tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77557802011-12-24T11:59:33.759-05:00Yankee tales from the beautiful south: holding our noses at the dogwood trees; strip club karaoke; educating the racist black lab; Alcoholic Interfaith Bible Study for Kerry; mint juleps, candied yams and oh yes, deep fried okra.MMIMIKAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05322334447933303882noreply@blogger.comBlogger2001100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7755780.post-23904229288941914112007-05-29T13:49:00.000-04:002007-05-29T14:04:20.317-04:00

ugh. spent all weekend moving into gecko's apartment. quit my job in 2 weeks. he's going up in 2 weeks to look at condos to purchase in beantown.and... of course, first thing in the morning, we fight. About the #$^$%^#$%^!@ #$@!#$^$%^&$ %^&#$%@#$%@#%^@#$% wedding and the @#%@#%^#$ %TQ@#$@#$^#%^&$%^ moving plans.He still doesn't want to set a date for the wedding.WTF, thought this was argued to

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Speakers on... Vote 4 Miss Angela, Sec state 06!I met two of her primary opponents on Tues @ Mannys Tavern - Um, Darryl and Scott.They were OK. Neither had a great plan for dealing with Voter ID. So I'm gonna VOTE 4 Miss Angela, VOTE 4 Miss Angela....LOL.

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Went to the gym today for the first time - first time going to a gym that is. EBF showed me the sights, and told me how to figure out how to use the machines and stuff.I'd always been scared of them. The machines look, if nothing else, like rows and rows of torture racks. I don't look at them and think, 'oh that probably works your glutes.' I think, 'oh that dangling hook must be where they tie

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Was talking with some flip boys the other night and started making fun of the papua new guinians, with their modern day cannibalism and their cargo cults. The latter had to be explained the non-islanders at the table - and so I thought about it some more today, as its such a rich concept.Cargo cults - the surface aspects of WWII reinterpreted into some surreal response to colonialism. And ahh,

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Been a lot of talking about the White House Correspondents Dinner. It was newsworthy, interesting. As soon as I heard about it on the nets, I rushed to BIBs house, and it was on replay on CSPAN. Yay CSPAN.Basically, 2 comedy bits. In the first, Bush appears with a look-alike and does a schtick where the look-alike says what Bush thinks, then Bush says what he normally says. Very funny, very eery,

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time porn (TYM porn) n. Television shows and other media that portray characters as having excessive amounts of spare time.Chicks surfing 20 ft waves...Dudes doing jumps on motorbikes...Polar bear cubs playing in the antarctic...I love it. Keep it coming. Expecially the pictures of the waves.

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Girl fish came to live in my aquarium, oh, i don't know - last fall. She and boyfish didn't get along too well, and then they did. I liked her better for a while. She investigated the tank, looked at all the little glass rocks, found places to hide.She lived in a little green compartment of the tank to keep her away from boyfish. Then me and BIB went away and girlfish and boyfish spent a week

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...theres this guy acting really lame.Whether its a party, online, pick-up volleyball, work, the park, the grocery store, there he is. Ever present and so obvious. Trying to, "help" me, "coach" me, "fix" me.Pretending that I should let him control my decisions because its good for me, instead of just good for him. Confused about about the difference between what I want and what he wants.Gods gift

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Just got back from synagogue. Good food. BIB came, much to his surprise. We took a different route than usual, approaching the building from another direction. Up until now, I'd only seen the very end of the building- and never realized what a huge complex it is. The synagogue and school form a sort of accidental, rambling, deconstructivist... thing, with faux-masonic add-ons, the occasional wall

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Its feeling a bit like the run-up to the Iraq war, with journalists and foreign diplomats leaking all over the place, telling us its war. Going through the motions of UN diplomacy, blowing up fears about missiles and nukes in Iran... I think we're going to war again. Certainly we can't expect that the Bush administration has learned anything from their mistakes in Iraq and Afghanistan. If theres

