May 2009
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DIY TDL
Rewire a thrift store lamp
Paint a laminate sideboard
Turn mini blinds into shades
Paint kitchen cabinets
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Ric Romero howls at the moon... →
ABC news with a hard hitting piece about wolf shirts, and how ironic they are. Charles Gibson’s face betrays not a trace of interest, despite the fact that his middle name is deWolf. Seriously. Also, that’s a pretty sweet shirt. Too bad it’s not, you know, five years ago.
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it seems like the main allure of twitter is watching celebrities chat with each other. it’s like yet another jackhammer* to the golden wall that once separated us mere mortals from the rich, famous and beautiful. they’re just like us! yes, just as vain, inane and insane. and boring. mostly boring.
*other powertools include photos of celebrities in bathing suits/without makeup, and...
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every time i clean up my house, i find records i never knew i had. the latest? numbers from the beast - an all star salute to iron maiden. the trooper, as sung by lemmy? hell yeah!
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04. Attend the World Beard and Mustache Championships.
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“i knew this day would come. i guess i missed the locusts and hellfire somehow.”
– tyrockasaurus
everyone thinks i’m some kinda luddite, just because i think facebook is the scourge of the earth. you know me better than that, missy! man, i was social networking before this shit had a name. careful, tho’… i think there’s a locust behind you.
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i know i’ve lost the respect of many of my peers for signing up for a twitter account. really, i only did so in order to follow shooter jennings through my tumblr. sad, right?
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“And the Facebook photo privacy issues continue…http://bit.ly/kq9jZ”
– moisteph
not a surprise to me, they say so in their eula.
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things that are on my mind:
contractors estimates, and why they won’t land in my inbox.
the number and variety of skulls still left to be cracked.
how a rodent the size of squashed penny is somehow smarter than me.
easy solutions, and how impossible they are.
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bands i was wrong about:
kiss
warrant
cheap trick
right under my nose...
i’m a bit of a design nerd, and pride myself in recognizing and knowing the value of things that other people might take for granted as just another chair, or just another set of dishes or whatnot. the fact that i came thisclose to giving away for free what turns out to be a highly collectible piece of furniture from the 1960s worth more than my monthly rent payment… well,...
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Hot damn! →
Not only did my Apartment Therapy question get posted, but the help is pouring in… with a minimum of snark, too!
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“I wear black because I can’t find anything darker.”
– seen on the tshirt of a woman of somewhat advanced age.
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i can’t wait to move. not that i particularly want to get out of here that quickly, or get in there necessarily that soon… mostly i just want to move to close the chapter on a fresh start.
about a year ago i started an almost complete overhaul of my way of life, spurred on by changes to my lifestyle that were beyond my control, and inspired by a handful of yuppie-friendly blogs that i...
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the new slave class.
me: you're 22!
me: it's not normal to have babies and a family within like, a couple of years of where you are.
him: as scary as it sounds I know people my age doing just that
me: oh i know.
him: and it is FUCKED up like you wouldnt believe
me: oh, i believe.
me: in fact, i believe much of what's ruining the united states right now is really young people getting married and starting families.
me: it used to be what created strong, hardy, ambitious people.
me: now it's just starting a new slave class.
him: I wonder where the disconnect occured I wonder
him: since like...our parents were pretty young too
him: at least mine were
me: i guess... not mine.
me: i think the disconnect has to do with how far from starvation you've been.
me: like, our grandparents knew what it meant to go hungry.
him: true
him: well frankly its because there was no fucking around back then...if you didnt know your shit you fucking died....all these advances in technology and social thought? all they really allow people to do fuck around longer
me: yeah, that's true.
him: our grandparents got young and started families you since it was not in any way guaranteed that there would be a "later' at all
him: time meant SO MUCH more then than it does today
me: because we have the luxury of sitting around navel gazing.
me: yes, and sociologically, that's proven true.
me: the less stable a society, and the less safe-feeling its people, the younger its average age of procreation.
me: interestingly, the us is on par with some of the shittiest, least developed countries on earth in terms of teen pregnancies.
me: the biological underpinning of that is "if you think yr gonna die, you feel the compunction to spread yr genes".
him: I'm unsure its even that complex
him: in our grandparent's time that was certainly the case
him: however, I would argue many if not most teen pregnancies both in the us and abroad are due to lack of education
me: that's definitely part of it.
me: hoooowever...
me: i believe it's intentional.
me: it's not so much that they don't teach sex ed because right wingers think it's immoral...
him: not all the time, but yes that is true
me: it's a trickle down from certain right wingers who KNOW that if a mcdonald's working teen has a kid, that teen AND its kid will be working at mcdonald's until the day they die, freeing up resources and jobs for people up the pyramid.
me: the fattest, sickest, poorest, dumbest segment of the american population is also the fastest growing.
me: these people work 90 hour weeks at shitty, unsafe jobs, eat garbage, and (theoretically) die early.
him: ohhh I see what your saying
him: hmmmmmm
me: new slave class.
him: veeeeery interesting theory
him: the rich NEED the poor
me: oh YEAH.
me: of course.
me: look at the past couple of decades...
me: there has been no income/wealth growth across the board.
me: no, the rich have gotten ASTRONOMICALLY richer in the past 20 years.
me: by the same token, the poor have gotten waaay poorer.
me: also, there are now more people who are considered poor.
me: the rich need the poor because the poor enable the rich to get richer.
me: labour is the most expensive aspect of running a business, right?
me: well, you can only cut labour to a point.
me: but shareholders expect increases EVERY YEAR, even on products that are totally stable, and can't necessarily show growth.
me: so what do you do/
me: ?
me: you save on labour some way or another.
me: offshoring everything works to a point.
me: over time, tho', with a population desperate for jobs, they'll be taking on ever shittier wages and condtions, just grateful to have a job.
me: new slave class.
me: it's coming.
him: interesting theory
him: veeeeery interesting
me: and heartbreaking.
me: i should put this out there in some definite form.
me: i've hinted at it before, but i should put it outright.
me: y'ever read my sarah palin blog?
him: noope
me: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=13715859&blogId=430031646
me: this fits into my theory.
me: it's about how the lie is sold.
me: the new american dream, refit to sucker in the new slave class.
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things that are on my mind:
naps.
new simpsons episode imminently.
being too weak to do my own diy.
absinthe beer.
the “animal instant”.
2D barcodes.
moving day.
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phantosmia:
here’s a fun new word i learned today… it means “olfactory hallucination”. now for a sophie’s choice - would you rather:
a) live in a building where the wiring was possibly shorting out in the walls, unbeknownst to you, or
b) be suffering from a condition normally caused by infections, head injuries, hormonal imbalances, dental problems, or brain tumors, among...
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Peacock Hill →
I never thought I’d say this, but this is what goth-y interior design looks like when it’s done right. Maybe it’s all those hours I used to spend watching the Addams Family growing up, but it’s nice to see something straying from the same stale rock’n’roll red’n’black. I gotta get my hands of the full, legible scan of this article…
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