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niicelaady: April 2006
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To paraphrase the Capital One commercial: What's in YOUR head? What's in mine is here: always personal, occasionally political, sometimes a rant on language or pop culture, or a heads-up on an interesting link I've found. I hope that all my friends will visit and comment and gain some insights into the workings of my twisted little mind. Monday, April 24, 2006. Welcome home, Speshul Ed! I grabbed him, brought him inside and gave him and his sisters people tuna to celebrate. Posted by niicelaady @ 8:00 PM.
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niicelaady: September 2005
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To paraphrase the Capital One commercial: What's in YOUR head? What's in mine is here: always personal, occasionally political, sometimes a rant on language or pop culture, or a heads-up on an interesting link I've found. I hope that all my friends will visit and comment and gain some insights into the workings of my twisted little mind. Wednesday, September 28, 2005. No, that's not me channelling Emeril with an Asian accent. "Blam" is my word for unsolicited comments on blogs. Blog Spam - get it? Then I...
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niicelaady: July 2005
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To paraphrase the Capital One commercial: What's in YOUR head? What's in mine is here: always personal, occasionally political, sometimes a rant on language or pop culture, or a heads-up on an interesting link I've found. I hope that all my friends will visit and comment and gain some insights into the workings of my twisted little mind. Sunday, July 31, 2005. My inner 4-year-old needs a spanking . Posted by niicelaady @ 9:06 PM. Wednesday, July 27, 2005. Nine days to Champlain Valley! Physically I have ...
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[the palaverist]
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Sunday, February 28, 2010. How to fail like an olympian]. When you watch the Olympics, it can be easy to forget just how ridiculously good these people are at whatever bizarre thing it is they're doing. Take, for example, figure skating. Early in the evening of the ladies' long program, long before Kim Yu-Na and the other medal contenders took the ice, there was Tuğba Karademir, a Turkish skater who ultimately came in 24th. And now, back to your regularly scheduled programming. Beatles and birth order].
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[the palaverist]
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010. Lies, damn lies, and sound effects]. Like a lot of folks, I've been watching Life. The Discovery Channel series of nature documentaries in which photographers go to extraordinary lengths to bring back fascinating footage of fauna, which is then edited into anodyne snippets narrated by Oprah Winfrey, who seems to feel obligated to give clever line readings. The splishy whoosh of this or that fish darting out and eating its prey, or the burble and hiss of coral ejecting eggs. B...
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[the palaverist]
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Friday, March 30, 2007. Sing along with buffy]. This time picking up on the Buffy Sing-A-Long. Each month at IFC, at which Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Fans get together and sing along with the musical episode, Once More, With Feeling. I am definitely in the Buffy. Fan camp, but I am currently working my way through the series and haven't yet seen the musical episode, which is two seasons ahead of me, so no spoilers please. Indeed, our most recent episode, Hush. Then they started getting blasphemous: COST S...
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[the palaverist]
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Saturday, April 17, 2010. Because I know a little something about Korea, people often ask me about the Chinese government. I suppose Canadians probably get asked to explain America, so I kind of get it. In any case, a question that often comes up is why the Chinese government is so terrified of Falun Gong. I don't know from any detailed insider knowledge or anything, but my guess is that it has to do with a vast and little-known war called the Taiping Rebellion. In China, the haunting fear is of a differ...
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[the palaverist]
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Sunday, April 18, 2010. Pop is the new alternative]. It's a truism that the millennial generation is a whole lot more earnest than the Gen-Xers who preceded them. Certainly they don't seem to be mired in the crippling irony that we all seemed to struggle against, and they don't have the combination of seething anger and helpless despair that fueled the whole alternative movement. And Three Men and a Baby. The other Gen-X artifact that I think of is the movie Slackers. What does it all mean?
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niicelaady: March 2006
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To paraphrase the Capital One commercial: What's in YOUR head? What's in mine is here: always personal, occasionally political, sometimes a rant on language or pop culture, or a heads-up on an interesting link I've found. I hope that all my friends will visit and comment and gain some insights into the workings of my twisted little mind. Thursday, March 16, 2006. Survey from Mrs. Pi. A - Available: no! A - Age: 47. A - Annoyance: liars and users. B - Bar: Troy brewpub, Davidson Bros., Kielty's. I - Instr...
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niicelaady: August 2005
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To paraphrase the Capital One commercial: What's in YOUR head? What's in mine is here: always personal, occasionally political, sometimes a rant on language or pop culture, or a heads-up on an interesting link I've found. I hope that all my friends will visit and comment and gain some insights into the workings of my twisted little mind. Sunday, August 28, 2005. They moved through the fair . Monday I will be checking out a 2BR first-floor flat in beautiful downtown Schuylerville, downstairs from where Ju...
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