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8299 – It’s good Friday!

Spent some time with Tina and her crew over at Murphy’s. She was showing off her new car, and is probably going to quit Murph’s and just stay with her day gig, now that the car’s bought.


Getting together with Danny after work… still don’t know what we’re doing. I’m fairly surprised he’s not going to some sort of services.


Here are some friends who invite you into their [web] homes to enjoy records with them. Let’s go for a visit! These recordings are typically old rarities that have not been reissued on CD format.

Also check mp3 index.


Moment of Lyric – InstrumentalMp3 via basichip

I’m starting to agree about the Free music overload!


love & esteem quizzes

8292 – Filler!

Some quizzles snagged from eryx_uk :

1. What’s the weather like?

78°F – Feels Like 80°F
Partly Cloudy
Wind: From SSE at 13 mph
Humidity: 60%
Pressure: 30.07 in.
Dew Point: 63°F
Visibility: 10.0 milesGeotarget

2. When is the last time you felt appreciated?

I’ve got some lovely friends who make me feel appreciated every time I speak to them. I’m very fortunate… I’d say via e-mail today.

3. What is the last bad news you heard?

That the prez authorised the leaking of classified CIA information, including the identity of a covert agent.

4. What is your favorite sad song?

Depends on the type of sadness desired/reflected. Mike + the Mechanics, the living years is a powerful one re: my dad.

5. Tell us about something you’re obsessed with:

Information. Knowledge about anything, especially History, Science, and Sociology. Researching, (especially on the internet) of same. Feed my brain!


Go to Wikipedia and put in your birth date. Don’t put in the year. Post in your LJ with three neat/important events, two births, and two deaths!

(My B’day is on Feb 02)

Events:

962Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years.

1653New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. [Why they Changed it, I can’t say, people just liked it better that way]

1870 – It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.

Births:

1208James I of Aragon (d. 1276)

1882James Joyce, Irish author (d. 1941)

Deaths:

1661Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)

1969Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887)

8289 – Thursday.

Loki is pretty nifty. Surprisingly, it doesn’t use win2k, only XP sp 1 and greater, but there is a beta for both MSIE and Mozilla, and seems especially useful for laptop or mobile computer users. Lots of nifty local items to check out. It tries to workout where you are and then gives you various tools for doing stuff with that knowledge, including inserting geoTags to any form that takes an input. Unfortunately, Shopping links to already dead cairo.

Current Location


Busy day at work today – fund raiser and setup for the golf tourney will stretch our staff quite a bit. Going to be a skeleton crew. Got an abduction call out of Collier County last night.


33 questions

1) Who is the last person you high-fived?
Not sure… either Rosangel or Gabby at work. Some sort of little victory, but it wasn’t sarcastic.

2) If you were drafted into a war, would you survive?
I doubt that I’d make it through boot without getting 4F. So, I’d probably survive, since I wouldn’t have to fight on the front lines.

3) Do you sleep with the TV on?
No, but I can. I use it to wake me up in the morning.

4) Have you ever drank milk straight out of the carton?
Sure… I’m a bachelor. everything in my house is fair game, unless I’m saving it for a guest.

5) Have you ever won a spelling bee?
Nope… I’ve done well in them, but never had a total victory. I don’t remember any of the words I missed, but I don’t much care for spelling bees. I prefer debate, or other mental bloodsports.

6) Have you ever been stung by a bee?
Yup! I can still picture the ripped out stinger pumping venom into my foot. Glad I’m not allergic!

7) How fast can you type?
About 45 WPM

8) Are you afraid of the dark?
Not if it’s a familiar area. Strange places, I get a bit skittish.

9) Eye color?
Blue, looks anywhere from gray to bright blue depending on the shirt worn.

10) When is the last time you chose a bath over a shower?
about a week ago, when I just wanted a long soak.

11) Do you knock on wood?
I mockingly knock my forehead.

12) Do you floss daily?
No but I really should.

14) Can you hula hoop?
I used to be ok at it, but I’m not sure how well I’d do theses days. I suspect poorly.

15) Are you good at keeping secrets?
Depends on the secret. I make my own judgment calls. best kept secret is one not told to anyone, including me.

