hrm, perhaps i'll get pooky some real estate for his birthday...real estate on the moon, that is...

ice cream headache explained here (or here - or even here if ya like lots of big medical words) - of course, if adam hadn't had 3 bowls of ice cream in 2 minutes at the chinese buffet, perhaps it wouldn't have happened... ;-)

'tis becoming a regular occurence - dinner with the bro on thurs or fri nite...very cool. *8-)

hrmm....iblist.com is supposed to be the imdb for books...hafta check it out later...

been checking out some culture jamming websites this evening...

here's the culture jammer's encyclopedia to get ya started...

and then there's other stuff like:

Make your own Bush speech!

Terrorists are everywhere!

For the SUV owners out there...

VNS...it's getting even more real - Monday, March 17th at 11:15am!!! Hafta get there 2 hours early tho - what's up with that, is goin to the hospital like getting through the airport nowadays or something? It don't take me 2 hours to get nekkid and go to sleep...*8-)

i've got a good feeling about this - i think it'll do me good.

Speak & Spell!

ya know, i was wondering what the hell they were talking about here at work the other day, with the discussion of cunnilingus...er, nope, it was Colonel Angus!

wow - How to make fire with a block of ice!

more info on the Vagus Nerve Stimulator...

and answers to some frequently asked questions...

the patient's manual from the manufacturer...

ahhhh, the drunken blog...all is good with the world right now - i'm TANKED. well, i've sobered up a bit, the boys made me have breakfast with 'em at Peppy's, but i'm feelin no pain right now...

after mah-jongg, i went dancing with the boys...even met a woman, and encouraged her to dance - lil wallflower ME did that...dunno if janet will actually give me a call, but oh well...at least i'm getting out there...and it was fun to dance my ass off...i'm exhausted, but it feels soooo good...

let's just PRAY TO GOD that all will be good when i wake up...it just occured to me that the doc says no aspirin or tylenol - this could gonna be one BITCH of a hangover...

woo hoo! Mah-Jongg night! finally, a saturday when we weren't snowed in, or the boys had something else planned, or somebody was feeling ill...

had chinese food for dinner - my fortune cookie was AMAZING - "Culture and customs of China attract you." - woah! in a fortune cookie! on mah-jongg night! what are the odds?!?!?

now i'm waiting on the boys to go home and get gussied up and then we're going to Talbott Street for drinking & dancing...woo hoo!

so, yesterday was the visit to the neurosurgeon, for the consultation about the Vagus Nerve Stimulator...

i dragged mom along to my appointment, cuz i knew she'd have a bazillion questions and i have a tendency to forget everything i wanna ask about when i get into a doctor's office...

so the nurse leads us into an exam room...right off the bat i'm thinking this is some sort of neuro test - the chairs are itty bitty, the cabinets are really short...well, just so happens they put me in a pediatric exam room! it's not a test checking for micropsia and/or macropsia (the symptoms Lewis Carroll had that appeared for form a basis for events in Alice In Wonderland) - it just so happened that the room they had open was intended for small children to visit.

so the doc walks in and promptly drops my file, sending papers scattering everywhere...he made a comment about being so clumsy and we said perhaps that wasn't too good for a neurosurgeon - we all had a good laugh.

he takes a look at my big list of medicines and tells me i'll need to stop taking the aspirin (the eye doc prescribes that) and the naproxen that i take for the carpal tunnel for two weeks prior to surgery - the anti-coagulant properties aren't really good to have in yer system when you're heading in to surgery, we don't need to have any extra bleeding going on there...so i ask him when to stop taking them, he tells me to go ahead and stop taking them now!! eeek - the surgery could be in two weeks!!! all along it's been a distant thing - last year dr. mohan, the neurologist, sent me home with a video and told me to think about it...then in january i met with a guy from the company that manufactures the VNS...the neuro calls the neurosurgeon for a consult, now VIOLA! in two or three weeks!