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So I met with the Rabbi and he was very nice even though its not exactly his mission to help Unitarian Universalists educate themselves about Judaism. He gave me a list of steps that I should take and added a few more.So basically, in a short two weeks, my todo list has grown from...1. Learn Hebrew, read the Torah, read some books.to ....2. Learn Hebrew, read the Torah, read some books, take a 3-

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Minutes after receiving the Eucharist at a special Mass for lawyers and politicians at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had a special blessing of his own for those who question his impartiality when it comes to matters of church and state. Scalia flipped a middle finger to the press. A Boston Herald reporter outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross asked

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Reading an article helpfully aimed at the layman about the Riemann zeta function. Has something to do with prime numbers and physics of atoms, and the nature of the universe, or something.Anyhow... Heres the kicker:"There is an important sequence of numbers called "the moments of the Riemann zeta function." Although we know abstractly how to define it, mathematicians have had great difficulty

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So I started talking to a Rabbi. About things jewy. Just for fun.The Rabbi told me to come see him sometime, and suggested I take an, 'interested in things jewy class' up in Dunwoody. Which would involve taking a bus to a train to a bus... and then doing it all over again to get back home again. This clearly violates my upper limt of 2 transfers per round-trip. I'm really not sure if G-d is worth

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There's a word I want to hear, and it isn't Corruption. Remember watchingThe Civil War on PBS years and years ago? Remember how the letters theyread always seemed to damned eloquent? So proper. Their English wasfantastic, and they used it well. Same goes for letters written duringWorld War I. It's like they were just smarter than we are now, and morepracticed at writing. Well, who knows if

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Hopefully because the democrats will be in power and will impeach him. LINKStory the conservative mag Insight, which lists Michele Malkin as one of its 'sites to watch.' I had always thought MiMa was on the fringe, and checked on technorati - no, she's a top 10 blog.What is this country coming to?

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1/31/06: Samuel Alito Sworn In As 110th Supreme Court Justice2/23/06: S. Dakota to ban abortion

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I've been doing a little flashmob retrospective.June 19th, 2003: An Agent Smith flashmob. Clever.

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Its not like they come out with half-Samoan Barbie.but even if they did?I would still totally want Galadriel Barbie.She's so... white.

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Car belonging to Ruth Levy, democratic candidate for State Senate, District 32.I know this is, like, my 8th post today. I so don't want to be at work...

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This is utterly odd.Harpers seems to have wiki-fied its entire site, under the main category 'Connections,' which links between people, places, things, and ideas. Literally. Heres the list of links: Sources, Human Beings, Human Endeavor, Human Attributes, Human Needs, Ideas, Supernatural Beings, Nature, Geopolitical Regions, Organizations & Bureaucracies.A few clicks in, you find yourself at a

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what the...Flash mobs were invented by Bill Wasik, Sr. editor of Harpers, as part of a social experiement?hat tip Gawker.grrrrrrrr..........

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I recently did a non-formal lit review of writing about internet discussion boards. I found that most of the scholarly writing is practical application research in 3 categories: Healthcare: do online forums help educate patients and thereby impact care.. can you deliver preventative care over the internet Education: effective uses of tech in education Poly Sci: political ramifications (

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random news of the day...David Irving was sentenced over the weekend for denying the holocaust. Hard to know where to fall on this one, but I guess I'm for.Over at the corner on NRO, they're also split - I guess juxtaposed against the cartoon controversy, theres some concern about even-handedness re: free speech and offensiveness... I don't know. BIBs mentioned a bit about the trial, in which

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So Cheney poured the fragments of his heart out to Brit Hume on Fox News last night... "I fired, and there's Harry falling. It was, I'd have to say, one of the worst days of my life at that moment." "I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry." "The image of him falling is something I'll never ever be able to get out of my mind," Yes, this is how guns

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Funniest question:Courtesy NYTimes Dining and Wine Section "Diners Journal by Frank Bruni":Dear Mr. Bruni,I find it valuable that you were reporting from the White House.Are they canibals? Being now a restaurant critic you could throw some lite also on the background of policy making. Comment by Pincas Jawetz — February 15, 2006 @ 6:26 am Tabloidest spin:courtesy HuffPo:The real story is already