16) What do you want for Christmas?
Peace, Love and happiness for all that spread the same

17) Do you talk in your sleep?
Sometimes. I mumble, converse, and have on occasion yelled.

18) Who wrote the book of love?
Elvis Costello… or the Monotones.

19) Have you ever flown a kite?
Last Time I remember flying a kite was with Dan and April sometime in 2000, but I’m pretty sure I have since then. I had an awesome stunt kite that was lost when I lefe no-noes maldanado’s place.

20) Do you wish on your fallen eyelashes?
and Newt Whiskers, and shooting stars, and whatever else is handy. birthday candles and wishbones.

21) Do you consider yourself successful?
I think so. I certainly don’t consider myself a failure. I’ moving forward, albeit slowly.

22) How many people are on your contact list of your cell?
58 people and orgs

23) Have you ever asked for a pony?
Well, I wanted a warhorse for a while as a kid. (as well as armor, and weapons training. Silly German Genes.)

24) Plans for tomorrow?
Work, get home, laundry, visit friends online. tuck in early and sleep late to prepare for a good Saturday.

25) Can you juggle?
tasks better than beanbags.

26) Missing someone now?
Not at the moment, but I was a couple of days ago. I still think about my pop regularly.

27) When was the last time you told someone I Love You?
Last family member I talked to on the phone… bro?

28) How often do you drink?
not too often. St. Patty’s day was the last alcohol imbibed.

29) How are you feeling today?
Just woke up, but I feel ok so far!

30)What are you looking forward to?
The weekend! This week is moving at a good pace.. lots of work makes the time go swiftly.

31) Have you ever eaten dog food?
I’ve tried Milk Bone Dog Biscuits. They’re like really thick, bland wheat thins.

32) Can you handle the truth?
Generally. I prefer it.

33) Any cool scars?
Some surgery ones on my back, one on my bottom lip – stitches, by my right eye – deflected ring from a punch, left ankle – trash bag glass gash, back of my right hand – cigarette burn.


Things seen to and from work yesterday –

busstoppredawn
Waiting for the sun to come up at the bus stop en route to work.
Time change returned the walk to in the dark.

worktree
The tree on the road island outside my office.
Green again, but still not as lush as it once was.

regrowth
Regrowth on the tree right outside my office window. That was a pleasant sight during lunch.
I’m too jaded.. I think it looks a bit like a triffid.


1 year ago – appointment, bro homeless, electron thoughts, videos, broken umbrellas, space 1999:waka waka, 300 island resort, typo on bus, walkies pictures, beaten barricade,

2 years ago – smelly books, surreal compliments, passover joke, vampire game

3 years ago – sleeveless smock, downloadable toons, bunky kabalarians, colossal squid, CoC props.

4 years ago – landlord visit, green monkey pizza, pop pardoned the knights templar,nazi-looking stamp, Japanese business card etiquette, movies, tubers

5 years ago – Killer noise, looking for a job as a flaneur, Dave & Cathi PreggersGeotarget

8284 – He who does not punish evil commands it to be done

Vintage paperback book covers. I’ve linked to similar sites before, but i think this is a new one.

Nice breakdown by type –

Digest Good Girl Art, Digest Good Girl Photos, Drug Theme Paperbacks, Dust jacketed Paperbacks, Film Noir Paperbacks, Hillbilly Covers, Juvenile Delinquency, Lesbian Paperbacks, Sleaze Paperbacks, Science Fiction Covers, Vest Books, Vintage Paperbacks, Women And Water


It occurred to me this weekend that the term prophet sounds holy to me, but the term prophecy comes across as sinister, or fake.


Moment of lyric – mp3 (thank you, Firpo!)

{lyrics in braces need confirmation, due to the earliness of the hour and my poor sense of hearing}

Listen to me you explorers, Buck and Admiral Byrd,
Here’s a funny one you’ve never heard
there’s a fellow in the jungle
one you never knew
you won’t get him, but he might get you

Who’s the talk at every table from Chicago to Madrid?
Who’s the African Clark Gable?
Jojo, the Cannibal kid!

All the tribes eat fruits and berries
He’s the one that never did
He Prefers his missionaries
Jojo, the cannibal kid

He could aways pass on his manner and his savoir faire
Mix with every class – eat the finest people everywhere!

