ratsonjulia

the magnum opus for NaNoWriMo is gurgling out of the spigot at a pretty satisfactory rate, thanks for asking.

thus far, what I have going is a sort of Bildungsroman (or roman a clef, if you will--it just depends on what kind of a mood I'm in when I commence to typin)--a touching & chilling coming-of-age-tale of a young girl in suburban New Jersey &...
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I was something of a computer geek in my freshman year in high school, & then I sort of realized that I was, indeed, a computer geek & decided that if I was ever going to get girls to talk to me something would have to change, so I dropped the computer stuff & was just a regular ole geek for a while.

throughout the...
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I've been subscribing to netflix for maybe 6 months now & think it's a great & wonderful thing for one such as me who lives in a rural area & likes the types of movies that just aren't available for rent around here (by which I mean "Just About Anything That's worth Watching", not just obscure &/or foreign movies. as an example: a couple of...
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from the continuing adventures of "Me & the Cat I Was Supposed to Catsit that Ran Away 2 Days After Owner's Departure"

Episode XI: this mornings email to the owner:

[there are many references to my inability to whistle. let me explain: I can't whistle. at a previous job at a construction site I was forced to, whenever a "Hot Mamma" would walk by, carve...
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"necessito" by some girls;

good bouncy song for a grey day--I caught them in Chicago a couple of weeks ago & it was a pretty good show but the audience was pretty sluggish & sparse--

y'know the thing about "dark side of the moon" & "the wizard of oz"?

anyway, I have neither, but I tried "the truth about cats & dogs' & belly "star"

it dun't quite work, but "untogether" falls at about the right spot...

to my mind a "Parriott" might be one said to parrot patriotic sentiments without any real passion.

I hope that I've just introduced it to the worlds wordstream, where it may spawn like crazy.

it's also the last name of the writer for tonights spine-tingling adventure of those ethnically mixed guys & gals of Homeland Security on Threat Matrix.

Halloween was most groovy, except that I had to come back a day earlier than expected (screw-up with paperwork getting the day off) but otherwise it was...interesting, I guess.

stayed with a former roomate & very good friend who let me crash on his floor even though when I stayed the last time, a few weeks ago, I kinda sorta had sex with his girlfriend...
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important things in my life are MUTINYING against me, dangit.

--one, for the past couple of days my computer has been switching off at mostly random moments with a snap, crackle & humorous wisp of acrid smoke curling up from the cpu. (I say MOSTLY random because, well, I CAN, & also because it seems to mostly happen when I summon up the gumption to...
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meandering around the re-designed site, I noticed that quite a few members on the boards have been designated "Old School".

I quickly typed in a response to a random post--

I am not, alas, "Old School."...

actual 100% irony-free, deadpan conversation early this morning at the prison:

me: When's your band playing next?

J: We're playing a kind of strange wedding tonight at the Outpost.

me: Strange? You mean, like, cousins?

J: The Flaming Titty Girl.

me: The....?

J: Flaming Titty Girl. She comes to all of our shows, lifts her shirt & puts lit matches into her nipples &...spins them?...
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from "Bowfinger":

she: Do you like "Smashing Pumpkins"?

he: That's one of my favorite things to do!