Random thoughts

[cleolinda]

>> Important note: I had four of the BPAL envelopes returned to me--the addresses were wrong? All I had to go on were the addresses on y'all's Paypal, so if you paid but haven't received yours, please get back to me in the comments.

>> My mother just up and cleaned the entire refrigerator from top to bottom, with bleach, on Friday afternoon right when she got home. Some vague, pernicious funk was emanating from the fridge, and whether it was animal, vegetable or mineral, we do not know. Yea, we do not know even now, verily, because it had vanished by the time the fridge was clean, and yet she never encountered anything stank on the way down.

(Pernicious Funk will be the name of my next garage band.)

>> All three dogs came home from the vet on Saturday with clean new Easter-print bandannas around their necks. The poms wanted theirs off pretty quickly, but Lucky is still wearing his--and before you start in on me about how making a dog wear a bandanna is tacky and/or cruel, he's worn them before, and he's always very sad when you take the bandanna away to wash it, and always very happy when it comes back. Don't judge my dog for being stylish, okay?

>> I think I had forgotten how very good chocolate-marshmallow-almond ice cream is. (Marshmallow ice cream. Think about that for a moment. It's actually softer and stickier than the chocolate ice cream. Zomg.) I think it just knocked chocolate chip back off the top of my list.

(It's actually chocolate ice cream, marshmallow ice cream, and chocolate-covered almonds, lest I mistakenly give you the impression that almond-flavored ice cream is involved. I have not yet witnessed such a thing.)

>> On Saturday, I finally read Stephen King's On Writing, and was perhaps the last writing-interested person on the planet to do so. It was just one of those things--I wanted the book, I asked for the book, I got the book, I... never read the book. Shit happens, what can I say. I did, however, mark this passage as a truth for the ages:

"In many ways, Eula-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors."

>> Courtesy of iczer6, we have a charity request with a twist: a family that's had one hell of a time needs your help getting on Extreme Home Makeover.

SeattlePI.Com: A year of bad luck leaves family struggling to cope: "Todd Downing and his two children, Kayleigh, 8, and Tyler, 11, of West Seattle have endured many hardships over the past year including the death of Sam, his wife and their mother, the death of Todd's father, a flood of sewage to their home on Christmas Eve and a fire which destroyed the home on Valentines Day 2006. Now the family is living in a rental home across the street."

Click the second link (EHM) to see how you can help. And no, collecting money is not involved--it's more "using the power of the people on the internet to make something good happen."

>> Linkspam:

Ancient Sun Temple Uncovered in Cairo; Egypt announces discovery of Ramses II statues.

"Your Boyfriend Was the Killer All Along" Day! I got to the second paragraph and laughed out loud. Hee.

Is the LA Times taking advantage of Kate Braverman's bi-polar illness to make her look bad? 

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler dies.

A freaktastic new Rolling Stone article on Scientology.

Stewart Blasts "Evil, Immoral" Trump. Oh, come on. I refuse to believe they're not funnin' at this point. Surely this is a sham feud to drive up ratings for the new season of The Apprentice.

George Michael in Drug Arrest.

On the heels of last week's hidden passageways: do-it-yourself secret hollow books.

Video: Recess time at Panda Kindergarten. Yes, it's as adorable as it sounds.

dailydigestnews: Much linky goodness.

Comments

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten my BPAL yet, although it's possible I accidently put in my college, no longer valid address instead of my home, valid address.

[pigsnicket.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten mine yet, but since I'm in Canada I assume it'll be a little while yet. But was one of the addresses to Toronto?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm, lessee... first name?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Hmm... No, Toronto didn't come back--you'll probably get it any day now.

[kywhippets.livejournal.com]

Just seen: Only on Fox: "All-Out Civil War in Iraq: Could It Be a Good Thing?" (http://mediamatters.org/items/200602240003)

For crying out loud.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

Holy Bambi, those pandas! *squeelet* I just squeed at my computer and got in trouble at work. :-D

I only hope that the reunion with their parents isn't difficult. I hope there's precedent for the parents accepting their cubs after a long absence.

Oh, god, this should go on baaaaabyanimals.

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

I haven't gotten mine yet... should be for Naomi G.?