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2/14/06 CNN: The fellow hunter shot and wounded by Vice President Cheney suffered a "minor heart attack" after a piece of birdshot moved to his heart, a hospital spokesman said today. "Some of the bird shot appears to have moved and lodged into part of his heart ... in what we would say is a minor heart attack," said Peter Banko, with Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial.In other news,

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Very funny stuff from the press gaggle today with McClellan. Q Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and... Q When did the president know the the vice president was the shooter? Q But you've got like a -- you've got a situation room here. You've got people who monitor stuff. It's impossible to find out -- I mean, the vice president

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Last week, Coretta Scott King passed away.Its been hard for me to know what to say. Her funeral was loudly discussed on cable television.It is a tribute to the first lady of the Civil Rights movement that a memorial of her life publicly shamed the most powerful man in the world.But George W. Bush's shame is a side story. Last week, Atlanta took the day off, got on the bus after work, waited in

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Well, little news item yesterday: Chip Rogers introduced Senate Bill 529, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act.As I understand, immigration is the wedge issue of the next election cycle, (although gay marriage never gets old...)The bill does a couple of things:1. denies public benefits to adults in the country illegally (I believe mothers and infants are exempted) and requires

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3rd DistrictIncumbent: Jim Marshall (D)2nd term (63 percent)Outlook: Tossup Marshall currently represents the south-central 3rd district, but under a newly approved Congressional map he will be running for re-election in a renumbered and reconfigured seat. Next year, he will face former Rep. Mac Collins (R), who represented portions of this redrawn district until he lost a GOP Senate primary last

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AP..."On Friday, 21 of Georgia's 34 Republican state senators all Cagle supporters signed a letter urging Reed to withdraw from the race, saying his involvement in the Abramoff scandal "threatens to impact the entire Republican ticket."Reed responded in a letter that he had no plans to quit: "Elections are won at the grassroots by the candidate with the strongest record and best ideas. That is

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A lot of folks I know or read were irritated last month over the Oprah-Frey flap. I read, and heard, variations on the theme of 'what is the big deal?' about 50 times after smoking gun revealed that bestselling memoirist James Frey is at best, a writer of fiction, and at worst, a big, fat liar.As an 'is it a memoir' debate, BIB thought the Frey flap was authenticity lite. A real, academic

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So... it turns out that a friend known here as 'Umbrella' never stopped cheating on his girlfriend Allycat!And all this time, I thought he'd turned over a new leaf - when he was just a conniving James Frey to my - well, I guess there is no Oprah in this story. Just Frey.

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The Cuddle Puddle of Stuyvesant High Researchers find it shocking that 11 percent of American girls between 15 and 19 claim to have same-sex encounters. Clearly they’ve never observed the social rituals of the pansexual, bi-queer, metroflexible New York teen...

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from the Corner and Roll Call... In the election to decide who will replace Tom Delay and bring reform, transparency and accountability to congress, House Republicans took a mulligan on the first ballot. The first count showed more votes cast than Republicans present at the Conference meeting. Oh, thats so funny. Sounds like a case for Voter ID...

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Z, leader of the 'Rotten' crew last year, (which threw a supercool, super successful benefit for 'Art in the Park') apparently finagled his way into getting half of the profits.We're not talking about a whole lot of money - but given that: Z was board member of the nonprofit, and... the Rotten fundraiser was a labor of love (not a labor for Z) ... most of the friends/volunteers who made it

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Moderately excited about Superbowl XL for the first time since the Pats won a few years back.Couldn't care less for the Steelers or the Seahawks except that they both have talented young Samoan players: Troy Polamalu and Lofa Tatupu.Cool!

