randomness

Cool idea - Open ID lets people from other blogging sites leave comments on your livejournal with their other blog ID, or even read your friends locked posts if you allow them to.

Someone set up an LJ in the name anonymous.  It's a no-brainer joke, but there's a bunch of really stupid people who think that lj user=anonymous is the person who anonymously posted something mean on their journals.  That is scary. 

I was hoping there was a community called anonymous.  I imagined it would be a lot like Post Secret. 

Thanks to holyschist I spent possibly an hour reading Nathan Castle's Nude Rollerdisco of Comics.  I think I read all of them - Melaines Choles (existential angst), Seamonster (sweet human folly, but then gets creepy and sad at the end), Great and Small (ironic and odd stories of animal/human interactions during WWII, but the last frame nearly made me cry) and Squid Gideon (which I actually thought was really amusing in a meta-humor way.  I love meta-humor.  I'm a dork. :)) - and that hour even included pauses for reflection.  I'd say it was an hour well-spent. 

I think I need to turn the conversation at the beginning of "Seamonster" into an animated icon. 

And did I mention how much I loved Looks To Alaska's response to my lament about honor duels being not okay in today's world?

Yes,
there is a NEED for Honor Duels......
in today's world we sadly settle for the random ass kicking or drive by........
LTA

It's sad.  Sad.  Isn't it?  I think it goes right along with our loss of respect for craftsmanship.  We have no artisans, now, just Wal-Mart and drive-by-shootings.  It's no wonder I have a thing for those gay Victorians. 

Something else, there was something else much more important I was going to say...  Oh, right, gosh, how could I forget!  I'm staring at a picture of a rabbit which has taken up residence in the typing stand on my desk.  The picture has taken up residence, that is.  The rabbit is in the picture.  Get the picture?  Yes, like the impatient child I am, I tore open your gift as soon as it arrived, daegaer, and didn't stop to wait for Hogswatch morning.  It's a very lovely picture! :)  As too, was the card. :)  Cute little cottages.  I'll take that with me to my real estate agent, Afa Twoshoes,* and tell him I want a house like that.  Only with trees around.  And I want it for $135,000.  ;)

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*The other day my co-worker came in with two shoes on.  They were both black, but they didn't match. :)
His other job is real-estate agent, and he's constantly pushing me to buy a house, so I string him along a little for the fun of the conversation, but basically I tell him that I want to live in town and pay the same for a mortgage as I do for rent.

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My brother, Eightball, phoned to get Hawk's number because he wants to call and make sure he's okay after hearing about this storm in Seattle, yesterday.  I wonder how bad things really are? 

Eightball had tried to call, earlier, and said he got 'some Russian lady.'  We had a nice conversation during which I dumped on him the quick version of my many distractions which have kept me from thinking about the holidays and gift-buying, and he admitted he just bought a car which he needed for work because he's been running around like a mad thing trying to get their martial arts program going and so he hasn't had time OR money for the gift thing either, which I said really did make me feel a lot better. :)  He says he'll try to take a picture of himself with the car, and I said that would be a fine present for me. ;)  I relayed to him the number I have.  He said he would try again and would let me know if he got the Russian lady again.  ("Say hi to Olga for me," I told him.)

Now I wonder where I put that link to the Seattle rescue and fire dispatch page?  Oh, there it is.  652 dispatches.  Oh, wait -  that's yesterday's date.  Hm. 

hee! *chortles* How typical. :)

I was hoping for some pictures online of my brother, Hawk, the one in Seattle who plays with a band called Loose Digits.  Well, there ARE some pictures here which he is in, but he's the only person who's either A)Not in focus (pictures 9, 10 and 15), B)Shot from behind (6 and 8) or C)Has a huge shadow over his face (3, 5 and 7).  It's like he's got some kind of mojo against cameras. :)  #9 is best - he's the guy on the left in the background, leaning on his standup bass.  And in #11 I'll bet they're all laughing at some story he's telling, because they're all looking at the side of the room where his bass can just be seen.

Just figures. :)