It’s my pleasure to introduce you to the best book you’ve never read. It was published, posthumously and after great difficulty, in 1981. It won the Pulitzer Prize. It has the distinction of being the one book everyone in Hollywood would like to turn into a movie, but no one can do it, because it can’t be done. In fact, the project may be cursed, because 3 actors once considered for the lead role died shortly after their names were associated with it. What is it? A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole. I stumbled upon a reference to…
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Rance is back for a quick one, and sounding a bit anxious about the next step: how to keep blogging without getting bogged down with hundreds of comments per post. He wants to preserve the community that’s sprung up; dang me if he isn’t surprised and touched that there is one. I commented that David could set up a mailing list, but that other community members (hee! that’s us!) might prefer something more like a discussion forum or board, or find some other way to moderate comments so as to take the load off the AS. Of course, I still…
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Swedish graffiti artists kidnapped a fiber-glass cow from the international art exhibit CowParade, held power drills to its head and threatened to “sacrifice” it unless the sculptures were declared “non-art.” A video sent to a newspaper showed the cow flanked by two masked, black-clad figures wielding power drills in front of a sign reading “Stockholm’s Militant Graffiti Artists.” “We demand that the cows are declared non-art. Otherwise the hostage will be sacrificed,” said a voice on the video. The group gave the organizers of the Stockholm exhibit till noon on Aug. 23 to comply with their demand.…
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Remember the judge with the penis pump behind the bench? He’s getting himself off on a technicality by resigning his judgeship. He comments: “I have greatly enjoyed my public service and offer my gratitude for the public trust reposed in me during the terms I served,” he said on Wednesday. Yes, he certainly has.
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Travel is such a broadening experience. Especially when you eat as much good food and drink as much good wine (well, not that much, really) as we did. Plus, the mud helped sweat some of the toxins out of our bodies, or so we like to tell ourselves. And it certainly helps to give us new perspectives on life (at first this image was loaded sideways – almost left it that way). Anyway, the images will soon be loaded in a new album in my gallery. They will include some rather scary mudbath pictures as well as pictures of Steve…
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Yo, my husband David, here’s that link for getting the rich text editor buttons to work in Mozilla on the bookmarklet popup
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SEATTLE, Aug 18 (Reuters) – A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday. Why, do you ask? This story will probably explain why the news of the bear on a beer binge rain with the header “Raaaaaaaiiiii-neeeeeeeeeiiiirrrrrr-beeeeeeeeeaaaaarrrrrrr.” Yep, drink a lot of Rainiers, pass out amongst the empties, become fodder for a photo op. Good times.
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BBC NEWS | Americas | US children ‘abandoned in Africa’ An adoptive mother of 7 abandons her kids in Nigeria and heads to Iraq to work as a private contractor. Even I don’t hate kids that much.
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Alton Brown on the passing of Julia Child: She gave birth to the modern American cook, to TV cooks, and one might argue, American food in general. She was and always will be our Queen Mother and our den mother, a perfect blend of fun, passion, style and knowledge all wrapped up in a willing self-depreciation that made us all feel a little better about dropping that chicken on the floor. Oh, God, don’t remind me of the chicken on the floor incident. Oops. Heh.
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Heh! PVP’s got a good gag going about LARP – live action roleplay. Come to think of it, in the gag commercial for Atlantis with the people “auditioning,” the one guy in the homemade Jaffa armor has a “realistic foam latex” staff weapon. Must remember to point that out to David next time.