I can't even click on the Bush link -- just reading that one sentence is making me grind my teeth.
After learning more about cephalopods, I gave up eating them.
Whereas I, semi-vegetarian though I be, learned more about cephalopods, specifically the giant squid, and thought,
Fuck it. They're terrifyingly cunning and it's blazingly obvious that they'll not only eat me if they get the chance, they'll PLOT about it first and rub their tentacles together afterwards, cackling with unsettlingly sentient evil glee. I am SO eating them first!!
I'm askeered this confession will now put me ON THE LIST for Corwood and bt, but I cannot tell a lie.
Interviewed by Canadian Press when she won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize, Jacobs said, "People really know themselves that the dark age is ahead. They're worried, and they haven't articulated it, but they feel it."
Uh-huh. Except I can semi-articulate it. I think.
cthulhu stew
The ingredient list sounds like this would be yummy.
Bah. No lunchtime cephalopods for me. I shall have to wait until dinner....
Jane Jacobs.
sad now. One of my heros.
I was unfamiliar with her name, but after reading the obit I realize her writings on suburbia have really (indirectly) influenced me.
I'm askeered this confession will now put me ON THE LIST for Corwood and bt, but I cannot tell a lie.
That's one of the best reasons I've ever read to eat squid et al. However, I, for one, welcome our new spineless, many-tentacled overlords.
Tomorrow is Secretary's Day.
FYI.
Just because I'm not YOUR secretary doesn't mean you don't have to send me gifts. Nothing in the rules says I have to be YOUR secretary to receive chocolates and flowers.
I'm still waiting for my Administrative Professionals Day gifts. Never. Ever. Got. One.
