I think we should all invest in hand sterilizer gel this year. And I think that if our Duh President is actually thinking ahead about a health threat, it’s a pretty damn scary one. He actually read a book recently about the great influenza pandemic of 1918 – the one my mom barely managed to survive when she was 3. She’s been telling me about that one all my life; there’s a china chocolate cup that she keeps in a special place on the hutch in the dining room. Apparently when she was so sick, she was given hot chocolate…
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Okay, usually I’m not one for seeing a lot of humor in blasphemy. But then I don’t see a lot of humor in intolerance from a son, when a famous father is known for… these types of things. CNN.com – Franklin Graham sees?’revival’ for New Orleans – Oct 4, 2005 Graham, the son and designated successor of the Rev. Billy Graham, said he doesn’t believe the devastating storm was a punishment from God for what he sees as the city’s ties to satanic worship and sexual perversion. “I’m not saying that God used this storm as a judgment,” Graham said.…
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Either way, I’m PSYCHIC. Okay, the Chicago White Sox are playing the Boston Red Sox today, first game of the AL division championships. Several of my cow-orkers are very excited and nervous just now. Actually, the White Sox were doing alright until just now when I walked into the break room to watch a couple of minutes with a rabid Sox fan. During the time it took to eat 1 (one) candy bar, 2 errors were committed and the Bosox scored 2 runs (with 2 outs and a man on). Gee, it was 6-0 Chisox when I unwrapped the candy…
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A tanker truck exploded in flames in the Bronx a short time ago – I was watching live TV via CNN at lunch. They don’t know much about it and were carefully not saying “terrorism” or anything, but it’s totally disrupted traffic and rail in the Hunts Point area, near a bridge. Apparently Amtrak runs some trains near there and the power is out along the line. There may have been a second truck and it was probably just a collision, but still. Smoke over New York? Not happy news at all.
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I was accosted just now in the cafeteria here at work; a rather odd young woman came up to me while I was looking at some new brand of energy drink called “lost.” I wondered aloud if the world really needed a beverage for fans of a TV show about people and polar bears stuck on a tropical island, and this woman decided I was her new bestest buddy. She started asking me all kinds of nutritional and relationship questions and wondered what she should drink if she was too nervous to eat and feeling all quivery from adrenaline. “Um,…
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Chicago Tribune | Cage names kid after Superman Nicolas Cage, who was once set to star in Tim Burton’s doomed Superman project, hasn’t let go of the Man of Steel. The Oscar winner and his wife, Alice Kim Cage, became the proud new parents of Kal-el Coppola Cage on Monday morning, Zap2it.com reports AAAAAAAAAA! I thought from the headline teaser that they’d named the baby after Chrisopher Reeve! AAAAAAAAAAA! I officially feel sorry for this kid. No word on any superpowers as yet; those apparently develop at the time of puberty.
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The monkeys have both been sticking this thing my face. Then I get online and play with the “mouse” thing and there I am, famous or something. Well, at least I’m good looking enough to handle the adulation. The last few days have been pretty rapturous; I hardly ever feel scared and the monkeys keep finding new ways to pet me and cuddle me. The catnip supply seems to be endless. Also, they’re feeding me some rather tasty dishes, and it’s obvious that they wish me to grow stronger and more active. I’ll show them active some night. However, they…
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Hey! Waggledance has its own website. It’s got a link to eBay, but that’s not really necessary; we can buy it at Binny’s in the British beers and ales section. It even has a little bee doing the waggledance, and some sort of contest (the eBay link didn’t work, but you can bid for stuff). Mostly the prizes are money-off vouchers that are only good in the UK.
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Today’s an interesting day, all right. We’re hoping to visit Steve and hang out and see how he’s doing and what not. I was laughing earlier today, remembering when he and my husband David and I went out to dinner at Max and Erma’s up north, where Steve’s very cool nephew Benjy works. We have Benjy a ration of shit, and he very politely gave us a ration of shit right back, while taking care of our every niggling little request. That was a good time, I’ll remind Steve of that. Serenity opens tonight and it sucks that Steve probably…