Aaaand sometimes the pernicious funk is just from the accumulation of all the food smells. Ew. Least favorite chore ever, personally.

[ter369.livejournal.com]

On Saturday, I finally read Stephen King's On Writing, and was perhaps the last writing-interested person on the planet to do so.

Nope.

I haven't read it.

I also haven't read that Bird By Bird book every aspiring-writer-who-hasn't-finished-writing-a-novel pushes at me.

[alliemolloy.livejournal.com]

iiiice-creeeeaaam!! My favourite flavour is Heavenly Hash, which has the chocolate ice-cream, marshmallow goo-ish ice-cream, and pecans, I believe. Yum. I can only imagine how delicious it would be with chocolate-covered almonds!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Feel free to post it there, if you want. : )

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Yeah, yours is one of the ones that came back. Email me at dailydigest at yahoo.com with your current address, and I'll check it against the one I've got/fix it/send it out again. : )

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, we had Bird by Bird *assigned* to us in one class, and I never finished it, either. Lamott strikes me as being kind of... flaky?

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Goddamn, I didn't think Scientology could get any crazier or scary, and whoop, lookie there, there they go again.

Also file under "scary" -- undercover TV reporting team (http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/25/florida_cops_threate.html) tries to find out if police stations, as they are required to, give out forms for civilians to fill out for officer complaints. Out of 38, only three did, and there was plenty of naked intimidation and authority-flaunting (http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_033170755.html) to go around. And one such cop filed suit (http://cbs4.com/local/local_story_053001510.html) to stop the story from airing.

Still plenty of fanatics in this country, isn't there?

[elbeonore.livejournal.com]

Someone should invent almond-falvoured ice cream. It would be wonderful!

Also, have you seen this (http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/index.jsp?cat=ENTERTAINMENT&fn=/2006/02/27/334534.html&cvqh=itn&ts=2006.02.27_13.15)? Dan Brown is being sued for idea-theft. I can't admit to having read The Da Vinci Code, or any of the other books, but now I want to read them all, if only to see how similar they are. Good publicity. Anyway.

[freyalorelei.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, your whippet looks JUST LIKE the whippet I had growing up. Her name was Liz, she was brindle-and-white, and she lived to be 17 1/2.

Sighthounds (especially whippets) are teh awesome.

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my BPAL and the other stuff hasn't come yet. I will allow as how I live in the postal Bermuda triangle, so my mail is apt to vanish and reappear months later wondering what happened. My last issue of MacWorld was plainly transported by black hole, seeing as it was the February issue and it came on Valentines day much the worse for wear. General relativity sucks that way.

Can you confirm the address for me via email? If it's not a space-time warpage issue, I'd like to check that it isn't sitting around waiting somewhere.

[elbeonore.livejournal.com]

Yup, you convered it in Daily Digest.... Oh, well.... I won't let that bother me.... Not at all... *cries*

[spooke.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to that page of bizarre Japanese ice cream flavors? I can't convince my mom that anyone eats garlic, raw horseflesh or oyster ice cream. Baw!

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Rachel O, possibly either going to Amherst MA(college) or Framingham MA(home)

So much for the highest form of flattery

[spooke.livejournal.com]

I wonder what they mean by Dan Brown being "interested in taking shortcuts." Now you can't use other books for research - you actually have to write the research paper first?

[count-01.livejournal.com]

For future reference, almond is one of the most-favored flavors in the Mediterranean region, along with lemon, hazelnut, banana and pistachio. You can find it in pretty much any ice cream shop from Spain to Lebanon, year-round.

Sadly, it is not so popular here, but we are such barbarians we think Cherry Garcia is a good pun.

[kdorian.livejournal.com]

Coldstone Creameries have almond ice cream, as well as a sweet cream ice cream to die for. You can find the closest one here; it looks like the closest ones to you would be in Hoover or Trussville. (http://www.coldstonecreamery.com/locator/neareststone.asp)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually sent y'all's out yet--we have to go get a different size mailers for those, because I am dumb.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

*pat*

[rahrahmah.livejournal.com]

YES! I need that too! Because there was a goat one on there, wasn't there? Made with goat milk and with goat flesh? No one believes me!