Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

That’s what this idiot, Stuart Shepard, asks 1 million times in 2 and a half minutes- all to try to drown out (har har) Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver.

And yet, I cannot get this thing out of my head. It will no doubt shock you to discover that the schmuck is one of James Dobson’s [...]

…um. Lots, actually.
We traveled, and hosted travelers. Read much, wrote some. Geared up for the political season. Got stood up by Mayor Nagin. Toured vaunted institutions of higher education pretending to be mature so as to fool the admissions people into thinking she comes from people of class and allow her to attend.
Along [...]

From a story about religious crazies snake handlers in Kentucky:
“You can purchase anything off the Internet except common sense,” Harrison said. “A venomous snake isn’t a pet. You don’t play with it. If you do, you’re an idiot.

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Yesterday, Nancy came into work shaking her head in confusion and with the start of a whopper of a headache. Foolishly she’d begun her day with the radio on, listening to Bush’s press conference. I’ve mostly given those up because I’m really not attractive when I’m purple with rage, screaming at the radio regarding both [...]

This story about the ‘whistles of death’ caught my eye…and ear:
If death had a sound, this was it.
Roberto Velazquez believes the Aztecs played this mournful wail from the so-called Whistles of Death before they were sacrificed to the gods.

I’ve never heard anything in a movie that sounds half so evil as some of these.
So [...]

So today I realized that we have exactly one month before our friends arrive from France…we’ve always got somebody visiting, but this one’s different- I haven’t seen them since 2002 and Charlie’s never met them.
You’d never know it, though- he’s the one sweating over the plans. I think he’s determined they need to have [...]

Yesterday I opened my cabinet and realized Old Mother Hubbard had nothing on me. I haven’t been shopping in weeks, and it was long past due. Alison was rounded up and she gleefully got in the car, ready to spend my money.
Halfway to the grocery store I told her that although I know we’re out [...]

Okay, so no one should be terribly surprised that I’m looking around at local bird breeders. There’s this one chick (har har) who was highly recommended by my vet but… frankly, I just don’t get the warm and fuzzies from her.
So I googled her to see if I could find more info and came across [...]

Last week I received the fantastic news that great friends from France are coming to stay over the summer, and we swung into high-planning mode.
We haven’t had newbies come in a long time, so this’ll be great fun. There’s a bit of performance anxiety- New Orleans may be the most European city in the US, [...]

Hour gongs were being struck all across the city and night-watchmen were proclaiming that it was indeed midnight and also that, in the face of all the evidence, all was well. Many of them got as far as the end of the sentence before being mugged.
-Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

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