nothing here today
seriously, nothing here today
you really don't want this, okay?
you REALLY, REALLY don't want to go any further
there's plenty of other places to scamper around in alright?
I warned you:
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not...
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seriously, nothing here today
you really don't want this, okay?
you REALLY, REALLY don't want to go any further
there's plenty of other places to scamper around in alright?
I warned you:
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not...
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from the Dumb Irony Department:
my mother passed away several months ago & my sister & I have done as much as we could as far as "wrapping up loose ends" go, but we're still working on buying a headstone for her hometown--& they ain't cheap.
we had her address changed to mine, & every few days I'll get a piece of mail addressed to...
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my mother passed away several months ago & my sister & I have done as much as we could as far as "wrapping up loose ends" go, but we're still working on buying a headstone for her hometown--& they ain't cheap.
we had her address changed to mine, & every few days I'll get a piece of mail addressed to...
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perdurabo:
sorry about your mom, but that would be funny if you sent in the life insurance forms...
and...happy birthday early....the big 3-0...
and...happy birthday early....the big 3-0...
living in a rural-type area (as I do) with internet access can make for a curious combination of instant & delayed gratification.
I lived in NYC for a couple of years & I could pretty much find anything my heart desired, & any number of things that I never knew I wanted or needed until I wandered into a dusty store at random on walkabout....
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I lived in NYC for a couple of years & I could pretty much find anything my heart desired, & any number of things that I never knew I wanted or needed until I wandered into a dusty store at random on walkabout....
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tororo:
I can't answer questions 1 and 2....
but question 3! oh boy! There's simply too many things to do......
currently, I would probably end glueing them on a slightly outmoded jacket for having something David Byrne- style to wear in case I'd be invited to a party.
but question 3! oh boy! There's simply too many things to do......
currently, I would probably end glueing them on a slightly outmoded jacket for having something David Byrne- style to wear in case I'd be invited to a party.
morgan:
I should just open an animal shelter...that'd make me feel better.
just spent an hour writing an entry.
it disappeared within a sentence of completion.
this not the first time this has happened.
QUESTIONS:
what the fuck is going on here?
I'm not the fastest typer in the world, but I'm fairly familiar with the keyboard, so I'm pretty sure i'm not hitting any of the wierd keys at the bottom--so what's the deal?
is there...
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it disappeared within a sentence of completion.
this not the first time this has happened.
QUESTIONS:
what the fuck is going on here?
I'm not the fastest typer in the world, but I'm fairly familiar with the keyboard, so I'm pretty sure i'm not hitting any of the wierd keys at the bottom--so what's the deal?
is there...
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miss_magenta:
that happens to me sometimes as well. ugh. it usually only happens when i write very long detailed entries and i try to sumbit it and it vanishes.
*hugs*
*hugs*
tororo:
For what it's worth: when I have somewhat longuish things to post, I use to type them using Word, save, then copy and paste them in the browser window...
after an absence from the computer for a couple of days I checked my email to find it stuffed with maybe 8 messages (under slightly different headings) that promise that little ol' me can help "STOP HILLARYS {sic} BOOK" by purchasing a deck of cards with pictures of Hilary Clinton on them & various "outrageous" quotes.
before deleting them, I had a brief vision of...
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before deleting them, I had a brief vision of...
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tororo:
Hello!
Great to read you again. Thanks to your posts, these unfathomable mysteries of north-american politics are made clear even to us ignorant foreigners.
(in order to gain some additional information, i'm considering buying the card deck published by the Rseau Voltaire, portraying the 52 most dangerous members of the Bush government...."the Department of Defense has shown the effectiveness of playing cards as a way of identifying the enemy".... so true....)
When I think of it, didn't the TV show "Dark Skies" unveil, some years go, some disturbing secrets about Colin Powell's past experiences (back in the '60s) with leech-like extraterrestrials?
Great to read you again. Thanks to your posts, these unfathomable mysteries of north-american politics are made clear even to us ignorant foreigners.
(in order to gain some additional information, i'm considering buying the card deck published by the Rseau Voltaire, portraying the 52 most dangerous members of the Bush government...."the Department of Defense has shown the effectiveness of playing cards as a way of identifying the enemy".... so true....)
When I think of it, didn't the TV show "Dark Skies" unveil, some years go, some disturbing secrets about Colin Powell's past experiences (back in the '60s) with leech-like extraterrestrials?
tororo:
Thanks for the informations!
I told you: U.S. politics are incomprehensible to non-americans, without some help by somebody "in the know".... (is it the correct way to say it?)
.... so is this Donald Rumsfeld REALLY your Secretary of Defense?