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So I was reading my blogs the other morning, and came across this:Remember the girl I met at the volunteer training for Dekalb Rape Crisis Center.......whom, to our mutual embarrassment, I ran into at stripclub karaoke at the Claremont lounge?Man, she turns up in the weirdest places.Apparently she attended a vegan protest at the Honeybaked Ham (mmmm... honeybaked ham....) on Buford Highway with

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From Paul Kiel, TPM April 11, 2001, as Reed was mounting a campaign for the chairmanship of the Georgia Republican Party: Reed writes: "Jack, would you be willing to contribute personally to my state chair campaign? This race is costing me $50-100K, and i'm asking my friends to help." Abramoff responds: "Sure. Give me the name of the entity." Reed deadpans: "The actual committee is "

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The GA Progressive Summit 06 happened this past weekend - Schmer and I, were in attendance. It was a blast. I paid the fee half thinking it was a donation, and not knowing what to expect in return. I had no idea what I was getting into - they totally delivered. I met a million fun folks, learned about 18 new skills, and saw about 50 fun projects to get involved with. Neat!More later - but one fun

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From Roll Call...Wednesday, Jan. 4 President Bush took advantage of the Congressional recess to appoint a trio of commissioners to the Federal Election Commission today, a move that was expected but has several prominent campaign finance reformers crying foul. The newly appointed Republican commissioner is Hans von Spakovsky, a political appointee in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights

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My fire-hula-hooping, tantric-sex-workshop-going buddy L announced that she's... quitting smoking, drinking, partying and the arty-farty warehouse-living lifestyle- all to settle down with the BF in Decatur to have a baby! Scandalous!!!

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I can't type, having spent last night in the ER letting a plastic surgeon remove a plank of wood which entirely punctured the base of my thumb. So... the basics of the blogpost brewing in my head...1. flashmobsA large group of people who gather in a usually predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse. —v., —adj.+ 2. verlanI seem to recall that the code the Axis

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So I'm a pretty conscious citizen of the earth. I think. I bike to work, or ride the shuttle, or the bus. I buy organic (mostly). I'd recycle and compost if it were an option in Atlanta.But I do have one bad habit. I don't have a coffee mug at work. And every day, I go through the following ritual about 4 times: Go to the staff lounge, grab styrofoam cup from stack. 'Brew' 2 packets of espresso

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So my sister and the boy left town today. My sis to Boston for R&R; the boy to Berlin for a funeral.Last night we all went to a Matisyahu concert - thats Matis to the left. He is - thats right - the hasid-from-white-plains reggae star you've all heard about.Why was I there? Two words: guest list. One of my sister's buddies did his thesis on racial others in music - and scored a job as tour

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Winter is coming, and for the first time in many years I feel an old gladness. Summer is such a heady season - glittery and bright, frivolous and shallow. Coming off it is like nightfall after a long day drinking beers in the sun. My feelings probably come from years of thoughtless vacations followed by the beginning of school, but regardless, something about cold and dark says 'buckle down'. Its

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I so don't want to be at work today. Its become very ironic that its no problem to be efficient, proactive, in my personal life - weekends, I get up early, get stuff done, run around all day...But when it comes to work, forget about it. I am the princess of indifference. My entire mindset turns into one of irritation, disorganization and avoidance. Hmm. Maybe I don't like my job? Gar. Well, like

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I hold on to stationary forever. I'm always intending to write little notes, and never do. But Sunday, I finally did. I sent a handwritten explaination to the letter to the editor pgs of the NYTimes why I am cancelling my weekend subscription (which I love, and pay an obscene $30 a month for).I forget the exact wording but something to the effect of: You let your paper print government propaganda

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No sooner has Moss apologized to her modeling employers for using cocaine than fresh gusts of scandal are buffeting the mannequin. Over the weekend, sources claimed in Britain's News of the World that Moss had lesbian romps with actresses Sadie Frost and Davinia Taylor, as well as a three-way with Frost and her former husband Jude Law. Fashion p.a. Rebecca White was quoted as alleging that

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Eastward Lake Pontchartrain, Mississippi coast, Alabama, Florida, Millions looking blind and random.food and watervulnerable criminalsthe dead uncoveredThese days of sorrow and outragestrangers as brothers and sisters and neighbors.wounded healers conducting a house-to-houseI lost my and I lost my.but I still got and I still gotA core of God storm Americanto clear and build.You need to know,all

