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silveradeptWhee, this has been a great weekend.
Perhaps someone with more experience than I can tell me why this is important, but Norman Mailer has passed away at 84 years of age. The name is familiar, but that’s where my knowledge stops.
I know a bit more about Banksy, an anonymous graffiti artist, but am skeptical as to whether the Times' claim that someone may have photographed Banksy at work really is true. And of course, the spokespeople for Banksy aren’t saying anything about whether that picture is the artist or not.
I recall, much earlier in my life, being linked to or reporting on the fledgling sport of chess boxing, where the competitors alternate rounds of chess with rounds of hand-to-hand. The BBC reports that chess boxing held its first world championship in Germany, with the winner being “Anti-Terror Frank” from Germany, by checkmate in the seventh round. Perhaps we’ll see the Mind-Body Ironman, with puzzles to solve along the way of each stage.
Thanks to the increases in China and India's economies, oil prices continue to climb ever higher with demand. Of course, the United States’ consumption patterns are helping contribute to this upward spiral, as well.
Former ambassador says U.S. should support Musharraf because Pakistan has nukes. Which makes sense if you think that whomever would replace Musharraf would use them in a non-nice manner. Elsewhere in the world, unrest in Venezuela puts some doubt on Chavez's constitutional amendments.
Domestically, Boston and Washington, D.C. are eliminating the option to contest traffic violations in person, relegating complaints to letters or e-mails, which the article writer thinks will be sent to /dev/null, for the most part. Perhaps they will join the letters complaining about the smell when 150,000 fish were killed when their breeding barn burnt to the ground.
Technology for fighter pilots will be different with the unveiling of the Joint Strike Fighter - using the helmet as the HUD, including abilities to see with cameras on the plane. It’ll be only a matter of time before the Zero system, and then we’ll see just how quickly swift death arrives when someone utters the phrase “It’s a Gundam!”
Mother Nature is not someone to be trifled with. Know why? she'll make a river right through a four-land road.
A child was drowned by his mother, who did not have custody of him, after she had an unsupervised visit with him. What makes the story newsworthy, of course, is the notebook the police discovered where the mother believed that God had told her to give the baby to him and that nobody could protect the child. Moloch might be interested, but depending on whether they knew about this before or after the unsupervised visit, it could be a pretty big blunder on the social services part.
In A Cancer From Within, an older Air Force Academy graduate returns to his alma mater, only to find that it has been changed into a recruitment station for evangelicals that firmly believe in their crusades against the Muslim world.
Tonight’s quiche competition revolves around expectations. Starting, Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint say that black people should stop behaving like victims and just persevere through all the things that get in their way. Not to expect the government or anyone else to fix things for them. So, just persevere, and then maybe the legislators will get around to helping you out later.
Going from one third rail to another, Peggy Noonan compares Hillary Clinton to Margaret Thatcher and finds Hillary lacking, because the narrative now believes Hillary said something like "Don't pick on me 'cuz I'm a woman!" To be fair, of course, we should then do as Feministing does and tell all the male politicians to stop playing their gender card, through their posturing and macho-man stuff, calling their opponents “girlie-men” and the like. After all, if we’re going to get after Hillary for supposed gender stuff, we should get after the men, too.
We have a winner for quiche tonight - it’s Turd Blossom bitching that Democrats didn't completely roll over for Bush when they took power last year, and then blaming the Democrats for not being able to get anything done when Bush and the Republicans have stood in their way at every turn. So when they’re the Shadow government, they’re impeding the Glorious Plan, and when they’re the Government, they can’t get anything done. So we’ve covered all three of them - racism, sexism, and opposition politics. And with the way things are going in all of those cases, we see the attitude that no matter how we try to be individual, we’re always part of a group, rather than the idea Coilhouse takes toward Exactitudes, that despite our supposed similar uniforms and dress, the individuals underneath are far more unique.
After all of the name-calling, let’s do some listing instead. Like no-bake cookies, (although leaving those out for Santa may mean he's got to do some extra work to get himself into shape), some drinking toasts (for what good are cookies without something to drink?), sixty uses for table salt beyond as a seasoning, coupled with fifteen excellent uses for aluminium foil, and finally, fifteen wonderful uses for tea.
As a word of warning, it’s probably best not to try any of the fifty thrill-seeking deaths mentioned here, whether due to stupidity of activity, insufficient safety protocols, or other mishaps that have happened along the way.
And we’ll close with fifty of G.W. Bush's least intelligent statements. G’night, everybody.
Perhaps someone with more experience than I can tell me why this is important, but Norman Mailer has passed away at 84 years of age. The name is familiar, but that’s where my knowledge stops.
I know a bit more about Banksy, an anonymous graffiti artist, but am skeptical as to whether the Times' claim that someone may have photographed Banksy at work really is true. And of course, the spokespeople for Banksy aren’t saying anything about whether that picture is the artist or not.
I recall, much earlier in my life, being linked to or reporting on the fledgling sport of chess boxing, where the competitors alternate rounds of chess with rounds of hand-to-hand. The BBC reports that chess boxing held its first world championship in Germany, with the winner being “Anti-Terror Frank” from Germany, by checkmate in the seventh round. Perhaps we’ll see the Mind-Body Ironman, with puzzles to solve along the way of each stage.
Thanks to the increases in China and India's economies, oil prices continue to climb ever higher with demand. Of course, the United States’ consumption patterns are helping contribute to this upward spiral, as well.
Former ambassador says U.S. should support Musharraf because Pakistan has nukes. Which makes sense if you think that whomever would replace Musharraf would use them in a non-nice manner. Elsewhere in the world, unrest in Venezuela puts some doubt on Chavez's constitutional amendments.
