Beowabbit

I will confess I didn’t know until just now that Buddy Roemer was running for president. I don’t know a whole lot about his politics, but he is clearly the GOP candidate with the best sense of humour.

Highlights from his tweets:

Maybe I should've waited until *after* the Iowa caucus to say I would cut all ethanol subsidies. #corny

Herman Cain just called. He said he'd give me his 30 votes in Iowa if I stop making fun of 9-9-9. #racetothebottom

I almost have enough votes in Iowa to start a bowling league. #Roementum

BREAKING: Somebody who died in 1987 is beating me in Iowa. #invisibleman #LetBuddyDebate

Steps in cleaning freezer:

1. Pick a cold day
2. Turn cooling off on refrigerator and freezer.
3. Take food out of freezer. Put it on porch so it will stay frozen while you work.
4. Wait for gunk (mostly melted chocolate ice cream, I think) that pooled in the bottom of the freezer when door was left slightly open and food melted that one time, to melt. Help along with warm water.
5. Sop up gunk with sponge.
6. Thoroughly clean interior of freezer with spray cleaner and paper towel.
7. Wipe down with damp paper towel and wait until entirely dry.
8. Bring in food from porch and refill freezer.
9. Close freezer door. Clap hands together in celebration of a job well done!

Do you see the step I missed?

So some of you may remember that last summer, my darling plumtreeblossom wrote and directed a short one-act play for Festival@First 6. (I helped a bit with the play itself, and then was on the stage crew for the whole festival.) Juliet’s boyfriend Rich took and edited video (thank you, Rich!), and the play is finally up on YouTube! Yay! It had to be split in two parts because it’s (a couple minutes) over YouTube’s ten-minute limit on individual videos, so here are part 1 and part 2 of Dan in the Lion’s Den, by Mare Freed, as performed at its world premier in Somerville, Massachusetts, by the fabulously talented Juliet Bowler, Kerri Babish, and Lou Lim!

(plumtreeblossom has also posted these to her journal here, and to theatreatfirst’s journal here.)

Found via omegabeth:

• Grab the nearest book.
• Open the book to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST

 ‘What about if it’s got an urn or a plinth or a potted plant?’ said Nobby.
 ‘Have you got one in mind, Nobby?’ said Colon suspiciously.
 ‘Yes. The Goddess Anoia* Arising from the Cutlery,’ said Nobby. ‘They’ve got it here. It was painted by a bloke with three i’s in his name, which sounds pretty artistic to me.’

That’s watchmen Nobby Nobbs and Fred Colon in a museum discussing when pictures of nude women are Art, and when they’re just dirty pictures, in Terry Pratchett’s Thud. The footnote explains that “Anoia is the Ankh-Morpork Goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers.”

Thanks to larksdream for pointing me at Wikihistory, a very very short story by Desmond Warzel.

So I had a dream last night, in which I was having dinner at a table with a few people, and there was a big stinging insect that was bugging us. (It was the shape of a wasp, but about twice as big, and it had the yellow-and-black colouring of a bumblebee.) Anyway, it landed on a couple of our plates, and then it landed on my cheek, and I could feel it tickling. I decided that my best bet was to try to squash it really quickly, so it wouldn’t have a chance to sting me, and that’s what I did. In real life, waking myself up. And since I was wearing my CPAP mask, I smashed the hard plastic into my cheek. And either the jerk of me hitting myself or the noise I made woke plumtreeblossom up. (We both fell uneventfully right back asleep.)

It didn’t hurt that much at the time, and hasn’t hurt at all since, and I would have completely forgotten except that I just saw myself in a mirror and wondered what that little mark on my face was.

Amusing headline of the morning, from the Boston Metro: Dems hold breath, nation turns blue.

Mainly for docorion, but he’s not going to be the only one who finds these amusing. ( Star Trek motivational posters )

PS — Thanks to yesthattom for linking to them.