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Friday!
Hoo-hah!
No work tomorrow! Get to play Piston tomorrow!
Munching on snacks and doing detective work. yum!
Also must do laundry over the weekend. And get snacks tonight or tomorrow morning for gaming.
baby carrots & dill dip, with some iced tea, methinks.
Movie night tonight with Robbster… The watcher? Nurse Betty? unsure.
Hanging out with the borther on Sunday, funday. He got a new job at Merril Lynch, broker training. Hooray!
What’s for lunch?
Cubemate going home due to headachyness.
Happy Birthday, ERIN!!! (metalmaiden) We loves ya!
Why is JaneDeau’s Lj set for November?
New LJ $$ news sounds good to me. I’m still going to be a paid member by halloween.
Ugh! Have to get Kevin’s and Derek’s b’day presents this weekend too!
And pay phone bill
and get photo ID set up properly.
hm. that’s the randomness in my head right now.
On a steel horse I ride…. ’cause I’m wanted… Dead or Uh-lave. thanks seanbaby!
Bon Jovi.
Remember how they showed how being a rock star was totally like being a cowboy? Their microphones were really “guns” and their tour bus was a “steel horse.” People that saw Bon Jovi knew to be careful. Because their guitars were kind of rifles if you pretended hard enough. Also, they might rock your face.
Bon Jovi, I know how high you have to be to start believing things like that. I once told everyone my couch was a magic boat and the carpet was lava. But I have no idea how high you have to get before you start singing songs about it. I never recorded a song about me rocking faces on my magic couch boat and how much of a lava pirate it made me.
It was a nice try, Jon Bon, but nobody really thought you were a cowboy. And we sort of figured out how the only time rockers and cowboys have anything in common is when you change some of the words in our language to mean two totally different things. You might as well have been singing about how you guys were firemen. Like your monitor speakers were firehoses and no wait! You should have written a song about how you were Chewbacca! And like your bus is a big spaceship and the “loaded” guitar on your back is actually a backpack full of C3PO parts. An-and your microphone is a big chunk of meat attached to an Ewok net! Now that I think about it, being a rock star is exactly like being Chewbacca.
Dang napster, and sesame street… stuck in my head.
Saw a monster in the mirror when I woke up today
A monster in my mirror but I did not run away
I did not shed a tear or hide beneath my bed
Though the monster looked at me and this is what he said:
He said “Wubba wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo”
Wubba wubba wubba and a doodly do
He sang “Wubba wubba wubba” so I sang it too
Do not wubba me or I will wubba you
Do not wubba me or I will wubba you
Told the monster in the mirror, “No, I am not scared”
Then I smiled at him and thanked him for the song that we had shared
Well, the monster thanked me too, he smiled right back and then
The monster in the sang his song again
He said “Wubba wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo”
Wubba wubba wubba and a doodly do
He went “Wubba wubba wubba” so I sang along
Yes, wubba wubba wubba is a monster song
Wubba wubba wubba is a monster song
Wubba wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo
Wubba wubba wubba and a doodly do
He went “Wubba wubba wubba” and I sang along
Wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba
Yes, wubba wubba wubba is a monster song
Wubba wubba wubba is a monster song
If your mirror has a monster in it, do not shout
This kind of situation does not call for freaking out
And do nothing that you would not like to see him do
‘Cause that monster in the mirror he just might be you
Singing “Wubba wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo”
Wubba wubba wubba and a doodly do
Wubba wubba wubba you can join in too
Wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba wubba
Yes, if you wubba me then I will wubba you
If you wubba me then I will wubba you
Going wubba wubba wubba is the thing to do
Everytime you wubba us we’ll wubba you
hey again!
Pretty much just waiting on the judgement on Suzy’s case. A little worried. I got a letter from April last night… explained a few things, and I’m glad she’s getting her head in order.
weirdness in technology right now, my email is echoing big time from egroups, all my mailing list stuff is landing in 2 or three of my bins at once. bah.
getting an employee at work repremanded for surfing porn at work. tsk.
Ernie Questions His Existence
starring Ernie (Jim Henson) and Bert (Frank Oz)
Ernie comes up, tapping Bert, who was reading, on the shoulder unexpectedly.
