archives for April 2005
we take it where we can find it
Saturday 16 April 2005 | I like a cookie
A welcome moment of hilarity among the Social Security List of Impairments: “New! Malignant Neoplastic Diseases!” Awfully perky about malignancies, aren’t they?! Well, at least let no one say they aren’t enthusiastic about their work. And now all my researches have driven me back under the duvet.
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“as any dutiful wife would do”
Friday 15 April 2005 | I like a cookie
If we ever had any doubts about whether ending a marriage could benefit a woman immensely, we should reread this unintentionally triumphant 1966 article on Joni Mitchell’s first, and very young, matrimonial foray, which lasted officially I think about three years. Her husband was also a folk singer, of whom no one ever heard again. [...]
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how to pronounce “samhain”
Thursday 7 April 2005 | someone left a cookie
I’ve always said SAH-win—since I was about seven, that is, and was taught the word—but these people from the Black Phoenix forums have lots of thoughts about something called voiced bilabial fricatives, and whether you should say SOO-ven, or SOW-when. It all makes my head hurt, post-big extravagant spending on $95 pair of Josef Seibel [...]
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monday afternoon dysregulation
Monday 4 April 2005 | I like a cookie
So I’ve just taken the Romanoffs, half a tab, for N. fears my outburst last night was the result of ceasing Romanoffs without medical supervision (but afterward I’m a genius! or anyway the voices in my head tells me I is) (house elves is not supposed to have fun, Harry Potter) or perhaps more to [...]
