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Limitations exist only in our minds.
I’ve been back online three days, and already there’s stupid drama that I don’t want to deal with. What am I — a magnet? Why do I care what other people think? I mean, really. Meridjet has been accused of being arrogant and superior and of talking down to people in a LiveJournal community. This Continue reading →
I have come to the reluctant conclusion that concerts are bad for me. I’ve been to three in the last two years, and they always leave me feeling depressed and emotionally volatile, as if they’ve exposed some secret emptiness that I wasn’t aware of til after the show… which then becomes this gaping maw that Continue reading →
Before I get to the news of lately, I want to clear up a certain rumor that is making the rounds in certain circles. Evidently, there is a lady I know who is harboring anger at me and is spreading rumors that I am a fake. While this is not something that particularly bothers me Continue reading →
Okay, I know that I probably shouldn’t do this, but… I can’t help myself. Not quite four weeks ago, I had someone attempt to hack into this blog. He tried 17 times to hack my password, but I guess I do okay at choosing passwords because he gave up and went away. My magical, mad Continue reading →
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 →
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 →
Due to a disagreement with Comcast (I fucking loathe-despise-hate-wanna-nuke Comcast), our internet connection went south on Monday morning last. I had already been trying to set up Verizon DSL via a bundle with my DISH Network, which got fubared when the bot choked on some detail it read as an already active line. So on Continue reading →
I had to leave the house a couple of hours ago to visit the next burg about 20 minutes from here (usually, at least). When I left, I knew I was in for potential trouble. See, this is south Texas, and people here are completely ignorant of how to drive in winter weather. It was Continue reading →
I was on my way to bed when I checked my email one last time. I had a couple of comments on my PeopleJam blog, so I went to check them out as I’d managed to forget all about that site over the long weekend. One person gave a comment about believing it was wrong Continue reading →
Most of you are probably unaware of this fact, but someone very close to me has the AIDS virus. I found out about it 12 years ago, and he’d already been infected with HIV for at least a year by then. The struggle to stay silent and “in the closet” with such a horrible disease Continue reading →
Police caught Hoffman with pot but promised to drop charges if she agreed to go undercover in a drug bust. She was killed soon afterward. Rachel Hoffman is dead. Rachel Hoffman, like many young adults, occasionally smoked marijuana. But Rachel Hoffman is not dead as a result of smoking marijuana; she is dead as a Continue reading →
A few items of intriguing synchronicity have occurred, which I think deserve bringing up to my favorite blog readers: you folks. 1) I am editing a new book for Immanion Press, and it’s on modern vampires and vampirism. I don’t want to give away anything in advance without checking with my boss and the author, so that will have to suffice. 2) I’ve recently corresponded with Michelle Belanger a few times, and am reading her Psychic Vampire Codex off and on. 3) Most recently, a LiveJournal ‘friend’ posted something I intend to include in this post on allegedly how to protect yourself from “emotional vampires.”
He included a link to the original source, and I’ve clicked over to check it out. Has anyone ever heard of
Here there be random bitching about celebrity.
Annie Leibovitz is a world-renowned photographer who was créme de la créme when I first started reading Rolling Stone magazine in the mid-70s. Who the hell are the Moral Majority to criticize a goddess such as she? Why in the hell should she apologize? Okay, wait, let me back up for those who haven’t heard.
Leibovitz evidently photographed 15-year-old Miley Cyrus (a.k.a. Hannah Montana) for Vanity Fair, including a shot of Miley’s bare back, with her front covered by a draped silk sheet in a sultry pose – if “sultry” to you means something on par with “double beds in the showroom window are pornographic.” Yet it is alluring – not sexy, but alluring – and it’s also a time-proven pose that was surpassed
I suppose it was inevitable. I’m an editor by preferred trade, stemming from a natural capacity for grammatical snobbery. This evening as I surfed EntreCards, I happened upon a post on grammatical pet peeves, rekindling my own irritation toward a number of written mistakes. Bluntly put, certain errors of written expression can make a person look like an idiot and leave a reader with a negative impression. After six years of online journaling and 10 of forum interaction, I have seen more ridiculous mangles of the English language than I ever dreamed possible. The grammar Nazi in me rarely lets a consistent mistake go without eventually commenting on it, and it has always made me wonder just what sort of twisted pride is involved in a person’s stubborn refusal
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