Oh, I'm right. I've been to Maui. I've seen them.

NPR let me down big time.
 

So, who else heard the NPR stories this morning on the pumpkin crop and Indian Market in Santa Fe? Pumpkins and Indian jewelry - I'm so there!

Which is why I felt NPR let us down. The pumpkin crop is down but by how much? Pumpkin prices are up but, again, by how much? And those elusive white pumpkins - those ghost pumpkins - of which they spoke, who ever heard of those before???

Then there was the reporting on the economy and Indian Market weekend. Know that 3894/Helen + Indian Market weekend + $1,000 = pure joy. Where were the details on exactly how the economy has affected what the artists are offering, NPR? Details, we needed the details!

Pumpkins at my Vons yesterday were 14.99. They've had the white pumpkins for quite a few years now.

White pumpkins are the best for launching with compressed air guns, or so I've heard.

That's interesting, katiesue. The orange ones are $2.00 for a big one here. We'll also have very cheap Christmas trees before too long.

I have never seen a white pumpkin or heard of one. They must not grow them here.

I bet you use to be one of thoes teens that went around late on Holloween smashing all the pumpkins on peoples porches or tossing them in the streets, huh? Now we know.....

;)

I doubt that Matt was "one of those teens that went around late on Holloween smashing all the pumpkins on peoples porches or tossing them in the streets"

Now if you had said, "Matt was one of those teens that went around late on Holloween smashing all the pumpkins on peoples porches from 3/4 of a mile away"

I might be more inclined to accept your statement.

Sooo... I'm off to my interview. It's not till 3:30 but I have to pop by the bank and stuff while I'm out and about.

This is for that job in costuming & fabric procurement. Could potentially be a cool job. Fingers crossed!

Good luck!

Good luck!

There's a "World Championship" site here

Hummm... That ain't all that far from here... Road TRIP!

Gad, I love that! :snap:

If anyone is 24 or under, think of how fab Miss Punkin Chunkin would look on your resume. (Nigh on as fab as the title of Alice in Dairyland.)

Our local store has orange, white, green&orange, warty, and blue ones which are a cool, funky blue/grey color all relatively cheap. Our local Sam's Club has huge ones for $8.

Dave Letterman was SMART to just come out and admit what he'd done. What better way to shut down the rumor machine than to take all the fun out of it by owning up to your misdeeds.

I can't condone the cheating on his relationship, but you have to admire a guy who comes out and admits what he's done. Sort of like, "Yeah, I'm a rich powerful guy and women who work on my show want to sleep with me, and yeah, I took them up on that offer". Also, I think he kind of did it to protect the women involved.

Those sound more like gourds (that haven't been dried) than pumpkins. My mom is big into the gourds, and she got The Boy into them as well. I have gourds, painted and lacquerd everywhere around the house.

I don't know if "smart" and "admire" are the words I used. It took a $2 million extortion attempt to get him to do it. That's just good old fashioned ass-covering.

Ahh, so that's why I kept hearing "blah, blah, David Letterman" on the radio on the ride in to work...

When I head about this, I formed a mental picture of the perp being something close to Kenneth the page on 30-Rock. A low level with nothing to lose.

Turns out the guy is (err, was) a respected producer for 48 Hours. Making enough that his child support was over $6,000/month. Talk about a fall. This guy is going down hard. What a dufus. So what's he gonna blame: drugs, gambling, dames or all three for the trifecta?

How about the woman or women involved too - they contacted him for help in getting money**

**just a theory I thought up this morning.

Certainly the woman involved could make this a very different situation. If they were harassed into sex by virtue of Letterman's power then that's a real issue. If one or more women were active participants in the plot they deserve the same fate Mr. Dufus is heading for.

If it was consensual, which so far it appears to be, then this is pretty much over for Letterman publicly. Mrs. Letterman might still have some issues but that's for the two of them to work out.

I still wonder which team Letterman truly plays for as he is alternately goofy or rudely dismissive to attractive starlets and positively giggly around male star athletes.

He has no obligation to tell us about his sexual relationships. He's not a politician, he's not a moral crusader.

He certainly could have tried to go a route that might have prevented this from being common knowledge.

His obligation is to his wife. Since theirs is a long relationship I assume the sex was in same way cheating (though for all I know she knew and didn't care).

To the extent that it was workplace inappropriate he had an obligation to CBS.

So, I don't care at all that he had sex. I vaguely care about the nature of the proof that the guy provided because now i have to be worried that there's a David Letterman sex tape (or photographs) that will eventually make its way to the internet. And I don't need to stumble onto that unexpectedly.


As for the announcement on the show he really should have, at the beginning (or had someone say so during the commercial break) told the audience that this was not going to be a funny story. That he wasn't building to a punchline. That would have avoided some of the inappropriate laughter and clapping.

Dave, call me.

Kidding. Who cares with whom and under what circumstances Letterman ... Great, now I have a mental picture of him

Ew.

Well, it is somewhat unprofessional, as Alex says. And to that extent, he may be trying to avoid naming names because it's more likely to cost the women their jobs than it is the star his.

But the main point is, this could have turned into a good old fashioned huge media <<scandal!>> and instead of avoiding it or attempting to keep it on the down-low and having it come out anyway, he just came out on the show and said yeah, I suck, I did this. And if that means the media quiets down that much sooner, good. Because, like you say, he's an entertainer, not a politician. So while we might lose a little respect for him, it doesn't really affect us.

David who?

Letterman.

Story

Queue ominous music.

A Post Full of So
 

So many artists' studios on the open house tour, so little time ... and they're all so, so hidden. A person tires of fumbling with maps and missing so many turns.

So, a stop at a wymyns' collective bakery. The town reminds me of Bolinas 30 years ago. Purchase: 3 scones and 3 chocolate chip cookies.

Sooooo good.

So I've watched the first two episodes of Eastwick. It is really stupid and bad but something about it is appealing to me. So I've watched on Hulu while doing other things on the computer (I guess I no longer get to mock Monk fans).

Anyway, I've been wondering about the racial makeup of Lindsay Price, one of the leads. Clearly hapa and we all know hapas are the cutest. Anyway, she's Korean-German.

What I found interesting though is that her mom is the adopted sister of her dad. Her parents were raised as siblings. Now, I don't really have a problem with it, I just find it interesting. Must make for good cocktail party stories. However, growing up it would have reduced the sources for Christmas parents since she only has two grandparents instead of four.

I remember Stephanie Birkitt from old "Late Night" episodes.

I am sitting here at the computer desk. I just felt the earth move, not much, but enough, and long enough to make me dizzy and a bit lightheaded. I called my mom, nope, they didn't feel it. Their response was that I must be losing it more than normal. The news reported a 4.9 in Owens Valley. She called me back as I was calling her. HA!!! I was right. Then she re-checked her light over the table. It started swinging about 2-4 minutes after I felt it.

I feel the earth move under my feet
I feel the sky tumbling down...

Great, now I have the song stuck in my head just before going to bed....

Let's go for the big finish!

A-tumblin' down
Tumblin' down
Tumblin' dow-ow-ow-ow-own

This is weird. Last night I felt at least 2 others. They were both in the Owen's Valley. Normally I would have chalked them up to one of my dizzy spells, but I could hear a tiny creak in my window. Looking at the USGS map the others that I felt were 4.5 and under.

Hello? low low low...