so he explained where they'd be cutting me (one incision in my neck, one on my upper chest, near my armpit) and that i'd be out of the hospital that day - won't even need to stay in for observation, as i'd read some other patients have had to do...shouldn't miss any work or anything (unless they schedule the surgery for a work day, of course). the scars shouldn't be too big and i'll still be able to wear my bikinis and tube tops, as well as make that last ditch effort for the Miss America crown... ;-)

i'm excited about it - mom's freaked. she says it's too soon. i don't think so, we just didn't expect it to get scheduled during THIS appointment. so now i just wait for them to call and tell me when and where i'll be getting carved up. the surgeon puts it in, but it's not turned on and programmed till i go back to the neurologist a couple of weeks later. the main risk after the surgery is of infection, but i should be fine & dandy...

woo hoo!

well, if i HAD an instrument lying around, i'd donate it...IPS has a shortage of musical instruments, and you can donate yours to "Band Together"...so do it...

statements of the obvious, brought to you this week by State Farm Insurance spokesman Joe Johnson: "A nuclear event has the potential to threaten the financial security of an insurance company," he said. "Obviously nuclear activity could really threaten any ability to pay our claims in the future."

errrr, if a nuclear bomb hits my Saturn, well then...guess i'll hafta get that nuclear war inclusion on whatever insurance i have so it'll be covered...

this video of Nashvillians driving is a hoot!

cool - a pig latin generator!

and now, Carbonated Beverages in the news....

"PepsiCo said it will launch Mountain Dew LiveWire, a new orange-flavored Mountain Dew, to be available across the United States only through the summer.

Starting in the late spring, Sprite Remix will initially be sold in 20-ounce bottles, with additional package sizes available later in the spring and summer, Atlanta-based Coca-Cola said."

the Liberal Arts Mafia - Stop Bush! Stop the War!

i'm setting the VCR!!!! next month, on game show network, it's “BIG BUCKS: THE PRESS YOUR LUCK SCANDAL” - maybe that bill murray movie about it didn't pan out...

how cool - The Art-o-Mat - buy art from a vending machine!

awww shit...bancomicsans led me to dafont.com - time to download some new fonts!!!

while i don't think i'd necessarily agree with banning comic sans completely, the people at bancomicsans.com have a point, i suppose...

hmmm - stickergiant.com - might hafta make a purchase, they've got lots of good ones!

useful link! - through sunday, you can go to this story about carfax reports, click on the little box in the article to get a FREE report - not just the freebie basic info either, the full report that usually costs 15 bucks...

interesting, my car was first purchased (i'm the 2nd owner) in missouri - wonder how it ended up here in indy....

a guilty pleasure of mine is "reality" shows...tonite was the 2nd episode of the new season of survivor: the amazon and i must say, it's different from previous seasons...

the whole girls vs. boys thing is an interesting twist, but i was worried in the first episode - these chicks are STUPID...as far as survival skills go, at least...let's take the drinking water and use it to wash our underwear - er, excuse me? if clean laundry is that important to ya, perhaps the amazon isn't where you should be...and their whole laziness thing and refusal to get a shelter built - ugh, when they got pissed at christy for suggesting they get to work on it, i couldn't believe it...

christy - she's the shit - and it REALLY pisses me off that she gets treated like crap because she's the "disabled" one...tonight's reward challenge involved all the tribe members being blindfolded except for one that was the guide, telling everyone where to find pieces to a puzzle - the girls tribe had one more member than the boys, so automatically they made christy sit out...that was just flat-out WRONG, in my oh so humble opinion...yeah, blindfolding her was obviously not a good idea, but was there any reason whatsoever that she couldn't have been the guide, telling everyone where to go? don't think so. i think some of her tribemates just find it easy to write her off and ignore because she's deaf...when in fact THEY are the ones that are disabled...oh, and when joanna went off on christy, ooh, that just irked me...joanna gets my vote for next one outta the jungle - i'm all for the strong black woman character they seem to think is mandatory (like ghandia last year) - but joanna's just a flat-out bitch!

