Dan and Doug took me out to dinner, and gave me North By Northwest and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and My sister gave me a fondue pot, ice crusher, and goth chick Barbie. So my birthday turned out pretty damned cool.
Fake book on Amazon: American Foreign Policy by G. W. Bush
Fake reviewers on Amazon: Henry Raddick and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
It’s my birthday, and Beth bought me new new comic book Fray by Joss Whedon, which is very cool. My co-workers took me out to dinner, despite my persistent grumpiness, and I got fortune cookie and free dessert. Doug called to wish me Happy Birthday. Very cool.
Your happiness is intertwined with your outlook on life.
An appropriately remonstrative fortune cookie at precisely the moment I needed it. Thanks.
I made this CD of songs about dangerous women after a lunch-time conversation with friends about the difference between “devil woman” and “evil woman,” and how there are two different version of “devil woman” and how we were all getting the songs mixed up with “Black Magic Woman.” Then we started a list of all the songs we could think of… and this is where it ended up.
1 Black Betty – Leadbelly
2 Black Betty – Blow Soundtrack
3 Black Magic Woman – Santana
4 American Woman – Led Zepplin
5 Witchy Woman – Eagles
6 Devil Woman – Marty Robbins
7 Devil Woman – Cliff Richard
8 Evil Woman – ELO
9 Honky Tonk Woman – Rolling Stones
10 Hard Headed Woman – Elvis Presley
11 Black Magic Woman [live] – Santana
12 Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress – The Hollies
13 Hanky Panky Woman (Loretta Lynn Cover) — Kelly Hogan – Kelly Hogan
14 Devil With A Blue Dress On – Little Richard
15 Long Tall Sally – Little Richard
16 Dark Lady – Cher
17 Hot Child In The City – Nick Gilder
18 Undercover Angel – Alan O’Day
19 Maneater – Hall And Oates
20 Jolene – Dolly Parton
21 Rich Girl – Hall And Oates
22 Lucille – Kenny Rogers
23 Rio – Duran Duran
24 Bitch – Meredith Brooks
25 L.A. Woman – Billy Idol
26 Ah! Leah! – Donny Iris
27 American Woman – Lenny Kravitz
28 Billy Jean – Michael Jackson
29 Ruby Red Dress – Helen Reddy
30 Angie – Rolling Stones
31 Kentucky Woman – Neil Diamond
32 Delia’s Gone – Johnny Cash
33 Femme Fatale – Tom Tom Club
Joan Walsh says in regards to Andrew Sullivan: “It seems as if there’s a brand-new, very simple standard for when the private behavior of a public figure is news: when he or she writes something that makes enemies.”
No, that’s not a fair characterization of what Signorile or others said.
Your private behavior becomes newsworthy when that private behavior is at odds with your publicly expressed views, especially when those views, like Sullivan’s, critique and condemn in others the very sort of behavior that you are secretly practicing.
Practice what you preach, preach what you practice, and above all to thine ownself be true, and you’ll never end up in hot water with Michaelangelo Signorile.
I love Michelangelo Signorile. I wish I had a girlfriend just like him. Only she would be a girl, of course.
Bookmark Fluevog Shoes for future shopping post-paycheck.
Remember when you were a kid, and all of the sudden, for no apparent reason, you shot up several inches one summer? Like growth wasn’t a slow, glacial process but an abrupt one? Sort of like some of the theories on evolution that suggest mutations aren’t as gradual as we think. (A Cambrian Explosion, per Jim C.)
Although, when you look closely at the theories, the idea of a real ‘explosion’ is probably a misnomer:
The Cambrian explosion, or Cambrian radiation, was the relatively rapid appearance, around 542 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record.[1][2] This was accompanied by major diversification of other organisms.[note 1] Before about 580 million years ago,[note 2] most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies. Over the following 70 or 80 million years, the rate of evolution accelerated by an order of magnitude[note 3] and the diversity of life began to resemble that of today.[5] All present phyla appeared within the first 20 million years of the period,[6] with the exception of Bryozoa who made its earliest known appearance in the upper Cambrian.[7]
Thought I was smart enough not to say out loud to someone who suggested I go to hell:
I must already be there; where else would I meet you?”
Someday, I’m going to actually have a three-day weekend where I accomplish all the stuff I need to accomplish and yet still have time to relax and enjoy myself. I got a lot done, it’s true. However, the mountain of junk that’s still left to accomplish is threatening to tumble down around me. And I really have to learn to say no to people.
Boy, it has been a grand week of me bitching about things, hasn’t it? I just want to go home and sleep. But no; there’s too much to do.