Ernie: “Hey Bert, it’s–”
Bert: “-Aak-Eek-Aak!–”
Ernie: “–time for our checker game.” (Ernie looks apologetic.)
Bert: “Oh Ernie, you scared me! I thought you weren’t here.”
Ernie: “Well maybe I’m not then.”
Bert: “What do you mean?”
Ernie: “You’re usually right about most things, Bert.”
Bert: (modest) “Welllllllll …”
Ernie: “And if you think I’m not here … then maybe I’m not!”
Bert: “Good! If you’re not here, Ernie, then I can go back to reading my book.”
(Bert does go read for about two seconds, as Ernie starts to get worried.)
Ernie: “But the question is … If I’m not here …”
Bert: (to himself) “Oh no …”
Ernie: (worried) “… then … Where Am I?”
Bert: “It’s going to be one of those days.”
(Ernie gets a pair of binoculars and looks out the window with them)
Bert: “Ernie … (irritated) Ernie, what are you doing?”
Ernie: “I’m looking for me, Bert! (pause) I thought I might be out taking a walk on Sesame Street, but I don’t see me anywhere. (pause) Then if I’m not out on Sesame Street —- I must be Lost!!”
Bert: “I don’t believe this.”
Ernie: “I’m lost! (he’s really upset by now) Out there, all alone, wandering through some spooky forest, or down some lonesome road … This is terrible! (starts to cry) I’ll never see me again!”
Bert: “Ernie!”
Ernie: (sniff) “I miss me!”
Bert: “Ernie, will you stop that! Now, I can prove to you that You Are Here. Now, get our hand mirror. (Ernie picks it up.) Now, what’s that?”
Ernie: “Oh, it’s a mirror.”
Bert: “No, no, I mean look inside!”
Ernie: (looks in the mirror) “I see … me, Bert! That’s me in the mirror, Bert!”
Bert: “Right! And if you see yourself in the mirror , that means–”
Ernie: “That means I must be Here! Gee, thanks, Bert! (smiles at the reflection) I missed me! (Ernie then goes back to Bert, tapping him on the shoulder as before) Hey Bert. it’s time–”
Bert: “Aak-Eek-Aak!”
Ernie: ” … for our checker game! I’m here!”
Bert: (angry) “Ernie, we can not play checkers!”
Ernie: “Why not, Bert? I’m here!”
Bert: (angry) “That’s right, you’re here, Ernie! BUT I’M NOT!” (marches out and slams door, leaving Ernie rather surprised.)
Some of us have feathers
Some of us have fins
Some of us are furry
And some of us have skins
We swim and hop and slither
And leap and soar and run
And we all live together
On a planet of the sun
We are all earthlings
We are all earthlings
Spinning around together
On a planet of the sun
We live in the desert
We live inside a tree
We live high in the mountains
Or deep beneath the sea
We live in tents and cabins
In houses just for one
And we all live together
On a planet of the sun
We are all earthlings
We are all earthlings
Spinning around together
On a planet of the sun
Floating down a river
Swinging through the trees
Climbing up a mountain
Going with the breeze
All of us can have a happy healthy place to be
If we can float and swim and climb in earthling harmony
We are all earthlings
We are all earthlings
Spinning around together
On a planet of the sun
Spinning around together
On a planet of the sun
Random flash of sesame street.
Lower-case N.
In a cold and far-off place
There was a lower-case N.
Lonely and cold, she would stare off into space
And it was known that she would cry now and then.
Lower-case N, standing on a hill.
The wind is very still, for the lower-case eh-en…
(occasional, unearthly “oohs” in background now)
And then one day a rocketship
Came racing from the sky.
It landed on the hill and there opened up a door
And somethin’ started comin’ outside…
A lower-case N!
(She’s not lonely anymo-o-re)
They are standing on the hill
(There are two that stand for su-u-ure)
The wind is very still
For the lower-case eh-ens!
Something wonderful.
I was told that I was loved today.
I like that, a lot.
“I love you.”
Those are some of the best words I can hear when I know someone means it, and they expect nothing in return, not said for any reason, other than to let me know how they feel. It’s rare for me, outside of family.
