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Thursday, May 27, 2004 ( 5/27/2004 03:12:00 PM ) DN Saw this today on a email list. I have no idea if it's authentic "Back in 2000, a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted# Tuesday, May 25, 2004 ( 5/25/2004 02:08:00 PM ) DN Stray Thoughts Why do I always hear about porn stars and never just porn actors, anymore? and Can you use riddance in a sentence without the word good? Saw the term google-bomb this morning: some vast-right wing conspiracy is loading web sites with the words "kerry" and "waffles". However, when I went to independently verify it, this pair of words got 19,000 hits while "bush" and "lies" got 2,000,000. Heh. I am appalled at whatever kind of communal wisdom has created the fear of being known as a speaker of French! John Kerry is hiding his ability to speak a foreign language? How can this be? The supposed decline of our morals is nothing to this--the decline of our intelligence. And why have we let the fabulous word absquatulate disappear? I can hear abscond, squat, capitulate and more - something I can't quite identify in it. I can't find anyone using it, altho in the parallel universe there is www.absquatulate.com (bien sur). # Friday, May 21, 2004 ( 5/21/2004 04:37:00 PM ) DN And one final post. Ask me about spark plugs. Because I know a few more things about them today than I did yesterday. # ( 5/21/2004 04:36:00 PM ) DN How grammatically sound are you? - Quizilla And a quiz that you might want to save for a Monday morning instead of Friday afternoon. # ( 5/21/2004 04:28:00 PM ) DN It might be hell on the other end, too. A girl I know works for a local call center that takes incoming customer service calls. She was trained last week (for one week) to fill in in case of a strike at one of the Bell companies. Yesterday, the Bell people went on strike, and our local company took over the calls. She reported "chaos" (really?!!), and said that all of the extensions for different departments were being routed back to her area, which is New Accounts. Technical support, billing, etc., all were circling through the system as the semi-trained group tried to transfer them to the correct department (transfer them anywhere, let's be real), ending up over and over again in New Accounts. She said callers were irate (No!), and was planning to go home early after her break. Sadly, there's no punch line. # ( 5/21/2004 11:17:00 AM ) DN And here's the WV blogger's link - her name is Michelle, I believe. Random (but not really) # ( 5/21/2004 11:01:00 AM ) DN A casual reference at a WV blogger's site piqued me to check out the Language Log (Start with the Ebonics tale), and from my reading at the Language Log, I stumbled on this: transcripts of Monty Python sketches. Meanwhile, Laura sent this ridiculous stuff: Brutally Honest Personals. Yep, getting lots of work done today. # Friday, May 14, 2004 ( 5/14/2004 02:18:00 PM ) DN Philadelphia Inquirer | 02/01/2004 | How Democrats can talk of religion While browsing my regular sites today I found this article. I'm not religious myself, but I see how, in politics, the conservatives have become the "religious party." I'm not even sure why this would be so, but it is. # Monday, May 10, 2004 ( 5/10/2004 04:29:00 PM ) DN News Blip - Natalie Tennant, candidate for WV Secretary of State, got the best line in about the Oliverio-Hechler flap. What's he going to say next, "Vote for Me: I'm Not a Woman"? HNN It's the most ludicrous of negative campaign tactics - and there's been quite a bit of negativity here in the Mountain State. I have to say that Jackson's attacks on Manchin's 1991( or '92?) comments about Marshall U. and the medical school were pretty low, even if accurate. But Manchin did call Jackson a scab on TV. So there. # ( 5/10/2004 04:04:00 PM ) DN Reading Back When We Were Grownups Wild Child: Girlhoods from the counter culture Pink Think Reviving Ophelia Yellowdog: I am always blown away by Martin Amis. I am sure some critic used the words virtuoso or tour de force about this book. He has some harsh things to say about us all, in a sardonic, painfully funny kind of way. Xan, the head-injured, revenge-obsessed main character, really is the most ordinary of men, I think. Sometimes everyone wants to inflict some pain. I wasn’t too pleased as the book devolved into a porn-story toward the end, although I got a kick out of the British-sounding porn star names: names like Sheila and Carla – instead of Jessica and Tawny. But he nailed (so to speak) the grim business of it all—I read that he did some “on-site” research in the San Fernando Valley, where all porn is apparently made. The trash journalist, Clint Smoker, was the greatest! Writers must love satirizing other writers. Treason’s Harbour: ended on an uncertain note. Will Aubrey get a new ship, and who gave up their mission to the French? It is certainly the card cheat, whose name escapes me. Tom gave me the next two books for Mother’s Day, so I’m ready to go. Me Without You Prime Suspect 6 Widow of St. Pierre: worth it for the fabulous, saturated reds and yellows amid the mud and rawness of the sets – forgot to see where it was filmed, supposed to be Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, someplace in the north. # |
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