Category: Everyday Stories
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The Child Experiments with Being an Actor in Dramatic, Scary Stage Make-up
The Child Experiments with Being an Actor in Dramatic, Scary Stage Make-up 2006 View On White How are H.o.p.’s acting classes going?
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LCD after-image (grumble grumble hiss spit)
I’ve been creating troubles with my blog. As has my webhosting company again, the MySQL database going down a couple days in a row now. If anyone drops by here who’s had troubles with burn in/after image on their LCD monitor, would be interested in hearing your fix. Found one website that advised creating a…
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Fresh pipe
Wherein You Learn From My Mistakes, Hopefully, But Probably Not Because I Never Did (should be the name of this blog). Well, for several hours this morning our kitchen sink got needed attention from the landlord and his helper, G. (who I call the Super and for all intents and purposes is). Turns out there…
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The outside makes its way in
The rat population out back of the apartment building seems to have exploded. The rats have even eaten away the edges of the lids of the garbage bins…and now we have critters in the walls. Whatever they are I don’t know because they thus far remain in the walls and I can’t see them. But…
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National Center for Missing & Exploited Children rethink statement on Foley (kind of)
Last night on their News and Events page, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children had placed this statement: Congressman Mark Foley’s resignation is a great loss to Florida and the nation. He has been a hard-working, dedicated and effective Congressman. He will be missed. Now they have: Congressman Mark Foley’s resignation is a…
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I wish it was mind-boggling, but it's not
Isn’t this just too damn perfect that Republican Rep. Mark Foley of Florida, founder and co-chair of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children, has today resigned over sexually explicit internet messages he was sending to current and former congressional pages under the age of 18, making repeated references to sex organs and acts?…
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It’s not like the tea leaves hadn’t laid it out in fine and big print
The NY Times editorial Rushing Off a Cliff nutshells the new torture bill. Though it’s appalling what was voted through yesterday, it’s far from surprising, considering the paths not taken. A case where the fine and big print in the tea leaves was seen by too many as not a warning but a dandy plan.
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Don't know why I'm reminded of Alice's puzzling over which side of the mushroom to eat
I don’t know why, when trying to think of how to describe Sondra Prill, Alice puzzling over which side of the mushroom to eat comes to mind. Maybe it’s the uncertainty of whether fate will take you to the home for which you long or drop you in disaster’s lap. Came upon the below at…
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Orlando Sentinel takes note of Katherine Harris' admiring comment spammer
Jim Stratton’s Katherine Harris’ secret pal? which appears in the Orlando Sentinel’s political blog Sept 26, is about curious comments supporting Harris that have appeared on some blogss, the question being whether she was outsourcing to India for comment spamming. I posted about receiving some of these comments on the 15th after being hit with…
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When Oscar was Bullied
“Go back to bed,” Marty said before leaving for the studio yesterday. I tried but instead broke out the Throat Coat, hoping that might help. First cold of the season and I’m pissed. I don’t like Throat Coat, it’s so sweet. And it didn’t help. More money more money money spent on homeschooling materials but…
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H.o.p. as a vampire for today’s acting class
I’ve never applied stage make-up before and didn’t do a very good job of it. Had only a triangular sponge, no brushes, and I neglected to add setting powder. And it’s tough applying make-up to an 8-year-old boy who has never had make-up applied, who never stops moving, who keeps saying that tickles, who keeps…
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Trying to teach H.o.p. how to reason means he will not be able to dialogue with John Gibson about torture should ever the opportunity arise
In response to the torture uproar, many of the blog post titles I’ve seen about it lately have been down the order of, “Torture does not work!” which I thought was kind of sad and beside the point, because I’ve considered whether torture works or not to not be the issue. Never mind that torture…