Another long overdue update, but life gets busy from time to time. Behind that cut-tag below is a fairly boring account of the last two weeks, but if you’re interested.
Another funny link, thanks to gridlore.
He’s a shy Amish stage actor from the ‘hood. She’s a cosmopolitan wisecracking college professor with an MBA from Harvard. They fight crime!
He’s a lounge-singing umbrella-wielding Green Beret on the hunt for the last specimen of a great and near-mythical creature. She’s an artistic thirtysomething politician with the power to bend men’s minds. They fight crime!
Try it! 🙂
http://www.rain-street.org/fightcrime.htm
(PS. Post with actual me-content to follow. Busy week….)
Ok, this is just too funny not to share. 🙂
http://www.microsoft.com&item%3Dq209354@hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm
Got this off a mailing list…:)
BENTONVILLE, ARK (AP) – Some Walmart customers soon will be able to sample a new discount item — Walmart’s own brand of wine. The world’s largest retail chain is teaming up with E&J Gallo Winery of Modesto, Calif., to produce the spirits at an affordable price; in the $6-8 range. While wine connoisseurs may not be inclined to throw a bottle of Walmart brand wine into their shopping carts, there is a market for inexpensive wine, said Kathy Micken, professor of marketing at Roger Williams, University in Bristol, R.I. She said: “The right name is important.”
So, with that in mind, here are the top 13 suggested names for Walmart Wine:
13. The Wrath of Grapes
12. Chateau Traileur Doublewide
11. White Trashfindel
10. Big Red Gulp
9. Grape Expectations
8. Domaine Walmart “Merde du Pays”
7. NASCARbernet
6. Chef Boyardeaux
5. Peanut Noir
4. Chateau des Moines
3. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Vinegar!
2. World Championship Wriesling
1. Nasti Spumantee
I’ve gotten behind on updating this journal, mostly from being so busy the last 2 weeks, between work and my personal life. I’ll try to keep on top of it better in the future. 🙂
Seanan, who is entirely too cool for me to know, I think, but I’m blessed to call her a friend anyway
and
elfen, who I’ve been very happy to reaquaint with recently.
*hugs* to both of you, and enjoy the day!
Love,
-R
Found in Neil Gaiman’s webjournal:
“May your 2002 be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t to forget make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in 2002, you surprise yourself.”
I like that.
Finally a moment to breathe and post a quick message…Happy Birthday, browngirl! Sorry I missed your call earlier; I couldn’t quite make out the return number, but I will definately call you today!
Love,
-R
We Will All Sin Together When We Sin
by Robert Wynne and Martin DeMello
Music: “We Will All Go Together When We Go” by Tom Lehrer
© 2002
If you believe religious men
You ought to burn your bridges when
The company you keep would have you go astray
And you may have found it painful
When they looked at you disdainfully
And told you that you had to live their way
(But never matter)
When your friends all start to scurry
All those pious sounds of worry
Shall never give us reason to despair
For though they’re bound to make a fuss
When they throw the book at us
We’ll be having too much fun to really care
And we will all sin together when we sin
All the trouble that we can we will get in
No need to ask us twice sir
Because nothing could be nicer
We will all sin together when we sin
We will all fall together when we fall
We shall have ourselves an unrepentant ball
Heading straight towards damnation
At the slightest provocation
Yes we all will fall together when we fall
Oh, we will all lapse together when we lapse
We will round up all the lasses and the chaps
When it’s time to start transgressing
We find company a blessing
And we’ll party right until we all collapse!
Down by the old mill stream
We can cavort in pairs or teams….
And we will all moan together when we moan
And ensure that our intentions are well known
Enough talk about the weather
Let’s go roll out in the heather
There are subjects that are best not left alone
We will all snug together when we snug
On the bed and on the couch and on the rug
Give into our desire
And then stoke that inner fire
And end up looking really rather smug
We will all come together when we come
To the sound of heartbeats pounding like a drum
With a cry of ecstacy, we
Will all squeal with joyful glee
And the delight that everybody’s getting some!
And we will all sign our names for our respective Gehennas
For we know that’s where we’re heading with no time for I knew you whennas
Yes we will all sin together when we sin
Just prop the door and let the neighbours in
There’s no one who’s not a friend here
So just pick yourself an end dear
And we all will win together
When we all sin together
Yes we all will sin together when we sin
This one is all Teri Wachowiak’s fault. A large number of us were all hanging out on #filkhaven in order to avoid other tasks we should have been doing, and Teri said “Well, at least we can all sin together”, and boom, we were off to the races. Martin and I traded off verses then culled and rewrote until we had the finished product.
At least one person complained that the only sin the song seems to cover is lust. Well, what can I say. I like lust. <shrug>
Two of Dave
by Robert Wynne
Music: “Yesterday” by John Lennon & Paul McCartney
© 2002
Two of Dave
One to pass around, and one to save
For whenever you can’t fight that crave
It’s useful to have two of Dave
Suddenly
Dave is twice the man he used to be
Clone him one more time and you’d have three
To offer up for company
Which one is the clone?
Which is real? I couldn’t say.
They’re both just alike,
right down to the DNA
Two of Dave
One more than his lovely mother gave
And we give to both a joyous rave
review for two, who both are Dave
This was an instafilk that came out on #filkhaven. Dave Weingart was lamenting being unable to attend OVFF due to a scheduling conflict, and Heather Munn said she was continuing to “work on that cloning device, so there can be two of Dave”. This just sorta flowed out.