Hello out there, my wonderful bloggie readers...
Yeah, I know, I've been pretty quiet recently. Not much to talk about, really. I get up, I read my dailies, I write in my novel, I HALL obsessively, and when I'm not Halling, I'm talking about Halling, thinking about Halling, and writing obnoxious email to my GM about Halling.
Ahem...
Sorry, got carried away.
Anyways... reading my dailies. A bunch of the blogs I read have recently had babies (no, wait, correct that. The writers of the blog have had babies.) And another few are out of town, and one almost never writes anyway, her blog is this huge tabla rasa of white space.
So.... it takes me about 10 minutes to flip through my blogs and see "no new entry" "no new entry" "oh, look.... readreadread" "No new entry".
So, look over there to your left and see the list of blogs... If you're a reader and I don't read your blog, link it? If you know some good blogs and you don't see them here, link it.
Also, these are my list of daily comics... I could use some more:
Boring, everyday stupid newspaper comics that I read more out of habit then out of any actual amusement value
Wizard of Id
BC
Dilbert
Luann
Garfield
Much more interesting web comics that do, usually, make me laugh
Kevin and Kell
Something Positive
Queen of Wands - actually cancelled sob sob sob
Friendly Hostility
Two Lumps
As a note:
I used to read Sluggy Freelance and now I don't, so don't bother with that one. But any other web comics that I might enjoy, or that you enjoy, go ahead and give me the link and I'll check them out.
Thanks alot...
First, go read/do Liz's journal entry for today. That way this might make some sense...
MadLibZ Journal!
Penny is so tired! She learned a new word yesterday: asprin! Except, of course, her pronunciation is a little garbled, so what she says instead is fuck. It's so cute!
I think she's teething again, though. I left her alone for five minutes, and when I came back, she was chewing slowly on a cow!
Her favorite toy lately is a hungry sword that her daughter sent her for birthday. We can hardly get her to put it down!
Things at work are very blue. My boss came into my office yesterday to ask me to yawn the shoe, before the important secretary comes to visit in a couple of weeks.
But my raise came through! $seven, whoo! Now I know they love me! Maybe next year, I'll get that promotion to boss that I've had my eye on!
Phase 2 of the diet starts today. I'm back on induction for a minimum of two weeks, or until I lose at least three hundred pounds. But Matt and I went out last night for one last fling. I had jelly beans for dinner, and pepper soup with raspberry sauce for dessert. YUM! (Alas, it cost me. The scale was up twelve pounds this morning!)
I've finally had some time to start reviewing Willow Bough, so I've been cautiously editing. It's a wooden job, but I won't bore you with the details. I've got just one thing to say about it: crayon. And I mean that.
--Liz (with some help from KT)
At Matt's suggestion: If you liked your results, feel free to post your results somewhere - send me the address, and I'll post the links here!
Leading by example: Matt's MadLibZ!
Ok, first off, I think this is sort of amusing...
But the question I have isn't so much "Do we really want to think of a soccor player as the step-dad of Jesus" (or even "UM, who the FUCK says Bush is a 'wise man?'") but instead:
Why, exactly, is Jesus's step-dad wearing not one, but two crosses some 30 years before Jesus is hung up on one?
You know, I'm not Catholic, and I'm sure my outrage on this child's behalf has absolutely no pull whatsoever... and yet... is this not the most fucked up thing you've heard in a long time?
Today, I just have to.
Gamer Geeks of the world, Read, Gasp, and Get Pissed off.
I like Weird Al a lot, and one of the songs I've always found interesting is "Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota".
Last year, curious, I looked it up.
There really is a twine ball in Minnesota. Actually, there are bunches of them across the country.
I haven't figured out exactly why people would want to make a big ball of twine - or, once made, why people would want to go see it. But they do...
Just recently, however, I started wondering about the other attractions listed in his song. I was surprised to find out that they all exist.
Elvis-a-Rama - in San Francisco, this display contains over 2,000 pieces of memorabilia and personal effects of one Elvis Aron Presley. The museam even includes several live shows with genuine Elvis impersonators. (Anyone remember the movie with the parachuting Elvises - Elvi?)
The Tupperware Museum - in Kissimmee, Florida. Unfortunately, that museam is closed. Oh well.
The Boll Weevil Monument - Ok, I have to admit, this is one of my favorites... in Enterprise, Alabama.
Cranberry World - in Plymouth, Mass. All you could ever want to know about Cranberries and then some.
Shuffleboard Hall of Fame - The Shuffleboard Hall of Fame was founded in the 1990's and has exactly 12 members so far. The headquarters is in the same city - St. Petersburg, Florida - as the world's largest shuffleboard court.
Poodle Dog Rock - I'm not entirely sure this is the right attraction, but it was the closest I could find.
Mecca of Albino Squirrels - Olney, Illanois. Hehe! Ok, this one's really funny. People get some weird ideas.
You've got to be fucking kidding me!!
Man Arrested for Wearing 'Give Peace a Chance' t-shirt