Anybody here? here here here...

I'm here.

Just going through photos from the last 2 nights of Horror Nights.

Still dancing the Time Warp, too :cool:

Nope, they were hybrid pumpkins. They had tons of gourds too.

I've been avoiding people. I want to try to stop. I should go to some sort of festive halloween thingy with the monsters and the mazes and the jumping out from dark corners. Anyone planning to go to one and want company?

If I wasn't so broke... totally. But I'm sure others on here have plans.

I can't ride rollercoasters....and being startled repeatedly probably isn't that good an idea right now either.

No haunting this year for me :)

You'll be haunted soon enough.



by dirty diapers.



:)

Pru, The Boy & I are taking the BF to Dland next Saturday. We plan on being in the park all day, with a fireworks viewing that night. You (or anyone else) are more than welcome to join us.

I just had some Dark Chocolate-Almond Sandies...

I could die in a state of bliss right now. Tres yummy!

When did Bliss become the 51st state? I thought they were just going to remain an unincorporated territory like Puerto Rico?

Uh, hello KB! It was all over the news this weekend.
Way to keep current....

It joined the union at the same time as Grace and Denial.

Sorry. Was busy seeing my Mom's award winning small hairy ass.

C'mon, pictures please!

You haven't seen pix before?

I didn't take any this year, but here is an older pic:

Ja, I have. I was hoping for a new pic. Who knew little hairy asses were so cute?

Award this year?

Only one blue ribbon this year, a couple of second places and some other ribbons.

Last year, the younger one actually took best in class.

That's one classy ass!

Might take you up on that!

Kevy, I'm pretty sure I was attending the same horse show as you and your mom this past weekend!

I was photographing and reporting about the horse show for my place of employment, which publishes several equestrian magazines.

Sooooo ... I am interviewing a rider who just won first place in a draft horse competition, and find out the horse is named "Major," a Belgian Draft Horse, who worked the past five years as one of the horses on Main Street, U.S.A. for the Horse-Drawn Streetcars! So, I get even more excited since I actually remember Major. Being an admirer of horses, I actually take the Horse-Drawn Streetcars often and recall Major pulling other guests and I down Main Street on a few occasions.

It's also a sweet story in that the rider who I interviewed at the horse show is also a Horse-Drawn Streetcar cast member who bought Major after the horse was retired by Disneyland. The cast member (and equestrian) loved Major enough to buy the horse after its Disney retirement and ensure it has a good home. :)

I remember seeing what appeared to be someone with a Cast Member Name Badge on when I was at Fairplex yesterday, but I didn't think too much of it.

If you saw some miniature donkeys out in the arena yesterday, that was my Mom's group. Although she was showing in the south end of the arena (to the left as viewed from the grandstands) and the draft animals (the big boys) were at the north end.

It may just be me & The Boy. BF is not feeling well, and took a spill Sunday. I may not know until that morning.

I am tired of being house bound, so The Boy and I are going no matter what.

Stoat & I both have baseball caps from Hawaii with the humuhumunukunukuapua'a (name and picture) on it (the name goes nearly all the way around the hat)

I'll be with you in spirit. Do the Goat Trick for me, willya?

The Boy loves the Goat Trick.

I love this. :snap:

So, Daughter #2 is applying for college next year. The application process is very different than back in the (Jurassic) day. They ask meme stuff:

• What would the title of your autobiography be?

• What one idea excites you?

(It says right on the form that Kevy may not answer that one.)

• List ten books, in order of importance to you, that you read in the past two years.

It would be fun if it wasn't a college application.

My autobiography title is "One Scream Leads To Another"

On the bright side, It looks like I won't have to be bitter for too much longer....

A) I don't know, the publisher would likely pick the title.
B) I'm 18, an autobiography would likely be four pages long so maybe the title would be "Don't Buy This Book, You Just Read the Whole Thing."
C) If you mean at some distant point in the future, I suspect it will be a witty play on words based on some future accomplishment.

French toast for dinner.

1. How to Answer Vacuous College Entrance Form Questions by John Q. Admissions
....



Does this mean I don't get to go to college?

I still have my application to Stanford. They asked similar questions then (1991) too. I think my essay question was something like, "If you had one year to do anything you wanted to, all expenses paid, what would you do and why?"

I'm pretty sure my law school application asked me to tell them why I wanted to go to law school. How very stone age of them! No wonder they're a second tier school!

Unrelated note:
I can't wait for the 2011 west coast Disney cruising, so I'm planning to cruise in the early months of 2010. Parameters are: it has to leave out of LA and be no longer than 7 days. This pretty much means Mexican Riviera and a choice of NCL, RCI, or Carnival. The NCL ship would be the Star, which is the one and only ship I've already been on, so I'm leaning toward one of the other two. Also, according to online room layout diagrams, the other two put the bed next to the balcony and the seating area further in, while NCL puts the seating area next to the balcony and the bed further in. A primary goal of this cruise will be sex while listening to ocean waves, so I'm thinking bed closer to balcony would be preferable.

Anyone have any experience with either RCI or Carnival that I should consider? It need not be sex-related. Pants, however, are optional.

We cruised the Carnival Pride to the Mexican Riviera in, I think, 2005. It was our first cruise and a nice introduction to cruising. Plus: they make sure you always have something to do (or nothing at all, if that's what you want). Minus: Everybody smokes.

No experience on RCI. Our other non-Disney cruise was on the Celebrity Infinity to Alaska.

My mom has a small hairy ass too. Only hers isn't award winning nor is it quite as small as your mom's. The granddaughters have named it Fiona. :D

I want popcorn.

We did Carnival to the Mexican Riviera for our 10th anniversary in 2007 and we loved it. I was worried about it being a "party ship" (not my scene), but it wasn't that at all. We thoroughly enjoyed.

More specifically, I want popcorn served to me by a hot guy. Clive Owen or Matt Damon will do nicely, thankyouverymuch.

A third recommendation for the Carnival Mexican Riviera.

hmm....any idea which one was?

That one over there

I know, I know. There's an online "common application" system. That's where the meme questions come in. In addition, each school has a big question.

So, related story: Yesterday, my kid had an interview with Swarthmore. For this area of the country, they were doing them in the café part of a Borders in Madison, WI. Hubbo and I had a quick cup of coffee, then hightailed it to another part of the store to get out of the way, leaving our kid to wait for the interviewer.

Maybe half an hour later, a guy comes up to us. "I just wanted to meet you," he says. "I saw you with your daughter in the coffee area and I overheard part of her interview after you left. So, I wanted to meet you."

Uh oh is what Tom and I were both thinking.

"What a childhood she has had!" this guy says. He goes on to list the various things we've done during our summers, which he has overheard her talking about during the interview. "Great job, guys. Great job!"

It wasn't creepy. It was great. When you have cranky, know-it-all teenagers, it's very nice to be validated once in a while. And stan4d_steph shares in the props as she's guided us to both Teton Science School and Woods' Hole oceanographic stuff.

Who knows where she'll get in/end up going to school. It's nice to know that maybe we didn't totally blow it.

For the other ignoramuses like me, apparently Swarthmore is a college in Pennsylvania.


And kudos on the positive praise Helen!

The Google logo is a barcode today. Apparently it was invented 57 years ago today (barcode, not Google).

Resistance is futile!

Yes, I'm still so very in love with Joel McHale. He cracketh me up!

