Lately at Holy Moly, we’ve been kicking around the idea of how to welcome people. Do we do it well, or do we do it badly (and risk a snarky write-up in The Ship Of Fools “Mystery Worshipper” annals)? This is something we’ll have to work out in the coming weeks. With that in mind, I was pretty horrified but unfortunately not all that surprised to run across this: WAYNESVILLE, N.C. – The minister of a Haywood County Baptist church is telling members of his congregation that if they’re Democrats, they either need to find another place of worship or…
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What I chose to do with my life and my body is my business, as long as I’m not infringing on other people’s rights and privileges or expecting them to pay for my choices. Maybe the real question to be asked is not “Why am I CF” but “Why are you so worried that I am?” Chances are I know this website’s author from the old days – it’s a nice WordPress site, too. I got there via one of the blogs at the *beep* blog listing of the local newspaper The Daily Herald.
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Authorities told CLTV a couple in their 40s had been drinking and were sitting in the front living room of the house when they allegedly decided to light a commercial firework they had obtained and possessed illegally. The couple then allegedly could not figure out how to extinguish the fuse, CLTV reported. The device exploded, damaging the house and setting it on fire. Neighbors heard the blast, called 911 and rushed to the scene. … Carmen Morales, spokesman for Nicor, said the house did not have natural gas service at the time of the explosion. Eichelberger said the dwelling’s electrical…
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The big sad news in the area, of course, is the Vasilev murders. The satellite trucks are no longer gathering for “live updates” and about the only visible sign from the main street in the neighborhood is a white van (no, I’m not driving or walking down there). It appeared that somebody had set up one of those shrine things for a while – 3 crosses on the corner – but they’re gone. The Trib published the transcript of the 911 call today – it seems to take forever for the trained operator to comprehend that children had been stabbed…
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Hey, it’s May already. What’s the dealio with the spittin’ snow? I went to lunch in my car, and when I came back, there were little spitballs of the stuff coming down. I suppose in a month we’ll be whining about how hot it is, but come on with the good weather, okay? Under “Stuff” I’ll just add that I’m pretty much done with incessant screwing around with the blog design for at least a few months. I do have a few oddities to fix. Feel free to stop by the “About” page, I stuck some fan merch links in…
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The Good Wife Strikes BackBy: Elizabeth BuchanOkay, uncle uncle already. Or auntie, auntie, same deal. I give up on this book. I bought it based on the cute, charming cover art and assumed that it would turn out to be a cute, charming tale of a lady of a certain age who Finds Herself just in time. It had some sort of British/Tuscan storyline hinted at in the jacket, and that seemed like a good start. Currently there are a number of books and movies in circulation featuring charm, villas, good food, good wine, ladies who live large and well,…
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Earlier tonight, we were hungry for a snack or appetizer before dinner (fried rice and soy-ginger tofu) was ready. On checking the larder, a veritable feast was waiting to be created from odds and ends of ethnic food. After some thought, we assembled our multi-cultural nosh: gefilte fish, wasabi sauce, wasabi peas, tortilla chips, salsa, and British bitter. This originally came about because we both had a yen for gefilte fish (heh) but had no horseradish on hand. But we do have powdered wasabi, which is actually a kind of horseradish (at least in the US. Eureka! After documenting this…
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Whee! It works! First time! David is a genius! MTGalleryLink is da bomb! Slickeroo! There are more tricks that it can do, like a random image, but the doc page says it only refreshes the image on a rebuild. Hah. I have a true randomizing script that makes the moblog images change on every refresh. It’s called rotator.php and I was able to set it up without David’s help, so it’s possible I could do it again with this MTGalleryLink thing. That would be fairly cool. Holy CRAP. Holy frick-in CRAP. This just made the last, agonizingly long-awaited Final Entry…
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So, week of vacation at home, day two. Where to start? Well, I got up earlier this morning. That was good and boded well. I fixed some tea (Twinings English Breakfast, and I’ll need more to get through the week) and had rather a lot of toast. Kind of on the Douglas Adams model of procrastinating, except that where he took serial baths, I made, um, more than two slices of toast. With butter and Vegit. Some time later, I wandered out to the garage and swept it out a little, looking over our junk and figuring out what can…
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Okay, okay, ***Dave did it and now so must I: American Cities That Best Fit You: 65% Honolulu 60% San Francisco 60% Seattle 55% Portland 50% Atlanta Which American Cities Best Fit You? The first time through, I was a little too enthusiastic about theater districts and museums and zoos – all things I enjoy doing, but they’re a long haul from where we are. I clicked on “would prefer to live in the West.” And while San Francisco came up first, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and New York City came up high in the rankings. New York City? Get me the…