Plus also, hey wow, I finally got my ass to the Democratic headquarters and volunteered for like two hours last night. I called people in Hawaii to exhort them to vote, although I doubt that I convinced anyone to vote for Kerry. I did learn two things, however: how to pronounce "Mahalo" (I think) and that everyone in Hawaii is old and has a squalling baby in their household. Also I saw Barbara Lee, who speaks for me.
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01:40:06 PM,
Tuesday 2 November 2004
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Yesterday I bit all my nails down to the quick, and then started on the cuticles. Wish I'd saved some for tonight.
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01:27:54 PM,
Tuesday 2 November 2004
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Stuff I did this weekend: Lounged in a hot bath. Lounged in a sauna. Drank a glass of Stella. Bought and cooked lots of food (more of the buying though -- anyone know some good spinach recipes? I dreamt it was getting all yellow). Lounged on my brother's couch watching Buffy and Shaolin Soccer (a film that scoffs at our quaint "objective reality"). Lounged at my boyfriend's house where I played with the local kitten. Slept a lot. Lounged at my house, where I watched more Buffy and my boyfriend taught me how to cook popcorn.
I succeeded in fighting off a cold (I think) but failed to do anything useful whatsoever. Hurray!
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11:45:52 AM,
Monday 25 October 2004
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How do you get the rest of your brain to understand the stuff you know intellectually? Cripes.
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05:18:29 PM,
Friday 22 October 2004
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Sometimes when I get myself alone I spend half our time together talking myself down from the ledge. And I mean that in the most metaphorical way possible.
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04:43:07 PM,
Thursday 21 October 2004
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Leonard wrote Real Stories of the Blues, Part I: Miss Carbon Monoxide, which just cured me of mine. Thanks to the Amazing Sumana for showing me the light. An excerpt:
Dirty Shoe Willie: Stuttering Willie, just how blue are your blues?
Stuttering Willie Richardson: My blues have a wavelength of exactly 434 nanometers!
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05:13:34 PM,
Wednesday 20 October 2004
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Don't know whether Moss means for this meme to be contagious, but it reminded me* that I had a piece of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" stuck in my head this morning. It was the line, "When the wind blows the water white and black". Must be the combination of oncoming winter and the second foot getting all spondaic. (Nastay!) So, an excerpt:
When you see this, post a bit of poetry in your blog.
I grow old... I grow old...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
I have seen them riding seaward on the waves
Combing the white hair of the waves blown back
When the wind blows the water white and black.
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea
By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown
Till human voices wake us, and we drown.
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03:44:46 PM,
Wednesday 20 October 2004
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Just got the new Le Tigre album. I'm so excited! And I just can't hide it!
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05:25:14 PM,
Tuesday 19 October 2004
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Q. Why do pirates read Playboy?
A. For the arrrrrrrticles.
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01:05:47 PM,
Tuesday 19 October 2004
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In case you haven't heard, there's a wee controversy going on about whether Bush was wired during the last debate, and whether he regularly uses an audio prompter during televised appearances: Is Bush Wired?. Via Salon.com's article, "Bush's Mystery Bulge".
In unrelated news, I've been listening to Aimee Mann's Bachelor #2 a lot. Can anybody recommend other stuff she's done?
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01:07:42 PM,
Friday 8 October 2004
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Headline: Free Speech Remembered.
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01:57:38 PM,
Wednesday 6 October 2004
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Obvious Quote of the Day: "You don't win a war without killing people."
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04:01:52 PM,
Tuesday 5 October 2004
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The Rancid song "Ivory Coast" has this bit where the vocalist (not sure which one, but he's got a fake Brit accent -- like that helps) sings, "Who is the killer? Who is the killer? Stone-cold killer!"
This is exactly what I am going to sing to the next cat I see.
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07:11:02 PM,
Friday 1 October 2004
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Let's get linky:
Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages (found via alternative hippo).
Disinfopedia.
Cheap Pun of the Day: "Maybe it just needs to blow off some steam?"
Ah, ah.
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04:45:13 PM,
Friday 1 October 2004
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Is this so wrong?