Circus sends him offers daily
{Bertram mills made him a bid}
but he’s holding out for Barnum Bailey,
Jojo the cannibal kid

Mmmmyeow…
Don’t you know? He eats them alive…
{gets the ??????}
eating out, from nine to five.

boom jigga boom jigga boom jigga boom boom
That is the Jojo way
boom jigga boom jigga boom jigga boom boom
that means he’s on the {train}

{Everybody run and get in the car, pull all the windows down
everybody find a safe place to closet}
Jojo is now in town

Who’s the talk at every table from chicago to madrid?
Who’s the African Clark Gable?
Jojo, the Cannibal kid!

All the tribes eat fruits and berries
He’s the one that never did
He Prefers his missionaries
Jojo, the cannibal kid

He could aways pass on his manner and his savoir faire
Mix with every class – eat the finest people everywhere!

Circus sends him offers daily
{Bertram mills made him a bid}
but he’s holding out for Barnum Bailey,
Jojo the cannibal kid!


(I suspect that I’m the only person with the lyrics to this song hosted on the ‘net. )


Ganked from Bubbles!

YOU CAN ONLY TYPE ONE WORD. NO EXPLANATIONS. Continue reading 8284 – He who does not punish evil commands it to be done

8251 – There’s some snakes, and they’re on a plane.

View the Trailer for

SNAKES ON A PLANE!

here – http://www.tagworld.com/snakesonaplane.


Four jobs I’ve had:

Taco Viva Cook
City Library Cataloguer / Page
Bouncer
Child Advocate

Four movies I can watch over and over:

The Thin Man
Time Bandits
Planet of the Apes (old school)
12 monkeys

Four places I have lived:

Boston, MA
Alexandria, VA
Marathon Key, FL
Bangor, ME

Four TV shows I love to watch:

Red Dwarf
Kim Possible
Mythbusters
Mst3k

Four places I have been on vacation:

Yucatan, Mexico
The Hospital (for my Back Surgery)
Walt Disney World
Bremen, Germany

Four of my favorite dishes:

General Tso’s Tofu
Cinnamon Life Cereal
French Toast
Riblets

Four websites I visit daily:

Livejournal
WebMail
Google.com
Yahoo.com

Four places I would rather be right now:

Home in bed.
soaking in a whirlpool
getting a backrub
playing with Newtski
Geotarget

8246 – Ides of March. It feels like it!

Oh, gross. Papa John’s pizza newest ad campaign is a reworking of the Go-Go’s… singing “We got the Meat”.

There are far too many ways of misconstruing that.


Dinner Party with WM tonight! Stuffed Shells and Vino! Somebody advise me on a wine to bring, please.


Moment of Lyric: mp3

This is the central scrutinizer…
Joe has just worked himself into an imaginary frenzy during the fade- out of his imaginary song
he begins to feel depressed now.
he knows the end is near.
he realized at last that imaginary guitar notes and imaginary vocals exist only in the imagination of the imaginer
and ultimately, who gives a fuck anyway?
so…so…excuse me…so
who gives a fuck anyway?
so he goes back to his ugly little room and quietly dreams his last imaginary guitar solo


Isaac Hayes quits South Park

“This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology,” Stone told the Associated Press. “He has no problem – and he’s cashed plenty of checks – with our show making fun of Christians.”

Well, yeah… not to mention Jews, Mormons, Atheists, Rednecks, Santa and who knows what else. Funny how he bailed once they picked on his team.


Spent some time in 2nd Life yesterday.. got to meet big brain’s analogue, bought some dragonfly wings, and had fun visiting kitten and rafe with herm.

bigbrain2

bigbrain1

Big Brain’s eyes follow you wherever you go. He’s got a blond on his mind.


You’re 40% Irish

You’re probably less Irish than you think you are…
But you’re still more Irish than most.