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For news coverage, I'd say MTV news has done the best job. Simple kids spending a day in 4 different flooded areas seeing what its like. I think, after watching it, that I'll do a volunteer stint this weekend - a couple hundred folks landed here from the coast. I can't imagine that they need any extra help from me, but maybe someone will want to take a minute off from all this, go see a movie or

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Funny thing about Black Rock City - it meets my definition of a city. That is, it can simultaneously exist for many people in many ways without losing a real sense of itself. Hippies, gear heads, old guys, young girls, the dirty and the clean - we were all there, and the city was with all of us.Funny thing number 2: deserts are like oceans somehow. Because, like the ocean, in the desert you must

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I'm going to Burning Man. Prehistoric dry bed of a lake, it’s the opposite of Savannah. The last time I camped in the desert, I was on a family trip to Yemen tagging alongside another important man in my life. We brought our cat, who more closely resembled the carvings on the pyramids than her fluffy contemporaries Jack and She-ra. She had oversized ears and eyes, a slender neck and short,

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This is how they bill themselves. Friendster for the VIP set. Not theBigWorld everyone else is forced to live in. If you have not received an invitation to aSmallWorld, you can ask your friends to invite you. If you have no friends who are members yet, you simply need to be patient.Patient for what? For the revolution to come and for aSmallWorld and any so-called friends of mine insubstantial

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I don't care if the boy calls me John Bolton, I am having difficulty stomaching the IRB. Protecting human subjects of research is a great and noble cause. But government bureaucracy makes a mockery of ethics. Come on. In 50 years, we went from Nazi doctors to this?????(20) HHS regulations at 45 CFR 46.116(d) require that the IRB make and document four findings when approving a consent procedure

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Goddamn I'm grumpy. Sad thing is, having a cigarette wouldn't help, which just makes me even grumpier.------The boy walked into the kitchen this morning brandishing the new IKEA catalogue saying, "I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a..." I grabbed it, whined, "get me some stickies!" and went page by page marking everything I want to buy. Its Georgia Sales Tax Free holiday and they just

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Judge John Robert is a thoughtful, principled conservative. Judge Robert has not publicly stated a position on the abortion issue. However in 1990, as Principal Deputy Solicitor General for President George H. W. Bush, Roberts, wrote a legal brief for a pending Supreme Court case stating the Administration position "that Roe was wrongly decided and should be overruled…"“One of the most

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Went to my mum's 50th last weekend - she'd called 7 days in advance and told me she was quitting her job. So I bought a ticket, organized a little party, and spent some time talking with her about retirement. I don't think she ever spent much time thinking about the future when she left my dad - she did it in a way that precludes alimony. I don't think she understands much about what the floor is

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Is your Commander-in-Chief hereand across the world?Shores we face, remakein their own grim image bytoppling, drivingus out.Madrid, Istanbul, Jakarta, Casablanca, Riyadh, Bali.See the imagesEvery picture is horrifyingsuffering is real. Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Libya nature exploded along a busy outsidebroadcast for the worldsavage acts brought closerNajaf, Samarra,

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It worries me that after 14 weeks of testimony and seven days of deliberation, the forewoman who read the jury's verdict on Michael Jackson mispronounced 'lewd.'Sigh..."Lud."

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Loyal fans, and I know theres three of you, I think its time to take a break from the blog. Its been a lovely 10 months, and now that summer is coming back around, I need to shift my distraction offline. Back in a few.Best,- Ms. Bling

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Was riding around with my girls Ani and Len two, three nights ago. We were en route from a fire spinning party at Freedom park to some late night food. I was unsettled. I had just worked out that Len and I had some unfinished business to do with my boyfriend - and she didn't know yet.And I hate fire spinners. I know how to spin fire because my mom taught me Maori poi ball dance when I was young.

