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Because Googling lyrics is cheaper than therapy

21-Feb-09

Some time ago, I tweeted, “I really need to find a way to sort out which of the voices in my head I should be listening to, and which I should ignore.” Lest anyone imagine I was joking, I present the following, composed, yes, entirely on my blackberry this morning (with a few edits/link and [...]

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Seven things about two brands of whiskey I’d just as soon never drink, and why

12-Jan-09

(But First, A Ridiculous Preamble) Tonight I was reading one dude’s entertaining post in response to a “Seven Things No One Knows About You” meme. This led me to recall the fact that a number of perfectly lovely people have “tagged” me with such memes in the past. However, because I am a surly and [...]

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Why I laughed when I looked in the mirror on my 38th birthday

25-Nov-08

Yesterday, I turned 38. (Am still somewhat in denial. For instance, I first typed that as “28.”) Among the festivities of the day was Lamb of God’s last show in Richmond, before they head out on their big tour with Metallica. It was a great show, about which more will have to be written at [...]

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Questionable genius

11-Sep-08

Jeff came home just now with Dave, his friend who is visiting from out of town (for whom we recently threw this party). While Dave was on the back porch, I shared with my husband this little fact, tweeted earlier: …Based on 7 Year Bitch’s “Dead Men Don’t Rape,” iTunes Genius recommends Black Flag’s “Slip [...]

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A recent evening of unbridled hedonism, as detailed via assorted media

06-Sep-08

__ This shot taken, as best I can remember, in one of the stalls at Alley Katz. (I know, I am a walking cliché.) The three different versions of same (rendered via Picasa because I still don’t know Photoshop or whatever it is the cool kids are using these daze) are intended to reflect the [...]

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Hip-Hop Hooray for Love

18-Aug-08

Today I woke up with Ella Fitzgerald’s Hooray for Love in my head. Specifically, these lines: It’s the wonder of the world, It’s a rocket to the moon It gets you high, it gets you low, but once you get that glow… So after my morning coffee, I went to iTunes and typed in “Hooray.” [...]

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Variations on a theme of independence

05-Jul-08

Yesterday, the ever snarkful (& smart, so, what – can I now invent ‘smarkful’ in addition to ‘snarkful,’ also not an actual word?) Simon Goetz offered the following, um, pearl of wisdom with regard to incipient Fourth of July celebrations: Guys are prematurely shooting their colorful loads of Freedom all over the sky’s face. It’s [...]

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74 Things I Didn’t Post to Twitter

27-Jun-08

It’s been a weird week. Sunday, I saw what was, perhaps, the best show of my entire life: The National (playing, as it were, at the Richmond venue called The National). That show deserves its own post (delayed though it may be), but what I want to convey here, as efficiently as possible, is what [...]

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Daughters of our various riots

17-Jun-08

As anyone following me on Twitter will be all too keenly aware, I’ve been listening to an awful lot of The National lately. So, I’ll understand if no one believes me, that the title of this post actually didn’t start out as a reference to Daughters Of the SoHo Riots, a track from their 2005 [...]

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Compare and Contrast

14-Jun-08

Some teenagers would kill to go to a Lamb of God show – never mind the luxury of VIP access and such, since we’re friends of the band members, in particular, vocalist Randy Blythe (as discussed recently) and guitarist Mark Morton (whom my husband has known since the seventies, and I’ve known since 1990). Here’s [...]

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