I told you: U.S. politics are incomprehensible to non-americans, without some help by somebody "in the know".... (is it the correct way to say it?)
.... so is this Donald Rumsfeld REALLY your Secretary of Defense?
current work-related bullshit:
a couple of months ago something was said to me that, frankly, I forgot about as soon as it was said.
in some alternate universe, perhaps, it could possibly have been percieved as a vague threat, altho it was intended, & taken by me, as a sort of feeble joke.
it was said by officer A. in the presence of officer B....
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a couple of months ago something was said to me that, frankly, I forgot about as soon as it was said.
in some alternate universe, perhaps, it could possibly have been percieved as a vague threat, altho it was intended, & taken by me, as a sort of feeble joke.
it was said by officer A. in the presence of officer B....
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tororo:
Uh-oh. This rises a number of questions.... are you, or have you been, or will you be, the wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time? or the wrong person at the right place at the wrong time? the right person at the wrong place at the right time? the right person at the wrong place at the wrong time?
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vacation was whittled down to two days (out of laziness on my part)--ended up going to SLC. I had fun.
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in other news, I caught a show last night called "Last Comic Standing", which strikes me as either accidentally brilliant or demonically brilliant, it's hard to tell.
i don't watch much T.V. (altho I watch far more than what I hope to convey by...
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in other news, I caught a show last night called "Last Comic Standing", which strikes me as either accidentally brilliant or demonically brilliant, it's hard to tell.
i don't watch much T.V. (altho I watch far more than what I hope to convey by...
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invisigirl:
gosh, i hope you're not one of those hairy ones i've insulted....sorry! haha
nice summaries of the real world and survivor.
nice summaries of the real world and survivor.
morgan:
ewww, i'd hate pork too if i were you. my granddad once tricked me into eating squirrel meet. He told me it was chicken. I was very upset.
have you ever just sat, wool-gathering, cloud-gazing, daydreaming--lost in yer own thoughts--& glance down to see one of those huge, science-fiction type, scary-looking but probably harmless bugs on yer pantleg
& freak out, go completely spastic for a few seconds?
& then feel a sort of immense gratitude to the Universe & whatever Powers that Be that there was nobody around to witness such a...
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& freak out, go completely spastic for a few seconds?
& then feel a sort of immense gratitude to the Universe & whatever Powers that Be that there was nobody around to witness such a...
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rickroyal:
Something like that usually happens whenever I lay out in a field, gazing at the clouds. More than once I've felt something crawling around my ear, and, of course, all I could think was "my god, an earwhig!"
But then I go spastic when wasps buzz me, so whatever.
But then I go spastic when wasps buzz me, so whatever.
y'ever have a friend you write lengthy emails to & then accidentally delete on the verge of sending it?
there may be Freudian reasons for this..
or an anti-articulate (read: Republican) conspiracy.
or it may be, with me, a case of being comfortable with a very old manual typewriter. probably.
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unrelated:
this, from ironic times struck me as fucking brilliant:
Congress Eyes Iraq for...
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there may be Freudian reasons for this..
or an anti-articulate (read: Republican) conspiracy.
or it may be, with me, a case of being comfortable with a very old manual typewriter. probably.
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unrelated:
this, from ironic times struck me as fucking brilliant:
Congress Eyes Iraq for...
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tororo:
I use to think that the funnier ironic lines are the unintentionally ironic ones...
This title from today's NY Times seems, sadly, to be only partly unintentionally ironic:
<B>New Rules Give Big Media Chance to Get Even Bigger</B>
...but, anyway.
This title from today's NY Times seems, sadly, to be only partly unintentionally ironic:
<B>New Rules Give Big Media Chance to Get Even Bigger</B>
...but, anyway.
it seems like a week & a half ago there was snow on the ground & I had my heater on for much of the day--then spring for a couple of days--now summer
justlikethat
every year I have these plans of planting flowers, vegetables--tromping in from the yard with a bushel of homegrown goodness still warm from the sun...I buy packets & packets of seeds...
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justlikethat
every year I have these plans of planting flowers, vegetables--tromping in from the yard with a bushel of homegrown goodness still warm from the sun...I buy packets & packets of seeds...
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tororo:
Hello!
I just paid a visit to this site:
http://www.brunching.com/
and thought that if you've not already stumbled on it, it could maybe interest you.
Good planning!
I just paid a visit to this site:
http://www.brunching.com/
and thought that if you've not already stumbled on it, it could maybe interest you.
Good planning!
morgan:
i wish it were summer here. it's STILL rainy and gross outside.