Thanks. 🙂
Volare’ Woooahhoohh….
catching up with my daily hubbub and bolting for home… thanks applelard for the help with the song, and the chat! 🙂
Censorship in the news….
NEW YORK (AP) – Harry Potter made the list. So did The Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The most popular children’s books? No. The ones adults most wanted removed from library shelves in the 1990s.
“This just proves no book is safe from censorship attempts,” said Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. The top 100 titles – including The Handmaid’s Tale, by acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood – were compiled and released in advance of the 20th annual Banned Books Week, which runs Sept. 23-30.
The ALA, the American Booksellers Association and the American Society of Journalists and Authors are among the sponsors.
The most disputed books were the popular Scary Stories titles, horror tales by the late Alvin Schwartz. Objections included violence, cannibalism and causing children to fear the dark. A complaint from the school district in Campbell County, Wyo., said the books made kids believe “ghosts are actually possible.”
Also in the top 10 were such classroom standards as Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
“The fact that teachers assign them is one of the reasons there’s so much concern,” Krug said. “They deal with issues a lot of parents don’t want to know about.”
The Harry Potter series, which Christian groups have attacked because of its themes of witchcraft and wizardry, comes in at No. 48. It was removed this year from a public school in Bridgeport Township, Mich.
According to the ALA, more than 5,000 complaints were recorded at school and public libraries in the 1990s. Krug said that represents about 20 per cent to 25 per cent of all challenges, although she does note the annual number has declined slightly over the past years.
“A lot of people are now spending more time thinking about Internet content,” she said.
“Sexually explicit” was the most common objection raised about books at libraries, followed by “unsuited to age group” and “occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism.” Others included violence, promotion of same-sex relationships, racism and anti-family values.
Krug said about 5 per cent of those complaints lead to a book being banned.
“Usually, when the rest of the community hears about a complaint it speaks out in support of keeping the book,” she said.
But many books, even famous ones, do get removed. In 1997, Angelou’s memoir was taken off the ninth-grade English curriculum in Anne Arundel County, Md., because it “portrays white people as being horrible, nasty, stupid people.”
In 1993, Catcher in the Rye was removed from a California school district because it “centred around negative activity.” Four years later, the superintendent of the Marysville, Calif., Joint Unified School District banned Salinger’s novel “so that we didn’t have that polarization over a book.”
The list includes such children’s favourites as Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen and R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. Acclaimed adult novels on the list include Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
Also cited are William Golding’s The Lord of the Flies, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, removed in 1996 from an advanced placement English reading list in Lindale, Texas, because it “conflicted with the values of the community.”
Back to work! ::whip crack::
Sakes. Didn’t I just leave?
New info on Suzy, she has her hearing tomorrow, with a Judge that’s apparently not very ‘probation-friendly’. From the sound of it, she could lose her apartment, her car, and her job if she spends a considerable amount of time in jail. Right now, the figuring is about 9 months, mostly for breaking probation. Her Hearing is 8:30 am tomorrow, where she’s going to try and push the next hearing forward, in the hopes a different Judge will get her and show more mercy than her current one… getting rid of her lawyer and going with a puvlic defender should allow her to move the schedule along. I was talking with pals over at worldwide, and they think that she should get a ‘real’ attorney. Unfortunately, those cost some $$$… looks like a $5000 retainer is in order. I can’t help her there, as I’m not packing that sort of liquid assets. More to follow tomorrow after the first hearing.
Protected: green banana moon
no snow?
Pompano Beach Monthly Temperatures
Fahrenheit Celsius
Average Average Average Average
Daily Daily Daily Daily
Maximum Minimum Maximum Mimimum
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January 77.4 59.0 25.2 15.0
February 78.5 58.9 25.8 14.9
March 80.3 60.6 26.8 15.9
April 83.3 65.2 28.5 18.4
May 86.2 68.8 30.1 20.4
June 88.7 71.8 31.5 22.1
July 90.1 73.2 32.3 22.9
August 90.9 73.5 32.7 23.1
September 89.2 73.5 31.8 23.1
October 85.7 70.1 29.8 21.2
November 81.3 64.1 27.4 17.8
December 78.3 59.5 25.7 15.3
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