The Rooster’s Out of the Bag

I got your 'secret identity' right here.

Due to excessive speculation in recent months regarding the “true identity” of my spirit companion, I’ve decided to finally, at long last, spill the beans, come clean, expose the skeletons and air the dirty laundry. The identity of my spirit companion is . . .

Quickie Otherkin Update

Now where did that rabbit go?

Okay. Having let the issue stew in a little back-burner pot for a couple of weeks now, I think I can conclusively say that I am not Otherkin of any stripe. My factors: I don’t feel “wrong” in a human body. I don’t feel nonhuman at all, in fact, except that I feel out of Continue reading →

Everybody Be Careful

Do you think the scarecrow can ward off bad events? Me, neither, but it's worth a shot.

This morning I found out that a good friend of mine lost his job and that the mother of another good friend died last night. These are both “real life” friends. In my observation, bad news comes in threes — one may come alone, but if there’s two, there’s going to be a third. So Continue reading →

This Guy Died, Except He Didn’t

Occasionally, things in my life happen twice. It’s an anomaly I’m still trying to figure out. (Edit: This one turned out to be simply mistaken identity, which is a relief. It usually isn’t so simple to solve.) It first happened in the 1980s when a favorite actor, Will Sampson, died of a heart attack. Then Continue reading →

In Which I Rant

The New York Times today reports (among content about the new health care bill and the release of the names of those killed at Fort Hood) that “There are just over 100 people in the world serving sentences of life without parole for crimes they committed as juveniles in which no one was killed; 77 Continue reading →

English Language FAIL

I’ve been combing the thesaurus and the dictionary for a synonym for “experience” (verb form). Did you know that, unless you have a very specific experience in mind (e.g. “feel” or “imagine” or “meet,” et al), there isn’t a good substitute? I need an adjective adverb form of “experience,” ending in -ly, and since there Continue reading →

The Bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act Needs Your Support!

Sign the petition at the Lifetime Network website, here. Representatives Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Senators Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) recently re-introduced the bipartisan Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act in Congress. Thanks to its viewers, Lifetime has so far collected more than 23 million online petition signatures urging Congress Continue reading →

My Blog is, Firstly, For Me

An article in the NYTimes online today attempts to determine why people blog when they should be doing things like “homework and swim practice, or perhaps even housework and parenting.” Their determination is that bloggers assume that just the act of starting a blog will provide an instant audience, followed by fortune and/or fame. While Continue reading →

Kitties Rule, Except For That Awful Smell

Hey folks, long time no anything! I thought you might like to see a couple of pictures of the new kittens, who are 8 weeks and 1 day old. We have four, all males, and they’ve officially entered the cute overload stage. They do little hopping attacks and leaps, graceful and clumsy all at once. Continue reading →

Speechless, Are We?

The email issue appears to be fixed. I know I shouldn’t be surprised that no one commented on my Valentine’s post after clamoring for it, but I am. It irks me, because it was difficult for me to put myself out there like that. I haven’t decided yet how I’ll deal with it. For the Continue reading →

I Try to Keep an Open Mind

…but sometimes I just get pissed off. The link leads to a Christian woman’s blog who has a post on how “the ban on gay marriage slows the erosion of family.” What. the. bleeding. fuck. I continue to be amazed at how anyone anywhere can believe that what another person does affects the “sanctity” of Continue reading →

Something Weird

For several months, I’ve been seeing far more than the usual number of shadowy movements seen from the corner of my eye. They are growing in realism and frequency, and in the past two days I’ve seen at least a dozen out of the corner of my left eye (none from my right in that Continue reading →