December 2008
Happy New Year!
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And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass Of...
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what...”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seuss
“Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and...”
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“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This...”
– P. J. O’Rourke
“Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...”
– Oscar Wilde
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next...”
– T.S. Eliot
“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new...”
– Benjamin Franklin
Christmas Is All Around - Bill Nighy
Christmas All Over Again - Tom Petty
The Christmas Song - Hootie & the Blowfish
Merry Christmas from the Family - Jill Sobule
California Supreme Court ruling says it's better... →
No good deed goes unpunished, or so goes the saying.
Such was the case with Lisa Torti, who is being sued for pulling a now-paralyzed friend from the wreckage of a Los Angeles car accident in 2004.
The victim’s lawyers claim the Good Samaritan bumbled the rescue and caused injury by yanking her friend “like a rag doll” to safety.
But Torti — now a 30-year-old interior...
Don't like speed cameras? Use them to punk your... →
Whenever a new, relatively unpopular technology hits the streets, you can always count on teenagers to try and exploit it for their own gain. Such is the case with speed cameras, as high school students in Maryland have begun playing the “Speed Camera Pimping Game,” wherein they attempt to punk the not-so-accurate cameras by creating faux license plates that can be traced back to peers...
Rockibily Christmas - Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
The 12 Gifts of Christmas - Allan Sherman
Wizards in Winter - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
I guess I should get more in the Christmas Spirit...
Something pretty to start the week....
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“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end…”
A conversation with DizziBloom while watching Elf:
Me: Oh, wow, Zooey looks good in those elf tights.
Dizzi: (Snarky) "Wow, she looks good in those tights."
Me: Come on, you would have a threesome with Zooey Deschanel in a heart beat.
Dizzi: ..... If she sang to me the whole time....
“Stress and anxiety are slowly poisoning my passion and joy…”