she's as cold as ice

Dear George,

Hey, saw you on Deal Or No Deal last night. Damn. To my knowledge, Hallmark doesn't manufacture an I'm Sorry Your Wife Pussy Whipped You On National Television card, but please know that you have my sympathies nonetheless.

Regards, Raej

it's something that i'm sposed to be

i had no idea so few people know the third verse to Rainbow Connection.

huh.

always the same it's just a shame

i actively avoided the SotU Addy last night by making curried chicken and watching The Girls Next Door.

(i should probably feel like a bad citizen but, heck, i have enough rage in my life)

i've decided Heff is my new role model.
not for the obvious reason of being surrounded by hot nearly naked women at all times (though i'm not knocking that),
but for his delightful fashion assertion of wearing pajamas at all times.

when i start doing that, i wonder if people will notice?

i hanker for a hunka, a slab a slice or chunka

soon, i may be making cheese.

and no, that's not a cutesy euphemism for some grossish biological act. i'm talking actual cheese potential here.

30 dollars for 30 pounds of 30 minute cheese? can i afford NOT to do this?

(all thanks to this book. i quarrel with it as a world view, but am finding nibbles of inspiration and delight.)

make you think all the world's a sunny day
i was cleaning off the camera phone and decided time enough has passed since the Job of Horribleness that i can share this picture of misc unnamed asian tumblers rehearsing:

baby, i can rock it to you

going to a baby shower in a coupla hours here and must admit i'm a bit stymied.

i don't know babies. so, i don't know what babies need. also, many of the easy choices on the registry are already gone...which is my own procrastinating fault, to be sure.

can i just bring a bottle of scotch? scotch always makes a nice gift...

tell me it's black when i know that it's white

yes, truly, earlier this week my graph1c designer was trying to convince me that turquoise was gun metal blue.

also, i got to tell som3on3 that i don't tell them how to bl0ck their plays, so they shouldn't tell me how to mark3t.

so, with those things plus some personnel changes, work has been a bit too exciting this last little bit.

however, email and remote desktops will be DOWN over the weekend, so i will be unable to work.

in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Poor Sad Raej Sarcasm Fund ("because sarcasm doesn't take a holiday").

and i wanna be a paperback writer

'Nother story. this one is titled The Wolf and The Christian Scientist.

kitty at my foot and i want to touch it

i don't know if it was the two glasses of scotch or the mindnumbing local produce propaganda i was reading, but i managed to convince myself last night that Arthur King of the Kittons is jealous of my cute baby cat encrusted bookmark.

hey bop a re bear said the little wee bear

i've been working on a story, but it's way too long to post here, so i've posted it here instead. enjoy.

P S eh?

FAIR WARNING: this ad features Acutely Disturbing Audio and Extreme Visual Grossness. if you're going to try watching it at work (which i don't suggest, really) turn that volume waaaaay the heck down.



the canadians appear to take workplace safety Very Very Seriously. there's a whole delightful series of these things, involving varying levels of blood, dismembering and impalinating. enjoy!

well it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it
my heart still being broken over Howard Dean, i'm not getting involved at the caucus level this year. when the democratic party leadership picks who they want me to vote for, i'll vote for that person.

and that would explain why i don't know who half of these people are. in the meantime, quizzes are easy!
87% Barack Obama
85% John Edwards
85% Chris Dodd
84% Mike Gravel
83% Dennis Kucinich
82% Hillary Clinton
82% Bill Richardson
79% Joe Biden
42% Rudy Giuliani
31% John McCain
27% Mike Huckabee
27% Mitt Romney
25% Ron Paul
22% Tom Tancredo
16% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

(ps. Dr. J, you may sing one verse of the I Was Right Song since McCain won in NH, but i maintain my dubiousness as to his getting the actual gop-nom. and now you have been mentioned in a post.)

you suck you suck you suck you suck you suck you suck you suck

like secret agents, karaoke djs should come equipped with cyanide capsules.

can't feel a thing from my head down to my toes
before it becomes Completely obsolete, here is a glance back over my 2007:

January
fed asian acrobats (for the last time!)
10 year anniversary of dad's death
made one eyed pork queen quilt
found out my maternal grandfather is a total perv

February
1st grey hair, in eyebrow
nasty flu bout
applied for new job
pepper experiments

March 2007
married snow boarders
quit old job
accepted new job
cast in DR
improv one off
1st flat tire

April 2007
started new job
rehearsed DR

May 2007
met Tim Gunn
opened DR
2nd flat tire
moved job offices

June 2007
finished Faust draft
finished paying off Nemesis
31st birthday

July 2007
wrote songs for Faust
family medical issues
closed DR

August 2007
visit to StL for
Play Fest

September 2007
visit to StL
new season opened at work
finished quilt blocks for Alias Grace quilt

October
visit to StL
Ireland/London
Ghosty

November 2007
NaNoWriMo
Thanksgiving
henna experiments
movie shoot
3rd flat tire

December
xmas
emergency room visit
performed at StB
4th flat tire

where quality is job one

it is frankly amazing how much faster auto repair places handle their work when they know they can't charge you for it.

flat tire a couple months ago: 90 minutes elapsed between drop off and call for pick up. when billing time came, they'd forgotten that i'm on the maintenance plan.

flat tire taken in today: 20 minutes from drop to call. no attempt to charge.

conclusion: auto services places out to screw us? damn skippy.

also: 4 flat tires in '07? Four?!? Enough with that. (more observations on the year just left coming soon.)