Substitute Alan Rickman for me. ;)

Several years ago I was on a 3 day Catalina-Ensenada short cruise. In a teeny-weeny inside cabin. I shared with a co-worker and learned way more than I ever wanted to know about that person. The short cruises are reputed to be for a rowdier bunch of passengers, right? Though what made this a "party ship" wasn't the itinerary. The ship was just hammered, with cracked panes of glass and stains on the carpet. I honestly can't remember which cruise line it was, I think I blocked it out of my memory.

I'm with you, sister. But he doesn't have to be hot. I'd be happy with kind and funny (but not kinda funny, that's not good enough :p )

Bob Newhart?

Okay, I gotta thank everybody here who said that I needed to see "True Blood". I'm watching the first season on DVD and I love it.
:)

Sounds like it was RCI's Monarch of the Seas. That ship is a total dive. Thankfully, they sent it back to Florida last year.

I saw a gentleman at Burger King today and minutes later saw him on a community access channel on TV. He was wearing the same hat and t-shirt. I thought that was pretty funny.

Carl Sagan was awesome in so many ways.

I just had Facebook suggest someone I haven't seen in years, who I don't have their contact info for as a friend. I'm thrilled that it knew, but it's a bit creepy.

I really want to understand the Facebook friend recommendation process.

I have a few theories:

It remembers who came up when you search by email (this I'm pretty sure since people in my contact list show up as recommendations after I log out)

It remembers who you searched for and recommends the searcher to the searchee.

It's really HAL

Anyone else have a better understanding or theories? It really is a bit creepy how it can suggest random people you know.

Friends of your friends, similar workplace/school/etc.

That's what I thought too... except we have no mutual friends and the school/work we shared is not on my FB. It's truly random.

town?

My Facebook page recently suggested I might like to be friends with the single lady down the street, the one known for her messy affair with a married man. Mrs. Moonie was not amused.

Here's the great thing about forgetting people's names very reliably if I've had no contact with them for a couple years (seriously, went to bachelor party a couple months ago with some people I worked with for years at Wells; recognized everybody, remembered maybe 10% of their names):

All of the Facebook recommendations look like completely random suggestions. So I have no idea if it is magically pulling names out of my past.

Nope. If he accepts the friend request I'll be able to see more.


I have random people I apparently went to school with trying to add me. Denied.

So, I walk by a poster in the hospital announcing the employee of the month. She works for the cafeteria and her last name is ....

Spatula.

Been trying to figure out a couple of people... they look familiar, but I have no real memory of who they are, and can't seem to see any mutual friends.

I finally joined Facebook a week ago. Meh so far.

Basically, if I haven't bothered to look up someone or they haven't bothered to look me up, the thrill is gone/ gone away for good.

I sort of love not looking back.

I would assign her to pancake detail.

Brought home an already-baked costco pizza for later. Box is on the table. Guess where the cat is sleeping?

Ooh. fun! We'll need pictures of course. :D

We had camping failure this weekend. First, on the way to Anza Borrego (Blair
Valley to be specific), the transmission seemed to lose the gear it was in. We pulled over and it was fine. But the check engine light came on. According the manual, the light is not imenent danger unless it's blinking - see if what it was happens again or if the light just goes off. We check all the fluid levels and then continue on our way.

We get to camp and realize our friends may have trouble finding us - but start to set up camp. Where's the directions to the tent? Not in the box. Hmmm... We've set this tent up once before... do we remember. Apparently not. In the process of trying to set it up, I break a little plastic connector piece and we can't use the tent now.

Determined, we decide we'll sleep on a tarp and still use the cot and air mattress. We'll see how it goes if we stay the whole 4 days or leave in the morning when our friends do.

Our friends finally find us, after dark - which was pretty amazing. They bring a new telescope to see the lunar crash thing on Friday morning but can't get it in focus... but still think they are seeing something... I gave up and went back to watching the fire. He's got a new girlfriend that I don't really know and I didn't want to totally insult her/them by saying they weren't seeing anything. It was put together in the dark - I almost wonder if something was on backwards or something.

Anyway - Lot's of fun was had... staying up into the wee hours and chattikng... and in the morning we break camp and think - we could get more wood and camp at another spot. Hmmm... and just as we're deciding to do that, the transmission thing happens again.

sigh.

So - we came home just to be safe. Didn't want to be caught in the desert without a working transmission.

Feel sort of like I wasted a vacation day - but that didn't stop me from not going to work today (not a normal workday) to make it up.

Brought the vehicle to the dealership because it looks like it may be a power train warranty thing - which is great if so. But they "don't have any tranny guys in today" so I must wait until Monday at least and most likely several days before I get it back.

You have unusual preferences in mechanics.

Gearing up for more Horror Nights fun tonight- watched Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shaun of the Dead this morning.

Most tagging is gibberish to me. Yesterday, walking down Octavia, stenciled into the sidewalk is my newest favorite bit of tagging

In newspaper headline font:

The Pope
is Poop

Well, at least you can read it. Most of it around hear in completely illegable to me....

Driving through L.A. {the 5 I think} I saw how the street signs were covered in graffiti. How the hell can you read the signs and why would it be good for people if they can't read the freakin' signs? Idiots.

On the way out to Yosemite it was stupid, but we were sort of used to seeing it. On the way back it was ugly and a sad sign of the times. Offensive.

So... I dyed my beard blue.

Did she agree to that?

No complaints were uttered.

Give you a hint... if the sign's covered in graffiti, that's all you need to know about that exit. Keep driving.

We're expecting "precipitation" today. Translation: could be rain, could be snow.

I'm guessing snow.

No kidding! I always hold my breath until we pass through certain parts of L.A. On edge....did the car make a funny noise? How's the temp gauge? No one had better have to use the bathroom!!!!

Snow!!! 3894, we are only being told maybe...maybe, we might get a bit of precipitation. Usually not. I would like a good hard rain so I don't have to wash my car. :0)

Last year I was driving to Staples to meet my cousin for a game. I've been there before so I knew what the exit should look like, and the exit my GPS told me to take did not look like the exit I took in the past. It looked so awful that I just got right back on the freeway. Found the correct exit about 4 miles up the freeway.

Yikes! That's scary! I mean, you think your GPS wouldn't steer you wrong and yet it was taking you to the wrong place! And what a wrong place!

So yah, I was right about da snow, hey.

Not quite snow, but there was frost on the grass this morning. I was not amused.

Stop yer whining. It was cloudy today here so you don't know horror!

James Franco is going be on General Hospital. :D

A little "Dancing with the Stars" goes a really long way, particularly if Donny Osmond is dancing.

Susan's GPS (a three or four month old Garmin Nuvi) couldn't find the address we went to this weekend - even when we were already there! Thankfully, I had printed out the Google directions before we left.

There is this weird clear stuff falling from the sky.

I'm home sick. Nose and throat and general weariness. No temp so I'm not off to the doctor yet.

I can't take anything either due to the kiddo.

Have to admit it's kind of nice sitting in my pajamas, sipping chicken broth and listening to the rain.

Are you guys having a super secret, don't invite bewitched, party or something? Man it's been slow around here tonight.

Unicorn tears.

Didn't you hear? It's raining. We're all hiding out behind our couches :P

Not unicorn tears?

raining unicorn tears then

*yawn*

Is anyone else a bit hung over this morning from the super secret don't invite bewitched party?

