Oh, great. Now a Supervolcano.

Woww, 2008 has totally sucked donkey dangles, hasn't it? Now to top it off, the Yellowstone earthquake swarm has gone from the conspiracy fringe to reported on MSNBC:

 

"Scientists eye swarm of Yellowstone quakes"

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28427187/

 

Really, after everything else, I just can't seem to work up much concern about the entire earth blanketed in ash and years of nuclear winter. That's pretty awful, but that is how burned out on bad news I am right now.

 

Does GM Not Even Want to Do This Anymore?

They may have missed some super-important Friday night deadline necessary to keep the bailout deal alive:


Durrrrrrrr

Anyways, they're going all 'no comment', which usually means...yeah, wow. What the hell are these yahoos playing at?

Mmm, Eggs Benedict.

My spousal unit is taking me out to breakfast (brunch?) at Tommy's. I'm so in the mood for eggs I can hardly stand it.

Ok, I admit I'm a bit overwhelmed at the moment.

I thrive on routine, even as I actively resent it. And this week, between the holiday, then back-to-work on Friday(?) and then the weekend, and then getting adjusted to a new house which is always weird...

Sigh. It's a bit much right this second.

I always feel like somebody's watching meeeee...

It's been twelve-plus years since I've lived in a house with windows on all four sides. If you're not used to it, it's kind of...disconcerting.

This one is sticking with me today.

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

--Oscar Wilde

In case you couldn't figure it out...

Those were pictures of the INSIDE of my new house. Yes, I am very excited!

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Some things are just as cruddy as you remember.

I sometimes listen to a pretty alt-pop radio station out of Calgary (Fuel something or other, I don't remember the numbers). Anyway, they just played Love and Rockets' "So Alive"...which I distinctly remember as being a super-duper shit song and a total disappointment from a great band.

Well, heck. Fifteen years have done nothing to change that opinion. Wow, yeah. God, it's just terrible.

Argh, the worst part about moving...

Is the part where the eggs are broken, so to speak, but the omelet is not yet made: there is stuff everywhere, and the disaster has not yet been corralled into the keep/give away/trash zones.

That's where I'm at right now, and I am about to go barking mad.

Tronnies.

www.basicinstructions.net

Rod Blagojevich: The Greatest Courtoom Drawings Ever.

See the rest here.

Out With the Old...

It's been a hell of a week. Literally. Hanging on by my fingernails through an emerging mixed state. Got an emergency appt in with a different Pdoc.

Goodbye and good riddance to Dopamax, hello to Abilify and Prozac combo. Cross our fingers, wish me luck.

Another Poem for the Collapse of Civilization.

(This is one of my favorites.)

The Fall of Rome

The piers are pummelled by the waves;
In a lonely field the rain
Lashes an abandoned train;
Outlaws fill the mountain caves.

Fantastic grow the evening gowns;
Agents of the Fisc pursue
Absconding tax-defaulters through
The sewers of provincial towns.

Private rites of magic send
The temple prostitutes to sleep;
All the literati keep
An imaginary friend.

Cerebrotonic Cato may
Extol the Ancient Disciplines,
But the muscle-bound Marines
Mutiny for food and pay.

Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes I DO NOT LIKE MY WORK
On a pink official form.

Unendowed with wealth or pity,
Little birds with scarlet legs,
Sitting on their speckled eggs,
Eye each flu-infected city.

Altogether elsewhere, vast
Herds of reindeer move across
Miles and miles of golden moss,
Silently and very fast.

-- W.H. Auden

Song of The Day

There is freedom within, there is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There's a battle ahead, many battles are lost
But you'll never see the end of the road
While you're traveling with me

Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won't win

Now I'm towing my car, there's a hole in the roof
My possessions are causing me suspicion but there's no proof
In the paper today tales of war and of waste
But you turn right over to the T.V. page

Now I'm walking again to the beat of a drum
And I'm counting the steps to the door of your heart
Only shadows ahead barely clearing the roof
Get to know the feeling of liberation and relief

Hey now, hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
Don't ever let them win

Crowded House rules. Right click here and 'Save As' to download MP3.

Random Funny

Sitars are Awesome.

Will someone please leave me a goddamn comment

begging is so freaking embarrassing. Am I that boring?

Miniature Madness

For some reason I have this fascination with dollhouse miniatures. Maybe because I'm such a giant.

 

But oh my goodness, look what I found:

 

 

more here:

 

http://www.etsy.com/category_sub.php?tags=dolls_and_miniatures.scale_dollhouse_miniature

 

Topamax side effect discovery number ninety-eleven.

Everyone who smokes smells likes my grandma. Blergh.