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[Jun. 13th, 2007|10:43 am] |
So I'm in bed this morning and usually I get up early because it's trash day and the trucks are really loud and make about forty stops on my street and one truck has really loud air brakes... but the trash never came and I woke up late. Once I realized I was late-ish I forewent the shower, threw some food in my lunch bag and went out to my car.
It was freaky quiet... no cars, no seagulls, no screaming lady across the street. As I'm sitting in my car, adjusting the wipers and defrost because it's raining today and my car was all foggy inside when I heard my phone make the little text-message-noise. It was from my friend Simon in London. Here's what it says...
B- R U OK? London is dire.
Of course my first thought was, oh shit... another bombing. Terrorists have gone and blown up London for good this time. I turned on the radio to NPR (cause they're the only station that would report on anything happening outside of the US) and it's this emergency broadcast system thing. You know... The one that interrupts a show when you're really into it to let you know there is a hail storm in the next county... Well that thing is playing on a loop...
This is a warning from the Centers for Disease Control. An outbreak of unknown origin has reached Cumberland, York and Androscoggin counties. Be advised to stay in your home until further updates...
Then it made the shrill alarm noise and repeated. Totally f'ed up. I couldn't get anything else but that on any station.
So I call work, no answer. I text Simon to find out what's up and then I saw my first floor neighbor standing at the end of the driveway. He's a little guy with a bald head and usually he's pretty friendly so I wave. He's just standing there like he's lost so I start to roll the window down to say something and out of nowhere some dude wearing a ski mask just walks up to him shoots him in the head!
I couldn't even think so I just floored it past them both and started driving toward the interstate. What the fuck is going on?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If gas wasn't so f'in expensive right now I would have driven to my parent's house in Bangor but I only had half a tank so I ended up at our little white house at work. No one is here, all the construction down the street is abandoned and I'm trying to piece together what's happening.
Is it some kind of pandemic?
Wait... Simon just texted me again. WTF!!! All it says is ZOM B. |
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| Latest YouTube Collection... |
[Jun. 1st, 2007|01:05 pm] |
Admit it... you kinda like this song... and you have to admit he as aged extremely well:
Possibly the coolest music video I've ever seen:
I think it's Casey Kasum's narration that makes it for me:
This is the band and single that bumped Sparks out of the #1 spot in the UK, 1974:
And here is a video by The Auteurs about the UK in the 70's and a tribute to The Rubettes:
That's all for now... |
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| Kitty Update... |
[Feb. 28th, 2005|02:03 pm] |
The ladies are feeling much better, thank you.
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[Feb. 28th, 2005|11:44 am] |
What can I say about The Oscars that hasn't been mentioned?
It was devoid of authentic emotion, but with each passing year, The Oscars become the pop-culture orgy I love so much.
-Where else do you get Chris Rock openly dissing Tim Robbins who then leaps out from stage left, smiling as if to say, "You got me! I AM a boring sod!"
-Where else do you get Beyonce interpreting French with a stiff boys choir, then bumping heads with Pig-faced Andrew Lloyd Webber and then pretending to be inspired by Josh Groban?
-Where else do you get Prince, out of frickin' NOWHERE?
-How about the director's hot idea of making all the "less important" award nominees stand like contestants in a dork pageant on the stage... and then have the "completely unimportant" award nominees sit like cripples in their seats and then be forced to approach a mic in the middle of the aisle to make their awkward acceptance speeches as though they were proposing new parking laws at a town meeting?
-You had Jay-Z, Giselle, Oprah, P-Diddy, Santana and, fresh from the miracle of birth... Julia Roberts all hamming it up together?
-Speaking of Santana... where else (besides The Grammys) do you get Telemundo LIVE with a greasy, poet-shirt-wearing Antonio Bandares over-enunciating every meaningful note of a song that apparently broke the illusive "Latin Music Barrier" we've all been forced to endure?
As shitty as that show is, I still watch it with glee. Even if I'm the last person watching... I will watch. You can blame me. |
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[Nov. 15th, 2004|03:27 pm] |
Vern has figured out how to get into the bathtub and the bathroom sink...
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| They're coming for you, Barbara... |
[Oct. 7th, 2004|10:15 am] |
First night of myZombie Film Festival tonight! I'm excited! Looks like we'll have a packed house for Night of the Living Dead... my old, scratchy and, in my opinion, scarier version is ready to go... someone brought in Jell-o brains... all my dreams have come true!
There's something in this... I'm not sure what yet, but something's supposed to come out of this...a paper? a book? a festival on a larger scale? hmmmmmmm. The possibilities...
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[Sep. 23rd, 2004|11:03 am] |
I went out to Two Lights yesterday to gain some perspective (which was achieved, I think) and thought I'd share what a beautiful day it was with you!
The vista at the top of the hill:
Tide pool!
Traditional beverage and Pringles:
My boss has insisted I go to Welch's funeral services tomorrow, so I am heading back up to Orono in the morning. This is a good thing. I want to be there. |
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| The trouble with chairs... |
[Sep. 18th, 2004|02:30 pm] |
I only meant to pop in to the Gorham Goodwill this afternoon...you know...just take a spin around for the little things I collect. I was finding them hand over fist and putting them in my cart...when I saw it... the chair...
