stuff to read later, after i get a bit o' sleep...

http://www.thismodernworld.com/
http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/
http://www.nowarblog.org/
http://michaelmoore.com/index.php

i just love molly ivins - she's good at putting into words the sort of things i think about politics - from a recent article:

My, what fun we are having this festive fall campaign season. Ads running coast to coast informing us that if the other guy wins the election, pestilence will fall upon the land, weevils will eat the corn, our children will be sacrificed to Baal, and we'll all be afflicted with piles. It makes me miss the warm, positive, upbeat, people-loving candidates of yesteryear. Like Richard Nixon.

Tough times for those of us who are just little rays of sunshine all the damn time. I was trying to think of a single area where the country appears to be headed in the right direction.

The economy? Flop. Health care? Disaster. Homeland security? The director of the CIA says we're about to be attacked again. Foreign policy? Even our allies are starting to hate us. The environment? Please.

Meanwhile, our only president continues to insist that we need to go bomb Iraq, as he so lucidly explained the other day, "for the sake of peace." We once had a war to end war, but we've never actually tried a war for peace before.

saw a couple of movies today - went and saw Punch-Drunk Love, the adam sandler movie that's not really an adam sandler movie, it's a paul thomas anderson (of boogie nights and magnolia fame) movie...weird, but good...i won't give it the rave review that roger ebert did, but it was enjoyable...

after Punch-Drunk Love, i made it a double feature and snuck into The Ring, which had just started...it was okay, but not as creepy as i expected it to be...

the previews before Punch-Drunk Love showed some good movies coming up...About Schmidt (with Jack Nicholson) and Catch Me If You Can (with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, directed by Steven Spielberg)...

hrmmmm....the nonsense generator - isn't that all of the internet?

invasion of the goofy online tests!!







What's your claim to fame?

guess all the soda/pop/carbonated beverage companies are jumping on that put out a new drink bandwagon...7UP is putting out dnL, saying it's 7up flipped...it's caffeinated, colored, fruity tasting...are they trying to be a new mountain dew? i like the flipit logo, very cute - if you flip it upside down, it still reads flip it - ooooh!

doesn't look like they've got a diet version out yet, but perhaps in the near future....

i tried the diet vanilla coke a while back and was thoroughly unimpressed...

diet code red mountain dew totally rocks though! i go back & forth between it and regular diet dew as my fave drink...

not interested in the red fusion that dr. pepper's put out - can't stand dr. pepper...blech!

and there you have it - my views on pop...*8-)

You're loyal to your friends and family. You try not to let people know when you don't like them, because you try you best to treat everyone equally. You're not a leader, you tend to follow orders and respect those who tell you what to do. You're smart and a quick thinker. You take life as its handed to you, and try to make the best of it. You're constantly surrounded by friends and family, and you're a respectable person.

happy halloween!!! *8-)

no big plans for me tonight, just staying home and passing out candy - don't get to do that too often, being a night shifter...luckily, this year halloween falls on one of my nites off...

ahhh, winter...the epic work slowdown...we've run out of work with 6+ hours left in the shift...so, let the netsurfing begin!

thanks for this link, cristella! - http://www.dictionaraoke.org/

ready to poke the doughboy? - http://www.whoohoo.net/poke/index.htm

*8-)

interesting article re: Halloween - "And forget those Transylvanian villagers and superstitious medieval peasants -- Halloween is as American as the Fourth of July."

ever wonder how various celebrities (like cybill shepherd) lost their virginity? well, me neither, but it's something to read on a boring sunday afternoon...

What
lesser-known Simpsons character are you?

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"insluting others" - ha! slight typo there...*grin*

What
cartoon dog are you?

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hrm - seems that sacwriters.com needs a spell-check and assistance in writing their code properly (i had to fix it so the graphic would properly show up), but other than that...i guess i'd agree with the charming and loveable bit...*smirk*