January 2009

in alaska, a common saying about finding a man is “the odds are good, but the goods are odd”

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(^play me)

There. Mari put a last wrap of electrical tape on the splice and flipped on the main breaker.

Jeff was the perfect prince on their first date, bringing her flowers and complimenting her haircut. Their second date was also good, but it went downhill after that. First it was going Dutch to the basketball game; now, Jeff was your typical boy leech.

Last week, he said he wanted to date others.
What a relief! thought Mari.
Could she make sure no one else would be fooled by Jeff’s charms?

The flashing red light on his porch should be warning enough…

sometimes, there is a tie on the saturday challenges, and you have soem odd combinations…. like blowpops and water

at the time this one was untitled,  but now i like *the knitty gritty*

wc-137-anima-blow-pops-and-water (<play me)

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Kellie loves to knit. Really makes the needles fly.

First it was scarves for friends,
then more difficult techniques, like felting and spinning her own yarns.
Once she went experimental, I don’t know of anything she didn’t try to knit.

Dad got slippers knit from the skins of organic banana peels;
Jenna, a blanket made of bank statements,
I received a barbed wire hobo bag.

But not every project was successful…

Kellie wore a SWEET cotton candy cardigan, with blow pops for buttons, to the church picnic.
Needless to say, she was a big hit at the water balloon toss.

this was the first word challenge that i “won”

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anima-zabaleta-wc116 (<play me)

Uncertain about your uncertainty principle?

Then you need Popular Quantum Mechanics…
The magazine that explains the unexplainable.

Learn how to play the ponies in a parallel universe and win!
Surfing tips for finding the break in your wave formation.
Bonus Blueprints! Diagrams for decks using Planck’s Constant!

Popular Quantum Mechanics.
Where it doesn’t count until you’re out of options.

Looking for something a little lighter, try the subsubcompact “Nanotech News”, where smaller is bigger and a thousand copies fit on the head of a pin.

Popular Quantum Mechanics and Nanotech News, available at W.H. Smith, in all the finer Cosmodromes

i love the duke chapel in durham, north carolina. it is built in the gothic style, and if you go at the right time, someone will be practicing on one of the two organs. that is one of the most fantastic sensations, to hear the organ music reverbate through all the arches, through your body. when you leave the chapel, it is an amazing contrast; the outside is so much more quite…. ironic, eh?

like the song says, you need to accentuate the positive. i’m not sure i always do this to the best of my ability,

but i try.

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I reckon I’s got a moment to ruminate…

Lemme see: January, I got T-boned: but Insurance bought me a new used Chevrolet. It don’t burn half the oil the Dodge did!

That there windstorm peeled off the trailer roof and Jimmy put in a fancy skylight. So what if it leaks a little;

Summer drought killed off the grass, so the yard never needs mowing;

And today, a mechanical on this here aeroplane gives me 90 minutes of peace from my whiney sister-in-law.

Indeed, Sugar,  I’s thankful for the tarnished linings of all them dark, brooding clouds.

i spent about 6 months in scotland when i was 15. when i came home, a friend finally asked me to “speaking like normal folk”, as if they speak normal in north cackalacky. as if.

macshillysheighs (<play me)

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Oi!, these ain’t me trousers!

They’re mine.
You realize, it’s been six weeks since we returned from Scotland. Think you can start talking normal again?

Lassie, I’m a MacShillysheigh~ a verra proud Highland clan, not to be trifled with. ‘Ose pants are they?

Whatever.
When I married you, you were Jack Shay. Just because you found some distant fourth cousins, all of the sudden you’re Braveheart.
Must you wear that ugly orange and purple plaid skirt and fur purse?

IT’S A KILT, SASSENACH!, AND SPORRAN!

Fine, kilt… Just so long as we agree who wears the pants in this family.

some things are creepy no matter how you look at it…

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anima_zabaleta115 (<play me)

Carl worked the women alone, especially the pretty ones. They couldn’t talk back, or complain… Outside, the sun was setting…

“Jayne Doe, Caucasian female, aged 25 to 30″

“Skin, pallid and cool, …Cause of death… Possible exsanguination? … No apparent gross body injury .”

“Lovely”, he murmured, stroking her marble white cheek.

“Heh… small puncture wound on the neck… make that 2…

With the jab of the measuring probe, Elenas’ eyes flash open. She grabs the examiner, dragging him near.

“So you like dead girls? Exit solus, dear doctor.” she thinks, sinking her razor sharp teeth into his neck.

a felted yak i made for a friend. the horns are made from pourcupine nails… this peice is somewhat inspired from all the good times i have had at the lonely yak road house on blakeslee, in second life. ain’t she a looker?