reuters.
Heapin' humiliation, Charlie! Are tampons tied with ribbon and a gilded, calligraphic "Chuck and Camilla Lovefest 2005" the planned wedding favors? ;-)
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Freebie
The occasional Diet Pepsi has its merits. I'm now on my second win of a free tune from iTunes. Problem is, I've no clue what tune I want. Any suggestions?
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RSS Feeds
Users of Blogger can include an RSS feed of their entries - yes? There are a few blogs I read that use Blogger and I'd visit them more often but they don't have an RSS feed. I tend to forget about these blogs because they're buried in my bookmarks. I subscribe to almost 100 blogs that show up in my aggregator whenever they're updated. Having that RSS feed helps to keep me informed whenever a blog has a new entry. I've little time and no patience for sifting through bookmarks. Since time is limited, my aggregator and your RSS feed guarantee that I see those updates.
If you don't have your blog enabled with a feed, I suggest you do so. I realize that some people don't want their entire blog post showing up in an aggregator, and there is a way to tag it so that only an excerpt appears. I'd like to continue reading these blogs but they're losing my attention because that feed isn't enabled.
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Quote
"The older you get, the better you know you were."
- from a billboard in Florida
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February 21, 2005
Musing
One more week and it'll be curtains for The Gates.
:-)
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Other Gates
All it takes is a great sense of humor and a little imagination.
In a New York Times' sidebar item, A Crackery Gift to New York -- a couple did an installation titled "The Crackers" -- which consisted of orange cheddar-cheese and peanut butter crackers poised like dominoes on a Central Park footbridge.
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February 18, 2005
The Gates: Photographs
I finally had a chance to upload all the photos I took from last Saturday's visit to see Christos' The Gates. You'll find them in the Central Park category of my photo gallery.
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February 15, 2005
How Old Do YOU Feel Today?
We played this game last year, and since the divine Ms. Zoe of MBIAT will turn a year older at the end of this week, thought we might give it another whirl today. (Hey Daisy, isn't your birthday this month also?) SO...
How old do you feel today?
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Quote of the Day
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
- Robert Heinlein
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February 14, 2005
Confessions of the Lovelorn...
... and other comic books/covers from the '40s and '50s.
For the category of Classic Good Girl and Romance Covers, the site's creator notes, they are comics for girls and feature stories of love and romance, often with surprisingly adult themes and situations.
For example, "My Love Life" has sub-titles of the pieces inside such as I Asked for Trouble, Week-End Wife and I Was an Untamed Filly. In "Love Lessons," the cover includes this list: A Wolf Without a Sheepskin, Love em and Leave em, The Strange Case of the Wounded Lover.
Titles from the rest of the cover collection include: "Confessions of the Lovelorn," "Flaming Love," "Ideal Romance," "Secret Love," "Radiant Love," "Strange Confessions," "Strange Love," "Life Secrets," "Love Lessons" and "Love Scandals," among others.
In addition to the comics mentioned above, the site also has Classic Super-Hero and War Covers and Classic Crime and Horror Covers.
Originally posted February, 2004
- via Al of Fulton Chain. Thanks Al!
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February 10, 2005
Chuck'n Camilla
The news that Prince Charles will (finally) wed Camilla Parker Bowles made me nauseous. There's something about that man that makes me ill, nevermind my overwhelming desire to kick him in the groin a few times just for fun.
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February 9, 2005
Ma petite saucisse
Note: if that's not the correct translation in French, well sue me. In English it's "my little sausage."
So there I was...
... with a package of turkey sausages. The market had no pork sausages and I'd wanted something porky to go with my pasta. I had to settle for turkey. Okay, it's supposed to be healthier for you and I've had some turkey products like that before, so I went ahead with my link purchase.
When cooking any type of pork product, force of habit for me is to cook it until the fire department shows up, because we all know that half-cooked or partially cooked pork could just kill ya.
In my very evident glee in having a good pork substitute (albeit a healthy one) in my possession, I somehow neglected to realize that it was turkey, not pork. No matter, I'd just cook it up the same way I do with the pork. I take the skillet out, fill it with water, not overflowing and not underflowing, just enough to top the linkies.
Now, I don't know if you've ever seen what a turkey sausage looks like when it boils, but suddenly I looked at the skillet and said to myself, "Oh my god, they look like uncircumcised penises!" The horror! I couldn't get the image out of my mind (not that I have a problem with uncircumcised penises, mind you.)
The next step in my cooking process is to then broil them to death, thereby guaranteeing the heat-infused demise of any potential, er, uhm, pork thingie problem. (Obviously still not mindful of the fact that these are turkey sausages.) I slipped the uncircumcised now-white turkey penises into the broiler and instantly morph into albino weenie dominatrix.
I think I broiled those things for hours. At least it seemed that way. Funny thing was, they looked no different after torching than they did when I first put them in the broiler - except for the charring, of course. I had set one aside and then wrapped the rest in aluminum foil for the next day.
When I returned to the fridge a couple of days later and wondered what was hidden in a bed of foil, a family of sad and sorry, flaccid and suddenly elderly charred weenies were unearthed from the wrapping.
It is obvious that something is terribly wrong with me.
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A Little Spanky for Valentine's Day
Ted @ Rocket Jones has some pre-Valentine's Day photos over on his blog that spank volumes about him. Go check them out here.
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Happy Chinese New Year
It's the Year of the Rooster!
"During the Lunar New Year, much attention is focused on how to bring about good fortune. Wearing red clothing, particularly underwear, is considered to be very lucky." - CNN
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February 7, 2005
Adios, Trackback
Buh bye, trackback.
This past week alone I have banned so many IP addresses from leaving comments or trackbacks that I've now run out of patience with it. Though it hadn't yet reached the level of insanity that some folks have experienced recently -- hundreds of trackback pings per day -- I wasn't going to wait around for more. I deleted that capability entirely and that's that.
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February 4, 2005
Be My Anti-Valentine
Once again the folks at meish.org present the Anti-Valentines Day cards. A sample:
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February 1, 2005
Cockamamy Cockadoodledoo
Hey! It's February and it's the year of the rooster!
Whodathunkit? I'm so ahead of the curve and on the cutting edge, ain't I. ;-)
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