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photo of Waseca MN by cursedthing Bluestem Prairie lays out the details of the story so far: Waseca Confidential part 1: Mike Parry’s deleted emails as metaphor ~~~~
Sarah Palin: Fox News Contributor The maverick-y punditry of Sarah Palin has what plants crave. Electrolytes? Fertilizer. ~
“We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We’ve Had One Under Obama” – sez Disinformation Minister Rudy “Get me Rewrite!” Giuliani ~
w00t! It’s my favorite scene from the 1984 movie “2010″ aka “2010: The Year We Make Contact”. The hub noticed it yesterday on teh intarwebs (here). Of course all the heavy lifting was already done — by whoever took the photo, and by whoever shopped in the monolith, and by whoever first thought of the caption. I just improved it a little by actually putting the caption on the photo. For additional riffing, some of it very funny, check out the comment thread on the Reddit link. Open the minivan doors, Hal. My God, it’s full of Starbucks! ~
Bluestem Prairie: It takes a worried man: SD 26 GOP Endorsee Mike Parry scrubs potentially offensive twitter posts MinnIndy: Senate candidate scrubs racist comments from Twitter and now from Think Progress: Minnesota State Senate candidate removes racist comments from his Twitter feed Hmm. Guess it’s not quite “that easy” after all. Wonder if Mike will demand that he give himself a refund? ~ Ah, yes. Here we are again in the trough of post-Christmas doldrums, when an old Tild’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of… crate labels! Presenting the latest addition to our ever-growing blog crate label line:
Compare and contrast with the original Tex-Rio citrus fruits label. Actually I think mine turned out rather well [said your ever-modest as well as kindly old Auntie Tild] ~
So, night before last at around 8pm I suddenly had this brilliant idea: I would go down to the basement and search through about a dozen steamer trunks and footlockers to find ALL of the family slides; find ONE PARTICULAR SLIDE out of hundreds no, make that well over a thousand; convert the slide to a digital file with the slide scanner I bought more than a year ago and had never used nor even taken out of the box; spruce up the image in case it had faded over the past 49 years; crop it and make it as nice as possible and put it on a flash drive and take it over to Walgreens before work at 6am yesterday & have an 8×10 print made so I could give it to my sister when I brought all the gifty things for the grand-nieces & nephews over to her house at noon so that everything would be done and delivered before the snowstorm hit… Mission accomplished — and, hurray for me, it only took until 1:30am to get the photo into halfways usable shape! That’s my sister and me (and I?) in the photo. It was taken in December of 1960, the year my sister was Lucia at the American Swedish Institute. She was 12, I was 8. Angelic, ain’t we?! God Jul och gott nytt år to all, and to all a good (quiet, peaceful, lucid) night. ~
Big momentous history-changing milestone: As of December 13th 2009, this blog – known as Tild~, aka (more accurately) Tildology – is six years old! Happy Blogiversary to me! Hard to believe the old thing is still ticking, considering the ever-increasing seldomness of updates. To celebrate, I rummaged through the junk drawer media library and pulled some random images from each of the past six momentous years to create A Tildology Retrospective. Congratulations, donations, and yes, even gifts are much appreciated. (Ahem… please take note of the Tip Jar and Tild’s Wish List in the sidebars) Hey, the way I look at it I’m way too old and way too cranky to keep putting on that stupid pious false-humility act. No more. No, from here on out it’s strictly: I’m old! Gimmee stuff, dammit! Thank you. Enjoy. ~ Okay kids, since today is the 3rd annual PYATT Day, most of you already know the drill…
But in case you’re a newbie, or maybe a veteran who could use a refresher course, this year an enthusiastic person who identifies himself only as “Ben Mag” enumerates the completely complete, totally total, and extremely complicated official instructions for how to observe Pretend You’re A Time Traveler Day : If you find that you need to go back to the beginning and can’t fly around the earth fast enough to reverse time a la Superman, here is Dresden Codak’s original post. Have fun, and as always let’s be careful out there. ~ |
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