I just said
Cereal is more a dessert than strawberries is.
Amy and Deron
lived right on a boundary between the 13th and the 14th arrondissements, and their home was a large-ish kind of guesthouse. They had their own wing, as big as a solo house, and there were apartments for visitors. A man who reminded me of Manuel from Fawlty Towers had charge of guest arrangements.
All of the guests last night were artists of one stripe or other. We watched a film projected onto the wall. A woman recited a soliloquy from a familiar movie. I think it might have been a Bette Davis weeper.
I went out on an errand and found a kitten. I brought it back to Amy’s and Deron’s place on my head, and on the way, it entwined itself in my hair and arranged itself into a sort of coiffure.
A murderer is a murderer.
Rosie Rojas, from Fulton, serves up a coffee refill to Dave, left, and Kay Lawton of Thomson, at the Sunrise Restaurant in Thomson. The restaurant adjoins a motel only a few hundred yards from the exterior wall of the Thomson Correctional Center. (Lane Christiansen/Chicago Tribune)
“I don’t want (enemy combatants) walking the street, so they have to go some place,” said [Gary] Harris, 64. “Might as well come here.”
“A murderer is a murderer no matter where he’s from,” [Thomson Village President Jerry "Duke"] Hebeler said. “That’s the way I look at it.”
My neighbors down the road apiece discuss news that the federal government seems interested in transferring detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the Thomson [Illinois] Correctional Center.
Politics and morality?
Update: Not my post, but wanted to add this quote for context.
Seriously? They voted against an amendment that was prompted by the brutal gang-rape of a young woman by her co-workers while she was working for a company under contract for the United States government, after which she was locked in a shipping container without food or water, threatened if she left to seek medical treatment, and was then prevented from bringing criminal charges against her assailants. And they failed to anticipate the political consequences?
the 2010 heavy equipment calendar
quote out of context
We like lists because we don’t want to die.
DIY Anti-Cancer Cross Stitch
Sewing kits range from $12 to $20, depending on what materials you’d like to include. The folks behind this made bracelets, too, but not for sale. “Just to yell back at the fucking cancer.”
Anyone who has ever lost a loved one knows the humor is second only to the statement itself.
(Via)
They were all in love with dyin’
They were doin’ it in Texas.
Do you ever have a song pop into your head that you haven’t heard in years? Does that song ever make you wonder how the hell it got any airtime?
x ray building sign
Okay, it’s Sheila’s sign, I will stop, although that is not the CW way.
quote out of context
Need I add that one of the Hirsts is entitled “In this terrible moment we are victims clinging helplessly to an environment that refuses to acknowledge the soul”?
Ombre chinois: Le cygne
Big Board ephemera. Alternate view here.
Communication
The beauty of writing is it affords a person the luxury of sitting in silence.
free jeans
Anybody want a pair of Levi’s shrink-to-fit 501s? They were 34 x 34 originally, and shrunk to probably 33 waist 32 inseam. Gently worn twice. In the shower.
Let me know in comments.
Texas Woman Fakes Cancer to get Implants
Authorities say a Texas woman lied about having breast cancer and spent $10,000 raised at a benefit to have her breasts enlarged. McLennan County sheriff’s investigator James Pack says in court records that 24-year-old Trista Joy Lathern shaved her head to look like a cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy.
Pack says Lathern wanted breast implants to try to save her seven-month marriage.
there’s gold in them thar hills the moon has water
Also: We choose to blow-up the moon!
Since the impacts, the LCROSS science team has been working almost nonstop analyzing the huge amount of data the spacecraft collected. The team concentrated on data from the satellite’s spectrometers, which provide the most definitive information about the presence of water. A spectrometer examines light emitted or absorbed by materials that helps identify their composition.
“We are ecstatic,” said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. “Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact. The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis, but it is safe to say Cabeus holds water.”
How To Open Wine Without a Corkscrew
All it takes is a shoe and a wall. (thanks, Autumn)
We Have A President
Sullivan regarding Obama’s political stance:
Obama’s position – almost a year into his presidency – is yet to be revealed. The president waits, prods, allows the parties to reveal their hands, and keeps his final detailed position to himself. By allowing the debate to continue in public, he also tries to get the public more, rather than less, involved. So we too get to show our hand as the debate continues. And the polls show Americans pretty evenly – and understandably – divided on the excruciating and ultimately prudential question of what to do next.
What strikes me about this is the enormous self-confidence this reveals. Here is a young president, prepared to allow himself to be portrayed as “weak” or “dithering” in the slow and meticulous arrival at public policy. He is trusting the reality to help expose what we need to do. He is allowing the debate – however messy and confusing and emotional – to take its time and reveal the real choices in front of us. This is politically risky, of course. Those who treat politics as a contact-sport, whose insistence is on the “game” of who wins which news cycle, or who can spin each moment in a political storm as a harbinger of whatever, will pounce and shriek and try to bounce the president into a decision. And those who believe that what matters in war is charging ahead regardless at all times will also grandstand against the president’s insistence on prudence.
The Internet
It wasn’t worth it. Nothing’s worth sitting through this.
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Bentley Baby Seat
perspective
The number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they lacked health insurance was 14 times higher than the US military death toll in Afghanistan that year, according to a new study.
project runway
whiteboard
there be stars
In danger of being crushed by a dwarf
Who’s up for a complete panoramic shot of Stonehenge? Anyone?
