Archive for August, 2008

Bert & Ernie Rock

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

     es! Threaded comments are back! I lost them with the last WordPress upgrade, and only just now figured out how to make them work again. Jebus.
     Meanwhile, this is the best rock/rap video you will see all week:

Odds & Ends

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

     he word of the day is “Fiction”, as in, I’m writing it. If you look to the right, you’ll note a new page under “Navigation”, leading you to the archive page for my serial novel, Black Alice. I’ll be using it to link to each chapter, so if you’re just showing up, you can use [...]

Black Alice — One

Friday, August 29th, 2008

     elcome to the first page of the rest of my novel. I’m in the process of crowbarring this thing out of my head, and, as an incentive to myself to just quit fucking with it and write it, we’ll be playing the post as I go game. So, new chapter every Friday.
     Category-wise, I guess this [...]

Fairy Tales and Boot Heels

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

     ne of the main arguments I hear a lot of creationists make is that “evolution is only a theory, it’s not fact”. Well, that is actually true. It’s the theory of evolution. The problem is that, in common vernacular, the language you and I use on the street everyday, “theory” means, roughly, a guess. That [...]

Wednesday Linkage

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

     ombie Alert! — Rural Kanpur is fighting its most frightening scourge — a mystery disease that has left a long line of bodies in its trail and doesn’t seem anywhere finished. *
     Jon Stewart: Rocks My World — In a breakfast with reporters, Stewart directed most of his ire at the 24-hour cable news networks, which [...]

Diebold

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

     onestly, some days I don’t know why I bother voting.
     For years, Diebold has embarrassed itself by claiming that obvious faults were actually not faults at all, and during the past decade or so, it mastered the act of pointing the finger. Now that it has ironically renamed itself Premier Election Solutions, it’s finally coming clean. [...]

The Issue of Contraception

Monday, August 25th, 2008

     nd now, a post with some actual substance:
     In recent weeks, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has been taking fire for a leaked draft regulation defining abortion as “any of the various procedures — including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action — [...]

Links and Junk

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

     s anyone else as miserably sick of the drama surrounding the VP picks as I am? I mean, good fuck, CNN went on about whoever it is Obama’s picking for so damn long, I gave up waiting for the announcement and switched it over to Food Network. And really, Barack — Joe Biden? Really? Everyone [...]

Tall Tale Tuesday: Carnival Update

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

aptisms - MrJames
     Everything around Thunk seemed to flicker, and afterward, there was no sky.
     He was still standing in the same spot, but the Carnies, the wolf, the women, all were gone. The patrons, milling about in confusion, were gone. The afternoon sky was replaced with an endless black abyss, devoid of stars or clouds. In [...]

Barack-Roll?

Friday, August 15th, 2008

     pparently, Barack Obama’s campaign has had a secret, subliminal message this entire time.
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