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(Reuters) America, the "runaway bride," whose much-publicized disappearance days before fullfilling her election vows and committing to George Bush's mandate turned out to be just a case of cold feet, was indicted on Wednesday on two charges of falsely claiming she was abducted by the Democratic Party, authorities said. America, 232, vanished days before coming to a clearcut decision on UN

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from WaPo: The timing could not have been more apt. On the eve of a titanic partisan clash in the Senate, eggheads of the left and right got together yesterday to warn both parties that they are ignoring the country's most pressing problem: that the United States is turning into Argentina. While Washington plunged into a procedural fight over a pair of judicial nominees, Stuart Butler, head of

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EvolutionSo NYTimes most e-mailed article today begins like this: Evolutionary scientists have never had difficulty explaining the male orgasm, closely tied as it is to reproduction... But the Darwinian logic behind the female orgasm has remained elusive. Women can have sexual intercourse and even become pregnant - doing their part for the perpetuation of the species - without experiencing

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Went to church yesturday with J. J has been going the rounds at Atlanta churches - she told me an amusing story about another church she went to. It was one of those Mega churches - indie christian rock band etc., the most amusing part was that the pastor teleconferenced it in each Sunday - the flock sitting piosly before a large projection screen of a minister at an alternate location. Go

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Someone must have told runaway bride America that life was going to be easy; most people don't spontaneously wake up and decide they are going to run 1,000 miles away from their problems. Instead most people usually deal with the issues that are thrown in their way. This is for one main reason: Regardless how far away one runs, the problem will still exist.America was never taught the skills

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Been out of it for a few - had a conference in Indiana last week and then went to RIPE Atlanta all weekend.Good week. Worked hard, then played hard.So I checked in with the news to see what I'd missed. And I know its not good to take stuff out of context, but oh well, here it is:NBC NEWS' MEET THE PRESS, May 8thGuests: Gary Schroen, former senior CIA agentMR. SCHROEN: The mission was to--the

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Dear Bling-Bling in the ATL Readers,Its in the static on Air America when I drive into the parking garage. Its the dust on the outside-top of the window pane that I just can't clean. Its your psychic sorrow, your bleeding aura, the painstaking attention you've lent to each tragic twist of the human interest story which has gripped the nation these past 5 days. I can feel it.No, I'm not talking

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NEW YORK, April 28 -- Climate scientists armed with new data from the ocean depths and from space satellites have found that Earth is absorbing much more heat than it is giving off, which they say validates computer projections of global warming....the scientists calculated the oceans' heat content and the global energy imbalance. They found that for every square meter of surface area, the planet

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Budget 2006:Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg (R) and House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Nussle (R) have been in private talks for weeks to explore the possible elements of a compromise FY 2006 budget resolution.Staffers say the compromise budget resolution is likely to allocate about $70 billion in five-year tax cuts.They add that Medicaid cuts of about $10 billion are likely in the

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Had a funny moment at work today. I was sitting there, working on a study, listing to Randi Rhodes on Air America joke about the Secret Service putting her in 'stress positions.' And for no reason at all, I checked in. Had one of those moments - This is my life. This is what I do. I go to work, I follow the news, I work on stupid projects, I go home. This is it.Had a funny moment at the boy's

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So I got a list from ABCs the note about the Bush administrations top priorities and thought I'd think about each. 3 days later, here goes.Iraq war completionNo idea whats going on in Iraq. I hear of the bombings, the elections, but have no idea where the country is in terms of self sufficiency.Economy, oil, and Saudi Arabia Good luck kids! Its all going down the tubes. Why? 1. oil demand is

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And I found my people! Wait a second, this isn't Samoa, it's... earthy, asian-inspired dinnerware with a "cast iron" appeal. Hmm. For serving deep-fried missionary to your guests, perhaps?Thank you for the orientalist-inspired mention, Crate & Barrel. But flattery will get you nowhere. When the oceans rise and WWIII is done and gone and your great grandchildren come adventuring to our ocean

