Bloglet, the gentleman's mock turtle soup -- Moss made it sweeter than myrrh ash and dhoup
Why are my lips so red?
Is it too early to hibernate?
From one of my email lists: "And as the poetry soared and climbed, so did the voice, a lark ascending a thermal of emotion before plunging earthwards back to man's sorrow..."
{snerfle}
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07:01:53 PM,Wednesday 27 November 2002
What has become of the Baron?
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04:38:52 PM,Wednesday 27 November 2002
Top Ten Sexiest Opera Singers
(in my abashedly limited knowledge)
(and my blatantly biased taste)
1. Tatiana Troyanos
2. Janet Baker
3. Frederica von Stade
4. Cecilia Bartoli
5. Sena Jurinac
6. Kiri te Kanawa
7. Ildiko Komlosi
8. Brigitte Fassbaender
9. Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson
10. Ileana Cotrubas
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05:33:32 PM,Saturday 23 November 2002
I found a dollar!
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04:06:23 PM,Saturday 23 November 2002
I have a fake accent in the same way that Randy Newman does. We were both born in Los Angeles.
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12:39:45 PM,Saturday 23 November 2002
EEEeeeeeeEEE! I get to see Ariadne Auf Naxos at 8:00pm Monday March 31st 2003 at the MET!!
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12:28:10 PM,Saturday 23 November 2002
I got myself another new email address, just to be on the safe side. This one's got free POP access, so I'll probably use it more often, and reserve the other one for intermittent fits of perversity, but I'll check 'em both plenty often, no fear.
askeladden@subdimension.com
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11:10:06 PM,Friday 22 November 2002
Um... so I got a new email address. mknight@sjcsf.edu is finally dead, ponocrates@spinozafanclub.com never really had a chance, mknigh3@towson.edu will probably expire sometime in December, and, as you've read, my dear old precious teticscetic@altavista.net is turning into the VILE and PUTRID teticscetic@cheerful.com which I will never never check or even deign to gob upon, so don't you dare send anything to it. My new, hopefully permanent, address is:
thomasaquinas@catholic.org
Oh yes. Oh yes it is.
Don't you dare laugh.
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10:09:21 PM,Friday 22 November 2002
My hair's too long. I feel like a goddamned hippie.
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07:20:33 PM,Friday 22 November 2002
Ok, so you want a permanent email address. You want it to last, so people who knew you in high school could find you ten years later. You wanted the little crumbs and berries you left behind all over the 'net always to be traceable back to you. So, say... you go to the biggest, best, most thorough and thriving search engine on the 'net, and notice they're giving away free forwardable email addresses. How lovely! You exclaim. Permanent, convenient, and free! So you get it. Couple years later, they start charging you -- not much, just $20 a year, but you already have several other free accounts, and you're not sure whether you should pay them. "But this is my address. The one I'll have 'til I'm old and gray. I gotta keep it!" So you pay them. Then, one day...
"Dear teticscetic
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are no longer able to support e-mail accounts that utilize the AltaVista name in the domain name address. As a result, as of 1st January 2003, we will no longer be able to deliver mail to your e-mail address teticscetic@altavista.net.
We understand the importance of your e-mail account and apologize for any inconvenience this causes you. We do wish to continue serving your e-mail needs and would like to offer a new address to you. Starting immediately, you will be able to receive mail at teticscetic@cheerful.com and you will be able to login to your account using this new address and your existing password. Until 1st January 2003, you will also continue to receive mail at your altavista.net address, but after 1st January 2003 you will only receive mail at your new email address.
Again, we apologize for this unfortunate situation. Should you have any questions regarding this change, please contact us at mailhelp@staff.mail.com . We hope you will find your new email address to be valuable and will continue as a customer of Mail.com.
Sincerely,
The Mail.com Team"
God. DAMNIT.
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04:44:07 PM,Friday 22 November 2002
I like watching movies with people. People who make lots of comments and talk at the screen.
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10:39:15 AM,Friday 22 November 2002
I wonder if maybe Thomas Aquinas didn't have it backwards -- if you grow up surrounded by an overarching, dominant, practically universal religious system, it's natural and prudent for you to accept its dogma without fundamentally questioning it and to think and live virtuously within it. If, on the other hand, you grow up without or outside of a system of this kind, it is your responsibility to seek out as many diverse and contradictory truths as you may hear about or come across, and you must not give your allegiance to one of them without having first tested yourself against all the others.
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10:01:02 PM,Thursday 21 November 2002
What is it about Seeeeeeex?
What is it about Seeeeeeex?
Thank you, Anne. This song is very... cathartic.
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08:47:26 PM,Thursday 21 November 2002
Don't tell me this isn't the coolest thing you ever saw in your whole life.
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10:39:17 AM,Thursday 21 November 2002
I put up mp3s of the Towson Early Music Ensemble's concert. It's a little uneven -- some of those instruments are freakin' hard to play, yo -- but if you're into that sort of thing, you might wanna give a listen.
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09:34:20 AM,Thursday 21 November 2002
For a while, I bought only white bread and brown rice. Then I realized how godawful-in-every-way white bread was, cheap or not (except for buttered toast. when white bread is buttered toast, it's a delight. not as much as sourdough, but significantly more than wheat), and started buying wheat bread instead. I also decided to try white rice for a change, though I was fond enough of brown. It had been my habit to leave my brown rice covered in the rice cooker for several days after I cooked it; it dried out a bit, but tasted just fine, especially if I fried it with a little cumin and celery salt. Then I tried that with the white rice... after two days, I delved in and... squissh... it had fermented into a liquid ooze. I guess brown rice, since it's still in its jackets, just dries out and stays intact, but white rice, exposed to the elements, breaks down altogether. Ick. Right, so, bread -- I kept my loafs of white bread in the cupboard, fortified as they were with preservatives, and they kept for ages and ages. But my wheat bread, after three days at room temperature, has gone all moldy and smells a bit like sour beer. Funny how that is.
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08:38:20 PM,Wednesday 20 November 2002
Wow. One small cup of lentils makes one huge-ass mess o'pottage.
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12:34:58 PM,Wednesday 20 November 2002
Lycopersicon.
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08:18:19 AM,Wednesday 20 November 2002
I've been googling for something for a while now with no success. When I was a kid -- around eight or nine, I guess, so, the mid-to late-eighties -- my dad brought home this little fake-laptop looking thing from a thrift shop (so it was probably a year or two old, though it was in good condition). It was white or beige, I think, and had a sort of a keyboard and a rudimentary monochrome display (no moving graphics, I'm pretty sure). It was an educational quiz-type machine, which operated by means of little cards you'd poke in the side and possibly enter a code to tell the machine which card you'd put in. I was never sure about that, whether the cards themselves were magnetic and gave the machine vital information, or whether they were only for the benefit of the user, because they had lists of codes aligned with pictures which told you what answers to punch in. They were on all subjects... geography, music, math, science, words... I remember having a really good time with them, except that half of my cards were a different color, and they didn't work properly with the machine; they must have been from a later edition or something. I know this is trivial beyond measure, but it's one of those things that gnaws in the back of your brain. I want to find out what this machine was called. I sold it in a garage sale some years later and have never heard any mention of it since. It must have been a pretty primitive thing, looking back on it, but it was my first fancy electronic machine (though I also had a 2XL 8-track robot), and I used to play with it for ages. I'm sure it's mentioned somewhere on the internet. I just wish I knew how to look.
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08:00:59 AM,Wednesday 20 November 2002