SOMEWHAT GRUESOME: WARNING:
it seems to me that there's a portion of the violence that occurs at the prison is due to power-plays by the various gangs, dominance, self-defence or punishment meted out due to the nature of an inmates crime or gambling/drug debts.
but the vast majority of incidents can be chalked up to good old-fashioned boredom.
night before last an inmate buzzed up...
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it seems to me that there's a portion of the violence that occurs at the prison is due to power-plays by the various gangs, dominance, self-defence or punishment meted out due to the nature of an inmates crime or gambling/drug debts.
but the vast majority of incidents can be chalked up to good old-fashioned boredom.
night before last an inmate buzzed up...
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tororo:
Let's talk about something else.
You're right, no comment is needed for this entry, better we leave everybody draw their own conclusion and learn from it.
OK, let's talk about something else.
... Thanks! thanks so much for providing me such an exhaustive report on weed-whackers and their relation with weed-eaters. That's what i'd want to say when i came to this page, but for some reason I totally forgot.
I can't believe there has been so far neither porn nor fan-fiction made available, involving weed-whackers?
Also, I saw there was a new thread in the Site section about Neil Gaiman... and I realized all of a sudden that I have had the link to Gaiman's site in my browser's Favorites list fot more or less one year and I never went visiting it!
I'm clearly a relic from the ages that preceded the Information Age, I never think of doing things like this.
um.. how big, the copper wire?
You're right, no comment is needed for this entry, better we leave everybody draw their own conclusion and learn from it.
OK, let's talk about something else.
... Thanks! thanks so much for providing me such an exhaustive report on weed-whackers and their relation with weed-eaters. That's what i'd want to say when i came to this page, but for some reason I totally forgot.
I can't believe there has been so far neither porn nor fan-fiction made available, involving weed-whackers?
Also, I saw there was a new thread in the Site section about Neil Gaiman... and I realized all of a sudden that I have had the link to Gaiman's site in my browser's Favorites list fot more or less one year and I never went visiting it!
I'm clearly a relic from the ages that preceded the Information Age, I never think of doing things like this.
um.. how big, the copper wire?
morgan:
i had a dream last night where one of the girls in it had a pierced eyeball.
Spring feels like it's finally here, & it's about god-damn time.
I bought a weed-whacker.
it's not a very good one (the little "whacking string" is too short & I need to take the thing apart to advance it every 10 minutes or so)--but there's a certain simultaneous embrace of & surrender to adulthood in being able to say "I own a weed-whacker"
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I bought a weed-whacker.
it's not a very good one (the little "whacking string" is too short & I need to take the thing apart to advance it every 10 minutes or so)--but there's a certain simultaneous embrace of & surrender to adulthood in being able to say "I own a weed-whacker"
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tororo:
As I was unable to find the word "weed-whacker" in my old-fashioned paper dictionary, I did a search with various online dictionaries...
"British American For English Speaking People" told me plainly: "The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary". It immediately added (with, it seemed to me, its electronic tongue stuck in its virtual cheek) the following suggestions:
Suggestions for weed-whacker:
1. wideawakes
2. wideawake
3. wide-awake
4. headwaiter
5. woodworker
6. headwaters
7. headwaiters
8. wood-carver
9. woodwork
10. headwater
The online American Heritage dictionary hadn't weed-whacker in it either. It had "weeder". Is a weed-whacker some sort of weeder?
If owning a weed-whacker helps for "embracing and surrendering to adulthood" as your post suggests it, it could be of some use to me.
Anyway, I love me some gratuitous pornographic interludes once in a while!
"British American For English Speaking People" told me plainly: "The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary". It immediately added (with, it seemed to me, its electronic tongue stuck in its virtual cheek) the following suggestions:
Suggestions for weed-whacker:
1. wideawakes
2. wideawake
3. wide-awake
4. headwaiter
5. woodworker
6. headwaters
7. headwaiters
8. wood-carver
9. woodwork
10. headwater
The online American Heritage dictionary hadn't weed-whacker in it either. It had "weeder". Is a weed-whacker some sort of weeder?
If owning a weed-whacker helps for "embracing and surrendering to adulthood" as your post suggests it, it could be of some use to me.
Anyway, I love me some gratuitous pornographic interludes once in a while!
I dunno who wrote this song, but reading what I suppose is the original version instantly kindled the memory of the cover Dario Moreno did (in french) some 4O years ago.... he was a star then.... do you picture who Dario Moreno was?
Imagine Danny De Vito, only shorter and wider, with John Waters moustache.
He had this unmistakeable way for singing
"Mexico, MexiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-
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in his greatest success, "Mexico, Mexico".
Damn, I have now "Mexico, Mexico" stuck in my head.
On a lighter note, I sometimes fancied learning to play washboard.
But nobody plays it here.
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