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President Announces Wetlands Initiative on Earth DayWells National Estuarine Research ReserveWells, Maine12:12 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Before I start going on too long about Mother Earth, I do want to recognize my mother on Earth. Thanks for coming, Mom. (Applause.) I hope you're up the road making my bed. (Laughter.) Earth Day has become a great tradition in our country. It's a day that reminds

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Been following the Bolton nomination. For a while I was thinking about it in terms of checks and balances. Constitution gives Executive broad powers re: ambassadors, splits treaties and warmaking between the Legislative and Executive. Thats not current practice, and I was wondering if maybe - with the White House perhaps pulling a Trent Lott on Delay and Legislature and Executive in general going

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So I'm on call today for the rape crisis center.Its so funny, I could never, ever rouse myself out of bed at 6:30 in the morning to go to work, but for this, no problem.After I checked in with the answering service, went out to Starbucks and chatted with the staff, got my daily jolt. Drove back home and stood on the sidewalk for a minute, watched my cats roll around in the twigs. Dirty birds. It

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-----Original Message-----From: JamekSent: Monday, April 11, 2005 2:17 PMTo: Tanisha; Lisa; Patricia; Lan; Nat; Ms. Bling; WangSubject: Re: It's a Surprise!I don't mean to bother or pressure anyone but, will you let me or Tanisha know if you plan on contributing any money for Moses new rocking chair. Tanisha is placing the order tomorrow and needs a heads up on how much money she has to place

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Nice weekend. Sat, went to the Dogwood festival. We were there to support LL, who was promoting her hula-hooping business, but we never saw her - just crowds of people, a Christ the King Bud Lite Karaoke tent, kids singing country on the big stage, and lots and lots of artists booths. Didn't see any dogwoods, either. Maybe they've been cleared for the new parking deck.I was trying to convince

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Nothing grabs me lately that is of note to write about. Nothing automatically fleshes itself out in my mind as I'm walking to work, or puttering, etc. Just a few words and phrases. So, I guess I'll write and see what happens.Do-over. Repetition. Sometimes you're not sure or you're not done or you're not ready, so you try something again, until you come to an outcome, resolution, transformation,

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Cute site, 'we watch Fox so you don't have to.' Laugh of the day comes from the transcript of FOX News' Big Story w/John Gibson: Gibson, who supports the USA PATRIOT Act, says "Well, I don't know about you, but I haven't seen any terror attacks here. It must be working good. Why change it?" Napolitano says that both Attorneys general Ashcroft and Gonzalez said they needed it to

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Les mots que je vais te dire sont bizarre, peut-etre incroyable. Mais ils sont completement vrai.Au jour d'hui, je me suis réveiller. Ma tete blessait.Lentement, j'ai ouvert mes yeux. J'étais sur un grand lit, a cote de un grand fenetre, dans un chambre bleu. Il y avait deux chats sur un chaise. Sur le table, Il y avait un violon, des livres. Avec moi, sur le lit, un beau jeune homme, nu, dormait

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Get me out of HERRE!

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Amazon leaves brown boxes at the boy's door, part of the mysterious Dissertation process. This morning there was one. I found it first; I hid it behind my back and made the boy wrestle it away.Last week a big box came, with something for me too. But I picked up one of the boy's history-of-trauma tomes, Soldiers and Psychiatrists instead. I found my gift bookmarked on on the boy's bedstand.Midway

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The boy is having a party. I'm making Borscht for the first time. The recipe is a carryover from my time in Boston, when I lived with a young Russian named Dimitri, or Dima.I was madly in love with Dima. I didn't worry about ruining our easy living arrangement, didn't mind that he was gay, or that I was happily dating someone else. Dima was never home though, and that concerned me. Occasionally

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Tuesday was sunny. I had a delivery from one university to another. Had a nice drive, felt like I took a gallon of gas and a cigarette and vaporized them both all up and down ponce de leon. Thought of places of relative plenty, where the oil and tobacco come from, and the little capillary of me, unwinding the spool of aerosolized toxins from Emory to Tech.Spent the afternoon telecommuting from

