. . . has a new movie coming out.

I passed one of the billboards for it today, and my second thought—afterI'd forgotten her eyes were such a pretty blue—was she must be broke; she's having to work again.

Is that the most classic case of projection you've ever seen in your life? (Don't answer that.)

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1. Speed.

WTF? You come home from work, and you're tired, but too keyed up to crash just yet. So you decide to artificially stimulate your adrenal glands or whatever into keeping you awake until next Wednesday, but you'll be too jittery to get anything done.

Some of us are like that to begin with.

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of my generation destroyed by blogging: starving, hysterical, cliquey.

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. . . your favorite Titanic trivia in the comments.

If you don't have any stories regarding the Titanic disaster, please post your favorite theory on the assassination of JFK.

Otherwise, tell me if you think the word "assassinate" has too many s's in it.

Thanks.

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. . . there's a movement afoot to recall Gov. Blanco. I'd love to see that happen.

(h/t: Reynolds, Goldstein)

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More here. I suspect the Golden State will even more fertile for this blogospheric grass-roots action than it is for lettuce and grapes.

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. . . maybe MT has my best interests at heart. My traffic is up, so I suppose the shorter posts are working.

It's a sobering thought, if you want to know the truth.

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Help us to cut government waste.

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. . . it might be something horrifyingly simple, like I'm typing evil control characters into my entries by mistake, since I'm a lousy typist?

But I've been a lousy typist for years, and why would MT choose this particular moment to judge me for it?

(Not that I'm taking any of this personally, you understand. But you try being rejected by a computer program and see how you feel!)

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I tried posting at my alternate blog on Blogger, and got this message:

"There were errors."

Asked for details, the helpful program told me this:

"001 java.io.IOException: EOF while reading from control connection".

But that didn't help me at all.

Thoughts?

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I can't figure out what is causing MT to reject most of my entries that have any sort of substance.

And they're all sitting in an MS Word, file, man. Every word is a freakin' pearl. They'd bowl you over if you could read them.

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maybe it's just me. But I'd rather see Ellen DeGeneres making clean jokes dressed in a tux vs. Whoopi Goldberg making crude jokes in a velvet gown.

DeGeneres did a fabulous job, and I'd love to see her promoted to the Oscars.

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. . . Talk Like a Pirate Day be here! William Teach be handing out links, rations of rum and bonny wenches over at Pirate's Cove.

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For the next two weeks, I'm keeping my rates at $0.50 per 1000 impressions. But I will be raising my prices in early October. As I recall I have two more weeks on the Condi ad, but there are two other slots open on this page, and there's even a fourth one ("silver") that I can add if need be. And anyone who wants the slot now occupied by Americans for Dr. Rice can pre-arrange to take that spot at the current low price.

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See the comments.

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. . . attempt

a posting

that's

a whopping

seven

lines

long.

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. . . I attempted

to post

something

that contained

six lines?

Would that work?

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I'll try this.

Let's see

if I can post

a five-line

post without getting an error message.

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to the blogosphere: "Fuck you."

I'm watching the replay of the primetime Emmys, with Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather onstage, supposedly in a tribute to Peter Jennings.

The entire audience stood up when they walked out. I wouldn't have.

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1 i didn't see it so i shouldn't really comment but from the supplied context I would assume that the standing up was for Peter Jennings, not the other two. That said, I didn't think that any major portion of the blogosphere had a beef with Jennings unless I missed that .

Posted by: Kav at September 19, 2005 06:21 AM (DyccV)

2 That's the sneaky part, though: it was a tribute to all three, with the excuse for it being Jennings' death. And the whole thing was predicated on what a lovely job the three of them have done over the years, providing us with the news. Remember: I'm just as passionate about Walter Cronkite. I wouldn't have stood up for him, either. I see his visceral appeal, but I think he did this country a lot of harm.

Posted by: Attila Girl at September 19, 2005 01:57 PM (Kti1Q)

3 I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks "Uncle Walter" was an evil manipulator of the "news" who used his reasssuring, "grandfatherly" image to foist cleverly disguised liberal propaganda, presented as objective "news reporting", on the American people for a generation! As soon as I saw Rather and Brokaw take the stage the other night, I went straight for the "mute" button until they were done. I wasn't interested in any more of their liberal tripe! Did you see/hear Rather's tearful lamenting at a speaking engagement the next day about the state of the news media today and how an atmosphere of "fear" hangs over newsrooms now? He can't handle the fact that the "Big 3" networks no longer control the flow of news to the consuming public or that the MSM, for the first time, are being fact-checked and held accountable for their lies and distortions! I, for one, don't miss those 3 "anchors" one bit! Long live cable news AND the blogosphere!

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4 Did u see Rather blubbering about how the Katrina coverage was a high point of journalism? You're giving away the game, Dan! It was a LOW point, but it pushed a liberal canard, that America is a racist country, so Dan weeps. You can't make this stuff up!

Posted by: beautifulatrocities at September 20, 2005 02:22 PM (VPPOk)

5 I heard about it. It's hard to escape the impression that he's gone 100% delusional. I'm almost starting to feel sorry for him.

Posted by: Attila Girl at September 20, 2005 06:48 PM (Kti1Q)

6 I turned it off after Blythe Danner's "Let's get the heck outta there" Iraq comment. STFU, Apple's Granny.

Posted by: Lisa at September 20, 2005 07:45 PM (cQ61y)

7 Maybe you should have kept the TV on: when Patricia Arquette won her Emmy, she remarked that her prayer for our soldiers was "when they come home, that they come home safe and sound." It sounded to me like a gentle rebuke.

Posted by: Attila Girl at September 20, 2005 08:29 PM (Kti1Q)

8 Really? I bet they revoke her SAG card.

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And it won't work in Explorer, either.

Very annoying.

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