Archive for October, 2003
Friday, October 31st, 2003
Revenge of the Schoolgirls
I’m not usually one to post links to current news stories, but this one is simply too priceless. Read about the group of Catholic school girls who pummeled the known sex offender who exposed himself to them. All I can say is, YES!
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Friday, October 31st, 2003
Our Impromptu Film Festival
Marn started it. She posted a photo of her satellite system’s program guide screen offering for the viewer’s pleasure, “Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.” In this cross-cultural little flick the holy carpenter apparently applies kung fu techniques to combat creatures of the night preying on lesbians. (No, neither one of us are making this up, it’s [...]
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Thursday, October 30th, 2003
The Pumpkin Heist
Yesterday I awakened to discover the theft of the 80 lb. pumpkin I’d placed on the front porch with a scarecrow and a wreath as fall decorations. The two lighter, less expensive items remained untouched but the $25 mammoth gourd was gone. Fearing the miscreants had simply shattered the pumpkin in the driveway I went [...]
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2003
The Sanctity of Leftovers
Should Homeland Security nail me on charges of running a bio-terrorism lab, I’ll just hold my hands out and take the bracelets without argument. When you live with someone who survived the Great Depression you confront a unique set of eccentricities. R., who will bitterly rail, at some length, about the penurious measures to which [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2003
If You Look For the Good, You Find It
What do you say on a morning when your first blog related task is banning a spammer’s IP address, deleting his Viagra ad from your comments, and grumbling while waiting for your rather large weblog to rebuild itself, cleansed of all performance enhancing hype? Oh, but wait, it was more fun than that; I got [...]
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Sunday, October 26th, 2003
A Phone Call, A Passing
Yesterday morning my cell phone rang early. When I answered I heard the voice of my oldest friend, B., the one who knows where I buried all the bodies and held the light for me a few times while I dug the holes. “Your mother called me this morning,” she said and we both groaned [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Nostalgia by Rana
Saturday, October 25th, 2003
Burning the Leaves
Tonight the act of turning back our clocks signals, in a more or less official way, the onset of fall. Although the sky outside my window glows a brilliant pale blue, the weatherman predicts a cold front today. We have a possibility of rain, lots of wind, and temperatures 40 degrees lower than yesterday’s record [...]
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Friday, October 24th, 2003
The Little Blue Suitcase
On the way home from Tennessee we stayed in a 1960s vintage Holiday Inn in a place called Dickson. Although well cared for, the establishment’s arrangement – a two-story horseshoe around a pool – and the layout and fixtures in the rooms betrayed the motel’s age. As I unloaded the car I stopped a moment [...]
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2003
Lost from the Formation
During one of our heated conversations about the roster of sins with which my Mother credits me, she gave me an opening I didn’t take. She had made a rude comment about my associates here in the Big City and in an effort to diffuse the situation I said, “Mother, those people are my friends.” [...]
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Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003
A Vacation Vignette
For a week they were our neighbors, four adults, four children, and a toddler in the next cabin over. I learned to get up early and have my coffee before the awakening of the rat pack and to patiently wait until they’d been herded into the mini vans and carted off for the day’s outing. [...]
