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Twilight – the better version
Dec 15th
Laughed MY ASS OFF!
KRISTEN STEWART
Wait, we can’t have sex at all, and you can’t suck my blood? How can you make a vampire movie without anyone sucking blood?ROBERT PATTINSON
It’s alright, I think this movie already has more than enough sucking.
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KRISTEN STEWART
Yeah but I have a BOYFRIEND now, which means I no longer have to be independent or physically capable of doing anything on my own. GOD!
http://www.cracked.com/article_16878_if-twilight-was-10-time-shorter-100-times-more-honest.html
That's what I'm saying!
Dec 4th
Or go here. I remember those days. I even remember *gasp* party lines! I, who have no patience whatsoever, have to keep this clip in mind every time I get pissed at the slowness of one service or another.
What is art?
Dec 3rd
This question was posed in a teeny little seminar I attended a while ago. My opinion differed from just about everyone else there. The consensus was basically everything is art. I don’t think so.
This is art:
This is not:
This is art:
This is not:
I think . . . you have to work at art. You have to have a talent, you have to be making a point, you have to be making an effort to make the world a more beautiful place. Or if it’s painful or ugly art, you need to be making a point with it. Not just throwing crap together to make a buck.
Art is not production line. Sure, that second picture shows pretty little vases, but it’s not art. Art is really hard to describe. It has to mean something. It has to grab your attention and make you feel something.
“A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.” ~ Paul Cézanne
A message from my pal J.C. Hutchins
Oct 23rd
Hey Deb,
I’m doing some freelance marketing for a university (they’re pushing online education with a “mom-friendly” angle) and I’m questing for some ink on the project. I know you probably don’t consider yourself a “mommy blogger,” but if this pitch (and the document) are interesting to you, I’d appreciate it if you shared a few deets with your blog readers.
As if you didn't already know me
Sep 23rd
[01] Do you have the guts to answer these questions and re-post as The Controversial Survey?
Yup
[02] Would you do meth if it was legalized?
No.
[03] Abortion: for or against it?
For.
[04] Do you think the world would fail with a female president?
Nope, don’t think the WORLD is influenced by one person.
[05] Do you believe in the death penalty?
Absolutely. Not used often enough in my book.
[06] Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?
Yes.
[07] Are you for or against premarital sex?
For, as evidenced by my history.
[08] Do you believe in God?
Pshaw.
[09] Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?
Sure, why not. Love is what love is and if you want to celebrate it, be my guest.
[10] Do you think it’s wrong that so many Hispanics are illegally moving to the USA?
Yup. Any illegals should be shipped out. If you’re gonna do it, do it right.
[11] A twelve year old girl has a baby, should she keep it?
Probably not, but if she does there are lots of people who could adopt it and give it a better life.
[12] Should the alcohol age be lowered to eighteen?
Sure, lower the drinking age and raise the driving age.
[13] Should the war in Iraq be called off?
As soon as feasibly possible.
[14] Assisted suicide is illegal: do you agree?
Nope. People should aught to be able to decide for themselves even if they can’t DO it alone.
[15] Do you believe in spanking your children?
As necessary.
[16] Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars?
Yes.
[17] Who do you think would make a better president? McCain or Obama?
Obama as the lesser of two evils.
[18] Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
If they don’t know me already what the frak are they doing looking at my LJ?
What did you just say?
Aug 8th
The last four people who’ve friended me on LJ have had non-English writing.
Excerpt: Какую бесконечную грусть испытываешь при виде человека, совершенно одинокого на свете! На днях я видел такую бедную девушку, – она шла на конфирмацию одна-одинешенька!
Is that Russian? Way back when I could tell the differences, but it’s been too long. (I had to order books from the USSR and needed to transcribe a bit.) When I look at their friends lists, I see a familiar name or two, but I have no clue who these people are.
So austine_petresc, harriescheidt, violantebugajsk, and shamshadnickell, welcome for whatever reason but don’t be offended if I don’t friend you back. It wouldn’t do me any good! Can’t read it.
There aught to be a website . . .
Aug 4th
where you can load up your pictures (snapfish, flickr, etc) and they put the descriptions on the BACK when they print out the pictures.
I spent an hour on the phone yesterday with my mother trying to explain the wheres and whats of the 50+ pictures I had ordered online for her. Those pictures from Hawaii were especially difficult to place over the phone and out of any discernible order. If they could just print the descriptions on the back of the photos that would be great!
It can’t be that much harder to set the machines up to do that, right? Think of all those scrapbook people. What a great extra service! There are so many times I’ve looked at the older pictures I have now and hadn’t bothered to write descriptions on the back and have no clue where or when or why they were taken. They could even print that camera and date/time information on the back so I could stop using that ugly date thing on the front – usually ruining a really nice picture.
Someone should get right on that.
Words I want to use
Jul 19th
Dodgy. I can’t think of an American word that means quite the same thing.
He’s a bit dodgy, isn’t he? That smells a bit dodgy. (Is that spelled correctly?)
A little off. Not quite right. Suspect. Great word.
Brilliant! Over here, brilliant still means well, brilliant. Extra smart, extra intelligent, extra shiny. A measurable and above average amount. “They” seem to have diluted the meaning to just above normal, special maybe. Brilliant sounds better than Awesome. We’ve diluted awesome.
But you can’t be dodgy and brilliant at the same time, can you?
