Month: February 2002
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Princess Margaret has died. How sad, and what terrible timing for the Queen. She’s just commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of her dad’s death, and now her sister’s gone. I’d never heard the tragic love story of Margaret’s affair with Captain Peter Townsend. What a terrible choice to have to make.
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Snarky, less-than-reverent thoughts on the Olympics Opening Ceremony: What the hell was up with that “boy lost in the woods” bit? The Aussie commentators were telling us what was happening, but you could totally tell that they were just reading it off a paper. Nobody could glean a damn thing from that pretentious bit of…
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On the recommendation of several people (including Bill), I finally broke down and bought the first book in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series. I’d been avoiding his work for some time, thinking that it was some attempt to cash in on Harry Potter popularity (like Artemis Fowl, which I hated). Luckily I couldn’t be…
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Once again, happy birthday to my Dad today!
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Friday Five:As this week has a Valentine’s theme and all the questions are – *ahem* – a bit risque, I’m gonna have to take a pass. I know enquiring minds want to know, but really. I mean, my parents read this site! 🙂
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As anon goes, so go I. She recently tackled the “100 Things About Me” meme and inspired me to craft my own version. As usual, I had to change the rules to make it seven hundred times harder for myself. Instead of just listing bare facts, I’m basically listing interesting stories and anecdotes. Since that…
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Throwdown in the Senate! I gotta side with Robert Byrd on this one, mostly just because I had a scholarship in his name during college.
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Speaking of my dad, Ma Snook sent me a page of outback-related links that she thought he’d like. He’ll love this one about how to survive in a four-wheel-drive out there.
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Wow! Happy birthday to the Rons! February 8th is Ron Yeany (of leatheregg) and February 9th is Ron Howard (my dad, not the famous director). It’s a Ron kind of week.
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I think we can safely count Michele in the Wil Wheaton Backlash Club…