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shadarko, yesterday was Make Up a Fact About a Friend Day. I'm inclined to think that the holiday is as made-up as the facts. Still, following his lead, here are some facts about all y'all:
3x1minus1: Has been keeping Anderson Cooper locked up in her basement for the past three months. The guy currently doing his show on CNN is actually his stunt double.
aliste: Her cat Wallace is actually a gray tabby, but dyes his fur orange in order to be more like Garfield.
arfies: Has used a secret prototype time machine in order to guest star on Bewitched.
bartkolounger: The country we call "Canada" is actually a figment of her incredibly powerful imagination, dreamed into existence at the circular ruins.
bec_87rb: Is secretly a member of the same cult as John Flansburgh's brother Paxus.
bethje: Has taught her dog Dewey how to fly a plane. He subsequently made the first solo flight across the Atlantic by a dachshund. (The only dog to have done it before was Snoopy, while fighting the Red Baron.)
colleenanne: Wrote the lyrics to Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home." The word "darkies" was actually originally "sharkies," but it was changed by the music publishing company, since the suits insisted on at least one racist reference in every song.
countblastula: Has seen every known species of bird, including the legendary Roc.
dave_noisy: Is only a vegan because he was attacked by a giant carrot in his youth, and wants revenge.
daveychu: Left Texas because of the meteorite that's on a collision course with the state. The legislature is aware of the impending collision, but refuses to acknowledge it, because their official position is that rocks from space are incapable of reaching Earth due to the crystal spheres in which the planets travel. When it does fall, they plan to blame it on Saddam Hussein.
dragonxbait: Has been known to tickle sleeping dragons.
eagledna: Looks just like Abraham Lincoln, except his mole is on the other side of his face.
jazzsammich: Was the host of the unaired pilot for the game show "Truth or Sammiches."
jenhime: Is attempting to breed human-sized chickens, which she believes to be the logical next step in evolution.
k1cup: Has kayaked on the canals of Mars.
kristenjarrod: Has taught the world to sing in perfect harmony, only to buy them a Coke and find out that it has the unpleasant side effect of not letting anyone sing in harmony.
l8erngr8er: Is a distant relative of L. Frank Baum's.
leolapyre: The "pyre" in her screen name refers to the time when she was a funeral director in India.
listenesmerelda: Once owned my immortal soul, and made it wear a maid's dress.
little_octagon: Is actually a little DODECAGON.
lozenger8: Her teacher training involves wrestling crocodiles and taming wallabies.
majellen: Was actually the first person to circumnavigate the Earth. Her screen name is a snarky reference to the guy who claimed credit for this feat, despite actually having been killed in the Pacific.
mikeleffel: Based the design of Quizzy on an actual glasses-wearing owl who visits his house on Thursday nights.
mmpoetatheart: The two M's at the beginning of her screen name refer to the fact that she invented M&M's.
not_glimmer: Named the Long Island Iced Tea, but refuses to admit it because she's tired of people saying, "But there's no TEA in it!"
obsessical: Can't remember what D is for.
onib: Spent one night in Bangkok, but wasn't allowed to come back after giving the hotel (Best Far Eastern) a bad review.
petie_s: Regularly has lunch with the Loch Ness Monster.
revme: Was the narrator on "The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest."
rockinlibrarian: Was once known as the Sixth Beatle.
secretnthewings: Doesn't REALLY have a secret in the wings, but pretends to in order to feel important.
shadarko: Once visited Oz, but was kicked out after cutting all the leaves from the Royal Palm Tree. He managed to avoid the seven consecutive death sentences by pleading insanity.
skylark_king: Once dated the world's only green-skinned girl, until she left him for Dave Gregory.
slfcllednowhere: Is the five hundredth reincarnation of the Prophetess Miriam, sister of Moses, whose own prophetic powers were written out of the Bible by sexist Levites.
themall: Was Samuel Beckett's inspiration for the play Waiting for Godot. GODOT (General Occidental Digital and Oral Telecommunications) is actually the phone company that is supposed to fix Jamal's cable modem. He's now been waiting for them for the past year and a half.
tisok: Is the love child of the bizarre union of Mike Doughty and John Vanderslice.
travspence: Lives in a hollowed-out Saguaro cactus.
twobitme: Has a secret laboratory in the Galapagos Islands where he makes tortoises into zombies. So far, no one has been able to tell the difference between the living and the undead tortoises.
unclemilo: Is the Lindbergh baby.
yosef: Dared shadarko to cut the leaves from the Royal Palm Tree.
zaph: Was responsible for the breakups of both Moxy Früvous and Da Vinci's Notebook.
zimbra1006: Her band was originally called the CORONER Laughers, after the time she and goldenmoonbear spent the weekend telling jokes in a morgue.
