Blooming freesia on my porch
Blooming freesia on my porch
Originally uploaded by fredlet.
…in the fog even.
Fwd: [little miss know it all... a.k.a. fredlet] 2/16/2005
Why should I need to prove I poked a badger to someone who won’t even give me their name? =;)
heh.
>From: Anonymous
>To: fredlet
>Subject: [little miss know it all... a.k.a. fredlet] 2/16/2005 10:32:47 PM
>Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:32:59 -0800 (PST)
>
>Speaking of bunnies, can you prove you poked a badger?
>
>–
>Posted by Anonymous to
>little
>miss know it all… a.k.a. fredlet at 2/16/2005 10:32:47 PM
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I had a dream
that ZeFrank was my boyfriend the other night.
That could be wildly inappropriate considering I have no clue as to his gender preference… not to mention that he doesn’t know who the hell I am and this is like the worst blind date ever.
Not only does he not know anything about me, he doesn’t even know he’s on this blind date.
Sigh.
Yahoo! News – Gunman Kills 2 Outside Texas Courthouse
Yahoo! News – Gunman Kills 2 Outside Texas Courthouse:
“Gunman Kills 2 Outside Texas Courthouse”
Jeez, who does this guy think he is? Charles Whitman?
You just got your baby back… what are you going to do?
We’re going to Disneyland!!
Yahoo! News – Look Who’s Talking: Sri Lanka Baby Goes to America:
“The island’s most celebrated tsunami survivor, three-month-old Abilass Jeyarajah, who was found alive amid debris and then sat at the center of a media circus as his frantic parents underwent DNA tests to win him back, is to appear in his first talk show.”
But you know what really sucks?
“Tsunami Baby Claimed By Nine Women“
Being one of the other 8 women who still can’t find their babies.
yes, of course, the current administration gives a crap about the average Joe… NOT.
“AUSTIN, Texas — Among those still interested in fiscal sanity, and that includes quite a few Republicans, I bring your attention to two tax cuts that should be repealed right now for the sound reason that they are perfectly nuts.
A whopping 54 percent of the two cuts goes to the two-tenths of one percent of Americans who make more than $1 million a year. And 97 percent of the cuts goes to the 4 percent of the population with incomes over $200,000. (All figures from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Joint Committee on Taxation.)
The two cuts were not part of President Bush’s original tax-cut proposals, they were slipped in by Congress in 2001 and will be fully effective only in 2010. One repeals a provision that scales back the magnitude of itemized deductions taken by high-income taxpayers. The other repeals a provision under which the personal exemption is phased out for households with very high incomes.
The Joint Committee estimates that these two cut tax cuts will reduce the government’s income by $9 billion in 2010 and $16 billion in 2015. The center points out that the cost of cuts are significantly understated because the estimates do not assume relief from the alternative minimum tax, a measure popular on Capitol Hill this year.
The center’s report says, “If these two tax cuts were to be cancelled … Congress and the president could avert cuts in areas like health care, child care, housing assistance and food stamp assistance for low-income working families.”
and
“Bush’s Social Security privatization plan is so bad (not to mention that it doesn’t fix Social Security, as even he now admits), it is unclear if even a massive public relations campaign can save it. But be prepared to watch them try. Coming soon to a television station near you, ad after ad assuring you that Social Security is going broke right now and only private accounts can save it. The sponsors of these ads (and Republican money can buy some mighty high-priced ad agencies) will all have lovely names, like “Committee to Save America” and “Society to Save Old Folks.” But it’s pure political propaganda, and more fool you if you buy into it. “
Creators.com – Creators Syndicate
I really don’t understand his rationale here.
Putting up one of his cartoons is showing the world that you think this cartoon is funny.
I understand that if you are making a profit off of it, you are stealing, but he doesn’t say that.
He meanders on and on about his ‘babies’ and how its beyond his control.
Are these being used out of context? Are they being interepreted by the audience wrongly? (Gasp! No one should interpret a work of art! Holy crap, we might actually think for ourselves.)
