Naah, not that kind of vamping. Are you kidding? Tild don’t play that.  (Knowledge, I’m sure, that comes as a great relief to everyone.) 

I mean vamping for time, as in:

Oh jeez I haven’t posted anything in weeks. Better put something, anything up while I continue to fritter away my days

• working 48+ hour weeks
• retiling a bathtub/shower enclosure
• weeding my garden
• saving for a new laptop
• reading animation tutorials 
• sleeping 

or in other words: doing everything but blogging..

And what do I have to show for it?  Well, for one thing: Blinky Theda Bara, above, my first attempt at an animated gif.   

And then there’s my second animation production, which can be found here.  

(If you need help putting names to the faces, ask me in the comments and I’ll help you out.)

I’ll be back to what I laughingly call regular blogging sometime soon.  In the meantime I’ll be putting up the random gif or video now and then just to make the place look lived in.

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Posted: August 28th, 2007 under Meta.
Comments: 1

Got back from Yearly Kos late Sunday night, and I expect I will be posting some thoughts and reminiscences about that before the week is over, but as usual,  life intervenes in all our plans and comes up with stuff to do that just can’t wait, so it’s slow slogging and light blogging for me at the moment.

Also, it’s been a week and I still haven’t commented about the I-35W bridge collapse.   At my house, most of us had arrived home from our various jobs and daytime activities at about 6 PM that day.  My spouse called at  6:20 and asked what was all this he just heard about the I-35W bridge over the river near University collapsing?  We turned on the TV and watched in shock, and I must confess I’m still in shock a week later.  I’m remembering  something the hub said that evening, tho, something along the lines of “This is a blot on our reputation. We’re the competent state; the high quality of life state.  Stuff like this just doesn’t happen in Minnesota. ”
 
A powerful letter in the Spring Grove Herald yesterday reiterated that statement…

(h/t Ollie Ox)

LETTER: Collapsed bridge = no new taxes

Last night while my daughter, Emily, and I watched, “So You Think You Can Dance” (it’s the only reality show we watch. Honest!), one of the celebrity judges referred to the tragedy in Minneapolis and requested that the audience keep Minnesotans in their prayers.

My first reaction was, “Isn’t that nice of him.” Following right on the heels of that reaction came reaction No. 2, which was a strange feeling of what I would call embarrassment.

We are Minnesotans. We don’t want sympathy. We don’t need sympathy! We get things done and we do things right. In fact we do things better then everyone else! We have the best roads, the best schools, the best health care, the best place to live and raise your children.

We may have been one of the highest taxed states in the nation but we were also the best state in the nation and we had an intense sense of pride for that reason, until Wednesday evening at approximately 6 p.m.

For me, the phrase, “no new taxes,” will forever be accompanied by the picture of that collapsed bridge.

Joanne Griffin

Spring Grove

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In sync with that sentiment is this new bumper sticker, courtesy of insideminnesotapolitics.com  ….

The designer is NOT taking royalties for these. To order the “No New Collapses” bumpersticker, either click on the image or here. 

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Posted: August 8th, 2007 under General, I-35W Bridge Collapse.
Comments: none

The stars are right left! My master is calling! I hear and obey, Great Kosthulhu…

Gosh, was it really only a year ago June that the world first learned the truth about Markos Moulitsas Zuniga?

The globe is still reeling from that disclosure. Yes, yes, it’s all true: we, the hordes of Left Blogistan in our lockstep millions take our marching orders from the great and powerful Kos!

Yikes.
Yet now, barely a year later, on top of that shock the world must try to get its mind around another horrific revelation about the hateful hatefilled hatesite heaped with hatey hate that is Daily Kos. Here’s a clue: Hate!
It’s definitely something to consider: Hate! What is it? Who says it? How do we recognize it?

Well kids, I’m off to Yearly Kos tomorrow and don’t want to leave without putting up some reading material to engage your minds with these questions while I’m gone. Since we’re all talking about hate and hatesites these days, here are examples from two of the right wing’s finest. Compare and contrast what’s said by Bill O’Reilly and Michelle Malkin with the hundreds of posts and diaries posted daily at Daily Kos.

Who are the real haters? You decide…

Bill O’Reilly, hatemonger

Yes, Miss Malkin, Your Blog Is A Hatesite

That’s it from me until next Monday at the earliest. I must go now. The Great Orange Satan awaits…

Ia! Ia! Kosthulhu ftagn!

Posted: August 1st, 2007 under Bill O'Reilly, Michelle Malkin, YearlyKos.
Comments: 2