The 2 -bedroom was snapped up between yesterday and today. I expected as much.. the deal was really sweet. The smaller one with the balcony was nice, central air, new appliances. It’s practically in lighthouse point, though… just a little North of my old apartments in pompano, near the blimp base. I’m not going to set myself up for another 2 hour commute each way… just can’t happen. So, I’ll continue my search.

Bro’s truck is officially out of hock, parked atop the mother’s building, so it’s pretty secure.

Nifty… Same comic, in 30-something different perspectives / styles. I’m rather fond of “sound effects”, “exorcise in style”, and “a life”.

I’m looking forward to this summer in There.com… lots of new developments in beta. I can only call ’em rumor, for now, but it’d be nice to see ’em. Still don’t know what happened with D… she doesn’t want to hang out with the gang lately.

Hm, they’re rebooting the Doom Patrol… I guess Danny the Street, Rebis and Crazy Jane never existed? Will Niles Caulder Be a complete bastard? Will Josh Clay be alive again? I don’t really care either way. I never was too much of a stickler for continuity, and think that Morrison’s stuff stands on its own as groovy tales. Byrne’s art is so bland and mainform after seeing the more stylized stuff by Richard Case from the 90s… and he’s never been my fave writer, either.

Danny the street talk –

Tip-Top Eek: Beautiful Face
Bona-To-Vada: Good to see you
Bona-La: Goodbye

Ah well… maybe it’ll get them rolling again, but I fear that the Doom Patrol, the Metal Men, the legion of super-pets and all the wonderful, weirdo second-stringers will just keep bubbling to the surface every decade or so, and then sink back into comic-book soup again until the next resurrection.

Side note: I like Case’s Art Nouveau Hawkgirl, from the Art Nouveau project

Until today, I’d never seen Starbucks abbreviated as *$. Clever. I’ll probably use that.

Interesting Encyclopedia of Dance… the Bellydance entry is especially robust.

Stretching a metaphor too far department- People I know represented as elements of a Mexican dinner

The 2 -bedroom was snapped up between yesterday and today. I expected as much.. the deal was really sweet. The smaller one with the balcony was nice, central air, new appliances. It’s practically in lighthouse point, though… just a little North of my old apartments in pompano, near the blimp base. I’m not going to set myself up for another 2 hour commute each way… just can’t happen. So, I’ll continue my search.

Bro’s truck is officially out of hock, parked atop the mother’s building, so it’s pretty secure.

Nifty… Same comic, in 30-something different perspectives / styles. I’m rather fond of “sound effects”, “exorcise in style”, and “a life”.

I’m looking forward to this summer in There.com… lots of new developments in beta. I can only call ’em rumor, for now, but it’d be nice to see ’em. Still don’t know what happened with D… she doesn’t want to hang out with the gang lately.

Hm, they’re rebooting the Doom Patrol… I guess Danny the Street, Rebis and Crazy Jane never existed? Will Niles Caulder Be a complete bastard? Will Josh Clay be alive again? I don’t really care either way. I never was too much of a stickler for continuity, and think that Morrison’s stuff stands on its own as groovy tales. Byrne’s art is so bland and mainform after seeing the more stylized stuff by Richard Case from the 90s… and he’s never been my fave writer, either.

Danny the street talk –

Tip-Top Eek: Beautiful Face
Bona-To-Vada: Good to see you
Bona-La: Goodbye

Ah well… maybe it’ll get them rolling again, but I fear that the Doom Patrol, the Metal Men, the legion of super-pets and all the wonderful, weirdo second-stringers will just keep bubbling to the surface every decade or so, and then sink back into comic-book soup again until the next resurrection.

Side note: I like Case’s Art Nouveau Hawkgirl, from the Art Nouveau project

Until today, I’d never seen Starbucks abbreviated as *$. Clever. I’ll probably use that.

Interesting Encyclopedia of Dance… the Bellydance entry is especially robust.

Stretching a metaphor too far department- People I know represented as elements of a Mexican dinner

City of Heroes update (via Whimsy) Making it hard for me to pass up.

I’m thinking of some sort of leapfrog guy… maybe sort of Batroc the Leaper. Hey, Batroc has his own Blog!

Bro’s current situation… going to get his truck out of hock today. $500ish. Public Defender says that it looks like he’ll probably get three years probation, after sitting tight waiting for trial for another two weeks or so. I’m going to visit him at the North Broward facility.

Apparently my Dad’s Brother was in town for a few days, and I missed him this week. I heard from my Uncle Bob last night (Val’s Hubby, Rhonda & Russ’s Pop), and he mentioned that he was down. Funny thing is that Bobby is pretty dang laid back, and Bill is rather bombastic and overbearing. (in Bobby’s words, “it was a nice short visit…. taken best in small doses. 1 aspirin good, a bottle, bad.)

Trying to trim this gif to 40k for icon use (from the video found here)…It may be simpler to redraw it in black and white.

Rockin’ Video (Walkie Talkie Man)… with amazing knitting. Hooray for nutty yarn recording studios! via

Had a nice time gabbin’ with Sammy last night… I got to preach the word of The GIMP art program… originally for UNIX, there are now Windows, OS/2 and Mac versions available.

Neat Cemetery Search Engine

I want to give my beloved some strong noggin-squeezin’s. A good solid snug-squish, to let he know that she’s adored.

speaking of Head-hugs…

I’m crushing Newt’s Head!

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=224688&auth=kqfs

Another attack, I’m now going to screen comments by anyone I don’t actively
link to, in order to prevent more messy spam.

hits struck on entries 6402 and 6427, again.

