I think Use #2 of the laptop is going to be me crawling into bed with it and reading comics on it. Bliss.

Guess who has a coffee date? :)

The only people I want to google have frustratingly ungoogleable names. Or I don't know enough of the name.

However, I am the only result when you google me. Uncommon first AND last names.

still shivering over the strange man singing country songs (and talking about how he was raped by the LA County Sheriff) ON MY COUCH when I was 8.5 months pregnant

Dude. That is FUCKED UP.

I always answer my home phone, because there's like, three people that call it, and the rare telemarketers. But my cellphone has caller ID. I usually answer it anyway, but...

I wouldn't mind being used in anatomy class, but I'd like my organs to be donated if possible, so...I also think it would be cool to be a research body like in the Patricia Cornwell books, wehre they have a farm that they leave dead bodies in different places/temperatures to see how they look after however long...(Ah, Steph mentioned it, the Body Farm)

so it'd probably be wrong for me to pick on Hec, a very fine writer, just because he makes a little mistake that happens to be a pet peeve of mine, like, say, confusing a contraction with a possessive pronoun.

Homophones are not my friends.

I agree with Cindy's assessment that PP&M are like unto the rectum of a cat.

Go meara with the date-having!

I'm judging another writing contest. The two I've judged so far were challenging, because they were OK but just didn't quite come to life somehow, and I had to try to figure out WHY they didn't, explain it, and offer suggestions for improvement. Which probably helps me develop as a writer, tempting as it was to just write, "I dunno. Meh." and be done with it.

I didn't catch Hec's mistake. Yesterday, I attempted to google the guy I crushed on in hs. Have no idea which one he is! But it's silly...what would I say? "Now I would do more than stare at you." or "I'm less ugly than you(probably don't) remember, I swear!"

t A thread lurker pops up to defend folk music.

It's got pretty harmonies! Simple tunes you can sing along with!

I like to alternate my Weavers boxed set with the Cure or Big Pig--it clears out the folk palate with some serious new wave.

It's got pretty harmonies! Simple tunes you can sing along with!

All this can be achieved without snooty lefty-lib smuggery. Stick to Woody Guthrie - he had a sense of humor. Or Billy Bragg and Wilco covering Woody Guthrie. Weavers are okay. Peter Paul & Mary? No.

I still like the original Puff the Magic Dragon.

So there.

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PINELLAS PARK, Florida (CNN) -- The feeding tube for the brain-damaged Florida woman at the center of a bitter moral and legal tug of war was disconnected Friday afternoon, and her husband's lawyer pleaded, "She has a right to die in peace."

The dramatic moment seemed to cap an emotional day in which Terri Schiavo's husband, parents, the courts and members of Congress waded into the battle over the woman's fate.

But late Friday, lawyers for the House of Representatives filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to intervene in the case.

Terri Schiavo's guardian ad litem speaks.

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This is the guy who was appointed to be a neutral third party, to determine what Terri's interests, as opposed to Michael's or the parents', were.

It's well worth reading.

"I would beg her, `Please, Terri, help me,'" he said. "You want to believe there's some connection. You hope she's going to sit up and bed and say, `Hey, I'm really here, but don't tell anybody.' Or, `I'm really here, tell everybody!'"

But Schiavo never made eye contact. When Wolfson visited her when her parents were there, she never made eye contact with them either, he said. And for all of Wolfson's pleadings and coaxing, he never got what he most wanted: a sign.

"I felt like there was something distinctive about whoever Terri is," said Wolfson. "But I was not clear that it was there, inside the vessel."

Wolfson was dismayed to learn Friday that Barbara Weller, an attorney for the Schindlers, claimed that Schiavo tried to speak. "Terri does not speak," he said. "To claim otherwise reduces her to a fiction."

One thing Wolfson never doubted was that for all their intense, mutual antagonism, both Michael Schiavo and Terri's parents love and adore her.

She was cared for incredibly well, Wolfson said. Her hair was always combed, and after 15 years of being incapacitated, she never developed a bedsore. In fact, Wolfson said until about seven years ago, Michael Schiavo had Terry's makeup and hair done regularly, and her clothes changed every day - to the point that hospice staff protested that he was being overly demanding about her care.