1 year ago – free flow, dreams and fragments, night stalker, zombie test, batman new times, pete & pete, cadavers away!, wedgie, autodialer, magnet phrases, beheading, I used to believe…, adp off call, mootpoint praise

2 years ago – strip mall of sin pics, doug made it to Seattle

3 years ago – French toast origin… not invented by “Mr. French”, bus piccies, name game, movies with Dan, pelican poem

4 years ago – grand conversation, love quiz, a good Friday five, odd news, miss Cleo born in LA, of American parents, crossword stuff

5 years ago – first hint of the scooby movie, good vs bad stuff about the day, gnomes on snailback

Geotarget

8240 – On justice and on friendship, there is no price, but there are established credit limits.

Walkabout was fun, but uneventful. I wore a ball cap this time, and it’s a good thing… my arms are a lot darker than when I left. I put in just under 10 miles of footwork yesterday, and slept quite well as a result.

Visited another different Thai place nearby for lunch… man, the food was awesome. Bamboo shoot salad served with lime juice, chiles, mint leaves, rice powder and cabbage. Yum woon sen – clear bean thread noodles with browned tofu, chile paste, onions, mushrooms, lemon grass and mint. Tom kah soup – a spicy coconut soy milk concoction with lemon grass, lime leaves and other spices. It was all totally vegan, too! Not one hint of critter in there.

I think that once I confirm my techs are switched over, I’ll do some more walkies as well, and hit that Dali exhibit… maybe take myself out for sushi (or as bhk likes to call it, @). [edit – whoops! the museum is closed on Sunday]


DabbleDB: Online App Building For Everyone

*very* handy little resource… simplifies MS Access or SQL for the average web app nicely.


Speaking of which, I put OpenOffice on my new pc, and had forgotten how keen it is, compared to MS Office. Open Source, all the features, none of the bloat. Win-win. It’s a total MS Office replacement, now that BASE is in there.


the human ton and handy

“Yeah..even now she sulks like Achilles in his tent. Achilles?…It’s the Iliad?…It’s Homer?… Read a book!”

Had a moment of feeling a bit like Handy there yesterday. People get very touchy when opinions differ…. The other side got pretty wound up to the point of hostility and hyper-defensiveness over something amazingly trivial, (a difference of opinion – I feel that Micheal Crichton is an anti-science hack writer, who ends stories with explosions rather than more satisfactory conclusions — She thought “he is awesome”.) and it really could only be settled by having a detente called. I have to make a point of just walking away at the first sign of pointlessness. I can agree to disagree, especially with someone I don’t have to see every day. I’m glad that nonsense is over now.


The Five Love Languages

My primary love languages are probably
Physical Touch and Quality Time.

Complete set of results

Physical Touch: 9
Quality Time: 9
Words of Affirmation: 6
Acts of Service: 5
Receiving Gifts: 1

Information

Unhappiness in relationships, according to Dr. Gary Chapman, is often due to the fact that we speak different love languages. Sometimes we don’t understand our partner’s requirements, or even our own. We all have a “love tank” that needs to be filled in order for us to express love to others, but there are different means by which our tank can be filled, and there are different ways that we can express love to others.

Take the quiz


Moment of Lyric – mp3

There’s a city, draped in net
Fisherman net
And in the half light, in the half light
It looks like every tower
Is covered in webs
Moving and glistening and rocking
Its babies in rhythm
As the spider of time is climbing
Over the ruins

8234 – All Monkeys like orange kitties!

Bangs! Thank you, Eryx_uk, for the Axis and Allies Starter set! What a great b’day prezzie! It looked like the postman was playing football with the USPS box, but the contents inside made it without a hitch! Most awesome. I bet Danny’ll have a good time playing counter to me, as well. It’ll have a place of honor next to Zombies!!, Mage Knight and Heroclix.


Some quizzes

8230 – variation on a meme, I pollified it.

feel free to post a guess in comments, if you can’t do the poll above.


Science!

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Some people like to talk to their plants. Now, students at Singapore Polytechnic say they have created a plant that can communicate with people — by glowing when it needs water.

The students said on Tuesday that they have genetically modified a plant using a green fluorescent marker gene from jellyfish, so that it “lights up” when it is stressed as a result of dehydration.

The light is hard to detect with the naked eye but can be seen using an optical sensor developed in collaboration with students at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.

The development of such plants could help farmers to develop more efficient irrigation of cropsGeotarget

8228 –

Sunburn much more manageable today.


