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Links, with commentary
Target has been posting these hilarious signs and flyers entitled "A Public Apology to the People of Boston":
It has recently come to our attention that, due to an unfortunate paper jam in our Minneapolis office, we neglected to open a Target store in your area ....
So - at last we're getting Target, a store beloved to my relatives in Louisiana (the joke there is to pronounce it French - Tar-ZHAY). A new retail outlet for me to malign and abuse, that's what I say. If we are to be drowned in excess consumerism, satire is my only way of making lemonade.
Oooh, that was a nice jumble of metaphors. Let's just cut to the links portion of our program now, shall we?
I saw Iron Chef for the first time last week, after hearing about it from bc for ages and ages. I'd write something about it, but I'll use the Kymm method and let other people say it better.
I read Never for a while, stopped for unreasonable reasons of my own; now I've started again and I'm sorry I stopped. Her site's called Noise now but it's still her. Here she is on the tribulations of airports.
Here's her comments on Weird Al. "Very handsome"? Never! Al was a freak, but he was that rare freak who looked better as a whole-hog freak - i.e. with the facial hair and the glasses - and should not have tried to beautify.
OK, OK, I have deep issues here. I admit it. Ignore the above comments. The problem is that Al (as he looks right now - see the pictures in his latest CD) is exactly what my nightmares have me looking like. Or they would, if I had nightmares like that. (I am almost always female when I dream.)
Finally, I cannot resist linking this entry simply because I am so amused that she'd worry even for an instant over what pronoun to use for me. Goodness! As I told the journal list, the rules are:
1. I don't really care all that much.
2. Columbine prefers to be "she."
3. If you feel uncomfortable calling Columbine "she," see rule 1.
In addition to Patrick helping Never with her pronouns, we must also now credit him with adding a new phrase to the escribitionist's lexicon. Both Diane and Jette made reference to this phrase. If you can't figure it out, maybe an entry of mine will help.
When I talked about the linemen making fun of me, I said "Women don't do this." It wasn't the first time I've said something like that, and it wasn't the first time I've gotten email suggesting that, no, what women do is in some ways worse. Mary Anne says it succinctly. Try the 16 July entry, some ways down this page.
This entry of Marc's isn't unusual for its revelation, but because it gave me some insight into his character that I didn't already have. After all these years, that's a fairly rare event. I've been to the house he mentions in this entry. I never saw it in its glory days, but every so often I can picture it the way he sees it, like superimposing a fresh photo over a faded one.
And, finally, of all the wonderful Iain entries I could have linked to, I picked this one. Go figure.
© Columbine
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