May 2013
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From a news blurb:
According to the local news station WABC, the 73-year-old man was found bludgeoned to death in his home in Clark, New Jersey earlier this week on Monday. His current whereabouts remains unknown and a reward of $5,000 is being offered for his arrest.
Um?
So last night I introduced my kids to the 80s Cusack oeuvre with Better Off Dead. The husband wandered in to watch part of it, and I mentioned that I’m planning to follow this up with One Crazy Summer, The Sure Thing and Hot Pursuit.
“One Crazy Summer was good,” he said. “The others weren’t.”
Not, “I didn’t like them.” They weren’t...
Silver and Blood is now only 99 cents in both the Kindle and Nook stores. Because gateway drugs should be cheap.
A few con-going thoughts
T2 was at CoreCon with me this evening, simultaneously saying how cool it was and how she was “with my people”, and how bored she was and that she doesn’t have any friends cool enough to be there. “The only people I even know who would be interested in being here are those dorky boys.” My god, it’s tough to be twelve.
As we were wrapping things up for the...
The effects of unchecked criminalization: Teen... →
laurennmcc:
fuckyeahfeminists:
This is what the school-to-prison pipeline looks like. This is how black youth are criminalized.
She was doing a science experiment
She’s being charged as an ADULT
She’s being charged with a FELONY
If this all goes the way the prosecution wants, this young woman will be LEGALLY discriminated against for the rest of her life. No voting, housing...
Last night I was reading a magazine in bed and found a review of a book that looked interesting. In the olden days I would have had to write down the author and title (or rip out the magazine page) and wait til I could go out to B. Dalton’s at the mall, where I might or might not find the book.
This morning I used my iPod to go to Amazon, looked up the book and had a free sample of it sent...
April 2013
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Ephemera: Truthful Tuesday →
lefauxfrog:
Solitude has left me overly susceptible to crushes. And not just the unattainable kind, some of which I’ve harbored for years and would never mention for various reasons.
Random acts of kindness set my heart aflutter and fill my head with daydreams. A smile by a stranger on the street makes my…
I can’t even count the number of times I’ve had to remind myself that...
I’m a bit peeved with The Entertainment Media, and, I think, the internet in general today. See, I started rewatching Van Helsing yesterday. It’s been a couple years since I’ve watched it, but considerably less time than that since I last saw a snarky mention of it online. Okay, it’s not a GREAT movie; I admit that. But it was escapist fun, visually stunning, and Hugh...
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My latest creation, the Spring Blossoms bracelet (though it makes me think of watermelon, which is not a bad thing when it’s nearly the end of April and there’s still snow on the ground outside my window):
I wanted to do something simple, but it was a bit of a struggle figuring out what would go with cherry quartz. Metal or glass didn’t seem quite right. The specs are in my...
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Callizania: must find food again…brb
MazeWalker: aye aye
Callizania: aaaannnnnd back with apple!
MazeWalker: Fiona?
Callizania: nope
Callizania: she doesn’t like sitting in a drawer in my fridge, so I had to let her go
Callizania: she also objected to the idea of being cut into quarters and having her insides scooped out
MazeWalker: why the NERVE!
Callizania: I know, right?
Callizania:...
The world’s largest food company, Nestlé, seeks... →
utnereader:
And the SumOfUs petition to stop it.