i'm rooting for christy all the way - KICK SOME ASS girl!

how fuckin lazy do ya hafta be that you can't put salt and pepper on your food individually?

spepper seems like a stupid idea to me - generally, i use differing amounts of each on whatever food i'm eating...

so, ya buy yer spepper - then do ya put it in a salt shaker or a pepper shaker? and what do ya do with that leftover shaker now?

not for those with weak stomachs (well, not for any stomachs, actually) - it's THE BREAKFAST FROM HELL!!

my favorite fark headline of the day: "Carrie-Anne Moss is pregnant. Must have gone off the red pill"

everybody's talking about the johnny cash song "hurt" - what's amusing is that it's actually a cover - it's a song by nine inch nails...

happy birthday Amy Tan! the movie adaptation of her first book, The Joy Luck Club, is the only thing most people have as far as a knowledge of real mahjongg (the crappy tile matching game people play on the puter is NOT mahjongg!!!!)

hey - check out these nice tits!

"I have a dream that a guy who designs popup ads is having a major colonoscopy, and the proctologist is saying, 'It's the darnedest thing! Every time I snip a polyp, two more spring up in its place!'" - Dave Barry

i think Dave Barry's blog entry summed up the Joe Millionaire Finale very well:

FINAL JOE MILLIONAIRE UPDATE
In case you missed it, here's a transcript of the climactic two-hour episode last night:
"I, uh, there's, uh, two things, uh…"
Commercial
"I thought, uh, we, uh, really, uh…"
Commercial
"Uh…"
Commercial
"Uh…"
Commercial
Commercial
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Without question the oratorical highlight was when Evan, in a complete sentence, made the following statement to Zora, apparently to explain why he had selected her (I am not making this statement up):

"The horseback riding was God-given."

The Surprise Twist Ending That Will Have All America Talking was so shocking and unexpected that I can barely type the words: They got money. Yes! On a TV show!
posted by Dave 9:08 AM

google bought blogger - should we be scared? prolly not - they're 2 of my fave websites...but who knows...hope it works out...

hmmm....Years of fries, nary a burger flipped...33 years of working at McDonalds and she has never had a Big Mac - think she knows something the rest of us don't? the real "special sauce", perhaps?

the scariest part of this article is the guy that eats there 3 times a day and will buy food the day before holidays that McD's is closed so he can still have it - day-old reheated mcd's? ugh!!!

welp, that was quick - meeting up with the neurosurgeon on feb 28...

http://www.dancecube.de/index.php?category=news&action=showArticle&Article_ID=75346

guess it's time to brush up on the german...oh wait, i never knew german....

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dancecube.de%2Findex.php%3Fcategory%3Dnews%26action%3DshowArticle%26Article_ID%3D75346%26ContextCategory_ID%3D1%26ContextKeyword%3DNaptown%2520Renegade

heh heh heh...

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better not send rice to the white house - they'll think it's anthrax...so how about clams for peace?

check out the 1337 to English Translator - never can figure out that jibberish myself...

NEWSFLASH! check out Bush's REAL State of the Union Address...

it'd probably be even funnier if it weren't so damned close to the truth...

interesting - Researchers Find It's Easy to Plant False Memories in Minds of Some People

"More than a third of subjects...recalled that theme-park moment [of meeting Bugs Bunny at Disneyland] - impossible because Bugs is not a Disney character - after a researcher planted the false memory. Other research, of people who believed they were abducted by space aliens, shows that even false memories can be as intensely felt as those of real-life victims of war and other violence."

'tis amazing what the brain can do...

hrmmm....robin's also Lisa on the angelina jolie quiz and a Banana on the fruit quiz...she says that makes us "Banana, Interrupted" - *rofl*

Which Angelina Jolie are you? Find out!

