sometimes i do love amanda of pandagon. how can you not love a person out of whom comes this line:
Ms. jared reports that legislators in Ohio are trying to ban abortion altogether, even if a woman's life is in danger or she is raped. Because if you didn't want to get yourself killed or bear a rapist's child, you shouldn't have gone and been born be-cunted.
be-cunted! yeah. i think i have had too much wine.
wherein i get a bit of the frances mayes disease. really - it's full blown later on. oh dear.
so, i started typing up my 4 or 5 entries on our trip to italy. this one is staggeringly boring; the only thing remotely italian about it is that i was flying on alitalia. mostly it's me bitching about the flight, the wine, the [fake] forgetting of the camera battery...so be warned.
are you still not using an RSS reader? seriously? is there anyone who reads this blog who doesn't? then you, my friend, are an idiot. tim yang lists 15 great things you can do with RSS feeds. make sure to check out the comments for suggestions as well. i have seen the future, and its name is RSS!
additionally, none of you suckers gave me suggestions about my thunderbird problems. you bite. what good is the collective blog hivemind if i can't bend it to my will and make it answer every little query i have? anyway, luckily a while back i had added this handy patch to my thunderbird 1.0 which allows you to export all your feeds into an OPML file, so i just stuck that in bloglines. and voila. i have saved all my feeds, but i fucking hate bloglines...after using thunderbird forever, anyway. thunderbird 2.0, are you out there? (wait, it's not out there and i'm actually an idiot, is it?)
what tommy and i act like 75% of the time.
(taken at malpensa airport in milan by naomi. a few more italy videos here!)
| PROBLEM: | The bedroom is slightly too warm on Sunday night. |
| SOLUTION: | I put a fan in the window. |
| PROBLEM: | The frigid room resulting from the fan has given me a persistent sore throat and the beginnings of a cold. |
| SOLUTION: | Some spicy food will chase away those symptoms! Hot and sour soup and Szechuan tofu are duly ordered from the bulletproof chinese joint around the corner. |
| PROBLEM: | The Chinese food was not very good, nor was it very spicy. I'm beginning to think that the soup was just mushrooms floating in canola oil. It's causing some, er, intestinal distress. Also, I'm now experiencing waves of sweating. Slow release peppers? Food poisoning? Malaria? |
| SOLUTION: | "A little beer should put out that fire!" |
| PROBLEM: | The phrase "a little beer" proves to be insufficiently specific. |
| SOLUTION: | Jon challenges our waitress to a pushup competition for a free round of shots, and wins. (It's unclear how this was supposed to resolve the stated problem, but at the time it definitely seemed like a step in the right direction.) |
| PROBLEM: | Eventual arrival of morning. I'm hungover, still sick, and my stomach is strongly on record as unhappy with how things have been going lately. |
| SOLUTION: | Go into work half an hour late. Whine about it on my blog. |
I think I'm finally on the mend, but this whole saga has been pretty discouraging. I can now easily imagine a chain of events wherein I start out trying to buy a pack of gum and end up losing most of my blood.
today's scoop might be the best i've read in months. first off we have craaaazy has-been tara reid, who's apparently decided a walk down the paula abdul path would serve her well:
The “American Pie’ star showed up at the famed Barnstable Brown party Friday night and tried to get in, even though she wasn’t invited. “A security guard kept her out, and she did the whole, ‘Don’t you know who I am’ thing, and then a whole crowd outside started chanting, ‘Let Tara In! Let Tara In!’” reports an eyewitness. “So they went ahead and let her in.”Once inside, reports the source, Reid was an aggressive partier and was downing Grey Goose martinis. “She was going up to male celebrities and trying to cozy up to them, with little success,” says the insider. “She kept trying to talk to Usher, but he pretty much ignored her.”
The next day, at the Derby itself, a source says Reid showed up in a dirty dress “that looked like she’d been rolling around on the ground.” She went into a VIP room and knocked a woman over and — apparently not realizing her mistake — walked on. When she was informed what happened, she offered to give the woman an autograph.
then we have this d.c.-specific tidbit at the end:
Jenna Bush was spotted Saturday night at Cafe Saint-Ex in the Logan Circle area of Washington, DC.. “She was chain-smoking and dressed all in white,” says the source.
i wonder what the hipsters bitching about saint-ex being taken over will have to say about this? and can it be long before she hits wonderland?
update: wonkette's gossip roundup spells saint-ex as satin-ex.
i'm having an annoying problem with thunderbird, if anyone can help. i've been using it for months now and i love it (and the email part still works fine), but the past few days upon start up, when i check all my RSS feeds, it downloads EVERY SINGLE BLOG POST OF EVERY SINGLE BLOG that has been published in, like, the last two months. instead of just the posts that are new since the last time i checked. for example, susan, who posts just a couple of times a week normally, has 20 NEW POSTS that date back to mid-april, none of which are new since the last time i started up thunderbird. needless to say, this is a huge pain in the ass, as i have to go through and delete/check as read all of my feeds, which number in the, um, 90s (i read a lot of blogs). i'm assuming this must be a problem in my server settings and/or the way thunderbird is checking the feeds, but unless it somehow got screwed up while i was in italy, i don't know why. can anybody help?! i'll send you some chocolate. if i can't figure this out, i will have to revert to using bloglines and checking webmail, which is not an appealing option.