Thank goodness we got a new roof to protect us from the Unicorn tears....She's crying a lot this morning!

Good morning, weather wimps!

The frost is on the pumpkin here today. When I googled for a picture of frost + pumpkin, I got a lot of


So I will leave you with thoughts of pumpkin frosting. Don't get too wet in that rain today!

That must be why my head feels this way.

As far as the unicorn tears go, it's my chance to walk down the street to work twirling my unfurled Burberry umbrella. Let 'em fall!

Haha! Conan does a great slow burn. :snap:

Let me repeat what I've learned over the years: Californians think Mother Nature is their friend. Midwesterners and Bitter East Coasters know Mother Nature is trying to kill us.

She's trying to kill us too. Have you forgotten that our state catches on fire once every other year or so? And then the subsequent rain and mud slides?

Mother Nature gave us an earthquake last night (a 3.7 that apparently nobody outside our valley felt). But I don't take it personally.

And the stupid USGS took just long enough to record it that we started to think we'd maybe imagined the entire apartment giving a solid jolt (a hallucination shared by the cat since she hid under the bed).

We're about to have another earthquake in So Cal. Chris is out of town.

I always was under the impression that the earth was supposed to move when the hubby was home.....interesting you and Chris are opposite of the norm.

I think I've put my cat into panic mode after moving his food and litterbox into the side room. I'm having furniture delivered and a handyman coming by to fix some shizz around the apartment... I wanted to just be prepared.

FREAK OUT MODE!

Scratch that - I think I'm the one in Freak Out Mode. I hate waiting for stuff to arrive and people to come by in their "four-hour windows".

Blah.

Go to the bathroom, they'll show up as soon as you sit down.

Hey NA!

How go the dogwars in Long Beach?

How's it going?

Can you recommend a cat bed for me? Tango, so far has rejected the last two I bought. Anything on your website?

So, one of my daughter's friends will be availing himself of Halloween to come out of the closet to his family. Costume: Lady Gaga.

His dad is a very conservative pastor of a very large, very conservative church here. Dad and mom are in massive denial or else they're very sheltered. I hope it goes well.

He should be the gay kid on Glee. I liked last night's fuzzy angora sweater ensemble.

Seriously, I hope it goes well too.

I hope so, too. Parental units, please get with the program.

I'll support him virtually, go Gaga boy go! (and I mean this in the nicest way)

Having witnessed my own friends in school coming out to friends and family, I'll send good positive thoughts.

Dressing in drag like a freakazoid rock star in order to come out to conservative mom and dad? Yeah, what could go wrong with that.

This is what I'm saying. The need to be in-your-face to the parental unit is understandable but unwise, IMO. But then, the only place I voice an opinion on this is right here.

The kid is very nice to be around and always welcome at our house, especially when he dials the volume back a little. His parents have every reason to be so proud of him.

Gawd my beard grows fast! I can already see about 2mm of roots showing below the blue.

Why can't I get growth like that up top? :mad:

It's true. Why can't the hair on my head grow as fast as the hair on my legs!

From what I understand, the magic T hormone is responsible for the inverse proportion. I love the thick mop on my nearly 50-year-old head, but I couldn't grow a beard to save my life from Islamic phobenatics.

It is going great. We are starting to unpack boxes and boxes of stuff. I've been entering POs, receiving, tagging, staging and merchandising in my sleep! We're not open yet, but it should happen soon (I hope).

The Donkeys have stayed away for now - although all they do is sit on a chair in front of their tiny store all day long and wave at me whenever I walk by.

We have a 3-in one bed that Tango might like. Does she like to burrow or go "camping" at all? There's not a picture of the bed on our website. I am too brain dead to remember the brand name tonight, but I'll remember it soon (probably at 2 am) and see if I can scare up a picture. It is a really cool bed that can be a tunnel, a donut bed or a fluffy blanket. I want one in my size!

C & L are opposite of the norm in many ways

So, this charlatan jackass douchebag in Sedona charges $9,000 to participate in a sweat ceremony, only - surprise! - he doesn't !$#@%^%@^% know what he's doing and two people die. Story here. There were 50 people in that lodge. That's about 44 too many.

A real sweat ceremony is divided into four parts, with breaks between. Also, you don't pay for it, not ever.

Sounds more like a cult leader to me. This quote stands out:Apparently in that person's eyes, the people who died chose to die. /cue Twilight Zone theme

What the heck is the point of a "Sweat Ceremony" anyways?

The SECRET! Dum dum dum.

A sweat lodge ceremony is some sort of native American purification ritual. There was some litigation a number of years ago when San Quentin would not arrange a similar ceremony as the last rites for a condemned inmate.

Little did they know they could have saved time and money by combining last rights with execution.

If the ceremony is held between strangers, there is zero point.

Sweats are held for the same purpose as group therapy/intervention/problem solving sessions. It's always with just a few people, often family. You sit in your bathing suit in a sauna-type atmosphere and talk over/pray over the problem.

There has to be a high level of mutual trust and history going in to the sweat. This is why 50 strangers paying for a sweat is 110% bull.

Tango began with a donut oval/round kind of bed that she loved, it was a cheapo bed from WalMart in VA. It wore out and I've tried 2 similar beds and she will not go near them. Right now, my old fleece robe is now her bed. I've got it rolled on the edges sort of like a donut, and she loves it.

She does like to nest under paper and once in a while under the coverlet.

I love reading fanfiction and fan's take on characters and story lines. Please post when you publish, I'd love to read it.

News from the world of retail....

Wow. A tough day for Amazon.

First Google announces it's going to create a eBook store to go after the niche currently held by Amazon/Kindle. Only their shop will be hardware independent so you will be able to read your book on just about anything.

Then there is Walmart, who apparently has their panties in a twist because people keep calling Amazon the "Walmart of the web". So they are launching a full frontal assault on amazons book business. Heavily discounting some highly anticipated upcoming books.

I gotta say, it would make me nervous if both Google and Walmart were gunning for my customers.

And Amazon has started same-day delivery

Isn't that what Amazon did when it first started?

I see this hurting independent resellers who use Amazon as a selling platform for their own business more than I see it hurting Amazon. The independent resellers have been able to undercut Amazon's prices for years.

According to that article:Am I the only one who thinks it's odd that Los Angeles is not on that list?

I'd suspect it's not in LA because you guys are so dammed spread out and then there is the traffic. Also, if you look at the cost, I think you'll see it's a bit of a niche market that won't get all that much use anyway.

For example, Shipping charges on books is a base of $14.49 + $3.99/book and they can deliver up until 8:00pm.

Is it just me, or is it weird that Google will be "selling" something? I know they have their shopping site but it's basically just a specified search engine.

The market for iTunes and iPods have not collapse under pressure of the copious non-hardware-dependent competition out there. Amazon may eventually have to make the same kinds of concessions that Apple eventually did re: DRM and such, but as long as they continue to position their product as a superior usability option than trying to read on your phone or your laptop, they should have nothing to worry about. Even if this leads to a boom in readers, Amazon has the same advantage with the Kindle that the iPod has. Namely, popularity breeds popularity and being the first to get the concept right gives you a lot of momentum, even if competitors can produce technically equivalent/superior/cheaper products. People still want iPods, if Amazon plays it right, they'll still want Kindles.

