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    Weekly Tweets 2010-10-03

    October 3, 2010 - By 

    Listening to @softweets and Nicholas Kristof discuss this and other columns http://is.gd/ftUZv # RT @StopBeck @glennbeck exclaims "The churches have joined Democratic Socialists for a march this saturday!" But it's Pet Blessing! Wah! # What's this "Democratic Socialists" crap? The Republican Raving Looney Party is lying again! # .@StopBeck Pet Blessings this weekend at @StNickEpiscopal for Socialized Democats, Repawblicans, Libirdtarians, Fishists, & Snaketheists. # Would @adamsbaldwin love or hate this Tshirt from ThinkGeek? #youarebeginningtodamagemycalm http://is.gd/fwJ2O # Hi, new followers and, um, seasoned followers. Prepare to be mildly entertained. #whatsonTVrightnow # Seattle BBQ #fail http://thereifixedit.failblog……attle-bbq/ # Joy. Just took a call…

  • Dear Mom - Random Access Memories

    Guck, Bucum, and Scrud

    October 2, 2010 - By 

    In the last few weeks, I’ve gotten pretty obsessed with the A&E reality show, “Hoarders,” which if you can get past the piles of junk, “treasures,” and poo, is compelling. In the season preview clip above, the newly famous Possum From Hoarders makes her (not his) daring leap for freedom after being poked with a stick. This little clip apparently kept the other obsessed fans talking all summer, but the actual appearance of the Awesome Possum did not disappoint; she hopped in a handy Pet Taxi and lit off for the bright lights of the big city. You can read…

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    Weekly Tweets 2010-09-26

    September 26, 2010 - By 

    Uh, just discovered the "Write Tweet" feature in TwitterTools for WordPress. I may be slow, but I get there in the end. #fb # RT @Molly23 "It may be Talk Like A Pirate Day, but I have the feeling that talking like a pirate to TSA screeners might not go over so well" # This… is not floating my boat. #fb # And now my boat is sinking fast. #fb # I just used #Shazam to discover Beg Steal Or Borrow by Ray Lamontagne And The Pariah Dogs. http://shz.am/t52658207 # Never forget: Bush bungled the capture of Bin Laden at…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Politics, Schmolitics

    Tolkien Hated Hitler: What Would He Make Of Glenn Beck?

    September 19, 2010 - By 

    What with all Chaplinesque moustache-porn videos going around, I do wonder what J.R.R. Tolkien would make of the current culture wars. He knew his way around a mythology, invented or real, so I wonder what he’d think of Beck’s reverse-engineering of the national mythos of the Founding Fathers? 10. He wasn’t nearly as fond of Nazis as they were of him. Tolkien’s academic writings on Old Norse and Germanic history, language and culture were extremely popular among the Nazi elite, who were obsessed with recreating ancient Germanic civilization. But Tolkien was disgusted by Hitler and the Nazi party, and made…