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Monkey Santa has broken free of the House of Respite! DMCal - go get a net. Probably a tranquilizer gun as well. And upgrade your locks.
I'm on it!
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I'm sort of an armchair paleontologist. I read this story the other day and thought naming it Cthulhu was really neat.
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The how and the why this happened almost don't matter, but tonight's during choir practice, Whingey Wizzard looked at me and said, "Woman thou art an affliction!"
To which I responded in my best Kathleen Turner voice, "I'm like the Plagues of Egypt, baby!"
Okay, so I was singing the Taize chant "Ubi Caritas" to the tune of "Only He" from "Starlight Express. There were mitigating circumstances.
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I didn't get a single reference there. But I did laugh at the banter...LOL
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LM, this is why I like you.
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The how and the why this happened almost don't matter, but tonight's during choir practice, Whingey Wizzard looked at me and said, "Woman thou art an affliction!"
To which I responded in my best Kathleen Turner voice, "I'm like the Plagues of Egypt, baby!"Okay, so I was singing the Taize chant "Ubi Caritas" to the tune of "Only He" from "Starlight Express. There were mitigating circumstances.
Freehold favorites without understanding.
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It's a love-and-competition story (like the musical "Chess") inspired by, I s**t you not, the Thomas the Tank Engine stories.
And it's done entirely on roller skates.
It's AWFUL.
Whingey Wizzard hates all things ALW with a passion (seriously, do not tell the man how much you love Cats or Phantom), but he hates Starlight Express even more.
So, at choir practice last night, we were rehearsing the Introit for Easter Sunday, and for the first time, the pastor was rehearsing with us so he could practice a new, dramatic retelling of the scripture that was the schmaltziest, goofiest damned thing I'd ever heard. And he was really selling it. And I couldn't help but think it needed a sequined, ABBA-esque jumpsuit and roller skates.
And, because it was really funny to me, I leaned over to WW and started singing the next part of the introit (which was the Latin chant) to the tune of the Lloyd Webber song.
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** spoiler omitted **
...weird.
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I wanna hear that sermon. With the Bee Gees thumping in the background.
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At some point, probably around 1979, a super hip young Pastor has decided to soundtrack the climax of the Easter Sunday service with choir and organ all going,
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Praise BeeGeesus!
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This will be the opening hymn, of course.
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Hey! I’m watching you...
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I just learned that "Smooth Criminal" was originally a Michael Jackson song. The only version I had heard was the cover by Alien Ant Farm. I have a feeling that this is about the same as saying, "Huh? '(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction' was by the Rolling Stones? I only know the DEVO version."
I prefer both cover versions to the originals.
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Counting today, I have 24 work days until I'm off for the summer, 18 of those with students.
As this is the first school I've worked in that hasn't been a year-round school, it will be the first summer I've had "off" since I started teaching eleven years ago. And my first summer off since, well, middle school, since I've worked summers since I was a teenager.
I honestly DO. NOT. KNOW. what to do with myself. It is so surreal.
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Counting today, I have 24 work days until I'm off for the summer, 18 of those with students.
As this is the first school I've worked in that hasn't been a year-round school, it will be the first summer I've had "off" since I started teaching eleven years ago. And my first summer off since, well, middle school, since I've worked summers since I was a teenager.
I honestly DO. NOT. KNOW. what to do with myself. It is so surreal.
It's summer. In Texas. Find a cave.
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I'm still hoping, this summer, to make my Great Western Roadtrip. I'm still trying to figuring out money and schedule. Also, that other potential job could muck things up if it pans out.
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It's summer. In Texas. Find a cave.Counting today, I have 24 work days until I'm off for the summer, 18 of those with students.
As this is the first school I've worked in that hasn't been a year-round school, it will be the first summer I've had "off" since I started teaching eleven years ago. And my first summer off since, well, middle school, since I've worked summers since I was a teenager.
I honestly DO. NOT. KNOW. what to do with myself. It is so surreal.
Alternatively, a whole new world of both rootin' and tootin' opportunities await you, and your horse, and the very big hats you're both wearing.
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I'm still hoping, this summer, to make my Great Western Roadtrip. I'm still trying to figuring out money and schedule. Also, that other potential job could muck things up if it pans out.
Just keep in mind that I'll be in Europe for most of July, so if your road trip takes you through San Francisco plan for either June or August...
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Yeah, I'm tentatively planning on August. To which I look at myself and go "Seriously? August? In Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona? Are you stupid?"
And then Aiymi mentioned something to me that would be really fun to me, but it's scheduled in October, and I kind of thought that could be getting late in the year to head back across Utah and Colorado on summer tires.
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It's summer. In Texas. Find a cave.Counting today, I have 24 work days until I'm off for the summer, 18 of those with students.
As this is the first school I've worked in that hasn't been a year-round school, it will be the first summer I've had "off" since I started teaching eleven years ago. And my first summer off since, well, middle school, since I've worked summers since I was a teenager.
I honestly DO. NOT. KNOW. what to do with myself. It is so surreal.
We have caves in Florida, but you'll need scuba gear for most of them.
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Counting today, I have 24 work days until I'm off for the summer, 18 of those with students.
