archives for Monday 4 September 2006
groovy mot du jour
Monday 4 September 2006 | I like a cookie
eldritch (adj.) unearthly, alien, supernatural, weird, spooky, eerie First recorded in the early sixteenth century, and found almost entirely in Scottish use, there are two schools of thought on the origin. One is…that it derives from an assumed Middle English form elf-riche ‘elf-land; fairyland’ from riche ‘kingdom; land’ (related to rich ‘having abundant wealth’). The [...]
are you ready to clean up your life?
Monday 4 September 2006 | someone left a cookie
Great! You’ll probably have to stop throwing up first, though. (Via the much more interesting and helpful Radical Mutual Improvement.)
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as usual we’re having ourselves
one hell of a time
Monday 4 September 2006 | someone left a cookie
(from Patty Griffin’s “Forgiveness,” which had me and the Brujo in tears at Thirsty Ear last night; but not crying, because we’re such tough bastards.) The redoubtable Frederic Luskin, PhD, supplies embittered exes everywhere with his idealistically useless nine steps toward forgiveness (courtesy of Mme Bovary, a blog to which I’m unabashedly addicted). Upon reflection, [...]
read ‘as usual we’re having ourselves
one hell of a time’
gather round boys, here’s the plan
Monday 4 September 2006 | I like a cookie
Okay. I need to bust a move right now, and for the next three days. I need to labor, people. It’s time to jam. I have a pile of money-generating hack work to plow through and this month’s bills for (in no particular order) Internet, phone, gas/electric, water/sewage/refuse, psychiatry/meds/therapy, and various other small necessities of [...]