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04:40:31 PM,
Wednesday 29 September 2004
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"How dare you e-mail me and ask when I'm going to update my blog! I'll update my blog whenever in the fucking hell I feel like it, you slavering, puckered assholes!
Let's see, what have I been up to..."
How much do I owe Chris Onstad a fan letter? So much.
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07:15:27 PM,
Tuesday 28 September 2004
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Has anyone else ever stuck their elbow in their coffee cup? When the coffee was still in it?
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11:38:46 AM,
Tuesday 28 September 2004
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Crazy tired right about now. Is that nasty illness from the office mounting another invasion attempt? Is this just left over from my crazy tiredness of last night (that only two cups of tea and a bottle of gatorade were able to dispell)? Mreh.
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02:18:45 PM,
Monday 27 September 2004
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Is the weekend over already? I guess it was pretty busy.
Friday I hung out in the Mission for a bit, eventually meeting up with Damian, Sumana and Leonard for dinner. (Golly, everyone has a web presence!) We ate at Radio Habana Social Club, which seems like a better place to drink than eat (the dining room is small and the tables smaller -- great sangria, though!). I thought the food was ok -- apparently Leonard was not impressed with his, but he's all amateur chef and whatnot, so his standards must be higher. Sumana, Damian and I continued on to see Will Franken do his hell of funny comedy/performance art thing. (All day Saturday Damian and I kept saying, in a grave yet marvelling tone, "That Will Franken. Man, he was funny." He was that funny.) Then Dames and I fled to the train station.
Interspersed among all this were drinks at Beauty Bar (Sumana got a manicure; the manicurist was hot) and Oxygen Bar (where I plan to go for some recovery after Love Parade next weekend), and gawking at vibrators in Good Vibrations (hell no I am not getting you that link while I'm at work. Go get it yourselves.)
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12:28:08 PM,
Monday 27 September 2004
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Every time I step outside the office I see a bunch of leatherdaddies -- it's Leather Pride Week here in San Francisco, and it's shaved heads and big boots as far as the eye can see. It makes me so happy. (Not like that.)
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06:30:59 PM,
Friday 24 September 2004
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More than you ever wanted to know about The Shangri-Las. I googled them because I wanted to know the name of the lead singer. I love the way she wails "I met him at the candy store!" at the beginning of "Leader of the Pack".
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12:24:59 PM,
Thursday 23 September 2004
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glossomania: oh shit, they got some honky to play mr. darcy!
I was alerted to the movie's existence by Sumana
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07:50:10 PM,
Thursday 16 September 2004
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I am going to be twenty-five in three months, and I have no idea what I'm doing with my life.
Fuck.
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04:39:40 PM,
Thursday 16 September 2004
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Per Sumana's request:
On winning wars: The child who is willing to line up his toy soldiers and not merely admire them but swat them down and "put them into the meat grinder" will be a great general, Keyes told a group of Republican Party members. (Via Alas.)
On how Jesus would vote: "Christ would not stand idly by while an infant child in that situation died," Keyes said. "And I'm not the only person, obviously, who thinks if you are a representative of me, I cannot vote for you if you would ignore the dignity and claims of that child's life. So, yes, I did respond quite logically -- you'll see it's quite logical, right -- with the conclusion that Christ would not vote for Barack Obama, because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved."
On Hitler: "Hitler and his supporters were Satanists and homosexuals. That's just a true statement."
On guns: "Instead of being afraid of defending ourselves, we would do well to follow a course of action that re-educated our people in the means of their self-defense, and it would, by the way, provide an armed citizenry that would make terrorists think twice and three times before they dared to threaten our people."
The last quote is from The Alan Keyes Quote of the Day Archive. Hours of fun. Enjoy!
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02:26:51 PM,
Wednesday 15 September 2004
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Today's Theme: Blood loss!
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01:18:56 PM,
Wednesday 15 September 2004
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Receipt from a hardware store:
ANT CNTRL COMBAT 6PK 3.99EA
TREATMENT ANT KILLER 5.49EA
I am the angel of formic death.
