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Dairyland Greyhound Racetrack in Kenosha Wisconsin will be closing 12/31/09. 900 Greyhounds need to be adopted or they will be euthanized. Please help spread the word. Contact Joanne Kehoe; Operations Director @ 312-559-0887 or Dairyland Racetrack Adoption Center directly @ 262-612-8256. (repost from a friends page, please do the same)
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| apparently I am intent on spamming IJ today |
[03 Nov 2009|11:51am] |
[11:49] Mouse: is geology hard?
[11:49] Dew: it's a bit rocky
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| Interesting! |
[03 Nov 2009|08:33am] |
Key West, Florida:
Sunny Key West might not seem like the most probable setting for haunted houses, but this small beach community is home to some of the oldest—and downright creepiest—of all ghost stories. The city’s rich history of buccaneers and rumrunners provides the backdrop for a lot of these ghosts, like those that are said haunt Captain Tony’s Saloon. Before it was a bar, Captain Tony’s was supposedly the location of the island’s morgue, and the tree that grows through the building’s center is said to have been a major site for lynching pirates and other criminals, and many are said to still haunt the premises today. Other local ghost stories concern the writer Ernest Hemingway, who kept a home on Key West for some thirty years. Hemingway’s house, now a museum dedicated to his life and work, is said to house the novelist’s ghost. Some visitors and workers claim to see him walking the grounds, while others have heard the clicking of his typewriter coming from inside the main house.
Most Haunted: Robert the Doll
The island’s art and historical museum isn’t haunted, but it does contain one of the creepiest artifacts of Key West’s history in the form of Robert, a large doll that many claim is possessed. The doll was given to painter Gene Otto in the early 1900s, and the young boy soon became deathly afraid of it, as he said it would often threaten him and wake him in the night by throwing furniture around the room. The boy’s parents would often swear they saw the doll moving, and neighbors claimed they often spotted Robert pacing in front of the windows of the house when the family was away.
*I'd actually seen a program on Robert-the-Doll. The thing is creepy as all hell.
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| Selekted Riting Wrules |
[03 Nov 2009|08:24am] |
1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
17. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
18. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
19. The passive voice is to be ignored.
20. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
21. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
22. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
23. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth-shaking ideas.
24. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
25. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times:
Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
26. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
27. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
28. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
29. Who needs rhetorical questions?
30. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
And the last one...
31. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
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| It's in the singing of a streetcorner choir... |
[26 Oct 2009|10:38am] |
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Anna Nalick - Paper Bag |
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Would you like a fabulous holiday card from yours truly?
Go on, you know you do.
All you need to do to get one is reply here (comments screened) with your mailing address and preferred celebratory event (Christmas, Hannukah, Winter Solstice, Snow Day from Work, etc...), and, voila! You will get a phantasmagorical holiday card of epic proportions.
Also, don't assume that just because once before you had given me your address, I still have it. Cos I have the attention span of a gnat and the organizational power of a three year old.
Whee!
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[23 Oct 2009|04:16pm] |
ObamAsh!
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| *Snerk* |
[20 Oct 2009|03:51pm] |
Kate: eyelinergirls: i had some peas from a pod yesterday
Kate: eyelinergirls: i'm pretty sure they didn't taste like baby
Dew: lol no eating the baby
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| this amused me |
[19 Oct 2009|08:41am] |
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| Niiiiiiice. |
[24 Sep 2009|07:37pm] |
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"Dont look in public restroom mirrors too long. They get curious, and start looking back."
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[18 Sep 2009|07:59am] |
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I need some Fringe and Bones icons.
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| Hee. |
[16 Sep 2009|07:59am] |
"I feel bad for Joe Wilson. He's being made an example of."
"This is the best thing that ever happened to him," I countered. "A few days ago nobody knew who he was, now everybody does. He certainly couldn't get a national reputation for his accomplishments in Congress."
"Listen, a lot of people just want their America back," He was agitated.
"Are you talking about the Navajos?"
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