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March 26, 2003

feces

me: If I tell her it's crap in an educated way I figure I'm set. Catherine: feces is a good fancy-sounding word for it. it'll make you sound 'educated.'

Posted by me at 9:34 PM

March 24, 2003

Shut 'Em Down!


Jessamyn makes a good point about protester shutdowns of cities. I wonder what it would be like to be a person who feels threatened by protests?

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March 15, 2003

blood

It's just that it seems like it must be awkward, what with the blood and all. --Sly

Posted by me at 9:15 PM

March 11, 2003

Name That Dread-Inspiring Sound


I'm still hoping that someone out there will be able to help me diagnose what's wrong with my internal combo drive. To that end, here's another clue: I have posted an MP3 of the sound it makes (with helpful narration!) If this brings any of you any closer to an understanding of what's going wrong, please let me know; I'd be eternally grateful.

Thanks again to Roger for his suggestion... maybe I'm being too squeamish, but I haven't been able to pry off the slot cover.

Posted by me at 3:35 PM | Comments (3)

March 10, 2003

Get Your War Gone


Because I think that first-person accounts of what goes on during a war are the best way to dissuade people from wanting one, I'm going to continue to link to such accounts. Here's one from craigslist.org.

Posted by me at 11:17 PM | Comments (0)

Stalin-y

bacon:His character is sterling! me: Stalin-y? bacon: No, sterling! me: I thought you said Stalin-y.

Posted by me at 9:54 PM

March 9, 2003

It's All Over...


... by which I mean winter, as well as my patience for Sunnyside. The Mr. Softee trucks are back. I swear to god one of these days I will expose the one who lingers eternally at the end of my block playing that godawful song as the covert drug dealer he is.

Posted by me at 7:34 PM | Comments (0)

One Less Safe Place to Play DDR


There's been shootings and stabbings at Broadway City Arcade, one of the major places in NYC to play Dance Dance Revolution. Apparently this took place during the hours when they open up one of their floors as a dive nightclub.

My immediate response was to wonder whether this was a Crip Walk-related incident, but the article says gang activity was ruled out. This can't be good for Giuliani's Times Square, though. Frankly, it's not any good for local DDR, either. Braodway City has the best viewing setup anywhere in town, and a lot of the best dancers used to hang out there.

I just want to note this weird sentence from the article:

"The fight broke out about 2:40 a.m. in the club of the Broadway City Arcade on West 42nd Street, the street where the theaters present ``The Lion King'' and ``42nd Street.''"

1) Who doesn't know what 42nd Street is? 2) Is naming two musicals -- one named FOR 42nd Street and the other a knock-off of a Disney movie -- really going to help anyone who ISN'T familiar with 42nd Street understand where this took place?

Posted by me at 7:25 PM | Comments (4)

March 7, 2003

That Envelope Did Look Suspiciously Skinny...


Yes: UCLA (education), UC Riverside (dance history).
No: UC Berkeley (education).

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March 4, 2003

Ari "Motherfucking Kissinger" Fleischer


You know, we here at the Dancing Sausage just can't bring you the kind of ugly PR bullshit we'd like to be able to dish out to our readers on a regular basis. So we're letting Russell Mokhiber do the job for us. Check out the log of his strictly-limited-to-two-daily questions to Ari Fleischer.

Posted by me at 9:26 PM | Comments (0)

This one's for Irons

... who may not remember it, but who for a while was my regular companion to a movie theater in Berkeley (or was it Palo Alto?) which distributed matinee tickets marked "BARGIN." He laughed pretty hard about that.

This was the banner headline on a local-discount-stores circular which came in the mail today. It delivered what it promised, too. Interior headlines read "UGLY BATHROOM?" and "DANGER MOLD."

So, what -- is "bargin" a cutesy spelling of "bargain," like "lite?" Or like the "Kalifornia Kleen Kar" car wash in Pasadena?

(I know, I know. Bless me for I have sinned, I haven't posted anything real in about a month. It's mostly 'cause I have this piece on being bourgeois that's hugely long already but hasn't come out right -- I don't feel like I'm making a decent point with it yet.)

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March 3, 2003

Two Down


Received word from UCLA today that I got in to their PhD program in education. hurray! The neat thing about their program is it's combined with an Information Science program which seems to encompass librarianship and some other stuff. So if I, say, wanted to switch paths and suddenly become a radical librarian I could ostensibly do that.

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March 2, 2003

Happy Belated Birthday


to Sylvie and Ariel. Yeah, I know I should have called. I'm a bad sister. But you do know I'm working on your birthday presents, right?

I knew Ariel was keeping a running log, but I hadn't taken a look at it. The sort of interpolation you'd have to do to use it to figure out what's going on with her life (which isn't its intent, I know) reminds me a little of reading A Midwife's Tale (hey, I hadn't known PBS did a docu based on the book!) I admire the minimalism of it.

Posted by me at 10:18 PM | Comments (0)

Happy Belated Valentine's Day


There's a very good reason why I missed Jacob's Valentine's Day cards this year, though looking back I'm sorry that I did. They were perfect. Knowing I had even the subtlest influence on this year's theme would make me happy, but he never seems to draw them for anyone in particular. Jacob's kind of an island.

Posted by me at 10:02 PM | Comments (0)

Help Me Out, Here


Can anyone explain to me why a person might feel compelled to stay up later than is reasonable, even if she is tired and knows she has to be up early? I go through spells like this every now and again, and I don't understand why I do it.

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March 1, 2003

Getting To Know Our Future Homeland: TV Station Banner Ads You Won't See In The US

CFCF (the call letters apparently stand for "Canada's First, Canada's Finest), a Montreal TV station, has the following banner ads on its TV site:

It's funny what those rules about French use in public signs will produce. With these ones it's almost as if they're only using French words because they have to -- the puns make almost no semantic sense. These phrases wouldn't make any sense whatsoever to most American English-speakers, but one presumes the average English-speaking Montreal resident knows enough French to get these clichés? I'm presuming this is aimed at an English-speaking audience, because "Canada's Un Deux Watch" doesn't mean much in French.

Food for thought: Will we ever see Spanish-patois ads akin to these ones aimed at English speakers in the US?

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