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http://twitter.com/gknauss/status/25238527478341633

Greg Knauss: 'If crimes "begin and end with the criminals who commit them," I think Sarah Palin just endorsed a mosque near Ground Zero.'

So, browngirl posted the following meme, which she got from whuffle:
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As I said on the way out of the TSO concert this evening:

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is to music what Thomas Kinkade is to artwork: they've got talent, but you've gotta wade through ten pounds of sizzle to reach one pound of steak.

Well played, Giants.

I expect this series to be anything but boring.

Bene.

I followed a link to this discussion recently:

http://www.fluentself.com/blog/stuff/bolivia/

...and you know, I think there may be more than one layer to that conversation.

My comment to it is here:

http://www.fluentself.com/blog/stuff/bolivia/#comment-24248

Feel free to jump in if it piques your interest.
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I'm still in prize timeout with this station, and so can't win their photo caption contest:

http://vydra.kdge.com/pages/new.html?feed=401050&article=7642564

That won't stop me from entering anyway, and inflicting my proposal on you poor folks:
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Rachal woke me up Thursday night after midnight, and told me she thought there was a huge dog who wanted in, just outside our door. Our second floor door. I figured that she was dreaming, but we both try to humor each other, so I made a show of looking through the peephole (seeing nothing), then throwing open the door...

...and jumping to block the lunk of a barrel of a horse of a dog that tried to amble in.
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I almost pissed away a couple of hundred dollars from a radio contest today.

Like this:
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I think this is the third time in two years that my boss has changed the method of my compensation. I am now paid a flat percentage of whatever my company makes. This may eventually lead to an increase in my net take-home, but all the door-knocking I've done lately hasn't yet caught up. Bread cast on the waters, and all that.

I don't blame my boss; he's trying to keep the doors open, and lately almost every dollar the company took in went to pay my hourly totals. Now, at least, he'll be able to pay himself something...

So again, please lemme know if you need anything printed, even if you're nowhere near Dallas. I might be able to ship things to you for a total cheaper than you can buy locally.

On the plus side, Rachal has been more able to go oot and aboot to various social functions, and since we've been generously patronized by this neighbor or that radio station, in the last few weeks we've seen:

- the Killdares at the Dallas Arboretum
- Straight No Chaser at SMU
- the dinner show at Medieval Times (*)

...and we plan to go, before the end of the month, to Scarborough Faire. And later to see Lilith Fair, and also, uh, Jackson Browne Fare.

On the negative side, Rachal may have started sleep-shopping. Again. I suspect she and I will be negotiating policy changes in the near future; I will post more as that develops, depending on her comfort level.



(*) I'm about Medieval-Timesed out for this year, but the next time I acquire tickets to that joint, I think I'm gonna hack the show. The Green Knight is always the bad guy, and roundly booed throughout dinner, and I'd like to stealthily be seated in one of the other knights' sections -- only to jump up at an opportune moment, waving pro-Green flags and tearing open my shirt to reveal a pro-Green slogan shaved into my chest hair. Throwing a huge pair of boxer shorts with little red hearts on them into the sand pit would probably get me kicked out, but I'm okay with that if I've finished my royal dessert pastry.