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TGIF Sun Lovers
"fun in the sun Hippo style" Misrepresentation! That's not fun in the sun! Look at the ice under their feet--and it's just starting to snow! Ah well, some of the country hasn't fully awakened with the dance of Spring--these hippos are busting their tutus to bring it on! :)— March 24, 2010 12:38 a.m.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Hey doll, if you like the boots with the black and the velcro, you would totally lose it over my carpal tunnel wrist splints. Pure sexiness, man. All velcro straps and panels, with black and metal bars down the center, with supportive plastic strips on either side. Mmmmm... baby! ;)— March 23, 2010 11:17 p.m.
A Safe Internet
What is your proposal for a safe Internet, Patriciaann?— March 23, 2010 11:07 p.m.
To Stella from Mica: Tales of Beyond the Front Door
I can't believe anyone would try to give Advantage for dogs to cats--no one I know does that! That is just asking for trouble. I wouldn't even attempt to give part of the adult does to kittens. Uh uh... If I hear of any way to do it naturally, man, everyone in my book is getting a shout out. At present, everyone is using Advantage--except me and Mica, who had no need. Even though we have a screened-in porch, I guess the fleas are too stupid to jump up and through it. ;)— March 23, 2010 12:23 p.m.
None
re #11: LPR, I had that, too--an unfortunate byproduct of being in the hospital, when you are most vulnerable to this stuff. Contracted it from a surgery, and it required a second surgery (during which I was awake and screaming, as the surgeons hands actually plunged into my gut) to clear the infection from my abdomen, before it spread to the rest of my body. Not fun. One second you are burning up in the sea of flames you mention, and the next you are lost on a frozen peak, blasted with icy winds. However, as soon as they cleared the infection, it was all gone, calm and peaceful. I'd never been so grateful in my life, despite the horror of the experience. Sounds like antibiotics actually kicked for you that morning? "She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been" Love me some Paul Simon ;)— March 23, 2010 2:27 a.m.
What's the worst way to die?
Yes, true, many elderly suffer from medical conditions requiring complicated care, but I've been in a lot of nursing homes stuffed with people who do not, people who just sit and stare blankly because they have lost the will to live. These places try to provide a standard of care, but they end up feeling like incarceration, too--lonely, isolated, and smelling always of urine...— March 23, 2010 2:15 a.m.
Better news on Jai & Acqua, but another deader
How do you find a restaurant at the corner of Executive and Executive? By calling their secretary's secretary? ;) At the Venice in Point Loma I enjoyed a pretty fair mussels al diablo. Besides the fresh, plump green lip mussels, the highlight of this dish was a rich, spicy broth.— March 23, 2010 2:09 a.m.
Wigged Out
"The wig looked somewhat like Marilyn Monroe's hair," ... it didn't match the paint-stained Dickies pants the woman was wearing or the baseball hat she wore over it. Oh, I don't know, maybe she was going for a sexy Monroe-paints-her-house look? ;) Great job Sgt Brown and Fallbrook PD!— March 23, 2010 12:02 a.m.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Good to hear, mf. Yeah, that boot is so comfy, and takes all the pressure off. I was kidding about it being sexy--antigeekess had joked about that when I broke my foot, and had written the "foot fetish" blog. Good job on doing what you can to heal well--mine still aches when it is about to rain, though...you are probably right about the 100%.— March 22, 2010 11:56 p.m.
We Filipinos eat with our hands, drive crazy on the road, point with our lips
"...but about a half-hour into it, I realized that the story was simply a pretext to a different issue." Oh, I see what you're saying--well, of course it is about the issues. The debate has been too hot to stay with some kind of literary analysis of the story per se. I wouldn't try to make people stick with that, when it has become a site of contention in cultural matters. I am not using the story as a "pretext," and my comment urging folk to respond to the story is just that--not some kind of pretextual or hypocritical statement. Very often literary analyses of this kind of story turn into sociopolitical analyses or debates; it is only natural, don't you think?— March 22, 2010 10:29 p.m.