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[24 Nov 2003|08:09pm] |
I can't believe I didn't notice this when I first brought the DVD home.
( A new infinitive... )
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[21 Nov 2003|04:40pm] |
Polo was SUCH a naughty dog on his walk today. I was walking him in my grandma's pasture, and I let him off his leash to go down to the creek and get a drink, and to give my arm a rest for a while. So we were walking along, and he was behaving very well, and then I saw this big brown cow standing at the fence. Polo ran off to inspect the cow, and I didn't think much of it, since last year when he was younger he got in with the cows and didn't do much other than stand and stare at them. Well, this time he got in and and started HERDING THEM. I wouldn't be so concerned if they were my cows, or my grandma's, but they belong to a neighboring farm. They were out in a cornfield, eating what was left of the corn after they harvested it. Well, he ran off to the other end, and I hear this huge commotion, and he comes back chasing this calf back towards the other cows. He was nipping at the poor thing's head and it was just terrified. By this time I'm SCREAMING at him -- I wasn't so worried about him, as he can definitely hold his own with a bunch of cows; I was more worried that some farmer was going to hear this commotion and come and reprimand me! All the other cows were getting ticked off at him, mooing angrily, and he was chasing them around. Finally I climbed over the fence and started walking towards him and calling him. Since I was on the same side of the fence with him, he was able to pay more attention to me, and I finally got him back on his leash and started walking him home. The cows were bellowing at us in what was really quite a menacing manner -- cows may be docile, but they are LARGE, and they come in herds. I had to find a different place to cross over back into our property, now being encumbered by leash and dog, and so on top of everything, I tripped over some barbed wire and got a big cut in my leg from it.
Polo was, of course, delighted and thought it was all just a wonderful adventure. When we got towards home he wanted to go visit with grandma's dog, but I told him he was grounded.
I guess this is what parenthood will be like -- simultaneous feelings of adoration and wanting to take a willow switch to the li'l idiots!
Still, he seemed to be doing a very great job with the herding. I'm starting to take seriously the hypothesis several people have posed that he is part border collie (he certainly looks it).
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[21 Nov 2003|07:50am] |
Stolen from ![[info]](http://library.vu.edu.pk/cgi-bin/nph-proxy.cgi/000100A/http/web.archive.org/web/20031126061208im_/http:/=2fstat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fallencathedral, who is new to the weaselwoman13 scene.
Lord of the Rings Fun
1. Stand up halfway through the movie and yell loudly, "Wait... where
the hell is Harry Potter?"
2. Block the entrance to the theater while screaming: "YOU SHALL NOT
PASS!" - After the movie, say "Lucas could have done it better."
3. Play a drinking game where you have to take a sip every time someone says: "The Ring."
4. Point and laugh whenever someone dies.
5. Ask everyone around you if they think Gandalf went to Hogwarts.
6. Finish off every one of Elrond's lines with "Mr. Anderson."
7. When Aragorn is crowned king, stand up and at the top of your lungs sing, "And I did it.... MY way...!"
8. Talk like Gollum all through the movie.
At the end, bite off someone's finger and fall down the stairs.
9. Dress up as old ladies and reenact "The Battle of Helms Deep" Monty Python style.
10. When Denethor lights the fire, shout "Barbecue!"
11. In TTT when the Ents decide to march to war, stand up and shout "RUN FOREST, RUN!"
12. Every time someone kills an Orc, yell: "That's what I'm Tolkien about!"
See how long it takes before you get kicked out of the theatre.
13. During a wide shot of a battle, inquire, "Where's Waldo?"
14. Talk loudly about how you heard that there is a single frame of
a nude Elf hidden somewhere in the movie.
15. Start an Orc sing-a-long.
16. Come to the premiere dressed as Frankenfurter and wander around looking terribly confused.
17. When they go in the paths of the dead, wait for tense moment and shout, "I see dead people!"
18. Imitate what you think a conversation between Gollum, Dobby and Yoda would be like.
19. Release a jar of daddy-long-legs into the theater during the Shelob scene.
20. Wonder out loud if Aragorn is going to run for governor of California.
21. When Shelob comes on, exclaim, "Man! Charlotte's really let herself go!"
This all is reminding me of that LoTR spoof I have on my computer with Humphrey Bogart as Frodo, Sydney Greenstreet as Gandalf, and Peter Lorre as -- OF course *mutter, mutter* -- Gollum. I love how the Peter movies they used give the result of Gollum having THREE different hairstyles (Joel's perm, Abbott's brilliantine-with-white-streak, and Hans' normal mussiness). Oh, the rest of it is very funny too, but of course the parts with Peter are the most important.
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[21 Nov 2003|07:44am] |
Pop Culture calls me CAUCASIAN! I have no rhythm. I
can't jump. I have a small penis.
