Category: Everyday Stories
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I shouldn’t have scheduled the CAT 5 standardized test for this week
Alicublog today writes, The screaming fellow with the Bluetooth earpiece may not in fact be connected; he may in fact be screaming to himself, only using technology to conceal his madness from the world. Which I have the feeling is me most any given day of the week, though I enjoy it when ISPs like…
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Thanks Crawford Long-Emory!
Remember Marty’s stitches? Price for walking in the Emergency room door on a Sunday night: $292 (billed by Crawford Long) Price for a nurse looking at his hand and saying, “It needs stitches.”: $226 (billed by Emory) Price for a nurse’s bad stitching job: $444 (billed by Emory) Total time spent in the Emergency Room…
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This is absurd
Snippet of a conversation. H.o.p.: …a rusty old thing. Me: A rusty old bank????? Marty: A rusty old THANK. You’re still not Southern. I can’t believe I sometimes can’t understand what my own SON is saying because of his Southern accent.
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Rain Broke the Drought for an Evening
Rain Broke the Drought for an Evening Enlargement It’s harsh to admit it, but beauty seems sometimes in short supply on the corner of our block. We had rain yesterday, a brief break from a long drought, and today this purple flower had sprouted up in one of our pots in the back. We brought…
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The Year Long Christmas Angel
The Year Long Christmas Angel Has sat outside on a storeroom’s ac unit ever since we moved in the apartment building. View On White
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The Spontaneous Emergence of Captain Beefheart II
Aaaah. My little H.o.p. says that he’s going to “do a comedy musical about a man with a fish head who runs around bumping into stuff”. And he doesn’t even know about Captain Beefheart. The above idea followed after his talking about the musical he was going to do about a banshee and a yeti.
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Three Tow Trucks At Once!
Ouch, I just thwacked the shit out of my hand. That’ll be a nice bruise. Anyway, every so often the Midtown Blue Boys show back up and proceed to their off-duty policing, which is supposed to have to do with keeping things safer in Midtown but they’re never around for all the hookers turning tricks…
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Hey, you! The ones who were properly, socially adjusted in school and think homeschoolers are "overly rugged individualists who lack the impulse or skills to mix in as collaborative members of everyday society!"
I read that kids who win spelling bees Google their names like crazy. If that’s the case, to this year’s winner of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Evan O’Dorney, congratulations! But I hope he never Googles this page and that his parents have some child filter on their computer because man I wouldn’t want Evan…
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Arrrrgh, standardized testing
I hate standardized testing. I loathe, loathe, loathe it. But GA requirements are that beginning with the 3rd year you must subject your child to a standardized test. Being eclectic homeschoolers (tossing in a good portion of unschooling philosophy) we do our homeschooling year round here, going at a rate that’s comfortable for H.o.p. Each…
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Kiss Me Kate
Several weeks ago at Lance Mannion’s there was a mention of The Taming of the Shrew and a pointing to Self Styled Siren’s review of “Kiss Me Kate”, the 1953 movie with Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson. When I saw it was VIEW NOW at Netflix, I thought it might be fun to watch with…
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He was never on any pedastal for me anyway…
Well this possibly explains why I never read Ray Bradbury after I was fifteen years old. By the time I was in tenth grade I’d already decided there was something not right there (I don’t recall what, since I’ve not read him since I was fifteen). In an August 2001 interview with Salon, Bradbury said…
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Mean Mister Mustard-Polythene Pam-She Came in Through the Bathroom Window and You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away – covers by Catastrophic Audio
The last of the circa 1995 messy unauthorized covers, by Catastrophic Audio, of Beatles tunes. Particularly bodacious, messy, and best listened to aggravatingly loud… #11. Mean Mister Mustard – Polythene Pam – She Came In Through The Bathroom Window. And lastly (always better than last)… #12. You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away. Vocals by…