Yes, oftentimes when you're the #1 brand in your market, #2's advertising benefits you as well (as long as you do enough to stay on top, of course)

So are you arguing there is no reason for Amazon to worry about Google and Walmart going after it's business or just that it won't totally collapse Amazon?

When isn't there a reason for huge companies to worry about where they might be losing business? Of course it's something they'll have to address, they can't just cross their fingers and hope it all works out, they'll obviously have to come up with a business plan to keep themselves relevant. All I'm saying is that there are a couple factors (gadget loyalty and an existing model to emulate) that tend to tilt the balance in their favor.

Google actually has a horrible track record of rolling out sustainable self monetizing products.

So I'm sure Amazon is watching very closely but I haven't seen enough yet to say it is a huge threat. And the Google books will be for sale through Amazon as well so do a certain respect success will rebound back to Amazon. Interested in the limitations on the Google purchases since I'm not clear why the publishers would be any looser on DRM with them than with Amazon and if they're going to be mostly self publishers and public domain books then that's hardly a threat at all (seeing as the former are almost universally crap and the latter are almost universally lacking in market).

But more players is always potentially a good think. The Sony/B&N eInk partnership rolls out soon too and I'll be watching that closely as well.

I agree, it's primarily about content. Right now Amazon has the best content for eBooks. If Google/Sony/Barnes & Nobel/whoever can't sell the books I want then I don't care how good their eReaders are.

So... wtf is up with GD's avatar? :D

After nine years without a car, I am mobile again. No, I didn't buy anything. It took some specific planning, cleaning up my finances to get a VISA check card, reinstating my lapsed license, then waiting a year.

I joined Zipcar! Perfect for occasional driving. Within an easy walk of my apartment are two Scions, a Mini, a Miata, numerous Honda hybrids, an Element, and a BMW. I'm very excited!

Even though pain hurts, you need to confront pain if you want to transcend the crushing pain of your inner pain.

Good for you! I'm with City Car Share in SF, I love it!

I love the Scions and the Prius, the pods nearest me do not have MINI's, I'm dying to try those!

Nooooo. Another Xmas commercial on TV. Auuugh!

I know! I just saw two Xmas commercials today! :mad:

'k, say that during CP's labor and you're a dead man.

My brother said something along those lines to his wife.

At that moment.

He still has a scar between his thumb and forefinger where she bit him.

True story.

Good thing I didn't put the flannel on the bed and left the AC unit in the bedroom.

Looks more like S & M to me. :eek:

I pulled out my down comforter when it was raining. It's a PITA to get 'just so' in the cover so AC it is.

Go you!

I would run the AC while wrapped in a blankie with a fire burning in the fireplace, if I wouldn't feel so ecologically irresponsible for doing it.

I transcended pain...I'm now officially divorced!

I think I'll post this in a couple more threads just to spread my happy happy joy joy.

If he quoted that line exactly while I was in labor I'd probably laugh my ass off.*

Any earnest attempts to tell me to get over pain will be met with biting, as per Kevy's story.






*Note use of word "probably". All contracts become non-binding upon onset of contractions.

Innocent lamb, remember 3894's First Rule of Pregnancy and Childbirth: If Mommy suffers, then Daddy must also suffer.

OK, Snowflake. I found a pic of the bed I think Tango would like.

I know your tongue is part-way in cheek, but to get serious for a moment - I don't agree. There are many women who forbid their spouses from drinking or riding rollercoasters while they have to sit these things out, but that's not my way of thinking. Perhaps it's more like If Mommy suffers, then Daddy better be in the best mood possible, so that he can pick up all of Mommy's slack. I want my hubby happy so that when I am completely irrational he has the reserves to put up with me.

<insert GD's joke about how I was always irrational here>

That looks great! Let me know when I can buy it from you!!! Got to support your new shoppe!

Rocky would so love that little bed. He loves his furry blanket and burrows down into it. That would just like it but easier.

That might be the nastiest thing anyone has ever called me.

Say... When's the grand opening?

She's seen me naked, so yes, it is.

If it were for any longer than a few days I'd take it apart. Then again I'd probably still be running the AC if it was that hot out.

What is it about a big plate o' fried food? We're talking chicken flippers and beer-battered fries. Sooooo wrong it's right, you know?

I posted my chapter on FanFiction last night. And I already got to two reviews!! :D

Well, I guess I won't be buying Pillsbury cookie dough any more. I was at the market tonight and took a quick look to price dough, and I noticed the dreaded word "flavored". Chocolate Chip flavored Cookie Dough.

Remember that whole thing where companies were trying to replace cocoa butter with other fats, like soybean oil, and still call it chocolate? Instead, at least so far, they still have to refer to it as chocolate flavored. So those chips... not real chocolate.

Yeah, not going to support that change.

Welcome to my world.

Splayd

(saw this yesterday at DTD)

Lani has a plastic one she uses. I don't like eating with it. She also has some knife/fork combos she likes; I do'nt like them because they don't stack with the other stuff in the drawer.

For some reason, I see Coastermatt's avatar and keep thinking it's NA posting. Must be the red...

We have a couple of sets of Splayds. They're just the thing to eat dsserts, cakes, pavlovas etc with.

I guess I'd better figure out what I'm eating because Chris doesn't come home until tomorrow. D'oh.

Eat something that you love and he hates !! If I were home without Stoat, that would be Risotto.

How do you hate risotto?

If someone brings we risotto I will eat it.

Is that the royal "we"? :evil:

Yes. I am doing the work of 2 people, so I am now WE. ;)

Oh, and I think Pussy and Pooch is going to open on Saturday.

That's awesome!
Congrats!
:)

Just think, NA's opening her Pussy and Pooch on Saturday!

Is that news?

Will you be online, too? I'm kind of afraid to google the store name.

LOL...me too!

Twitter tweaked one of his front nails....off to the Vet, probably have it removed.

It's a thing of his with rice-based dishes. Risotto, Congee, Paella, and (not so much) fried rice. Fried rice is ok, but not preferred. All others are anathema to him.

I myself don't care for Paella, as I think shells in food are not good. Make a Paella with the seafood flesh only, however, and I would love it.

Sooooo, Twitter is down? :D

I just googled Pussy and Pooch and I wish to advise you to make sure safesearch is ON !! :eek:

I can just imagine...

I said Pussy and POOCH not Pussy and Cooch!

LOL !! VNAM !! :snap:

I Googled "Pussy and pooch". Got a few images that are very probably illegal in most states. It's true... dogs will lick anything.

I think we now have a dictionary definition for TMI...... :eek:

Hmm... the first thing that comes up is what I believe is the sister store in LA to NA's place.

Would the REAL Pussy and Pooch please stand up?

I'm sorry.

Poor little guy!

I'm with you on the rice; not so much the seafood but I'd probably try it.

Yay for Pussy and Pooch opening soon! (Count me with the "not googling it" crowd... )

Back from our first ever trip to the SF bay area. We drove the coast, went to Santa Cruz, Half Moon Bay, Gilroy, and SF, and stayed in Santa Clara. We saw a LOT in just 4 days, and it was enough to make me fall in love with the place. Much different than I expected. :)

Oh, welcome home, T! Now that you know you like it, I hope next time you will make it a longer visit and I can see you guys. Maybe we can round up the other locals and do something together.