Golly gee, that doesn't sound like too many
negative stereotypes compared to everyone else,
does it? Pop Culture and Corporate America
certainly don't kiss my ass in every way they
possibly can, to the exclusion of everyone
else. Yes, our great nation is nothing but
wall-to-wall smiling, middle-class, Christian,
heterosexual whities with 2.3 children. Thanks,
G.O.P.!
Stereotypes
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[20 Nov 2003|09:23pm] |
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>Hey all,
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>After receiving about a thousand of those emails that proclaim friendship in
>such a variety of excessively inspirational ways, telling me to send them to
>everybody I care about (or suffer a certain death at 11:11 PM) - I decided
>to boil it all down and modify it into a more succinct and cynical version
>for all of you:
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>Friendship is like pissing your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can
>feel its true warmth. So thank you for being the piss in my pants.
-My old music teacher
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[20 Nov 2003|08:07pm] |
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I've just started getting into Pogo and I am in love with Porky Pine! Truly a porcupine after my own heart.
He is the cynic in my brain who is perpetually locked in mortal combat with the optimist in my heart. So, um, I suppose he's a porcupine after my own brain. Which sounds like the premise of a really bad B movie, worded that way.
Never mind.
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[20 Nov 2003|07:38pm] |
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Not to be a lyrics-posting emo fag, but this song is just so beautiful and people should download it RIGHT NOW. I have spoken.
An Undoing World
By the Klezmatics
By the time we're done with dancing
Elsewhere, darling, you'll be glancing
And the night's a river torrent tearing us apart
Merely melody entwined us
Easily the ties that bind us
Break in fibrillations of of the heart
Don't cry out or cling in terror
Darling, that's a fatal error
Clinging to a somebody you thought you knew was yours
Dispossesion by attrition
Is the permanent condition
That the wretched modern world endures
You drift away, you're carried by a stream
A refugee, a wanderer, you roam
You lose your way, so it will come to seem
No place in particular is home
You glance away
Your house has disappeared
The sweater you've been knitting has unpurled
You live adrift
And everything you fear
Comes to you in this undoing world
Copper-plated, nailed together
Buffeted by ocean weather
Stands the queen of exiles, and our mother she may be
Hollow-breasted, broken-hearted
Watching for her dear departed
For her children cast upon the sea
At her back, the great idyllic
Land of justice for exilic
Peoples honors making justice private property
Darling, never dream another
Woman might have been your mother
Someday you may be a refugee
A refugee, who's running from the wars
Hiding from the firebombs they've hurled
Eternally a person out of doors
Desperate in this undoing world
A refugee, who's running from the wars
Hiding from the firebombs they've hurled
Eternally a person out of doors
Desperate in this undoing world
Mother for your derelicted
Children from your womb evicted
Grant us shelter, harbor, solace, safety -- let us in
Let us tell you where we've traveled
How our hopes, our lives unraveled
How unwelcome everywhere we've been
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[18 Nov 2003|08:57pm] |
I would like to say ENORMOUS CONGRATULATIONS TO flautenpupie_79. I won't tell you why, but PROPS TO HIM, YO, DOGFRIEND.
:D
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[18 Nov 2003|07:49pm] |
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Junior Brown - Guit-Steel Blues |
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We get five days off for Thanksgiving this year. Awesome, d00d.
So does anyone else have those Japanese beetles? Are they everywhere or is it a primarily midwestern thing? If you have them you probably know what I'm talking about, because if you ever call them ladybugs, at least two out of five people will say "They are NOT ladybugs, they're JAPANESE BEETLES." Or maybe that's just Iowans.
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[16 Nov 2003|05:31pm] |
I know you all haven't heard from me in a while. It's because of NaNoWriMo. All my writing energy is going into that. Please don't be alarmed. I'm still here.
I am 24,518 words into my novel and I have much work to do on it tonight. Because of my mom's big super awesome birthday party last night (complete with KICK !#$^%!$#&ING; ASS fireworks display from my dad) I was too tired out to work on it. It's going, though. It's kind of big to post in LJ right now, but I'll be putting it up on my website once it's done.
Happy Sunday!
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[07 Nov 2003|03:54pm] |
1. What food do you like that most people hate?
Popcorn with brewer's yeast on it (most people just don't want to try it). Unsweetened plain carbonated water. Salad without dressing, oil, or vinegar on it.
2. What food do you hate that most people love?
Croutons. Salad dressing. Steak. (I mean, not because I'm a vegetarian -- even back when I DID eat meat I really disliked steak.)
3. What famous person, whom many people may find attractive, is most unappealing to you?
Oh, man, all of them. Ben Affleck -- yucky. Brad Pitt -- yucky. They're boring! Also, although many of them were very talented, the conventional classic Hollywood hunks really don't do much for me. I think Cary Grant and Humphrey Bogart are cute, but I'm indifferent about the rest of them.