Hav pointed out that the Miami International Film Festival is going on right now. I’m going to swing the FLIFF next weekend myself, I think. I want to check out Manderlay.


Cool word of the day-

“Ubuntu” is an ancient African word, meaning “humanity to others”. Ubuntu also means “I am what I am because of who we all are”.

(it’s also an open source linux flavor, but that’s neither here nor there.)


Made plans to go to Uber’s pal Wendy’s place next week with a few of her pals for a little dinner party… stuffed shells! I wonder what I should bring? Bottle of wine? I should probably ask when the time gets closer.


Moment of Lyric (Mp3)

A nice heart and a white suit and a baby blue sedan
And I am doing the best that I can
All the eunuchs, they were standing in rows
singing, “Please stud us out just as fast as you possibly can.”
Sad song, last dance and no one knows who the band was
And Henry, you danced like a wooden Indian
Except this one mattered and I felt it had a spirit
And I shot the story because I didn’t hear it that way
And it’s hard to be a human being
And it’s harder as anything else
And I’m lonesome when you’re around
And I’m never lonesome when I’m by myself
And I miss you when you’re around


Top 10 accidental discoveries

The short list: Viagra, LSD, X-Rays, Penicillin, Artificial sweeteners, Microwave ovens, Brandy, Vulcanized rubber, Silly Putty, Potato chips


nabbed from christin and eryx_uk

Your senior year in High School is supposed to be “the best year of your life.”

Let’s see how much you remember: (Getting close to 20 years back! 1987)

Who was your best friend? I floated between four groups of friends. Kev / Brent-Steve-KevinC / Pam / James-Mark : all were fun folk to hang with. I’d say my best friend of the lot was Kev, and I still hang with him from time to time.

Who did you have a crush on? Man, I was mushy about a bunch of girls my senior year. PamM, PamP, Charlotte, Jane, and Elizabeth all leap to mind immediately, and I’m sure I could extract more with even an iota of effort.

What sports did you play? None my senior year

What kind of car did you drive? Powder Blue Gran Torino, and later, a white grand le mans

It’s Friday night, where were you at? Variable. see compartmented friends above. Best bet was probably Kev, I think.

Were you in the “In Crowd”? Nope, though people liked me.

Ever skip school? my senior year, I skipped an average of one day every two weeks.

Ever smoke? Nah, I tried cigs early on, and didn’t like ’em. I didn’t even like to smoke weed.

Were you a nerd? I had the benefit of looking like a bit of a brute, so folks didn’t really call me a nerd.

Did you get suspended/expelled? I was suspended once for fighting. It was self defense, but policy is to screw everyone involved.

Can you sing the Alma Mater? the first chorus, yes. the whole thing, no

Who was your favorite teacher? Tough.. my senior year was fun. Mr. Berry, Electronics / Mr. Meyhew, Programming (C & Pascal) / Mr. Miezinski , Drafting / Mr. Eck – Marine Biology

Favorite class? Marine Biology – probably the most interesting and educational class I had my whole high school career. Excellent teacher and content.


Beaucoupkev makes an superb point about Luthor’s origins as a Super-enemy. It’s not about being bald.


1 year ago – LDMs, RI high-tails it, elevator prank, screaming turtle, sunburn recovery, doctor d, pelican memory, ghostbusters/gaming, weather tracking, first mention of google video, record bro, freeware alternatives, interaction quiz, Burdines dissolves into Macys, Florida gambling, greyhound rescue

2 years ago – visited with Kev, 12 things meme, bro, CoD, train ride pictures, Newt Healthy

3 years ago – Wakeup, SS card, LAN party, classifieds

4 years ago – groceries, cloud makers, Lj folks, virus PSA, mapmaking

5 years ago – fly me to the moon, edelweiss, web-gamesGeotarget

8225 –

Nice chitty chat with bhk last night, off and on while I took cases in AR, PA, ND, GA and FL. Most had happy endings and full recoveries. visited qdot briefly in SL, but couldn’t stay long to to the same calls.


Hurricane season in 3 months, and there are still a lot of blue roof, I hope things are gentle this year.

