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And now for something completely random

Published December 25th, 2006 in Out of Context and Media. 7 Comments

I’m at a holiday dinner and The Devil Wears Prada is playing in the background. I’ve never seen the movie, and am intentionally avoiding paying much attention to it in case I ever do decide to see it (unlikely, but possible). However, I can’t help glancing over at the screen periodically, and I’ve decided […]

Snake Oil Charmer: What “He” Doesn’t Want You to Know

Published October 9th, 2006 in They Said It, Soapbox, Media and Noteworthy. 1 Comment

“The con man’s game is always the same: sensing what the gull most wants to be true.”
- Stephen Metcalf, in his Slate article The Death of Literary Theory (via Ann Althouse)
Disclaimer: Please don’t misconstrue the following as an attack on natural remedies or alternative medicine treatments, or an attempt to dispute conspiracy theories about the […]

Speaking of meltdowns…

Published August 18th, 2006 in Soapbox, Media and Tha Hood. 0 Comments

It’s not just women. According to an article in Men’s Health, Wilmington, Delaware is the 6th most angry city in the United States:
Our search for evidence of urban anger began with the percentage of men with high blood pressure, from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (as calculated by Sperling’s BestPlaces). We then factored […]

Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown

Published August 12th, 2006 in Soapbox and Media. 0 Comments

Outbursts! Meltdowns! Hot latte in your face! There seems to be a growing epidemic of female politicians taking crazy pills.
In a recent St. Petersburg Times article, former employees of US Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL) attempt to get some closure by raking her over the coals for her abusive treatment. Commentors on the Obscure Store […]

You’re So Trashy

Published July 27th, 2006 in In My Life, Soapbox, Media and Tha Hood. 1 Comment

We received a letter from the Mayor’s Office at the end of June informing us that The Mayor, the Clean Wilmington Committee and the Wilmington City Council would be implementing its new residential curbside recycling program in our neighborhood on July 17th. The program is called RecycleBank and it looks promising. The limited-area pilot phase […]

Feeling (mis)fortunate?

Published July 26th, 2006 in They Said It, Creative Efforts, Didja Eat It? and Media. 0 Comments

I have always had a secret urge to replace the slips of paper inside fortune cookies, turning them into misfortune cookies. It’s vaguely comforting to know I’m not alone in that desire. In a somewhat ironic fashion, the fortune in the cookie I opened today said:

Awww, thanks! That’s the first time I’ve received one targeting […]

That girl is poison(ed)

Published July 15th, 2006 in They Said It, In My Life, Media and Kerberosity. 0 Comments

Phew… I’m back home after spending the day with some friends to escape breathing in poison from the pest control session scheduled by my landlord, thanks to the downstairs neighbor’s flea infestation. All in all, pretty inconvenient, and bad timing with a work deadline looming over me.
I had to prepare by vacuuming the entire […]



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Just another personal blog, wherein I bore you with what I've recently watched, listened to, read, digested, contemplated, observed, and experienced, and how cool it would be if I were anything like the person you think I am. I'm a beautiful and unique snowflake, just like everybody else.

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  • Faster, Paris! Kill! Kill!

    TCM showed a couple of cult film classics from 1965 tonight, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Mudhoney. One of the female leads in the latter bears a striking resemblance to Paris Hilton. I could picture her in a remake along with Nicole Ritchie, although neither is voluptuous enough for a Russ Meyer flick! #


  • I am not a spammer!

    I've been getting a lot of bounce back emails over the past few days. It appears that nyominx.com is getting joe jobbed—someone is sending out spam and putting fake email addresses with my domain in the "From" field. To top it off, I'm getting the same spam messages coming from other domains who I assume are also getting joe jobbed! The worst part is that there's really nothing I can do about it except complain and assure you that it's not originating from me. #


  • My current header image...

    ...is an homage to The Greatest Nancy Panel Ever Drawn. Marginally related: I was feverishly sick once while quite young and, so sick that I was hallucinating... At the foot of my bed, a tiny Nancy was chasing a tiny Sluggo (or maybe Sluggo was chasing Nancy, it's been so long I can't remember now) across my blanket with a stick, intent on giving a serious beating. I screamed, and my parents came running, but I never could really quite explain to them what had terrified me. #


  • Grrrrrrrr

    I updated my obligatory "this is my dog" page, now including a short sound clip (video soon to follow, hopefully). #


 

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