I’ve lost a lot of respect for Gary Larson just by reading this half-baked plea online, not only is he too much of a pansy to come out and say “I’m losing money here people” but he is trying (badly) to make himself a poor innocent victim when he’s actually being a primadonna.
Screw you, Larson. I think I’m going to sell all my Far Side books at a used bookstore where you won’t get a freaking dime off of the sale you passive-agressive, manipulative asshole cute and fuzzy bunny*.
Creators.com – Creators Syndicate:
“What impact this unauthorized use has had (and is having) in tangible terms is, naturally, of great concern to my publishers and therefore to me — but it’s not the focus of this letter. My effort here is to try and speak to the intangible impact, the emotional cost to me, personally, of seeing my work collected, digitized, and offered up in cyberspace beyond my control.
So, in a nutshell (probably an unfortunate choice of words for me), I only ask that this respect be returned, and the way for anyone to do that is to please, please refrain from putting The Far Side out on the Internet. These cartoons are my ‘children,’ of sorts, and like a parent, I’m concerned about where they go at night without telling me. And, seeing them at someone’s web site is like getting the call at 2:00 a.m. that goes, ‘Uh, Dad, you’re not going to like this much, but guess where I am.”
*apparently, Kramer says 1) my hair is pretty and 2) I am cranky because of the moon, so I modified my response to Gary Larsons plea for saving the children.
Madame Tussauds wax figures never look that good to me
New York Post Online Edition: gossip
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Why do people pay to see figures that are always off in weird ways? The faces always look wrong, the clothing is unremarkable, you can look at pictures of them for free.
I don’t get it.
earworm du jour: food around the corner
as sung by that little flea in the old cartoons.
“Fooooood around the cornerrrrrr! Fooooood around the corner….. foooood around the corner for meeeee!”
I share because I love.
[update:Wikipedia love]
Sunglasses on the head: updated
So I call mom today to sort out some potential travel plans involving people who are genetically linked to both of us. I get info from mom, which I dutifully write down, she asks questions of me… which she ALSO tries to dutifully write down in her Treo.
“Hey!” she says, clearly sounding a bit annoyed “Where the hell is my pilot*?”
“I can’t help you there mom.” I say.
“Where did I put it?”
I think of ways to help her find it…including calling it to make it ring, when it occurs to me… umm, duh moment number 437 for me today.
“Mom, I called you on cell phone, right?”
“Oh. Its on my ear…. You’re going to laugh at your mother, aren’t you?”
“No, not really, you checked out a while ago.” I giggle.
“Stop laughing at your mother!” she says… which only serves to make me laugh harder.
*Both mom and I are longtime Palm people. We’ve had them since 1997 when they were 3COM Pilots, and hence they will always be called Pilots.
No, we’ve never confused them for the pens, no matter what Bic says.
untitled
Kramer, are you writing the yahoo astro now? –
Leo: They were wrong, you were right – just as you suspected. Still, don’t gloat.
sigh.
Yahoo! News – Writer Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself:
“ASPEN, Colo. – Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America’s underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,’ has committed suicide.
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”"
More on Hunter S. Thompson leaving us:
“Getting old is a fucking drag. Thompson, like Hemingway, took option B.
The man’s body wasn’t quite cold before pantywaists like Lileks and Brookhiser (in the NY Post) were dry humping his memory, claiming he was a hack and untalented, and blahblahblah. One of the unfortunate side effects of the rise of the internet and blogging- a chorus of anklebiters can be relied upon to boil out of the woodwork whenever someone of any accomplishment dies.” [via Yelladog]
And yes, his suicide was selfish (what suicide wasn’t?), but what in his life ever led you to believe he was the alruistic one? Expecting thoughtful sincerity from a man who wrote “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” is an exercise in futility.
That doesn’t mean I dont’ think it sucks plenty hard to have been his son who found the remains of the suicide.
Yuck.
