A book can contain racist ideas, but a book itself cannot be racist. Things like this make me hate humanity. I refuse to go along with this week’s warm, feel-good celebrations of Harper Lee’s novel (published fifty years ago today), To Kill a Mockingbird. Simply put, I think that novel is racist, and so is [...]
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(typo in subject line intentional) http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/04/let-me-count-ways.html http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/04/let-me-continue-to-count-ways.html
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Today was a domestic day. Kitti and I cleaned the fishtank (2/3 water change) and set up a new filter. The previous filter was getting pretty old and having some trouble. It was also getting really noisy. I could have just bought a new motor for it, but it was pretty dirty. So the tank [...]
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Pretty good, actually! Not constantly lose my cell phone. — I haven’t lost my phone at all! Partly because I lost the charger, so my phone is sitting useless on the table in the living room. … d’oh.
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It’s midnight GMT, which counts for more than just any ol’ timezone. My resolutions for 2010: Update this site more often. Or ever. Not constantly lose my cell phone. Remember not to put French Vanilla creamer in French Vanilla coffee. Take Cardiff for longer walks in the morning. Get back to those Rosetta Stone German [...]
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All You Need Is - Thursday, December 10th, 2009
All you need is Nine, Nine. Nine is all you need. Which song was this lyric from? Get your own lyrics:
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Pardoner’s Tale and Ace of Wands keep turning up on pirate sites. I have mixed feelings about this. One is “yay, people want to read my stuff.” The other is “I could really use that dollar.” I feel hypocritical complaining about it though because if someone said to me “Can I take your ebook and [...]
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Off My Game - Monday, October 19th, 2009
The Barcstoberfest “Strut Your Mutt” and associated festivities has been moved to the 25th, so there’s still time to donate and sponsor Cardiff. I’m glad it was pushed back because of weather because I was seriously under the weather this weekend. The whole sneezing/coughing/chills/general misery thing. I slept most of Saturday and was bratty on [...]
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