Deborah Tannen on mothers and daughters. Reading stuff like this makes me feel damn lucky. For all the fear-of-confrontation, passive-aggressive issues I picked up at home (and I think I'm only aware of them because my mom worked to get hers down to a manageable level), my mom never needled at me like this.
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06:48:48 PM,
Friday 27 January 2006
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Damian spotted a mouse in my living room just now. It is not that cold outside and my roommate and I are not that dirty. The vermin has no excuse for its tresspassage.
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12:57:00 AM,
Thursday 26 January 2006
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The Big Sleep/The Big Lebowski double feature? Any local folks like the sound of this for the second or third weekend in February?
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12:48:24 PM,
Tuesday 24 January 2006
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Oh fucking eh. Why do people assume that it's okay to say racist shit to people who aren't members of the disparaged race? I think the next time this happens -- and I'm pretty sure there will be a next time -- I'll quit with the innocent, "I don't understand how her being Black relates to her incompetence," schtick and say right out that I don't ever want to hear it again.
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07:29:27 PM,
Friday 20 January 2006
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I know three married couples composed of one American woman and one British man. Is this just a quirk of my friends' demographics, or is there some devious scheme to import British men for their accent-based hotness*?
*(I should say that I'm not especially susceptible to the lures of a foreign accent, although I admit that Alexander Siddig would probably be less unnervingly hot without his.)
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02:44:29 PM,
Friday 20 January 2006
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Meh.
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07:53:45 PM,
Thursday 19 January 2006
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I'm deliberating between the Canon PowerShot A610 and A620. But is 2.1 more megapixels worth $100?
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12:44:14 PM,
Wednesday 18 January 2006
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my brother: So you advising all your coworking wingnutz to see "that new cowboy movie"?
me: yeah
me: they are already teasing each other about it
me: fag jokes NEVER get old
me: it makes me wish for a sitcom-like resolution
me: where they have to move into a house full of trannies and learn the true meaning of christmas, etc.
my brother: LOL
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04:43:43 PM,
Tuesday 17 January 2006
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Books I've read so far this year:
Cadillac Desert
The Giver
Summer Blonde
The Man in the High Castle
Anybody gotten down with these?
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12:13:18 AM,
Tuesday 17 January 2006
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I am <3ing Dell tech support so much right now. A replacement hard drive (mine gave me the old blue finger) and I only had to hear "Walkin' on Sunshine" once in the mere half-hour of hold time. I hope nothing happens in the next week or so to make me change my mind.
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04:10:25 PM,
Friday 13 January 2006
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Awesome engineer-ism of the day: "Pakistinians."
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04:43:27 PM,
Wednesday 11 January 2006
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Boyfriend to me: I'm starting to doubt the moon landing.*
Me to boyfriend: As long as you don't start denying the Holocaust.
*Immediately after saying this he reviewed the arguments that the Apollo landings were faked and dismissed them all, so don't start mailing him those tinfoil hats just yet.
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03:17:46 PM,
Wednesday 11 January 2006
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Salisbury shortscake.
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02:27:52 AM,
Sunday 8 January 2006
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Remember how like two months ago I was all, "Anybody want a blogswap mix?" Well I finally remembered about that and am about to go buy the padded envelopes with which to mail them. But! I need addresses! If you are Anne, Martin, Moss, Mirabai, Lizzie, or Nate, please send and email containing your address to sasquatchfeeder AT hotmail DOT com.
And happy New Year, y'all.
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05:03:43 PM,
Wednesday 4 January 2006
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There is no such thing as too much spinach in an omelet.
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07:01:32 PM,
Saturday 24 December 2005
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So, um, how hard is it to add memory to a laptop? Because I have 74 gb on this laptop and if I want my music collection to fit on it I'll need, like, four times that.
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06:37:48 PM,
Friday 23 December 2005
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...and then I got my second jury summons in six months. Way to go, bitches!
Alameda County is probably just confused because I've been moving around so much.
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04:28:11 PM,
Friday 23 December 2005
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Out at noon today. I have to say, the work I do doesn't have much to recommend it, but my boss is pretty excellent.
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12:22:29 PM,
Friday 23 December 2005
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Just found, via Drink at Work (which I just found via The Comics Curmudgeon): Wondermark. I can't believe I haven't seen this before -- it's collaged engravings and woodcuts with sarcastic mod-ren humor. Awesome.
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11:58:45 AM,
Friday 23 December 2005
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Why is Lulu Walls so reluctant to marry? Maybe because she's been listening to the Carter Family.
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03:19:58 PM,
Thursday 22 December 2005
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Various things:
Every Blonde Redhead album seems to sound like every other, but I don't mind.