Strawberry: 20/100 Pear: 0/100 Banana: 60/100 Tomato: 20/100 Lemon: 15/100

Take the What Fruit Are You? test by Ellen and Aaron!

which stereotype are you?

here are a few links for robin - can't email her since she cancelled her home acct, and somehow i don't think she'd like these sent to work...

hey robin, check ebay! you can buy your very own ice cream store!!!

and from fark - pix of nekkid men, weeners included...

BOCHUM, Germany -- Are you a lefty or a righty -- kisser that is? A German psychologist in Bochum, Germany, claims most people prefer to tilt their head to the right when they kiss. More revealing is that he claims the preference is developed in the womb and probably lasts a lifetime.

i know there's a trick to how this thing works, but damned if i can't remember what it is...

just in time for valentine's - Urban Legends Reference Pages: Love

hrmmmm....

presenting, your terrorist attack grocery list:

A three-day supply of water - they say a gallon a day, per person...
Non-perishable, nutrient-rich foods - bring on the PB&J! and don't forget that old fashioned can opener!
3 days worth of prescription medications and/or baby supplies
Plastic sheeting and duct tape - gotta seal up them doors and windows if it's a biological attack...
Lots of batteries and flashlights, and a battery operated radio/tv - the storm last year made it abundantly clear how important this stuff is...

is it just paranoia that causes the glut of articles about this stuff these days, or is this stuff really going to be a necessity...only time will tell...

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heh heh heh...a pc girl in "real life", but still a mac girl at heart...

You Are Fries. you're usually confused and
complicated. You have no clue where you are,
after all you came from an ugly potatoe, got
cut up and deep fried. Confused, but unique.


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hootiehoot! check out this Hooters Calendar!

my new favorite TV show: "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!" - yup, that' s the name of the show...they've debunked alternative medicine, psychics, and ufo's in the shows thus far...the alternative medicine was a trip - they had a guy in the mall, giving free "snail mucus facials" to cure wrinkles - people had these slimy snails crawling all over their faces, then afterwards they swore up and down that their wrinkles were gone and they'd pay 25 bucks for that sort of thing at a spa...alrighty...of course, in this country Penn & Teller have no need to worry about running out of material - this place is full of bullshit!

so, the Mutual Friends CD Mix Mixer was a success! There were 8 (or was it 9) of us, everyone bringing a mix of fave tunes to the Abbey and hanging out and chatting about music and stuff and thangs...very cool - it's gonna be a somewhat regular occurance, i'm thinking every other month, or quarterly perhaps...

now i've got all sorts of cool music to listen to!

Happy 59th Birthday Alice Walker!

mom tells me us queers don't have a monopoly on rainbows...she tells me this cuz i mentioned the queer name tags i found at office max - big ol rainbow graphic - in the teacher's school supplies section... apparently other people are allowed to use rainbows! damned straight people!!! ;-)

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i cum in peace!

the Fort Wayne Museum of Art is exhibiting some Picasso stuff...the Fort Wayne Museum of Art?!?

well, decided to go with the Indiana Arts Trust license plate - we could certainly use more art and culture 'round these parts...besides, the mental health people weren't ever around to take my phone calls with questions...perhaps next year i'll just go with a personalized plate - suppose BIG DYKE is taken? ;-)

interesting article on slate about the whole specialty plate issue...

just shut up and do it already - http://www.patriotsforpeace.org/

dammit, it looked like a good mix on paper, but it's not flowing, and my attempts to change it aren't making it any better....argh...

saturday's the mutual friends music mix mixer - looks like there'll be about 8 of us swapping CD's at the abbey...

i'm refining my mix since i'm not totally happy with the first one i burned...figured i'd make it easy and do favorite songs to favorite soundtracks to favorite movies...now i'm finding more songs that should be added, and that the first mix i burned just didn't quite flow very well, so i need to take some tracks out...this may have to be a series of discs...hell, i've already made one disc of nothing but tunes from john hughes movies, and even that one didn't have em all...

