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Posted: July 13th, 2007, 2:38am MST
One of the problems with being a nutjob is never knowing whether your emotions are real or not. I had a bit of a run-in on the net this morning (entirely my own fault, as usual) but have been disproportionately upset by it all day, even fighting back tears in the supermarket. I can't tell whether I'm just being a sook, or whether it's the depression or even PMS talking.
In conclusion, everyone post pictures of cats, quick.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 8:32pm MST
Dandelions roar and your daddy is deaf,
The daisies drank the water and the tadpoles left.
Your eyes are drooping darling daughter and you're dizzy in the head;
The toads are eating dinner so it's time to go to bed.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 3:12pm MST
It's 6 am, and Tim is stuck in Meow Mode.
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 7:58am MST
I'm in love with this: I've seen fans unfavourably comparing the new series with that right-on golden era of the show, 1988 - 1989. (Makes me feel incredibly old, though.)
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Posted: July 11th, 2007, 6:49am MST
1. I have to track down the source, but I read where people actually laugh all the time, not just at jokes, in fact, almost never at actual jokes. Instead, nervous or embarrassed laughter is a way of constantly defusing social situations, showing that we're friendly and harmless. AND WE HAVE NO EMOTICON FOR THIS. The smiley :-) is our closest approximation. And LOL means something else entirely. (Maybe this is why LOL is sometimes used in weirdly inappropriate places?)
2. I'm so out of touch with what the young people are listening to. In the gym I heard a prog rock pastiche which made my jaw drop, so I Googled for it, armed with a few of the lyrics which I was able to make out. I turned out to be something called Pyramid by a band called Wolfmother. I'll have to have a proper listen to it - even from a little bit I caught I could hear references to ELP and the Beach Boys.
3. Speaking of the kids' music, what's that dance track that quotes two lines of Duran Duran's Girls on Film over and over?
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Posted: July 9th, 2007, 10:57pm MST
Glorious Innana
Glorious Anat
Terrible chambers of my heart!
You drive me up
Easily as a cow driving away a fly -
Too high
I come down to find I've killed the tables and the chairs;
Instead of the enemy, I've overthrown my own house.
Terrible chambers of my heart,
Glorious Anat,
Glorious Inanna!
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Posted: July 9th, 2007, 6:19am MST
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Posted: July 6th, 2007, 11:05pm MST

(Jon made this!)
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Posted: July 6th, 2007, 9:20am MST
WAIT I GET IT
When I argue online, I'm using the wrong register. This isn't a slow, considered academic-ish debate. I need to shift in the direction of online journalism - headlines, soundbites, brief summaries. Plus lots of repetition.
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Posted: July 6th, 2007, 5:43am MST
Online discussion shakes my faith in the ability to language to convey meaning. To begin to believe that it doesn't matter what I say is not a good thing for a writer. I feel as though meaning is some huge, soft, wordless thing, moving mysteriously out of reach, impossible to shift.