That would be cool for the next trip! This one was fairly limited on time, and we just winged most of it - mostly deciding last minute on where to go, etc. And, it was also to celebrate our 3-year anniversary, so we kept social interactions mainly to each other. :)

Glad you had a good time in the old stomping grounds, Mr. and Mrs. Disneyphile!

Here, we're having torrential rain. It's driving all the colorful autumn leaves from the branches to the ground.

Did you make it to the Walt Disney Museum?

Well, our main computer lost all of our files. And we still can't use it. I swear everything we have is breaking down this month. Oy! :mad:

Oh, yes. :) I'll be writing about it soon. No photos are allowed there, but I think I can recap in vivid descriptions without giving too much away. :)

Hmmm, miceage has all sorts of photos. Maybe they allowed them at a press event.

oooh, my roommate and I will be checking out the museum when we are in San Francisco in early December.

I'm so glad you enjoyed yourself up there, Disneyphile. Oh, and yes, Santa Cruz remains one of my favorite places in California - though I haven't been there in forever. Maybe I'll drive down the coast on the way back and revisit some long-loved places.

The Wolfpack will be in Frisco on Dec 4-5-6.....??

Feeling such mixed emotions right now.

I needed a break from theatre (three in a row...quite tired) so I decided not to audition for White Christmas (the next big show here). Today is the day they're announcing the cast. I'm excited and green with jealousy. I wish I could be in it, but I want to go on the SoCal Invasion trip 100x more. It sounds like the cast is super fun.

Bah! I can't do them all.

I am A.D. for the next show at Manoa, Dixie Swim Club which is in Jan. Can't wait for that one. It should be fun, too.

Will I see you?

Oh, wolfy, don't say "Frisco". That's terrible. Say "the city" or if you must "San Fran". "Frisco" is right out.
;) :D

Sorry GC.....will be in San Fran then. We'll be driving up early on Friday, going to the Walt Disney Museum on Saturday and back home on Sunday. If there is any way we can fit in a visit with you Snowflake, we would love to!

I saw this, and thought of Kevy.

Or "The City"

"Baghdad by the Bay" has always worked for me. And, in fact, I'm hoping to be perpendicular, hanging from a cable car, this very weekend. My Sunday farmer's market is pre-empted and I need a mini-vacation. I hope my friends David and Gary still have their air mattress!

Good luck getting THAT weekend off

Well, you say it the same way don't ya? Capitals or not.
lol!
:D

Ding ding ding!

I have a job lead.

Fingers crossed.

Managing a spa at a big time Waikiki hotel.

Yay!

Fingers crossed, y'all!

:)

I'm on my way over !!

Ooooo... Will you get to "audition" the male masseurs? :D

Congratulations on the lead.

Sorry about possibly having to go to Waikiki every day.

Yeah, that's definitely a huge minus but luckily it's near the Ala Moana end of Waikiki and more manageable than dead center.
:)

So this would be the REALLY BIG hotel at that end? Or one of the lesser big hotels?

Yes and no. It's almost one of the really big lesser hotels on that end.

Then you write a treatment à la Aaron Spelling Productions.

And now for something completely different: no flu vaccine around here. They're out! No more coming in until mid-Novemberish.

Best wishes on the job lead, GC!

Same here. I snagged my shot at my allergist's office. I would like to also get an H1N1, but they're still not available yet.

Our Walgreen's was advertising the shot on a walk-in basis. In reality, only one of the pharmacists was giving shots and she isn't there all that much. Then they ran out of the stuff, like everyone else. Oh, well.

And speaking of sickness and pain, let me tell you about our braindead local newspaper. Example headline from today: "Woman Gets X Years for Alleged Murder Plot". Um, alleged?

They run out of flu shots every year. I'm not sure why people are surprised that H1N1 ran out too.

I'm sure it couldn't be related to the media/government hyping that there would be enough to go around.

H1N1 hasn't run out. H1N1 vaccine has only been distributed to the highest risk categories of people (mainly health workers). Larger scale roll out of H1N1 vaccine has yet to come.

Info, as it were, from the CDC

Incidentally, because of the urgency to produce H1N1, the general flu vaccine will probably be in slightly scarcer supply than ever since some production resources are being switched over.

Thanks.
:)


I just logged in to say that not only do I love Joel McHale but I also love Chelsea Handler. If my TV only had two channels, E! and TCM I think I'd be alright.

MSNBC and my French tv channel, TV5 here. We watch so much lefty politics in this house. Then we get the French slant, then back for more lefty politics. It's heaven.

I need 720 channels.

Generally, new shows start every 30min. On average it takes me 2.5 seconds/station to channel surf. So with 720 channels, if nothing is on, by the time I channel surf through to figure that out I can start over again knowing there must be at some new shows on.

Okay, Octomom really annoys the **** out of me...however...

This cracks me up:

That is pretty funny, though I was immediately struck by her being the saintly one and the kids being the devils. Right.

Errrr, why does she look preggers?

Halloween nun costume rule. Rollerskates optional.

Sooooo.....I'm taking a mini-vacation to San Francisco this weekend! Flying up Saturday morning, and back to L.A. on Monday morning. This is the sort of thing I'd like to do more, but hardly ever have. I hope it becomes a trend. If any Bay area LoTters would like to meet for lunch or Disney Family Museum or cable car riding, I'm a tourist with a wide open itinerary. Any shows I should see? Any shows I shouldn't? Restaurants? Any suggestions are welcome. I'll probably try to do the WD Museum on Sunday, going to attempt to book my ticket for 11 am.

San Francisco tomorrow! YAY!

Awesome, Jim!
:)

Have a wonderful time! :)

I hear Pier 1 has a great gourmet food market.

PLEASE see Beach Blanket Babylon, and drag Snowflake along with ya !! :cheers: :snap:

Yes, BBB is a fantastic show! I've seen it several times. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up for BBB!

I love their candles

Will do. Assuming she wants to be dragged.

Should I be in drag?

Believe me, nobody would bat an eyelid ! :D

Have fun, Jim!

I never even knew the Better Business Bureau HAD a show.

I juuust about have an old spinning wheel up and running. It came to Minnesota from Sweden with the hubbo's great-grandmother in 1882. It hasn't seen action since 1905.

This afternoon, we drove to a nearby little town and bought some roving, which is wool cleaned, carded, and ready to be spun. This roving is also dyed (blues and greens).

Gawd, Helen, next you'll be buying whole sheep so you can do a sweater from the sheep's back to yours !

Where has the wheel been stored for 100 years?? Would love to see a photo.

I've already been warned about the snarky character of Icelandic sheep but aren't they adowable?

I mean, we have the land and all ... Can't you picture my stiletto leopard print ankle boots sinking into the mud as I chase after the sheep?


It's been in various basements. We've had it in our basement for as long as we've lived in this house, which is since 1991. It's wood with iron and leather.

Sadly, one of Tom's sisters "antiqued" it about 40 years ago. Before that it was Swedish blue (surprise!). Now, it's turquoise. It's a total coincidence that it matches our fireplace. Really.

One of the things I did to get it up and running, I devised a belt around the wheel to the spindle. (Prepare to faint in the presence of my high tech genius.) The belt is made of butcher's twine, which turns out to be a really good choice.

Why yes, yes they are. I can see it getting along with dogs and family.

frighteningly, I can ! :cool:

You passed gas? :p

Actually, it won't be mud your stiletto leopard print ankle boots will be sinking into...