Domestically, Boston and Washington, D.C. are eliminating the option to contest traffic violations in person, relegating complaints to letters or e-mails, which the article writer thinks will be sent to /dev/null, for the most part. Perhaps they will join the letters complaining about the smell when 150,000 fish were killed when their breeding barn burnt to the ground.
Technology for fighter pilots will be different with the unveiling of the Joint Strike Fighter - using the helmet as the HUD, including abilities to see with cameras on the plane. It’ll be only a matter of time before the Zero system, and then we’ll see just how quickly swift death arrives when someone utters the phrase “It’s a Gundam!”
Mother Nature is not someone to be trifled with. Know why? she'll make a river right through a four-land road.
A child was drowned by his mother, who did not have custody of him, after she had an unsupervised visit with him. What makes the story newsworthy, of course, is the notebook the police discovered where the mother believed that God had told her to give the baby to him and that nobody could protect the child. Moloch might be interested, but depending on whether they knew about this before or after the unsupervised visit, it could be a pretty big blunder on the social services part.
In A Cancer From Within, an older Air Force Academy graduate returns to his alma mater, only to find that it has been changed into a recruitment station for evangelicals that firmly believe in their crusades against the Muslim world.
Tonight’s quiche competition revolves around expectations. Starting, Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint say that black people should stop behaving like victims and just persevere through all the things that get in their way. Not to expect the government or anyone else to fix things for them. So, just persevere, and then maybe the legislators will get around to helping you out later.
Going from one third rail to another, Peggy Noonan compares Hillary Clinton to Margaret Thatcher and finds Hillary lacking, because the narrative now believes Hillary said something like "Don't pick on me 'cuz I'm a woman!" To be fair, of course, we should then do as Feministing does and tell all the male politicians to stop playing their gender card, through their posturing and macho-man stuff, calling their opponents “girlie-men” and the like. After all, if we’re going to get after Hillary for supposed gender stuff, we should get after the men, too.
We have a winner for quiche tonight - it’s Turd Blossom bitching that Democrats didn't completely roll over for Bush when they took power last year, and then blaming the Democrats for not being able to get anything done when Bush and the Republicans have stood in their way at every turn. So when they’re the Shadow government, they’re impeding the Glorious Plan, and when they’re the Government, they can’t get anything done. So we’ve covered all three of them - racism, sexism, and opposition politics. And with the way things are going in all of those cases, we see the attitude that no matter how we try to be individual, we’re always part of a group, rather than the idea Coilhouse takes toward Exactitudes, that despite our supposed similar uniforms and dress, the individuals underneath are far more unique.
After all of the name-calling, let’s do some listing instead. Like no-bake cookies, (although leaving those out for Santa may mean he's got to do some extra work to get himself into shape), some drinking toasts (for what good are cookies without something to drink?), sixty uses for table salt beyond as a seasoning, coupled with fifteen excellent uses for aluminium foil, and finally, fifteen wonderful uses for tea.
As a word of warning, it’s probably best not to try any of the fifty thrill-seeking deaths mentioned here, whether due to stupidity of activity, insufficient safety protocols, or other mishaps that have happened along the way.
And we’ll close with fifty of G.W. Bush's least intelligent statements. G’night, everybody.
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Date: 2007-11-11 10:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-11 06:19 pm (UTC)Yes, the system was designed so that change couldn't happen too rapidly, but this is ridiculous.
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Date: 2007-11-11 11:04 am (UTC)Of course I didn't have this in my head...I had to check him out on Wiki. However, he did do quite a bit in expanding non-fiction & novelizations as well as asking questions people didn't want to ask.
In regards to the sitiuation in Pakistan: We shouldn't be helping Musharraf. We never shoud've started in the first place since he was for all intents and purposes a military general who usurped power from a democractially elected government. We should be backing Bhutto.
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Date: 2007-11-11 06:20 pm (UTC)Remembering Norman Mailer through his books
Date: 2007-11-11 11:04 am (UTC)Fiction: The Naked and the Dead (1948), Barbary Shore (1951), The Deer Park (1955), Advertisements for Myself (stories, essays, etc., 1959), An American Dream (1965), Why Are We in Vietnam? (1967), A Transit to Narcissus (1978), The Executioner's Song (1979), Ancient Evenings (1983), Tough Guys Don't Dance (1984), Harlot's Ghost (1991), The Gospel According to the Son (1997), The Castle in the Forest (2007)
Selected Nonfiction: The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster (essays, 1957), Deaths for the Ladies and Other Disasters (poems and prose, 1962), The Presidential Papers (1963), Cannibals and Christians (1966), The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1967), The Armies of the Night (1968), Miami and the Siege of Chicago (1968), Of a Fire on the Moon (1970), King of the Hill: On the Fight of the Century (1970), The Prisoner of Sex (1971), St. George and the Godfather (1972), Marilyn: A Biography (1973), The Faith of Graffiti (1974), The Fight (1975), Some Honorable Men: Political Conventions (1960-1972) (1976), Of Women and Their Elegance (1980), How the Wimp Won the War (1991), Pablo and Fernande: Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man: An Interpretive Biography (1994), Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (1995), The Time of Our Time (1998), The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing (2003), Why Are We at War? (2003)
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Date: 2007-11-11 03:44 pm (UTC)(the rest of this is backwards)
Aw, they didn't mention you can use tea as a stain to stain wood :)
and random: you can use aluminum foil to create stencils for t-shirts :)
No-bake cookies sort of defeats the purpose of baking cookies!
wouldn't the not being allowed to contest tickets somehow be breaking some kind of other law? Doesn't seem to make sense to me. While I think there should be the option of sending in/mailing it in for out of towners, I see no reason to disallow people to show up to contest things.