Beautiful day out this morning, so walkabout is imminent. Until later, Dear Journal!


batman and robin - mexico style!
Batman and Robin, Mexico Style

Also, um, what?

batwoman-mexico

Belated friday 5 via eryx:

  1. What color is your hair? Brown, with sun-blond highlights, and a little gray.
  2. When is the last time you accepted a dare? hmm.. not sure when last I heard “I DARE YOU!”
  3. Do you think you could have an affair? Not likely.. I’m monogamous and very loyal to my mates.
  4. How often do you feel like walking on air? Well, I wouldn’t mind being able to fly.
  5. How about despair? Despair is useless. Assuming everything is bad or will turn out poorly is just defeatist. There’s always hope.

Moment of Lyric (mp3)

Trying to avoid
Being hit in the leg
By the bag that is going
Around and around
In the miniature sidewalk whirlwind

But the crumpled-up bag
Moves exactly as fast
As the speed at which you walk
To avoid being hit in the leg

Aaaah
To the amusement of others
You are hit in the leg
By the bag
And as soon as it touches your leg
It’s completely attached

Trying to pull off a bag while still casually walking
Only increases the merriment
So at first you consider violence against the onlookers
But then on second thoughts
Maybe the bag

La la-la
La-la la-la
La-la la-la
La-la la-la la-la

Buppa-ba ba-ba
Buppa-ba ba-ba
Buppa-ba ba-ba ba
Ba ba ba buppa buppa ba ba
Buppa buppa buppa ba
Buppa-buppa-buppah-buppah-buppah ba

But it’s made out of some kind
Of stretchy new plastic
That cannot be ripped in half

Sadly you walk on in anger and shame
Not considering the fate of the very next one
Who will try to avoid being hit in the leg
By the bag that is going around and around
In the miniature sidewalk whirlwind

Ever and always
Around the world
Everywhere you go
There will always be those
Who will try to avoid being hit in the leg
By the bag that is going around and around
In the miniature sidewalk whirlwind
Miniature sidewalk whirlwind
Miniature sidewalk whirlwind
Miniature sidewalk whirlwind


1 year ago – scottobear.com renew, trip to deerfield, free fonts, chat crash w/bhk, gp puts me on to spidey bible, what? WhaT?, H2GT2G, Chimp attack, giant stepsGeotarget

2 years ago – blogspam treatment, work, serial adder, 7-eared kitty, clown sweater, Ephemera, visited bro

3 years ago – book meme, palm doodles, picture issues

4 years ago – mopey, bro helping out, Dick Hymen – Master of Jazz Piano, super tugboat, Newton’s name, pet name poll, magic ingredients

5 years ago – Perseus tools, loved ones sick, flying monkeys, The 30 Least-Quoted Lines from Shakespeare, nosepilot, 5k comp

8215 – memes and links, memes and links, I’m gonna get me some memes and links.

Argh, try as I may, I missed free pancake day. I made ’em for dinner last night, out of spite.

Hey, I rhymed!


The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834

A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London’s central criminal court.

Now complete! Contains 101,102 trials, from April 1674 to October 1834


Things seen out and about yesterday.

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Dinosaurs at the grocery store (across from the crunchberries)

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Body in the back of a truck (sleeping, not dead, I assume)


Moment of Lyric – (video on band’s webpage– found via qdot)


Seeed – “Ding”

8179 – blah blah, yakkity-schmakkity.

http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/ – via the weezle! yummy vegan foodies – they put me onto vegan marshmallow fluff! Fluffernutters are a reality once more!


Hey, I got The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe as part of my prezzie from sedef and oneeyed. (the original 15-issue series bound in one “phone book”; this was the original OHOTMU. Issues 13 and 14 were the ‘Book of the Dead and Disabled’,featuring characters and groups who were, at the time, believed dead or inactive, and issue 15 was the ‘Book of Weapons,Hardware, and Paraphernalia’, featuring technical drawings of Iron Man‘s armor,Spider-Man‘s web-shooters and other notable characters’ equipment. The back of each issue in the series features a brief Appendix, giving one-line listings for minor and inactive characters.


Are there any classic, purely USA horrors? Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Giant Monsters, berserk Animals, Frankenstein, Ghosts… all so classic as to be pre-union.

