More frivolity: Last night, while walking home from the BART station, I saw an attractive young man. He was good-looking and all, but it was the button-down shirt + sweater combo that made him cute. And it was the copy of Life on the Mississippi peeking out of his back pocket that made him HOTTTT.
Also: I want a cat. I might go to Lodi this weekend just to hang out with my parents' cats. (Did I do that plural right? Shit. It's so much easier in Romance languages.)
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11:59:53 AM,
Tuesday 1 April 2003
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Name for a metal band: FleshBag.
Thanks Dames!
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11:53:36 AM,
Tuesday 1 April 2003
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Just found this -- for the grammar nazi within. Although mine is often without.
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07:29:49 PM,
Monday 31 March 2003
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The Gulf War II drinking game.
Thanks Craigslist!
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06:39:57 PM,
Monday 31 March 2003
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glossomania: what exactly does "she's a bulldog in the sack" mean?
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05:57:38 PM,
Monday 31 March 2003
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I used to know this woman who grew up in Brazil and used to pronouce "tired" "tie'-red" (i.e "garment'-color). Now whenever I'm actually tired I think of that. Like now, although my only excuse is excessive caffeine intake. Silly dino.
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03:39:40 PM,
Monday 31 March 2003
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Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
Man, i totally need to see that movie again.
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02:59:15 PM,
Monday 31 March 2003
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myar myar myar...
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02:43:23 PM,
Monday 31 March 2003
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NBC fired Peter Arnett, its Baghdad correspondent, because of some remarks he made in an interview with Iraqui state television. Specifically, he said the initial US war plan had failed because of Iraqi resistance, and that as a result the US military command was reevaluating its strategy. Funny, it seems like other people are saying the same thing and not get fired for it -- yet. Military command is still on message, though.
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12:25:41 PM,
Monday 31 March 2003
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Moss linked to this story about monkeys while commenting in Julia's blog, and so I thought, "why not Google "urban assault monkey"? It doesn't get you anything good, though. Googling "killer monkey", on the other hand, gets you this and also this. (Now let's just hope I didn't fuck up any of that script.)
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11:56:03 AM,
Monday 31 March 2003
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"I'm cuckoo for cocoa puffs! Just wanted to lay that out there."
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07:11:09 PM,
Sunday 30 March 2003
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So last night I saw Wildcat Women, aka Black Lolita, in Deep Vision 3-D. It was a beautiful mish-mash of blaxploitation, soft-core porn and 3-D technology. Several of the actors illustrated the Ron Jeremy principle of porn movie casting. Also, the film boasted some choice lines, which I record here for your reading pleasure:
In case you didn't know, rape isn't a woman's idea of a good time.
Now that we've established we're both hip, let's can the jive.
Get that chick! Nobody fucks with the Buddha!
Listen, you slant-eyed chink! I don't like your attitude!
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05:26:02 PM, Sunday 30 March 2003
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Ok, is it this? I know it's not this.
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11:32:10 PM,
Saturday 29 March 2003
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The problem with using made-up words as passwords is the difficulty of remembering which made-up word you used.
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11:19:03 PM,
Saturday 29 March 2003
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This is just to say that Moira needs to tell me about this "joss blog" right now.
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11:03:55 PM,
Saturday 29 March 2003
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Solaris (the OG version, not the George Clooney version) was trippy as fuck. I can give away the last two lines without spoiling it, since most of the film is not in the script. At least, I hope it isn't, because the subtitles on the print that I saw seemed to cover no more than half of the actual dialogue. (Too bad Sumana is out of town -- maybe she could have translated for me.)
*ahem*
It's time for you to return to Earth.
Do you think so?
Also -- the new de-luxe re-dux of Slanted and Enchanted is, in fact, enchanting. And will be contributing to my contribution to the blogswap.
What lovely weather we're having today.
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05:45:44 PM,
Saturday 29 March 2003
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So wrong, and yet so, so right: Happy Tree Friends.
If you want to be a good person, you can go to the official site to buy the DVDs.
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05:37:16 PM,
Friday 28 March 2003
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Blind date with a chancer we had oysters and dry lancers and the check when it arrived we went dutch dutch dutch dutch--
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01:33:03 PM,
Friday 28 March 2003
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Did you know I was frivolous? In case you didn't, this guy is my favorite poster to the thriftwhore livejournal community. Can anyone guess why? Hint.
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12:09:10 PM,
Friday 28 March 2003
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For the Buffy fans: An interesting article about "Once More With Feeling".
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07:32:39 PM,
Thursday 27 March 2003
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trickseyJump: oh no, i actually scare my coworker with my love of gari
trickseyJump: gari=pickled sushi ginger
glossomania: yeah. i have a SICK thing for pickled sushi ginger.
glossomania: and this morning i discovered that the minimart across the street has little jars of it in the refrigerator case.
trickseyJump: SCORE!!!!!
glossomania: nooooo ...
glossomania: you don't understand.
glossomania: i think my gari addiction has gone too far ...
glossomania: i'm up to a jar per week.
trickseyJump: no. you don't understand.
trickseyJump: gari is good for you!
glossomania: but it's getting out of control!
