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Archive for June, 2008

Doogie vs. Mal ON THE COMPUTER

Joss will be bringing you Doogie vs. Mal in a series of computer shorts or “webisodes” (horrible word). Whedon describes the series as “It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to,” as reported on Ain’t [...]

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Not Coming To A Publication Near You . . .

Through Salon’s Broadsheet, originally from Copyranter, I found two French safe sex ads, one for women and one for men, that I keep going back to because they’re pretty and thought-provoking, like a starlet working a good cause. (They’re Not Safe for Work, so I’ll put them after the jump.)
First, they’re beautiful in a [...]

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Random Sunday

Cleaning out the spam folder and trying to check for legit comments, I noticed that the new thing in spam is looooooong lists of phrases that start to look like free verse (this is the R version instead of the original X):
sophie moone cowgirl
crossdressing king of prussia
men forced to be sissies
dating online parent service single
doug’s [...]

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Congratulations, Del and Phyllis!

Maybe it’s because I’m newly a grandmother that I get all weepy now, or maybe it’s because it’s just so beautiful that Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon can finally get married after fifty-one years together, but I’m all teary over the first same-sex marriage in California this week. Go here to read about [...]

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Calliope, the Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Here’s Callie’s birth announcement picture:

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My Friend Julia’s Terrible Marvel

So I was supposed to go to a party today and I was really excited because it’s been AGES since I’ve been to a party and because it was a book party for my pal Julia. And now I can’t go. I have the tile guys and the dry wall guys and two [...]

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Dogs and Goddesses, the Tagline Contest

So we need a tagline for Dogs and Goddesses. And I am covered with shame because I still haven’t sent Francois her stuff for the Dreamland win and there’s this wrap from the UMF contest that I did finally finish and pack up to send, only to go looking for the address and get [...]

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SBP Trouper

We’re having an SBP (Storm of Biblical Proportion) as I type this. A minute ago, the deck door blew open with a bang, the lights went out, and Veronica peed on the floor. I’d have yelled, but basically, it was only by drawing on my fifty-eight years of accumulated maturity that I kept [...]

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