• Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2010-09-26

    September 26, 2010 - By 

    Uh, just discovered the "Write Tweet" feature in TwitterTools for WordPress. I may be slow, but I get there in the end. #fb # RT @Molly23 "It may be Talk Like A Pirate Day, but I have the feeling that talking like a pirate to TSA screeners might not go over so well" # This… is not floating my boat. #fb # And now my boat is sinking fast. #fb # I just used #Shazam to discover Beg Steal Or Borrow by Ray Lamontagne And The Pariah Dogs. http://shz.am/t52658207 # Never forget: Bush bungled the capture of Bin Laden at…

  • Home Improvement - Mini-Posts

    Watched Hoarders, Cleared Out Bathroom Cabinet

    September 21, 2010 - By 

    Funny how this works. I have a high tolerance for clutter yet feel much calmer once I finally buckle down and clean. After watching the latest Hoarders episode, I often feel the need to clean the counters. Tonight I threw a trashbag full of partly used “hotel amenities” and travel size items from trips out of the bathroom cabinet. And cleaned the kitchen, and cleared all the stuff off the dressers. Still some laundry to wash, fold, sort later. Maybe after watching another episode; got reruns to catch up on. Got a houseguest coming in a couple of weeks, I’m…

  • Blogs Wot I Read - Politics, Schmolitics

    Tolkien Hated Hitler: What Would He Make Of Glenn Beck?

    September 19, 2010 - By 

    What with all Chaplinesque moustache-porn videos going around, I do wonder what J.R.R. Tolkien would make of the current culture wars. He knew his way around a mythology, invented or real, so I wonder what he’d think of Beck’s reverse-engineering of the national mythos of the Founding Fathers? 10. He wasn’t nearly as fond of Nazis as they were of him. Tolkien’s academic writings on Old Norse and Germanic history, language and culture were extremely popular among the Nazi elite, who were obsessed with recreating ancient Germanic civilization. But Tolkien was disgusted by Hitler and the Nazi party, and made…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2010-09-19

    September 19, 2010 - By 

    Hoping @scannell wore protective gear for tonight's paytriot shindig: hip boots, clothespin, rose-colored safety goggles. # RT @Mudflats "Still waiting 4 Beck. Chalkboard says liberals want to destroy Constitution, Faith and History. Ack. #p2 quot; #factcheckbeck # RT @Mudflats "Palin just called Ted Nugent a "blood brother" #palin beck #TMI # .@xenijardin Try season tickets next to elderly couples for musical theater. Wives repeat dialog, lyrics, and plot to husbands. in reply to xenijardin # .@xenijardin "Guys and Dolls" will be like "She's with the Salvation Army, Frank. SALVATION ARMY," he'll hum Sit Down You're Rockin the Boat in reply…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    The Palin Theory Of How She Should Conduct Her Life: Hardly Working, Not Working Hard

    September 18, 2010 - By 

    Flying high after flexing muscles in GOP primaries, Sarah Palins next stops: Iowa, cable TV – chicagotribune.com. Remember John Glenn? The former astronaut and senator drew huge crowds and intense attention here when he sought the Democratic nomination in 1984 — and got just 4 percent of the vote. “They were coming out to see John Glenn the astronaut, not John Glenn the Democrat running for president,” said veteran Republican strategist Eric Woolson. If she runs, Palin would start with strong appeal among the social and religious conservatives who play a crucial role in Iowa’s Republican politics. But that appeal…