Category: Crazy People
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Outrage
Author Nicola Griffith has blogged a call to action, which you can find here, in regards to a woman dying in the hospital whose same sex partner and children were not allowed by law to see her or receive any updates on her condition. The hospital was later sued and the state awarded the hospital…
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Charlie Brooker on the American News Media. Funny
Seriously funny, seriously pathetic, seriously. Thanks to my friend James in Manchester for sending me this.
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Back to the village with head held high
A friend sent me this clip from YouTube this morning, saying it was the best thing she’d seen on the internet in a while. I had to agree, it was pretty damned awesome.
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Thought for the day
I love the internet, but sometimes I feel like too much of my life is carried out on it. It’s a necessity, to some degree. But honestly, I sometimes dream that my laptop has bloodstained fangs.
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Perplexed
The other night, I was running in the university gym, and on one of the television screens above my head, CNN was running some segment that had something to do with Wall Street and the stock market plunging, and they kept cutting to different business-y looking people, who were obviously saying all kinds of stuff.…
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I’ll be judging. Just call me Tyra.
On Saturday, June 14, the latest incarnation of the Oakland Center for the Arts popular Fundraising is a Drag event will feature Downtown Youngstown’s first drag pageant! The show begins at 8 p.m.. A wine and cheese reception will begin at 7 p.m.. Attendees may bid on items in the fabulous Chinese Auction during this…
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Gettin ready to rock
Lately I have been in busy hell. Forgive me if I owe you an email. Right now, getting revved up to go to Wiscon at the end of this week. Karaoke Party on Friday night. Be there or be square, as they say in Paris, or in the 1950s. Also this Wiscon Alan, Kristin and…
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Weird 80s Flashbacks
I have been interrupted whilst trying to watch The Neverending Story THREE NIGHTS IN A ROW NOW. Clearly there is a conspiracy to keep me from revisiting films from my childhood. However, the YouTube video for the film’s theme song is much shorter than the film itself, and includes Limahl with crazy hair as usual!
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Cats for Engineers and Ordinary People
Looking for a laugh? This did it for me this weekend. Via Kelly. Arigatou!
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Fixer-uppers
Via my friend Meghan, David Giffels sounds like a guy who is as crazy about Akron as I am about Youngstown. He bought a nearly condemned house a little over a decade ago and has been restoring it with his wife ever since, and even wrote a book about it. Can’t wait to read it.…