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Saturday sun, summer returning. I haven't seen them but I've seen the skirts and the legs all this week - the city's undergraduates lined outside the tanning salon all weekend to put on a little preemptive glow.I woke up early, and found text messages from the boy and umbrella. The boy and I rendezvoused for salty tapas breakfast and some misguided art. I practiced line quality with charcoal,

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And told him that I'd been sick a lot in November and January. And gave him all my timesheets to sign.And then I told him about my big dark bad mistakes. How I'd organized the coding aspects of a research project and how in the end the interrater reliability rating is .65, not >.70 like it needs to be.And also how I don't get money - where it comes from, how to get it, when I'm supposed to spend

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What do you do on a bad mood day?I guess the same things you do on a good mood day, just don't enjoy it.Feel like crap today, grumpy, pessimistic. I'm hungry and thirsty and I have a headache and nothing seems to work.So I get ready, go to work, make some phone calls, plug away.oh well. 8 more hours to go til Friday.- Me.

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So, one thing I haven't blogged about thats not nessecarily of interest to the general public, but is of interest to me: I've been playing violin again. I always thought I'd hated it, I remember one time my parents made me practice for 3 hours before a concert and I was so pissed off I decided to play really loudly and badly the entire time. I can trace about 5 bad playing habits back to that

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Some itinerant readers have decided that Ms. Bling in the ATL has a "distinctive voice" which she infrequently lives up to. According to sources, her last post, Neverland vs. Neverland "could have been written by anyone."Hmmm. Not sure what I think about that. It could be a good thing - I am always endeavoring to put on a public face that is more like the rest of y'all. Have I succeeded too well,

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We've got two Neverlands in the media right now. Wacko Jacko's real life paradise for pedophiles, and Johnny Depp's venture into Victorian child worship. The movie is the sicker of the two. First off, this isn't about the people. WaPo today has a headline pitting Condi vs. Hillary, and in a celebrity deathmatch, I'd root for Condi. I would expect she'd wear her black boots and the pointy ends of

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Wah.So. Strange days. All you regular ATL Bling Bling readers (come on, I know there are at least - oh - four of you out there, even though Umbrella's new corporate ownership cut off his internet privileges) may have read about how I spoke power to truth at one of my last rape crisis trainings.Well, apparently I ruffled a few feathers. The speaker with whom I disagreed, lets call him Ulysses (

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So V3 gave me a call over the weekend. V3s an old friend from London who lives in NY now. I went to see her when I went skiing with the boy in January.Funny story V3 - she keeps her gender and sexuality deliberately ambigious at times. I call her she but, having grown up with a lesbian vegetarian sister who dates men and eats bacon, I've never tried to further pin it down. I remember when my

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Finally watched Hero last night with the boy. My review? Well, its kinda like every other hong kong film...lots of swishy robesTony Leung in a love triangle-y relationship to a Maggie Chung and the state, Maggie Chung hangings out in the wilderness, representing intemperate emotionalism which is, on the one hand, nessecary to progress from a primitive state of individualism, (initial betrayal)

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Ian S. Lustick: Agent-based modelling of collective identityHeres someone who, unlike me, thinks the world makes sense. Lustick investigates models of identity vis-a-vis collective descision making. He has a theory of tipping points - borrowed from epidemiology and applied to ideas. Or memes. Whatever you want to call them.Lustick assumes a certain model of identity, then posits that there are

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In my political fantasy land, identity would not be the organizing factor for progressive political groups. People would not assume similar causes based on a perception that they were similar people. Rather, people would congregate around issues or problems that have a broad base.So:Trauma:Rape victims and vietnam war veterans would share mental health services and lobby for better recognition of

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Final rape crisis counselor training last night. I felt a little bit like a wolf in sheeps clothing because, well... I have some problems with the feminist party line. I can't help it, I'm descended from cannibals and socialists. While I'm all about powerful women, I come to my conclusions from a different point of view.So I got in an argument with the Men Against Violence presenter. He's the guy

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