4. What famous person, whom many people may find unappealing, do you find
attractive?
I think you can figure out this one for yourselves, but I'll say it anyway. *Huge sigh surrounded by little hearts* PETERRRRRR!!! Also Erich von Stroheim.
5. What popular trend baffles you?
Hmm, a lot of them. Anime, for one. It's really uninteresting to me, it's poorly animated, and I just don't see how it's got such an enormous following.
Popular music nauseates me, but it's not really baffling.
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[05 Nov 2003|10:30pm] |
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FAIRY TALE  nce upon a time there has a young POLICER-UP OF THE FILTER TIPS named PETER. He was LECHEROUSLY CANOODLING in the FUMY forest when he met SCABROUS VICTOR, a run-away THESPIAN from the SQUIDGY Queen RUTHIE.
PETER could see that SCABROUS VICTOR was hungry so he reached into his UNMARKED BOTTLE and give him his MURDEROUS POTATO GNOCCHI. SCABROUS VICTOR was thankful for PETER's POTATO GNOCCHI, so he told PETER a very UNCOUTH story about Queen RUTHIE's daughter MIRTH. How her mother, the SQUIDGY Queen RUTHIE, kept her locked away in a SATANIC TEMPLE protected by a gigantic WEASEL, because MIRTH was so LUGUBRIOUS. PETER SHOT. He vowed to SCABROUS VICTOR the THESPIAN that he would save the LUGUBRIOUS MIRTH. He would BEAT the WEASEL, and take MIRTH far away from her eveil mother, the SQUIDGY Queen RUTHIE, and LICK her. Then, all of the sudden, there was a SHAGGY ACID MONSOON and SCABROUS VICTOR the THESPIAN began to laugh. With a puff of smoke he turned into the gigantic WEASEL from his story. SQUIDGY Queen RUTHIE BLEATED out from behind a HARLEQUIN ROMANCE NOVEL and struck PETER dead. In the far off SATANIC TEMPLE you could hear a TWANG. THE END. Make your own Fairy Tale at fuali.com
That's a sad story! *sniff*
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[05 Nov 2003|08:35pm] |
Yes, it's what you've all been waiting for -- my Yvonne photos, of course.
( Mad Love in the library! )
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[05 Nov 2003|07:44pm] |
It's weird how many people have never heard of putting brewer's yeast on popcorn. I was raised on that.
God, I love Bach.
"School of Rock" was a surprisingly good movie.
Why do all the movies of Roald Dahl books have happysappy endings? What's wrong with Dahl's black humor?
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[04 Nov 2003|07:36am] |
(A) There's no school today because there's something wrong with the water! THAT ROCKS!
(B) I tried to give blood for the first time yesterday, but I couldn't! My pulse was too high. (I suppose I was nervous, but I didn't feel nervous.) The first couple of times they took it, it was 112 and 110 (yeah, kinda zippy), and then by about the fifth time they took it, it got down to 102, but I still wasn't allowed to give blood. That sucks! I've just let some poor car accident victim with my blood type down. Maybe I'll get to do it the next time...
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[03 Nov 2003|11:20pm] |
Next NaNo chapter. Dare: Include the California recall election or a similar situation.
Boy, does this thing suck! But 5000 words in three days means I'm coming along nicely.
( Chapter 4; 5,130 words )
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[03 Nov 2003|07:56am] |
Hmm, no, this just isn't doing it for me. Also I dislike the Jimmy Stewart comments. And if this person dislikes Jimmy Stewart because he wants more suavity, well, he forgot one small but EXTREMELY important person. Tee hee hee.
But he's a guy. The Peterluv seems only to exist in the female of the species.
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[02 Nov 2003|08:41pm] |
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Here's my next NaNo chapter! (By the way, I am copying altoidsaddict by doing a dare per day. Yesterday's dare was to have someone run in and ask frantically if anyone has seen their chameleon, and never explain it. Today's dare is:
From the list below, select at least five items and feature them in a chapter, preferably as more than a one-liner. Combining items is not allowed; each reference must be discrete.
The list:
hang gliding; Marshmallow-Blasted Froot Loops; ostrich ferns; movie theater popcorn; stamp collecting; a sock with a hole in the toe; a black marble; hopscotch; green tea; narcolepsy; melting wax; static cling; chapped lips; newts.
( chapter 3 - 3,776 words so far! )
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[02 Nov 2003|05:32pm] |
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Emo Philips - Why Our Family Is Nice |
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Any Internet Explorer experts here? My default font seems to have set itself to REALLY HUGE MODE so the letters on LJ comment pages, Google, Geocities, and my website are really big. It's very irritating and I don't know what I did to make it like that. How can I make my letters sane sized again?
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