Maybe it’s because the USA is such a young country. Slasher/Psycho predator Films are pretty American, but even Fritz Lang had M, but that’s a lot different than “Texas Chainsaw Massacre”.

Mad Scientists? Stevenson was Scottish and lived in Samoa, I think. I guess 1950’s style Alien Invasion? Sort of HG Wells… who was from the UK.

Zombies are pretty American, even if we’ve had walking dead stories more than 200 years ago.


Florida ren-fest started yesterday… one of the premiums I got for donating blood at FBC was free passes. (along with $15 for Darden restauants – My odds are best for olive garden.) First time donating at Boca rather than Lauderdale was no different an experience, but they have a lot more fun donation loot.

I wonder if Sammy ever got the manatee shirt I sent?


Did a little doodling followed by coloring with crayons this morning. I think that the smell of the crayons was almost more incentive to color than the drawings themselves. Nothing in particular, mostly flow of wrist doodles.


Anémic Cinéma – Marcel Duchamp’s visual Dada experiment from 1926.

Nosferatu – The original 1922 version of “Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie Des Grauens”, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. – via wurzeltod

Fashion Freak – Who’d say no to car-washing zombie chicks? (via Bibi)


Getting cold in Florida (for Florida, anyhow) cooling to the upper 50s, low 60s today, and dropping into possibly freezing temps tonight from 32-39?


snagged from christinAlignment quiz

I got:

Based on your answers to the quiz, your character’s most likely alignment is Neutral Good.

Neutral Good

A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. The common phrase for neutral good is “true good.” Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias toward or against order.

–excerpted from the Player’s Handbook, Chapter 6


Went on walkabout for a bit yesterday afternoon, but before I hoofed it, Mom and Wilt came by to drop off some goodies that they were getting rid of… some nifty hand-painted wine glasses and a veggie steamer / pasta pot. I don’t drink… wine.


I’ve been wearing a lot of colored, but plain t-shirts lately. Before this year, I think that all of my t-shirts (except undershirts) had some kind of picture, logo or saying on it… I rather like having some non-descript clothes. More colors than usual, too, not just sweatshirt gray / black / olive drab. Current mix is forest green, navy blue, light blue, maroon, dark rust, and a (perhaps ill-advised) “happy face” canary yellow.

There was a time years ago when 95% of what I wore outside of work were goofy T-shirts. Favorites were the good ol’ comic book ones — Spidey Duking it out with the Green Goblin (actually, I think I got that one as a birthday present from GP and Kat in the early 90s), Nick Fury, Flaming Carrot, Silver Surfer, A few different Matt Wagner Mage shirts, a Doctor Blasphemy, and a Reid Fleming, world’s toughest milkman ensemble. Others were a Miskatonic University Alumnus and plain logo, and weirdly (because I didn’t much dig the movie) a “Dick Tracy” opening night ticket shirt.

Hm, This Journal entry is a nice combination of boring and dorky, Scotto! Proof positive that I write primarily for myself, because precious few others could possibly care about my t-shirt preferences. Heck, even I might not care a year from now, but for now, I like having comfy clothes that fit, and don’t promote anything at all.

If I’m going to be dorky, I may as well put a random picture of a monkey up –

cowboy gorilla

Cowboy Gorilla! Yee-Haw! Speaking of not drinking wine, I think he was a vampire briefly. Vampire Cowboy Gorilla. Yup. He also fought Yarn Man a lot. also, a Badge pinned directly on his pecs seems a bit rough. Ii admire his ability to shoot and whip at the same time, though.


I’ve got to call Val up and wish her a happy happy – I think she’s 48 today. I owe her and Bobby a hello, even without a b’day involved.


1 year ago – stretchy dream, journalist fired, cosmic muffin, star wars meme, C&H cartoon fave, baby tosser, don simpson’s journal (since deleted?)

2 years ago -goodies from mimi, time out and about, comment time limit, kill the ducky

3 years ago – vallies, stinky outdoors, Drama deck poll

4 years ago – popular colors, nice walkies, cooked palm, missing ornj, Aunt Val’s B’day, blessing reminder, I’m put off by nin (child abuse)

5 years ago – vagg, Aesop, Happy, Sleepy, good people in my life

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