Pooky's famous! er, well, he and codi got their names in the paper, at least...

the death clock tells me i'll die on Monday, September 14, 2026 - meaning i have less than 744,856,800 seconds to live...hrmmmmm....well, that's the pessimistic outlook, at least....optimistically, i'm looking at 1,956,088,278 seconds, til Saturday, January 31, 2065....

dale will be so proud!

the mail today brought me The Hunt a dvd about the university of chicago scavenger hunt, which happens to be the largest scavenger hunt in the world...perhaps it'll give some insights as to creating a spiffy hunt here in indy...

'tis amazing what's on the web...case in point: Giant Dildos

"When you try to guess what's going on inside their minds, it's dark and it's cavernous in there." - David E. Kelley, referring to the evil bastard network execs that moved "The Practice" from its Sunday night slot...granted, i work sunday nights, but i've gotten into the habit of taping it and watching it when i get home...gonna be harder to do now that it's on monday night, up against another fave, Joe Millionaire....why do the networks do shit like this that alienates viewers?!?!?

and now, a joke from the Bob & Tom website:

Q - What did George Washington say to his men just before they got on the boat?
A - Men, get on the boat.

hahahahaha, i just love dumbass jokes like that one!

Happy Groundhog Day!

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Happy Groundhog Day!

space shuttle Columbia exploded this morning - 17 years to the week of the Challenger explosion...doesn't seem that long ago - i was in 8th grade...

it seems kind of weird to hear the news calling these people heroes though - i mean, they were in a terrible accident, but does that mean they should instantly achieve hero status? i don't think too many people were aware that Columbia was even in space now - it's not news when they lift off, just when something goes wrong...it all just leaves me with an uneasy feeling...*shrug*

wow...there's a MUSEUM for squished pennies!

has your website been pornolized yet? run it through their website and it'll make it all sorts of pornographic!! totally immature, and totally hysterical too! running the ol' work website through it is rather amusing - we now feature Manufactured "Sniff-my-Ass" Housing, Real "Up the Arse" Estate, Roadside "Hard-on" Assistance (hrmmmm!), Progressive "Asshole" Insurance (lots of progressive assholes around that place, it's logical they'd need insurance!), and Extended Blows (is there any better kind?!?)...

cool! dave barry's blogging now!

Go bro! that brother o mine is holding the #1 and #3 positions on the Satellite Records charts...

happy 171st birthday to fellow epileptic Lewis Carroll - they say the stuff that happened to Alice in Wonderland was probably inspired by temporal lobe seizures, to which i can definitely relate...

oh god, this is PURE EVIL - i LOVE it - http://www.cnn.com@66.111.43.11/reports/

go Janeane!

"You can't force people to cast you or become younger or more popular. What I do have is control over my mind, my life and my participation in current events. I won't stick my head in the sand and have history roll right over me. I refuse to allow my government and the mainstream media to bully me into accepting a war that is immoral and illegal. If it means people make fun of me or think I'm a jerk, or I lose a job here and there, that means nothing to me."

interesting news...apparently, Macaulay Culkin is corrupting Marilyn Manson - he had to teach him how to smoke...Virginia Slims, no less...

i think i'd make a good daddy to this baby...



well, if the mommy were included, that is... ;-)

yup, me & angelina and little maddox...what a cute little family we could be... *8-)

hrmmm....Libraries Can't Afford New Potter Books...so budget cuts force libraries to decide - do we get 500 copies of the book every kid (and quite a few grownups) wants to read, or do we cut that number so that we can buy the other stuff that needs to be accessible in a library? tough call...

argh, i've been too busy lately to read/view the stuff i've checked out from the library lately, so i'm gonna hafta return it and reserve it another time cuz they won't let me renew em - guess someone else that actually has some spare time wants to watch/read em....

