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Blogging for SPAM
<ring, ring> "Tank you for carring Happy SPAM Wok! You wanna derivery?" (Okay, I'm in class typing this. Bye.)— November 3, 2009 5:01 p.m.
The Sordid, Grisly Details
"Granny AG's Beat-all Cure-all BC Powders! Available at your local apothecary! Kidding, AG ;)" Hey, not my cure. The migraine guy's. They do have that ingredient that suspiciously absent from everything else, though. Probably doesn't yield a high enough profit margin for other companies if they use it. After all, packaging on BC Powders is minimal. Other brands have a plastic bottle in a cardboard box. They also spend a fortune on advertising, whereas I haven't seen a BC ad since I was a kid. Maybe the makers of BCs can afford to spend more on actual ingredients. <shrug>— November 3, 2009 3 p.m.
All In Seven Minutes
"The UPS driver grabs his package- wait, that sounds wrong." Female coworker of mine had a delivery for Mr. Beefcake not too long ago. Mr. Beefcake is young and cut. He likes to spend lots of time outside, enjoying the pleasant weather shirtless and wearing his tighty-tight jeans. Female coworker rolls up, gets an eyeful and says, "You don't have any mail today, but you've got a nice big package!" Freud jumped out of his grave and did the chicken dance.— November 3, 2009 2:45 p.m.
Robin Leach, You've Sunk So Low...
Re #27: Yes, indeed! (As opposed to the "action" transvestite or the "weirdo" transvestite.) I love Eddie. Used to spend quite a bit of time on his site, actually. I have several of his DVDs -- Circle, Dressed to Kill, and Glorious. Eddie rocks! IMO, if you're a dude walking around Times Square in a miniskirt and stillettos, you've obviously only got one problem -- how to keep your ****s from dragging the ground. :)— November 3, 2009 2:27 p.m.
The Sordid, Grisly Details
Re #11: You mean this? http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=wa…— November 3, 2009 11:02 a.m.
Lemons Foils Attempted Mugging
"I was reading an innovative genre crossover, I guess :)" It's pretty darn goofy. Could well be fiction. Considering it's not any funnier than it is, however, I'm gonna assume it's supposed to be fact. Great story, if it's real. If it's fiction, the writer needs to stop giggling at herself and write something more entertaining.— November 3, 2009 9:40 a.m.
Stepping Out After Midnight...In Vista Ranch
...la vida loca ...like you were dyin' ...free, as free as the wind blows :)— November 3, 2009 9:31 a.m.
The Sordid, Grisly Details
"You see, I enjoy the washing of the dishes...I realize that few share this sentiment." I really don't mind it either, Pike. Thomas Moore also wrote in this book http://www.amazon.com/Care-Soul-Cultivating-Sacre… ...that he likes doing dishes. There's a chapter in there about the soulfulness of mundane work. Adam, it sounds like the migraine experts have already weighed in. They probably have the best advice. However, I used to have a boyfriend that got horrible migraines. He had encephalitis as a kid, and it really seemed like maybe it was actually recurring. He would even have episodes that appeared to be a stroke. Scared me half to death -- I really wanted to call an ambulance a couple times, but he insisted I didn't. His favorite remedy? BC Powders. http://www.bcpowder.com/products.aspx I tried to figure out WHY a while back, and noted that other pain relievers didn't have the Salicylamide in them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicylamide— November 3, 2009 9:26 a.m.
Offerings and Messages
Can't imagine what you thought was going to be offensive about this blog entry, Cuddle. The first book on this subject, the original classic, is this: http://www.amazon.com/Life-After-Raymond-Moody/dp… Most of the books I'm aware of since then relay similar experiences. Here's one written by an associate of Moody's, Dannion Brinkley: http://www.amazon.com/At-Peace-Light-Dannion-Brin… And I think you mentioned this one, by Melvin Morse: http://www.amazon.com/Closer-Light-Melvin-Morse/d… I used to have a whole bookshelf devoted to this subject. They finally went out with (almost all) the Wicca stuff a few years ago, before a move. Actually, they were all dumped in the Pacific Beach Library book depository in the middle of the night. Nothing like being irritating and charitable at the same time. :) I used to have a lot of these experiences, when I was younger. I think there's probably a qualitative difference between what's described as an OBE (which I'd say is synonymous with 'astral projection') and the NDE. I think these things get very hard to classify, though, despite the Western insistence on it. There may be many more "types" or "levels" of experiences than just these two. Not that there's anything truly hierarchichal about them. For example, I'm not quite sure where we'd put "lucid dreaming" in these classifications. I've done that, I've had what I would consider OBEs, and I've also had one that I would call an NDE, but it was not precipitated by any traumatic event. It's always been my belief that I was "pulled out" by a teacher of mine. I call it an NDE because there had apparently been no respiration or blood circulating in my body for a while. Not only were my extremities numb, even my lips were. I gasped for a breath as if I'd been under water for quite a while. Aaaaand that's all I've got to say about that. </Forrest> Nice blog entry, Cuddle.— November 3, 2009 8:53 a.m.
Lemons Foils Attempted Mugging
"We have this detail for the antag, why not for the protag? :)" Because you 'always' have the race of a perp as part of their description, Daniels. It's a crime report, not a work of fiction (as far as we know, anyway).— November 2, 2009 9:37 p.m.