Why does the Buffy musical episode always shunt me out of whatever bad mood I'm in? Even though it sure isn't a happy one, it just works like magic.
My fingernails are now long enough to file, for maybe the second time since I started gnawing on them at age four. I wonder how long I can keep this up.
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12:57:45 PM,
Wednesday 21 December 2005
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Anybody ever notice that "Lookin' Out My Backdoor" appears to be about an acid trip? I just did. ("Dinosaur victrola," anyone?) And I wonder what Buck Owens would sound like in such a state?
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05:13:21 PM,
Saturday 17 December 2005
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The other day I caught myself (too late -- isn't it always like that?) being all self-congratulatory for my awareness of societal racism. Of course, I'm white, so I can choose to notice it or not. How nice for me. So I was glad to read this:
Because I'm not some horrible racist person, I'm a sensitive, liberal, totally PC chick, and I want my props for it. And that's what it boils down to. I want to be acknowledged for all my wonderful anti-racist attitudes, when in fact I'm just like a fish who isn't aware of the water--racism is all around me, and I'm stuck in it, breathing it, part of it, whether I like it or not.
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01:57:50 PM,
Monday 12 December 2005
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Hoppity hippity poppity pippity.
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09:43:02 PM,
Sunday 11 December 2005
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And you know how I said I was cured? Not quite. Hello, ginger tea!
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02:56:46 PM,
Friday 9 December 2005
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Who has the Carter Family boxed set? That would be me.
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02:56:19 PM,
Friday 9 December 2005
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Surprising cure for mild queasiness: sweet potato + cold chicken + cranberry sauce.
Also I think either going to Osento makes me sick or them hippies are right that sweat leaches "toxins" from your body.
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03:57:44 AM,
Friday 9 December 2005
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If I don't want to cry in front of my coworkers, I should know better than to read reviews of Brokeback Mountain while listening to "Mama's Hand."
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07:31:27 PM,
Thursday 8 December 2005
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MSNBC article: When Murder Hits the Blogosphere:
NEW YORK - Early one morning a few weeks ago, Kara Borden, a 14-year-old from Lititz, Pa., logged onto MySpace. The young, bubbly, blond-haired, brown-eyed homeschooled high school freshman had a profile on the popular networking site.
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A few hours later she allegedly stood by as her boyfriend, David Ludwig, 18, shot and killed her parents.
David was on MySpace, too.
DundunDUUUUUUUUNNNNNN! _
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04:51:17 PM, Thursday 8 December 2005
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I love it when you mention global warming -- which even the Bush administration admits is real and at least partly our fault -- the Bush voters in my office are all, "Sunspots! Methane from cows! LALALALA CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
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04:07:56 PM,
Thursday 8 December 2005
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Some days I feel like the rapture (assuming it'll only take those who expect to be taken) can't happen fast enough. I mean, sure, we'd lose some nice folks, but they'd be happier and we could legalize gay marriage right away.
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07:53:21 PM,
Wednesday 7 December 2005
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I saw Jesus Is Magic last night and thought it was pretty funny, although hardly any of the jokes matched Silverman's telling of "The Aristocrats" in that movie.
Silverman makes a lot of jokes about race and racism, and managed to keep enough editorial distance from the vapidly racist character she plays to make it funny. I kept wondering, though, whether I'd be laughing if those epithets had ever been hurled at me.
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04:49:07 PM,
Wednesday 7 December 2005
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I find it fascinating how this GAP ad promotes the brand by bringing anti-brand fantasies to life. (I'm assuming I'm not the only person who's ever wanted to destroy one of those stores).
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04:14:26 PM,
Wednesday 7 December 2005
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I can really relate to this.
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01:48:43 PM,
Wednesday 7 December 2005
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Amanda of Pandagon on pharmacists refusing to fill contraceptive prescriptions on the grounds of their religious beliefs:
What I find interesting about this whole thing is how rarely someone points out that the pharmacists acting like martyrs and claiming religious discrimination are doing so in order to discriminate against their customers, and on two levels, no less. There's the obvious one--they are discriminating against women, holding female customers to a standard that the customers have sex lives the pharmacists approve of or they don't get their drugs. But they are also discriminating against customers for their religious/personal belief systems. If someone is taking contraceptive pills, she obviously doesn't have a personal belief that women controlling their own reproduction is wrong. And it's likely that many women who use the pill are like me and think that women controlling when and who we have children with is a moral good, so anyone who tries to force us to comply to their personal belief system instead of ours seems to me to be discriminating himself._
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03:38:01 PM, Monday 5 December 2005
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I just thought about Little Nephew's goth phase. ...a homo says what three times, dear Uncle?
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12:30:41 PM,
Monday 5 December 2005
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