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Dead Pet Blogging

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:01:28 GMT

Not much today, just a photo of my dog and cat laid out on the floor.

Um

Sat, 03 May 2008 00:55:41 GMT

Just an image of a book cover we found today.

Stuff, Things

Fri, 02 May 2008 04:06:08 GMT

I think it's lame to use the word "suicide" as a verb, and even lamer to use it in context of an action taken against another person, as in "Who else thinks the D.C. Madam was suicided?" You don't "suicide" someone by murdering them and making it look like a suicide. What you're doing is "murdering" them. And making it look like a suicide. I'm willing to allow, however, that this kind of thing seems to happen often enough to warrant its own single-word descriptor. How about...pseudocide? [more]

Sexy, Sexy Seventies

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:16:18 GMT

Next door to my parents' wig shop was a men's clothing store called Albert's. Albert fulfilled pretty much every stylistic requirement of the 1970's Sleazeball. Satin disco shirt with the wide lapels, open to the tit. Powder blue polyester slacks. He even looked like 1970's era Paul Simon.

The Marketplace of Ideas

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:26:56 GMT

So this "crazy venture" Hannah and I are doing now for a living, is selling stuff online. Books, mainly, but also DVDs, CDs, and anything else that someone out there in the Internet-capable world might conceivably be willing to fork over some amount of money for. It's something I used to do once in a while for beer money, but now it's a full time gig.

Never Gonna Run Around and Desert You

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:19:35 GMT

It seems like if I'm going to announce a big move and then fall into radio silence for almost two months, I probably ought to come back with a harrowing tale of peril and high adventure. Or at least some kind of major injury. But no, nothing that dramatic.

New! RSS! Feed!

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:38:21 GMT

One of the major disadvantages of going back to publishing my weblog manually is no more automatically generated RSS feeds. Well, you asked for it, and I'm a deliverin' it. Thanks to Scott D., I now have a way to manually create RSS feeds for my site. Let's see how this frickin' works. I just installed this (RSS DreamFeeder) a few minutes ago so apologies in advance if anything's wonky.

Moving Day Cometh, And That Right Soon

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:51:20 GMT

The wheels are grinding into motion. Albuquerque is now just two weeks away.

Hannah is there now. Her mission, to find us a place to live. She's worried about being able to get a place, but I'm not worried. I have full confidence in her ability to find someone who will rent a large apartment or small house in a good neighborhood to a couple with two gigantic cats and a semi-incontinent dog. Preferably for $500/month. Ample storage, washer/dryer hookups a plus.

Meanwhile, I've taken on the task of packing up the apartment. There's a ton of stuff, and most of it is arranged in semi-random piles throughout our home, but I feel positive that with focus and steady, systematic work, it'll all get done in time.

Why I'm Drinking the Obama Kool-Aid

Sat, 09 Feb 2008 08:00:04 GMT

This Obama/Clinton smackdown has divided the Democratic party, and in such a way that everything I like about Democrats seems to have ended up on one side of the line, and everything I can't stand about Democrats has ended up on the other side.

You'll Never Dry Clean In This Town Again

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:31:52 GMT

Today was my last regular day at the store. I'll probably drop in a few times before now and the move, and I promised to work a Saturday or two so my mom can go to L.A. for some dental work. But as of today I'm officially no longer a dry cleaner. I'm done here.