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glossomania: i have pickled sushi ginger *and* crystallized ginger at home.
glossomania: also i make tea with powdered ginger and sugar.
trickseyJump: oh. you are an addict.
trickseyJump: jesus!
glossomania: also i'm considering buying prepared ground ginger from the indian food store.
glossomania: yeah. see? OUT. OF. CONTROL.
trickseyJump: i guess i shouldn't tell you about the ginger lemonade i had...
glossomania: oh no!
glossomania: how did you make it?
glossomania: tell me!
glossomania: TELL ME NOW!!!!
trickseyJump: down girl!
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05:23:19 PM,
Thursday 27 March 2003
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From last night's conversation with Damian (don't remember which of us started it): "Chimpanzees have two moods -- they're either masturbating or flinging excrement."
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04:35:32 PM,
Thursday 27 March 2003
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Why I need a camera today: The alley by means of which I avoided Sixth street on my way to Tu Lan.
Above: Old advertising signs with cracking paint.
Below: Mourning dove on pavement.
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04:02:14 PM,
Thursday 27 March 2003
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I presume you've already heard about this, but in case you haven't: Brad Pitt IS Achilles!. Thanks Lizzie!
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02:27:40 PM,
Thursday 27 March 2003
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There's this terribly amusing girl in Massachusetts. Look at her archives and you can see her playing dress-up.
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12:28:55 PM,
Thursday 27 March 2003
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Just heard on NPR news that all the Valium in Baghdad has been bought up.
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11:39:55 AM,
Thursday 27 March 2003
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Another dispatch from Jim Iler, whose father, apparently, is the former owner of my pants -- I think this tells the final story --
Sarah,
Well my Dad admitted they were his pants. I figured they were, as he is the only one in the family with his name on the golf tees. I've copied in his response to me.
"Many moons ago we were cleaning out our closet and way in the back was this pair of golf pants that looked like clown pants, I bought them about 25 years ago when we first came out to Ca.
Anyway I decided to put them in the bag that we were giving to the Salvation Army in Sonora. How did they end up in Lodi ? It's amazing how she tracked them down with just the golf tee. "
We are having a lot of fun with this - thanks for the smiles.
Jim
This is awesome.
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11:17:48 AM,
Thursday 27 March 2003
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I just finished The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and, since most of you are Johnnies, I thought you'd like this excerpt (from Philip Roth's interview with Kundera at the end):
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
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10:15:34 PM,
Wednesday 26 March 2003
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Getting over stuff is strange. The pain takes over your life, and you try every way you can think of trick yourself out of feeling. Even when you stop thinking about it all the time, you go back from time to time to see if it still hurts. And it does, and it does -- and then one day, it doesn't. Where did it go? Better not to go looking for it.
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06:41:17 PM,
Wednesday 26 March 2003
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Whatever the janitor puts into his mop water smells burnt.
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02:21:48 PM,
Wednesday 26 March 2003
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A little love for Mr. Prosper:
trickseyJump: i bet davey is a Mr. Lover-Lover underneath his adorable exterior
glossomania: davey is a PIMP.
trickseyJump: oof, baaaaad mental images.....
trickseyJump: hat, bling, cane, etc...
glossomania: don't forget the pinky ring
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02:10:36 PM,
Wednesday 26 March 2003
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So Julia is explaining to me about romance novels. I've read a few and I just can't relate to the stories. I have never gone from hating someone to realizing I loved them all along. Nor have I ever disguised myself as a man, joined the crew of a pirate ship and fallen in love with the captain. But here are some plots that I could relate to:
-Young woman goes to a party, gets drunk, picks up dude, takes him home. Hilarities ensue. She is secretly relieved when he sneaks out of her house at 4:30 am. Never sees him again.
-Young woman dates dude far longer than she ought to, breaks up with him tearfully, then keeps hooking up with him even though she knows better. Finally learns to refuse his advances. Moves away and never sees him again.
-Young woman dates perfectly lovely young dude but everything goes to shit because one of them has major issues. They try to be friends for a while before one or both moves away. Never sees him again.
-Young woman starts dating perfectly lovely, issue-free young dude two weeks before she leaves town. They correspond briefly, but she never sees him again.
oh golly, how very very sad indeed. sob.
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01:47:37 PM,
Wednesday 26 March 2003
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The continuing saga of my pants:
In yesterday's episode, Julia found someone who may once have owned my pants. I wrote to him. He wrote back:
I am tickled pink you were able to find me. I do play golf - but so does my
dad and he has the same name as me. I went ahead and sent him an email
asking him what he is doing giving away his golf tees for.
So looks like you caught one of us - sorry we are not famous golf pro's -
just former owners of pants.
Great detective work - hang on to that frivolity.
Jim
Jim rules. And Julia is a great detective.
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12:23:35 PM,
Wednesday 26 March 2003
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Now I should hope that everyone has already seen this but just in case you haven't: Ninjas are mammals.
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12:02:01 PM,
Wednesday 26 March 2003
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Every morning I ride across the bridge in a casual carpool. Usually the drivers listen to news, but today I rode with a man who was listening to Barry White.
Let me say that again: Barry White, at seven in the morning.
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11:15:41 AM,
Wednesday 26 March 2003
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In San Francisco, you live as an European in America! You feel very well.
Courtesy of Julia, whose blog entry on the subject you have most likely read.
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06:06:12 PM,
Tuesday 25 March 2003
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site & script courtesy of Moss