I almost missed it because it was behind a couch, but I happened to catch a glimpse of yellow and stainless steel, so I poked my head around...
It may be the coolest chair EVER! No holes, no stains...no rust...all the little feet in tact...and...get this... it was made by the Simmons mattress company, so the seat, underneath the cool yellow vinyl, is a tiny Simmons mattress!!!
Blood rushed through my head...I felt a little woozy even... then I saw the price... $19.95!! Some days, the heavens open up and drop a present right in my lap.
So I flipped her over and wheeled her to the counter (putting back all the other crap I had wanted before) and I bought her. Keep in mind here that it's raining outside.
So I ask the woman if I can leave it there until I clean out my trunk and pull the car up to the building. Up to this point, the trunk on my Ford Focus has been nothing short of a miracle. So I go back, get the chair and start hauling it outside... noting it is awkwardly shaped and constructed to withstand the atom bomb.
(Side note: NO ONE offered to help me. I had to ask people to open doors for me. Sheesh.)
I tried every conceivable way to fit that thing in my car: trunk...back seat...front seat. Nothing. And I'm all dressed up (because I had a work function that morning), so I'm standing in a puddle in good shoes. At this point, I begin laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation and can no longer hold the chair up anymore.
Back in it went (thank goodness it's waterproof!) and I asked the ladies to hold it for me until tomorrow. So, thank you in advance to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bumblebaker for agreeing to drive back out there tomorrow with his lovely truck to get it.
Part two of the chair adventure and pictures forthcoming. |
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| RIP Johnny, Joey and Dee Dee |
[Sep. 16th, 2004|10:26 am] |
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[Sep. 15th, 2004|02:21 pm] |
Heads up to the Portland Peeps!!!
Shaun of the Dead opens at the Nick Friday the 24th!
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| More Laverne action! |
[Sep. 13th, 2004|12:55 pm] |
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[Sep. 13th, 2004|09:55 am] |
Well...now that I now Becca is spying on me...I'll be a lot more careful about what goes on here in the public venue... Sorry, darling... you can peek but you can't know everythng...
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New roommate started bringing things over yesterday...along with a check for part of September...thank god. I was seriously about to panic this week.
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The lovely Davy Rothbart is back in P-land tonight and I am armed this time, with the infamous vocab test ebess and I stole back in high school. Classic.
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Allergies are bothering me for the first time in a long time. Couldn't breathe out of my nose so I took the only thing I had in the house...and that was cold medicine that knocked me out. Very intense dreaming...hard to wake up. |
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| Get ready for cuteness! |
[Sep. 10th, 2004|01:34 pm] |
Laverne!
& Shirley
Yours truly...officially smitten! |
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| Never say never... |
[Sep. 9th, 2004|12:29 pm] |
Things I swore I'd never do and later did:
1) Eat Lobster (even though I only eat one out of the shell a year)
2) Pump my own gas (necessity ended a five year streak...believe it!)
3) Become and English Major (I really went back on that one and got a Masters in English)
4) Sleep with D again (though we don't have to worry about it in the future, for a while this was one pact I had trouble keeping)
Adding to the list...
5) Get a Phd... (yes...though I'm still wary of this process, my conversation with my boss this morning has made me rethink this... And I swore I would NEVER do it.)
Bottom line? You can have convictions about the things you want and boundaries about the things you don't, but swearing you will never do something... well... you're probably just kidding yourself. |
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[Sep. 8th, 2004|07:21 pm] |
I Want Oreos...
(trivial side note: when you Google search Oreo you get lots and lots of pictures of cute black & white cats) |
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[Sep. 8th, 2004|09:47 am] |
Bee's favorite things about fall! (Part 1):
-long black boots!
-hot tea
-scarves!
-the smell of chimney smoke
-dusk at the peak of foliage (the leaves seem to glow)
-taking long walks that end with going home to warm up and have soup for dinner |
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| On closer inspection... |
[Sep. 7th, 2004|04:22 pm] |
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...Lenny may actually be Laverne... so, do I get Laverne & Squiggy or do I adopt the other beautiful tiger female and have Laverne & Shirley? |
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| Pix from Saturday Night |
[Sep. 7th, 2004|10:46 am] |
Kris Rockin'!
Katie and Sean
No pix of me...you'll just have to use your imagination...
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Getting the hair cut today finally. It's been at least four months. |
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| Get Ready... |
[Sep. 3rd, 2004|12:07 pm] |
Lenny Sleeping!
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| KITTIES!!! |
[Sep. 3rd, 2004|09:50 am] |
There is a kitty carrier in my office with five of the cutest little kittens and one orphaned squirrel (who has been nursing with them all and hangs out with them like he's a kitten too). The future Lenny & Squiggy are in there for sure.
Nothing can reduce me faster than a teeny tiny kitty.
Everyone meet Lenny!
And Andrew "Squiggy" Squigman!
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