Cool spinner, though.

Awesome, Helen. Just don't prick your finger.

... Serious case of the Mondays. It's just past 10:00 AM, and I'm ready to get the eff outta here.

I will try not to hate you for being 1 hour closer to the end of Monday than I.

I'm off today. Wishing I wasn't alone.

Sorry I haven't been around much lately. I've been all about the costumes. So far behind! I need one more weekend, at least. Alas, I don't have it.

I will use this knowledge to ease the pain of having been dealing with it this long already.

I hates this Monday.

Mondays are the work of Satan.

With apologies to my marvelous wife/mother of my child-in-utero, I can't resist relating this anecdote from the weekend.

I think it's fair to say that the relationship between me and CP defies most stereotypes. In particular, it's very rare for us to fall into the kind of dumb "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus," male vs. female stupidity. Not unheard of, but rare. This weekend was one of those rare occasions where CP said something that was straight out of a script for some awful Thursday night sitcom.

GD: Ugh, how frustrating. I'm going to spending my Sunday in the garage building shelves. We've got this little 13" TV that I could watch football on while I work, except for the fact that the government shut down analog broadcasts and we don't have a digital converter.

CP: Well, you wouldn't really want that anyway, right? I mean, the TV would just distract you.

GD: <blink><blink><blink><blink>

Haha... see, and what she said makes perfect sense to me!

<blink><blink><blink><blink>

wurd

But in your distraction you might accidentally "remember" to put the seat down for once.

Back home after a nice weekend in Maine. I don't want to go to work tomorrow.

Was it beautiful? Fall color (which was the only thing I missed about the midwest in all of the years I lived in Texas) has been spectacular this year around here.

I can never do anything else while the TV is going...though I'm not sure if this is a female thing or not. However, if I'm doing chores I need to have music on, which GD usually doesn't bother with. How he can work in silence makes me <blink><blink><blink><blink>...

But you're always off.

Oh, you meant work?

I can do stuff with the tv on as long as it's not something that interests me too much. Then it functions much like music for me. But a game? That would distract me too much.

Finally decided to look up my account info on Netflix to see how much extra having blu-ray was costing me. **$4!** Basically just cut my Netflix expense 20% by dropping Blu-ray :) Didn't really need/use that anyway.

Just a hint for any other Netflix users, if you find you aren't using Blu-ray much.

This is just so totally wrong looking. I was watching Nightmare Before Christmas, and happened to pause the movie at this terribly wrong looking (if you've got your brain in the gutter) frame. Probably NSFW.

You really need to make that your avatar. :snap:

*pout*

My mind is always in the gutter, but I can't see the pic.

I had to right-click and open it in another window.

Sorry, I really hate flickr. One of these days I'll pony up for the larger photobucket...

As you wish...

(edit: doesn't have the same impact in small size as it does when it's larger)

Morrigoon, did not look at the photo but quel avatar phallique you have now!

So, you'll all be reeeeee-lieved that my cold is on the way out. I'm on deadline, people.

I can't get the photo to work either....right clicking doesn't work since the spoiler tag doesn't open at all.

Hehehe.

I've never had a problem linking photos from Flickr.

Ah, isn't that just too true about the non-StopMotion version of that, ahem, item?


;)

I wondered how long it would take for someone to comment on my choice of words, lol

Looking through my Horror Nights pics makes me wish it was Wednesday night already.

I can never remember. How many times do I have to allow someone's toddler to nearly trip me because their parents aren't paying attention to them before it's legal for me to kick said toddler?

Sweep kicks work well.

But on the parents, not the kid.

Three
But only if you make it look like an accident.

Someone sticky this post! We'll be needing it in three years.

So, ****-a-doodle-doo* to you and you and you. Hubbo and I just sent off the ms. of his memoir about studying with a medicine man. Fingers crossed that the editor will be pleased with the massive, complete, and toe-tal awesomosity that is this ms.

We did it. I say we did it!

P.S. Also saw best bumper sticker ever: Jesus is coming. Look busy!

WTG 3894!

duly quoted.

Congratulations on the memoir.

Actually, a big "HI!!!!!!! How are YOU? Are you having FUN TODAY? This is FUN!!!!!!," down on your knees at toddler level will get said toddler yanked away from your vicinity so fast it will make your head spin. It scares the **** out of the parents, and the toddler thinks you're a big funny man.

Worked at the El Capitan when Steve, Jesse, and I went to see Toy Story in 3D. In fact, the entire family got up and left the theatre. I'm that good.

Actually, a big "HI!!!!!!! How are YOU? Are you having FUN TODAY? This is FUN!!!!!!," down on your knees at toddler level will get that toddler yanked away from your vicinity so fast it will make your head spin. It scares the sh!t out of the parents, and kiddo thinks you're a big funny man.

Worked at the El Capitan when Steve, Jesse, and I went to see Toy Story in 3D. In fact, the entire family got up and left the theatre. I'm that good.

Yesterday sent out Masquerade Party reminder with YouTube links to movies with Masquerade scenes. The only movie represented “twice” was two versions of “Romeo and Juliet.” Today, my roommate finally finds and buys a replacement he likes for sunglasses he’s had for 8 years, were badly damaged and finally went missing last week. The replacement model sunglasses are the “Juliet.” It replaces the 8-year old “Romeos.” The jacket I’m wearing for my Masquerade costume was worn by Capulet in a production of Romeo and Juliet. It was a production by the Los Angeles Opera. A famous musical number in Phantom of the Opera is “Masquerade,” sent out as one of the YouTube links in the Masquerade Party reminder yesterday.’



Where is Kevin Bacon in all of this?




:confused:

Say, Do you like gladiator movies?

I think I feel the house swaying... Did I just see a small pig blow past?

I'm 6 degrees.

The windgauge says 20mph sustained, gusting to 36. Ugh.

Not noticing any wind down my way

I almost always have the TV on as background noise. I have movies that now have a purpose of being background noise (PotC: TCotBP is excellent).

However, put an exciting hockey game* on TV and I'm SoL.

*lucky (or not) for me that's not a big issue right now.

Visible 'Flying High'. er, sorry, y'all call it 'Airplane' Mojo.

We got a new computer today!!!! Just in case any of you haven't noticed (which means pretty much all of you), I haven't been on in a while. Our hard drive in our old comp died last week, and we decided to just bite the bullet and get a new system. I was forced to use the kid's notebook all week, and it was too much of a PITA to type on, so I just stayed offline most of the week. Did I miss anything?

You were gone? :p

Random recap that I feel like typing out:

CP is expecting
BE is engaged
NA opened her store
SCA is MIA
DL is packed

SCA sort of YAGED, didn't he? I knew about CP, got texts about NA's store (yaay!), and I did sort of scan the boards a bit during the week- just couldn't write as the kid's notebook is very small and annoying. So, I guess I'm mostly in the loop.

Looking through my Photobucket account for a nice Halloween sig pic, I came across this picture that Lisa took of Chris and me in Salem, MA.



What's creepy about this pic is that if you blur your eyes, it kind of looks like a skeletal face... maybe even Michael Jackson's face. My head and Chris's head are the eyes, the branches are a hollowed out nose, our shirts are hair...

Creeeeepy!

I dunno, my vision's pretty blurry right now, and i just don't see it.