As this is the first school I've worked in that hasn't been a year-round school, it will be the first summer I've had "off" since I started teaching eleven years ago. And my first summer off since, well, middle school, since I've worked summers since I was a teenager.
I honestly DO. NOT. KNOW. what to do with myself. It is so surreal.
ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAD TRIIIIIIIIIIIIP
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Ambrosia: Yep. Florida is where I learned cave diving.
NH: Our plan was for the kids and I to drive out via the northern route (i.e. not going through California at all) the week after Father's Day, stay in Oregon for a month, and then go back to Texas via the Bay Area (with WW) the last week in July. Teensy Valeros has to be back for first grade orientation the first week in August, and I start work the 2nd week.
Vany: We'll be back in Texas in August. You're more than welcome.
Freehold: No way am I road tripping to New York in summer. I've visited your city in the summer, and I've visited in the winter, and I vastly prefer the snowy, better-than-Arindell wonderland that is New York under a blanket of the fluffy stuff than in the summer, when it smells like a hot locker room with a blocked-up toilet, and everybody is in a bad mood.
Limey: Ironically, I only wear the big hat and ride horses when I'm at my mother's place in Oregon. Not in Texas.
I havent ridden a horse in a long long time.
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On the farm where I grew up, we had a couple of horses over time. I knew how to ride but wasn't good at it and didn't enjoy it much, anyway. I love horses, though. I'd like to just have one as a pet.
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On the farm where I grew up, we had a couple of horses over time. I knew how to ride but wasn't good at it and didn't enjoy it much, anyway. I love horses, though. I'd like to just have one as a pet.
They aren't housebroken, and they tend to slip on kitchen tiles.
The first they can learn. The other is well, sad...lol
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Also they chew on everything.
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The first they can learn. The other is well, sad...lol
That's a big litter box.
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I realized this morning that the one film Jodorowsky needs to make before he dies is Stranger in a Strange Land.
Ya know, I have never read that book. There are sooooo many great books I have never opened. Part of the blame lies in the small redneck school I grew up attending. Certain books were deemed "inappropriate" so we didn't get them. And now that I'm older it's very hard for me to concentrate enough to focus on a new book. I guess "To Kill a Mockingbird" will just not make it into my cerebral library.
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You gotta be kidding me. They are still not reading To Kill A Mockingbird? That's nonsensically behind the times.
I realized this morning that the one film Jodorowsky needs to make before he dies is Stranger in a Strange Land.
Wasn't he originally supposed to direct the film of 'Dune' (with a soundtrack by the amazing French group, Magma)?
I realized this morning that the one film Jodorowsky needs to make before he dies is Stranger in a Strange Land.Wasn't he originally supposed to direct the film of 'Dune' (with a soundtrack by the amazing French group, Magma)?
And also Pink Floyd.
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You gotta be kidding me. They are still not reading To Kill A Mockingbird? That's nonsensically behind the times.
Our head librarian and one of my English teachers, Mrs. Verbyl Battles (yes, that was her real name) wouldn't let us say "damn" when we read excerpts from Shakespeare's plays aloud. So it was "Out! Out darn spot!".
You gotta be kidding me. They are still not reading To Kill A Mockingbird? That's nonsensically behind the times.Our head librarian and one of my English teachers, Mrs. Verbyl Battles (yes, that was her real name) wouldn't let us say "damn" when we read excerpts from Shakespeare's plays aloud. So it was "Out! Out darn spot!".
was her maiden name "Disagreements"?
LOL quite possibly. She was actually a very sweet lady, one of those teachers students remember very fondly years after. But yeah, she was looking out for our souls by censoring Shakespeare and other things.
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You gotta be kidding me. They are still not reading To Kill A Mockingbird? That's nonsensically behind the times.
There's actually been an increase in the number of places that don't want to have it available in the past decade or two. Ditto for a fair amount of Mark Twain works.
Because politics, more often than not.
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You gotta be kidding me. They are still not reading To Kill A Mockingbird? That's nonsensically behind the times.Our head librarian and one of my English teachers, Mrs. Verbyl Battles (yes, that was her real name) wouldn't let us say "damn" when we read excerpts from Shakespeare's plays aloud. So it was "Out! Out darn spot!".
(WEEPS)
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There's a local cider brewery in my mother-in-law's neighborhood. They make a champagne hard cider called "I am Brut".
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If you put unpeeled purple carrots in chicken soup, you get purple soup. It looks like something out of a Star Wars movie.
I don't know what would happen if the carrots were peeled, and I don't know what would happen with other kinds of soup.
I should clarify. I mean "make chicken soup, using purple carrots as an ingredient", not "add purple carrots to chicken soup that has already been made".
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My thought:
While it's entertaining to plane shift, it's probably a good idea to not have your PC be the only one to do it, especially if you don't want to end up as a scribe slave for life of the Efreeti in the City of Brass...
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Gõdel, L'Hôpital, and Bernoulli walk into a bar. Gödel looks around and szys, "This joke might be funny, but we can't tell because we're in it."
That's the nerdiest joke I know.
That is fantastic.
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My daughter just referred to a hamster wheel as a "hipster wheel" by accident, and now I cannot be happy until I see an art installation that pairs a human-size hamster wheel with a wall-mount small rodent drinking bottle filled with craft IPA.