Archive for February, 2006

Forgive my nerdiness for saying so, but I’ve had a productive day. Phil and I took the ferrets to the park to frolic, and explained to a couple of curious pot-smoking bums — one of whom said he was allergic to ferrets — all about little Felix and Gonz and their silly habits.
Then Grandmaw [...]


Science-fiction writer Octavia Butler has died.
Butler, 58, died after falling and striking her head Friday on a walkway outside her home in Lake Forest Park. The reclusive writer, who moved to Seattle in 1999 from her native Southern California, was a giant in stature (she was 6 feet tall by age 15) and in accomplishment.
What [...]


Phil got a couple of free movie passes from work and decided last night that he’d like to redeem them by seeing Final Destination 3 instead of Capote, which I was rooting for.
But as we settled into the theater and the story got going, I remembered that I had actually liked the first FD [...]


Gobble

25Feb06

One of the small pleasures of my job is laying out a story* and then realizing it’s been written by one of my fabulous friends.
*Link goes to Wichita paper instead of CA because we won’t have it up on our website until tonight.


We can’t go on like this.
I never see you. I think about you a lot, and I still miss you. But I can’t wait for you any longer.
I’m here with Memphis. I will be for I don’t know how long. But while I am here I need to stop loving you, because it’s not fair [...]


Barney, we hardly knew ye.
Don Knotts has died. The headline coming across the wire says “Actor Don Knotts dies at 81; made being a nerd OK,” which is fitting enough, I guess, but still seems odd for an obit. My headline for this entry, however, is much worse, but I apologize for nothing.
May he forever [...]


The Pheeling

25Feb06

(Moblogged from the Hi-Tone)


They should really fix my buzzer. Today makes twice that Phil has come by and had to wait out in the parking lot for 40 minutes while I retardedly did not hear him yelling at me or calling my cell phone. I am a complete moron.
Anyway.
AppetizerChoose one: moving to another state, having triplets, or never [...]


Because sometimes already-existing laws just aren’t good enough when it comes to keeping The Gays down.
NASHVILLE — A Nashville judge ruled today that the proposal to amend the Tennessee Constitution to ban same-sex marriage can appear on the statewide Nov. 7 ballot.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit last year to block the constitutional referendum [...]


For honor.

23Feb06

Wow. It’s not just in Pakistan. It’s a few streets over.*
A 40-year-old Midtown man was charged Wednesday with stabbing a neighbor to death over family honor.
Neama Hamza D Al-Mosawi was charged with first-degree murder in the death of David Dillin, who lived across the street from Al-Mosawi [...]