i got a couple of DVD's:
Shadow of the vampire
The cat's meow
both cuz they have Eddie Izzard in 'em - i started to watch shadow of the vampire but got turned off cuz it has subtitles...well duh, it's about a guy that does silent films...still interested, just hafta watch it when i'm not lying around in bed looking for something to watch...

bookwise, i got:
The lion of Wall Street : the two lives of Jack Dreyfus - the dude's a nut, but i suppose it's good to know this stuff...
Oh, the things I know! : a guide to success, or, failing that, happiness - by Al Franken
Posters American style - looked interesting, i just don't have time....
When you ride alone you ride with bin Laden : what the government should be telling us to help fight the War on Terrorism - by Bill Maher...this one is very interesting, i've read it already but want to read it again - perhaps i'll actually buy it...

now i think all this Harry Potter marketing's gone a bit too far! now they've even got HP ecstasy!

(reposting this, with the CORRECT links this time...*8-))

the licence plate on my car expires Feb 15 - thinking about getting one of them fancy shmancy plates this year...too late to get a Vanity Plate (THE PDD, perhaps?) but i could get one where the fees go to a good cause...


Breast Cancer?


Gleaners Food Bank?


Indiana Mental Health Trust?


Indiana Literacy Foundation?

there's also one for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, but they haven't posted artwork for it yet...

those above take extra effort to send money & an application directly to the organization - easier options include:


Indiana Children's Trust?


Indiana Education?


Indiana Arts Trust?

decisions decisions....

one of my fave columnists, dave barry, has a few things to say about us hoosiers in a recent column...

"...Unfortunately, I managed to get a batch of Hoosiers very upset recently, when I wrote a column about which is the stupidest state.

For the record, I did NOT say that Indiana is the stupidest state. I believe that many states, including mine, are stupider than Indiana. What I did say -- and I now realize that I was wrong -- was that ''Hoosier'' is a stupid nickname. My argument was that nobody seemed to know what a ''Hoosier'' is, so why would you go around calling yourself one? I stated that, for all we know, ''Hoosier'' could be a Native American word for ``has sex with caribou.''...

Mocha Mousse Cake from The Abbey - YUMMMMM!! got outta work early this evening, so i figured i'd drop by the abbey to say hey to pooky - he made me a kick-ass burrito and sent me home with coffee and dessert for momma...not sure if it's the girlfriend or the antidepressants or both, but he's definitely a much happier, emotional guy nowadays...i could learn a lesson or two from him, i suppose...

got a huge list of things to accomplish this weekend, and i'm gonna try to get as much done as possible...

Sue Johanson was on Conan today (well, Comedy Central's repeat, that is) - never heard of her, i guess she's got a show on Oxygen - too bad we don't get that cable channel...'twas rather amusing seeing this little ol lady strap a dildo onto her chin and demonstrate to Conan, Tom Selleck, and some big wrestler guy...

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errr...not quite...but okay...

that "Sanctity of Human Life Day" shit really got under my skin...so i've entered this:



into a fark photoshop contest where the theme was "Cards That Hallmark Doesn't Make."

oh yeah, forgot to mention - my hair's not brown anymore. *8-) codi helped me with a new dye job - the result was not what we'd intended, but i think i'm glad it turned out the way it did...maybe some other time i'll go blond, as was the plan for this weekend...

so, sunday is the dubya-sanctioned "Sanctity of Human Life Day" - ugh, the irony there's enough to make me puke...

Bea Arthur Sighting!



She's supporting West Hollywood's ban on declawing cats...guess Betty White isn't the only one of the Golden Girls that's an animal activist...

i must say, i think it's a good idea - to do away with declawing...er, excuse me, would you mind terribly if i ripped off your fingernails and cut your fingers down to the first joint? didn't think so, so why is it okay to do that to a cat? sorry, i guess your couch not getting scratched up IS more important...