(my rooomate's using me as his bartending guinea pig this evening)

Totally see it. Awesome. Totally making me think of Gorillaz. Or Samurai Jack.

A little gaussian blur....let photoshop do the squinting for you.
Attachment 1245

Wow! Thanks, CP. That's awesome. And creepy.
The picture was taken in a graveyard in Salem, MA. Some of the people involved with the Salem witch trials were buried in that graveyard. Cool, no?
:)

And THIS witch took the picture!

Oh, and I have worked 144 hours since October 14th.

Love it... but I wouldn't really describe Kim Chi's journey as a "failed foster"... I think she's very happy where she is ;)

Is THAT all ???

Stop and have a cuppa, luv. :coffee:

Typical shoddy journalism. Is the press ever going to give us what we want? Photos of the hot redhead! Not that "Rob" guy.

NA, the shop looks fabulous!

There is an archaeologist doing work on legend tripping, specifically with regard to vampire legends in New England cemeteries. He's interested in any grave offerings you might leave and how you place them. Did I just blow his cover? Nope, he's been giving presentations about this project.

Word to the wise: if you're planning on paying your respects to any New England buried vampires, watch for this guy's motion-activated night cameras.

Why do I have a sudden urge to find all the red clown noses I can and visit New England?

Chris' facebook has lots of photos of pugs (with me).

Thanks, H!

I want to go live with this archaeologist!

See! Now that's a photo that would drive in business.

My two pussies wish they could visit.

P&P looks fabulous! The grand opening is Saturday?

So awesome Lisa!

Pussy and Pooch looks great.

Good luck with it.

We just had a power outage here at work.

I LOVE this picture !!! :snap:

What's an ms?

The "Official" opening is Saturday, but you don't want to come anywhere near Belmont Shore unless you want to see a bunch of dog in Halloween Costumes. The Parade is that day.

Me-too-me-toooooo!

My guess is manuscript. ??

The dogs in costume are no problem. The parking will be much more of a deterrent; I imagine it will be hell that day.

Ok: so, there's a law clerk opening in my #1 preferred location (other than here). (hint: I'd be an east coaster, but not at all bitter....) Two openings. Listed in the OTHER, less obvious clerk listing place. And she's making one more administrative, so specifically says to highlight such experience as it will make one more competitive.

Now, I'd rather have the LESS admin position, and sometimes posting in the other, less obvious place means that they already have a candidate and are just going through the formalities, but if there's a real opening, a foot in the door is a foot in the door and I'd take it in a heart beat.

Florida?

Please be more specific.

I go back and forth between finding dogs in Halloween costumes absolutely hysterical ... and finding it akin to animal cruelty. :blush:
































I rest my case. :p

OMG, those are hilarious. Especially the gator one!

Hey, the Haute Dog Holw'oween Parade is this weekend if you want to see more of the same!

My daughter who is still in high school is at a tournament this weekend. This is the first Halloween in 21 years that we don't have any kids around.

Here's a nice thing: I hauled up the big plastic box of Halloween doodads from the basement to begin decorating. You know, stiff upper lip and the show must go on and all that. In the doodad box are some new surprise decorations, courtesy of the high school daughter. We've got new bats with jeweled eyes and new skeleton straws and some new candles.

What an awesome surprise!

Can we start this day over, please?

I'm worrying about my computer at home. Work has been hell today. And, coming back from lunch, I spotted a guy in the parking lot that I had a blind date with about 15 years ago! (Yes, I recognized him. The date was that bad; and then there's his missing arm...)

I'm just not in the mood for this much sureal.

Being the Celtic New Year, it really does seem that these last few days have brought the last bit of lingering crap that needs to pass before November 1st. Sunday will be here soon! *hugs*

Heard on a podcast by someone describing a crowd he was performing to which was full of very old people:

Today has been a great day for me!

First, I managed to trade tomorrow's shift to a day shift, leaving me free for Halloween festivities (even if it means working in the box at 8:30am).

Then, I headed out to get a mask, and every single place I went, I scored rock star parking. I'm so not kidding about this, at least 4 times! Found my mask, and a headpiece instead of the more expensive hat I was thinking about getting, thus saving me $$$.

Now I'm enjoying a pumpkin Frappuccino while waiting for my honey to come home so we can head off to Halloween karaoke at Azteca. Oh, also figured out a very easy costume for tonight that will be comfortable yet still costumey (hint: from last New Year's Eve). That is, if I don't change my mind at the last minute and go as Liza Minelli. I think I'd need a short wig to pull that one off though. Otherwise I'd just look like a woman that dresses twice her age.

Sometimes it's the little things that can make or break a day. Getting my shift changed was a big good thing, but everything else was small stuff that added up to a very happy me. It's amazing how much good parking can influence your mood...

I have such a mountain of crap here to clean off. So far, I've managed to clean off a chair so that Ryan can also sit in the living room.

Meanwhile, in the past month I've dreamed about cats at least a dozen times. These are dreams where the cats are a major, if not the major, feature. I do not understand this.

Have you seen "Grey Gardens" with Drew Barrymore? I saw it, loved it, and now I'm so motivated to clean my house.

I love the show Fawlty Towers. I can watch all those episodes over and over. But, gosh, that show gives me high blood pressure sometimes.
:D

Who won the bloody war anyway!?

The rebels did... with the help of a scoundrel and a Wookie.

Don't forget the army of Teddy Bears with Spears.

Ahhhh... Nothing caps off a long day at work like a triple sized commute with the promise of more tomorrow....

Why am I having visions of NA's cat and Chewbacca ripping at the ankles of Darth Vader?

From DreamMoods Dream Dictionary:

Second phone interview with a non-profit organization today. It went really well. The interviewer said he was impressed. I hope I get it. It sounds like it would be a fun job.
:)

That does not sound like fun at all! That happened in our little town a few weeks ago and they are still trying to get the lights timed right. I hope it goes better for you!

My cat dreams have all involved sick, injured, or lost cats. Or some variant. That I have to save.

**Sniffle***

Source

A picture on the page may reveal why there are problems:

My sister has been spending a lot of time in Anatevka lately. Here's the promo they just filmed. My sister is in the long, lighter green apron.

If you live in the Bay Area, looks like a good production.

Actaully collies are surprisingly good at herding commuters. I guess it's in their nature.

Ugh, must be leftover stress from when your baby went a-wanderin'. I can empathize - my vivid preg dreams have come back (with slightly less intensity), and though the topics vary widely, they are often quite emotional. No, I don't dream about babies all the time, but there are a lot of responsibility-themed concepts.

I also forget them soon after waking...but the drained feeling stays with me for a bit.

I indulged in bitchery at a mom-n-pop grocery store today and it felt so gooooooood.

A woman I used to work and who was every bad co-worker cliché you can think of with waved and squealed, "Helen!"

I ignored that. Of course. I mean, this woman even was certain I was having an affair with her alcoholic husband, who also worked with us. As if, lady.

"Helen! It's so good to see you!"

So, naturally, I turned around to face her and said, "Yeah, well it's a drag to see you."

And then I moved on.

Helen, what a terrific riposte!

Kudos!

Zing! pwned by 3894!

You go girl! :snap:

:snap:

[Elvis]Thankyouvermuch[/Elvis]

So, admit it. You're going to click on this fairly worksafe but not that child-friendly link.

I expect to see that on (regr)etsy soon.