[update-9:40am offending journal suspended. nice work, abuse team!]

remember, if you want to complain about spammers, it’s just a link away…

http://www.livejournal.com/abuse/report.bml

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Well, I’m going to have to hit the green grocer after my normal day’s duties. I fell a bit off of my points-diet last week, and I should get back on task. Less bread, more greens! Also, I’m craving skinny cow ice cream sammiches. I will not get any “spring oreos” with robins egg blue filling, even if they do have cute ladybugs on the cookies.

I voted yesterday… there were *no* other voters there when I arrived at lunchtime. I got to use the touchscreen system, but didn’t see any members of Pax Christi anywhere.

Got my business cards… put my first one to use yesterday.. tossed it in the free-lunch fishbowl at quiznos. Newbie does a pretty funny “they got a pepper bar” impersonation.

MONKEY POPS! (with sound) Yummmmy

The TENS is a joy. I wish I’d gotten insurance to send me one ages ago.

Gator goes for ride on the bus – A Pasco school bus driver brakes for the 4-foot reptile, which students haul onboard. Continue reading 6521 just a cool hot-dogger hangin’ ten today. →

Well, I’m going to have to hit the green grocer after my normal day’s duties. I fell a bit off of my points-diet last week, and I should get back on task. Less bread, more greens! Also, I’m craving skinny cow ice cream sammiches. I will not get any “spring oreos” with robins egg blue filling, even if they do have cute ladybugs on the cookies.

I voted yesterday… there were *no* other voters there when I arrived at lunchtime. I got to use the touchscreen system, but didn’t see any members of Pax Christi anywhere.

Got my business cards… put my first one to use yesterday.. tossed it in the free-lunch fishbowl at quiznos. Newbie does a pretty funny “they got a pepper bar” impersonation.

MONKEY POPS! (with sound) Yummmmy

The TENS is a joy. I wish I’d gotten insurance to send me one ages ago.

Gator goes for ride on the bus – A Pasco school bus driver brakes for the 4-foot reptile, which students haul onboard. Continue reading 6521 just a cool hot-dogger hangin' ten today. →

user valentit_love9 is spamming all of the same entries that I got the indian
porn spam in previously. that user has been banned, but if I get another spam,
I’ll screen all non-linked people in LJ as well as just anonymous comments.

I wonder what keywords are activating those entries?

Obviously a bum account though…

Date created: 2004-03-08 08:11:43
Date updated: Never.
Journal entries: 0
Comments: Posted: 1,367 – Received: 0

1367 comments posted in under 12 hours?
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[update: submitted it to abuse, anyone else that’d care to comment or follow along there can at –

http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_request.bml?id=223774&auth=an84

]

got a cool air-freshener and sushi postcard in the mail yesterday… thanks, calamity! It was my pleasure to be the first one to add a little dinero to the transportation fund! I hope you get some good travel-luck soon.

My favorite commentary on the whole TPotC thing thus far –

(via byrd)

Star Trek on ice!

Random weird connection of the day (at least to me)

Kathy Garver – Cissy from Family Affair was the voice of Firestar on Spider-man and his Amazing Friends, and Rachel in The Ten Commandments. From her Family Affair Days, she looked a lot like my babysitter’s pal Patty, whom I had a terribly fierce, yet platonic crush on as a young pod. I think that Kathy was quite the cutie in her time.

Spalding Gray has been found… sadly, it was in the East River.

He was one of my favorite monologists (is that a word?), and was a fascinating person overall. He’ll be missed, a lot. Monster in a Box was even better than Swimming to Cambodia, in my opinion. I still think of barking like a dog when stressed and buying pens for parking validation at a doctor’s office.

I hope you’ve found some peace, at last… but it’s a shame you had to step out the way you did.

Some excellent observations on writing.

Ever wonder what a site that had a rather nasty radioactive accident might look like years after?

This young woman and her motorcycle have ventured and found out. Very interesting, the sheer creepiness factor is rather high.

I sort of like this LED beer mug.

JK Rawling is going to go back and revise the Harry Potter books? “For all those children who know every twist and turn of the Potter plots, she had a word of warning — when she finishes the saga with Book Seven, she will settle down and revise them all. ”

Man, I’ve long since said that she needed an editor, but I figure it’s rather too late, now. Why write new books, if you can just alter the internals of known big sellers, and release ’em again? Bad Show! Do ’em right the first time, and save other cool story elements for *a new tale*!

Go play some fun 80’s games.

Random Scotto CoD factoid.. every time I’ve let the computer pick a side for me to play on in multi-player, I’ve been a German. Now, is that just some “Rosenkrantz/Guildernstern Are Dead” luck, or is it because people naturally want to play the allies, and I get tossed into the side that needs more players? I’ve come up Kraut 8 times out of 8. It’d be nice to play a Brit or whatever as a change of pace.

Dan showed the true difference in our ages yesterday… he’s on the side of “folks that don’t know how to properly set VCR clocks” and I’m on the other. I think there was some educational hump we went over regarding people born after 1964 or so. (Of course some mileage may vary.) I think that most folks under forty are able to deal more comfortably with remote-control based technology, and computers in general than most folks born before then. Note that I say *most*. He couldn’t for the life of him figure out how to turn off subtitles on his DVD player. (It eventually turned out that the button on the remote marked “subtitles” was the answer.) He’s not a stupid guy, far from it… but he simply hasn’t much familiarity with technology that I take for granted.

My favorite Bluto Song Quote from the Popeye movie:

I’m so mean I had a dream of beatin’ myself up;
I broke my nose, I broke my hand, I wrestled myself to the ground and then
Choked myself to death then broke the choke and woke up!

That’s how mean I’m mean. I’m mean.
Ya know what I mean?

LiveJournal Haiku!
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Created by Grahame

seventeen syllables at random from my head –

some people are just
boxes full of dust and hair
waiting for pick up