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06:02:38 PM,
Monday 13 September 2004
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Hello no man I was not able to kill a man in Reno just to watch him die
Stuff like that is so difficult to orchestrate since the 70s
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05:50:32 PM,
Monday 13 September 2004
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NYT article on the origins of the infix "izzle" (e.g.: "Fo' shizzle, we in tha hizzle") and associated "izz" infices (e.g.: "Dizzouble Dizzutch"). Apparently E-40 started it all. Nor Cal represent!
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12:09:31 PM,
Monday 13 September 2004
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A totally amazing post from Brutal Women (which I just started reading, thanks to Utopian Hell) which explains why the author is pro-choice.
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04:24:16 PM,
Friday 10 September 2004
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To sum up: If anyone can find me a picture of Jimmy Page in a cloak, or even Robert Plant, I will give them a small quantity of money. (Hey, did these guys ever wear shirts?)
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02:32:33 PM,
Friday 10 September 2004
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Also, last night I found out that the lyrics on "Stairway to Heaven" are hell of about elves and shit. I guess I'd never really listened to it before, but my roommate, who is clever about music, was all up on it.
Me: Holy shit, did he just say "hedgerow"? And "May Queen"?
Melissa: Don't listen to the lyrics, they ruin it.
Me: Oh my God, this is so fuckin' Ren Faire! I had no idea!
Melissa: Yup.
I guess my ideas about Led Zeppelin were pretty far off the mark -- I supposed they'd be all hard and stuff, but I was clearly ignorant of their true D&D-appropriate nature. This Is Spinal Tap just got a lot funnier.
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02:31:15 PM,
Friday 10 September 2004
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Long timee no postee. Let's see:
- I went to yoga last night and found out I hadn't been since April first. The causes of my absence are as follows: procrastination, out of town, procrastination, back injury, back injury, procrastination, back injury, procrastination, out of town, procrastination, did I mention procrastination?
Of course, when the instructor commented on it, I left out everything except the back injury part.
Anyway, it was great, my arms were shaking only fifteen minutes in, and now everything sort of hurts.
-After yoga and buying lots of heavy food I went to a party with my roommate and my boyfriend. The party was at the famed "House of Dudes who like Buffy" except I was all tired and shit and felt incapable of socializing even enough to ask what their favorite seasons were. The hosts were very nice anyway, and I saw some interesting fashion. (Thank you Berkeley for occasionally delivering something besides polarfleece socks worn with sandals (which, as we know, is totally ballz).)
Mostly I just sat on the couch with my peeps and asked the Magic 8-Ball questions. (Q: Should Sarah go to grad school? A: Yes, Definitely. Glad that's cleared up.)
Magic 8-Ball backed me up in a ridiculous argument that Damian and I had been having re: whether such a thing as "mental fatigue" exists or not. I said yes, he said no -- the mind merely "gets sick of doing one thing and wants to do something else". "Yes," "said I, something else which is less taxing!" But he would have none of it -- he simply kept redefining his terms to mean something like "mind" and "fatigue" without actually saying those words. Because this is my blog and I am telling the story Because I am always right, he came up with no adequate rejoinder, and yet I was still pleased when the oracle answered my query ("Is Damian full of metaphorical dog excrement when he claims that the mind cannot be fatigued?") with "You May Rely on It."
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01:31:23 PM,
Friday 10 September 2004
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Googling "deformed babies" produces some awesome results. Inspired by Natalie Dee.
Have a great weekend everybody!
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04:31:27 PM,
Friday 3 September 2004
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Everyone gets armbands and 3-D glasses
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12:06:24 PM,
Friday 3 September 2004
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This sounds like the bestest album ever. It was the second review that got it going for me: "THIS IS SO HEAVY,AMAZON WILL NEED TO DELIVER TO YOUR HOUSE WITH A FORKLIFT.YOU WILL THROW YOUR BACK OUT JUST OPENING THE JEWEL CASE."
Still, not $14.99+s&h worth of bestest album ever.
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04:21:22 PM,
Wednesday 1 September 2004
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The best part of waiting eight hours in the county ER to not get treated was hearing a woman tell about the time she got stabbed in the ass.
I'm fine, and public hospitals need more money.
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11:35:02 AM,
Monday 30 August 2004
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