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[Nov. 26th, 2009|03:28 pm] |
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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on my friends list living in Yankistan. |
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[Nov. 26th, 2009|12:31 am] |
Be afraid.
be very afraid. |
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[Nov. 26th, 2009|12:12 am] |
oh yay. yet another white motherfucker has told me that we all need to take back the n-word and make it harmless by using it.
get a fucking grip.
lose the word and lose the hate behind it and we can all move forward. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2009|08:40 pm] |
oh for crying out loud. Didn't the girl in the background know they were taking a photo? And did her friends really have to post the photo of her naked ass on the Internet?
Oh wait, that's an armpit. |
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[Nov. 19th, 2009|07:38 pm] |
Fucking greedy bastards.
If you live in Britain, you should read this |
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[Nov. 17th, 2009|06:50 pm] |
Sorry this is late. i just got back from a trip.
New Dirt. |
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[Nov. 11th, 2009|11:49 am] |
A strangely beautiful video about a very unusual occupation...
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[Nov. 9th, 2009|12:56 am] |
I don't normally hold babies (I worry about dropping them), but this one...
How could I resist? |
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[Nov. 6th, 2009|07:06 pm] |
From Officer Kim Munley's Twitter account...
"I live a good life....a hard one,
but I go to sleep peacefully @ night
knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life."
*gets something in his eye* |
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[Nov. 6th, 2009|02:50 am] |
Fuckin youtube...i swear. They've got everything there.
I was digging around for some reference to a friend of my family's (he's dead now of cancer) so i could link to him in a debate going on in my knefew's journal.
I knew he was mentioned on a couple of google-able sites because I'd seen him there before, but when i googled him this time i found a video of him.
Bert Poe was a very dangerous man, and he made his living protecting people from other very dangerous men. His bio is not accurate, but i have seen him running those super-long q-tips soaked in peroxide through a fresh bullet wound in the wattle of his neck ("If i wasn't so old they wouldn't have got me" --Bert referring to the extra flesh that age had put on his neck) and he is mentioned enough by other bad asses for me to be sure that although I don't really know where he came from, Bert Poe was definitely a very scary man.
He was a very good friend of my Dad, and he had a major influence on my family.
One of the reasons my family was so well armed was because of Bert Poe, and the reason I bought my fiorst .45 ACP was because of how he swore by it.
He is not fucking around in this video...he did this stuff to people.
And in my family, he was a hero.
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|07:08 pm] |
I miss you, Jim Carroll
It's too late
It's too late
To fall in love with Sharon Tate
But it's too soon
To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb
I think it's time that you all start
To think about gettin' by
But I have that need to go out and find somebody to love
It's too late
There's no one left that I even wanna imitate
You see, you just don't know
I'm here to give you my heart
And you want some fashion show
But it ain't no contribution
To rely on an institution
To validate your chosen art
And to sanction your boredom
And let you play out your part
It's too late
You know when they got nothin' to give
They only part their legs for what's negative
They're so decadent . . .
Until their daddy's money from home's all spent
So I think it's time, because it's too easy
To rely on worshipping devils and strangers in bed,
Though they do get good drugs, and they do give good head
It's too late
You shoulda realized I was worth the wait
Ah, but you didn't hesitate
When he took you off, you let him seal our fate
So I think it's time
that you all start
To think about gettin' by
Without that need to go out and find
Somebody to love |
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|06:58 pm] |
There is no sound and I am not going to comment on this.
The video speaks for itself.
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[Nov. 5th, 2009|10:01 am] |
Something I forgot to mention brag about in my previous post.
Our washing machine is about 4.5 years old. When it got to the 4 year mark Hotpoint (the company that makes them/sold it to us) started sending us junk mail trying to get us to sign up for an extended warranty at the tune of £70.00 a year. Things worded to the effect of "Hey, we know how old your washing machine is. Lots of bad things can happen to a washing machine that old. Listen, pal,we know what we're talking about. You wouldn't want anything bad to happen to a washing machine that old without it has a extended warranty, would you? Just sign right there and nothing bad will happen. Trust us."
We just tossed the mail in the bin with all the other junk mail.
But wait. A couple or three months ago the washer started making a squealing noise on the spin cycle. Like what a bearing sounds like before it goes out. I am no washing machine mechanic, but I knew that the noise was serious, and having had some experience with men who are washing machine mechanics, I was fully aware of the £50.00 "call-out+ charge they nail you with and we'd had enough £150.00 repair jobs to convince me that maybe we ought to sign up for that extended warranty after all. Especially since part of the offer said that if they couldn't fix it they'd give us a brand new washing machine. For free.
I mean, we were still getting the junk mail from hotpoint every couple of weeks or so.
So I did.
It took about a month for us to get the extended warranty paperwork, and then another couple or three weeks before the washing machine got so bad we couldn't use it ("lucky" for us, Helen had done a bunch of loads on the day it conked out so we were all caught up on the laundry and could wait a few days for the repair guy to show up), but when it did I called up and was told the guy would show up on Tuesday.
And he did. Actually, he got lost and I had to walk him in on my cellphone and wave at him as he drove by the front of our building, but yeah, he showed up and as I said in the previous post he fixed our washer after a long hard struggle.
And it didn't cost us a dime.
And if it conks out again in the next year, we get more free repairs or a brand new washing machine for free.
I think that's called "Beating the system" |
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[Nov. 4th, 2009|11:13 pm] |
yesterday a man came to my house to fix my washer (washing machine). It might have been a one-hour job, and he could have pulled that off and left me with a machine that goes to shit today, but no.
He spent 4 hours in washing-machine parts up to his knees in our kitchen, and when he finally left, our washer runs so quietly that i have to go into the kitchen to make sure it is running.
and it is.
what a guy. |
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:17 am] |
If this isn't fake, then...dude!
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[Nov. 1st, 2009|02:43 am] |
To everyone who responded to my previous post...
Thank you very much.
To me, that's what the innernet is all about,
What I did: Cooked a 5kg turkey stuffed with cornbread and sausage dressing, slathered in cream gravy over veg (it all turned out well)and watched a Big Brother (English version) Zombie Movie with Helen and drank wine.
The movie was aces, the wine was good, and Helen is for me the best company imaginable.
And then I logged on and read everyone's comments from all over the world and I feel happy and full of love for this Net of Inter we all talk through.
We aint got flying cars, but this is still a pretty cool future we live in. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2009|08:10 pm] |
If you are reading this, please tell me what you're doing this Halloween Night.
Me? I am cooking a Thanksgiving Dinner as practice for the real thing (we have a new oven and i want to make sure I have it dialed-in before I feed a dozen people all at once from it).
There will be cornbread for stuffing and as a side dish.
This is how it looked from here today (I flipped it over before this shot. The topside was a lovely golden-brown)
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[Oct. 31st, 2009|08:06 pm] |
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Happy Halloween to all of the freaks who read this journal. |
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