The symptoms of life

After another unsuccessful audition yesterday, I spent all of today doing nothing. Nooooooothing. Nothing.
Literally, this is what I did today.
9 – Got up, made coffee and muffins. Moped.
11 – Recorded and edited my podcast.
12 – Grocery shopping. Grocery store resembles a zoo. Why, if I don’t have a traditional day [...]

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Complaining with Kay, Episode 37: Happy Thanksgiving, America!

As a gift I give you a dictionary.
In this episode:
- Socialism? Really?
- The one thing I have in common with Glen Beck: I love America, and I fear for her, because something is *not* connecting here.
- That is not socialism. That is Gilded Age robber baron capitalism with some protection for the proletariat. [...]

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The Eeebuntu Chronicles

Coming soon to a theatre near you: A race against time, as one woman struggles with a small army of USB drives, a Linux distro, and a recalcitrant netbook. Will it ever boot up again?
“All I wanted was to update Flash so I could watch Jon Stewart online! And now I’m trapped in [...]

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Blogger asks for payment from newspaper

Tina: I feel your pain, sister.  I feel your pain.

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What was THIS supposed to be?

Ran across a file today titled “The Migraine Muse”.  I don’t remember writing it, though it’s obvious that I did.
The Migraine Muse
Ellen bit her lip.  The pain was subsiding, and with it she felt her grasp on her story slip away – Dolly the pretty one, Marjorie the silent stern patient one, Mickey the lovable [...]

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Twitter: An actually helpful writing tool.

If you follow me on Twitter, you already know that I treat it more like an opportunity for random weirdness and very short-form poetry than a chance to tell the world what I ate for dinner.  All in good fun.  But just now it occured to me that Twitter is actually teaching me to write [...]

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Flame bait!

People, we need to increase the traffic around here.  It’s pathetic.  Since the “be really good and attract an audience through your writing, consistency of posting, and original thought” route is obviously off the table, I’m going to go with the “throw out a list of inflammatory statements and/or buzzwords and hope for the best”.
Come [...]

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Blogoversary

It passed unnoticed.  I forgot entirely.  It was on July 27, 2008 that I started this blog.  I’m not going to go all sentimental and write “What I’ve learned from blogging” or anything like that, but I thought I should note it nevertheless.
So I will invent a self-indulgent blog meme.
Search the following words on your [...]

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Errata on Complaining with Kay, Episode 23: Or why you should google first and podcast later

I don’t write out my “Complaining with Kay” episodes before I record.  Perhaps I should, or at least research my facts before I hit the red button.  Anyway.  In my deconversion story, Episode 23: My confession, I made some off-hand remark about Catholicism not being the majority religion in Canada.  I believe I said that [...]

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Podcast podcast podcast!

Complaining with Kay, Episode 24.5, Literary Supplement: Lullaby for Gus.
In this episode:
- Melancholy Inventory
- Tie the knot tighter
- Lullaby for Gus
- You don’t have to put on a show.  You’re already my friend.
Link.

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