What I'm not making up is that I had a series of memorable dreams last night. In the first one, I had purchased some new Discworld book, which was done in the same basic format as The Last Hero. It was a Watch story, and it had Commander Vimes at odds with the head of the Palace Guard. There was something in it about posing for statues. In another dream, Beth and I attended a Tori Amos concert at a school auditorium, at which Dorothea was working on the stage. It was kind of a weird stage, too, in that it could be automatically raised and lowered by a considerable amount. The concert ended abruptly, and I was wondering whether it would start up again. The really odd thing is that both of these dreams included a reference to McSweeney's. The Discworld book had members of the Watch reading some parody version with a name like "McSwynny's," which wasn't something Terry Pratchett would have been likely to come up with. And in the other dream, Tori had an article in McSweeney's. Why that publication would come to mind is beyond me, since the only issue I've ever read is the one that came with the CD of (mostly) They Might Be Giants music. Within the second dream, I was thinking it was a crazy coincidence, and that I would have to blog about it. Since it turns out that both references were the result of the same subconscious, though, it isn't quite as coincidental as it otherwise might have been. Another dream, which didn't contain a McSweeney's reference, had someone call my cell phone wanting to cancel their own phone plan.
And since I have to get up early tomorrow morning, I should probably go ahead and post this, and then hit the proverbial hay. I did get the new Frank Black album tonight, and I should have a review soon. I have to listen to it first, though. {g}
shadarko, yesterday was Make Up a Fact About a Friend Day. I'm inclined to think that the holiday is as made-up as the facts. Still, following his lead, here are some facts about all y'all:3x1minus1: Has been keeping Anderson Cooper locked up in her basement for the past three months. The guy currently doing his show on CNN is actually his stunt double.aliste: Her cat Wallace is actually a gray tabby, but dyes his fur orange in order to be more like Garfield.arfies: Has used a secret prototype time machine in order to guest star on Bewitched.bartkolounger: The country we call "Canada" is actually a figment of her incredibly powerful imagination, dreamed into existence at the circular ruins.bec_87rb: Is secretly a member of the same cult as John Flansburgh's brother Paxus.bethje: Has taught her dog Dewey how to fly a plane. He subsequently made the first solo flight across the Atlantic by a dachshund. (The only dog to have done it before was Snoopy, while fighting the Red Baron.)colleenanne: Wrote the lyrics to Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home." The word "darkies" was actually originally "sharkies," but it was changed by the music publishing company, since the suits insisted on at least one racist reference in every song.countblastula: Has seen every known species of bird, including the legendary Roc.dave_noisy: Is only a vegan because he was attacked by a giant carrot in his youth, and wants revenge.daveychu: Left Texas because of the meteorite that's on a collision course with the state. The legislature is aware of the impending collision, but refuses to acknowledge it, because their official position is that rocks from space are incapable of reaching Earth due to the crystal spheres in which the planets travel. When it does fall, they plan to blame it on Saddam Hussein.dragonxbait: Has been known to tickle sleeping dragons.eagledna: Looks just like Abraham Lincoln, except his mole is on the other side of his face.jazzsammich: Was the host of the unaired pilot for the game show "Truth or Sammiches."jenhime: Is attempting to breed human-sized chickens, which she believes to be the logical next step in evolution.k1cup: Has kayaked on the canals of Mars.kristenjarrod: Has taught the world to sing in perfect harmony, only to buy them a Coke and find out that it has the unpleasant side effect of not letting anyone sing in harmony.l8erngr8er: Is a distant relative of L. Frank Baum's.leolapyre: The "pyre" in her screen name refers to the time when she was a funeral director in India.listenesmerelda: Once owned my immortal soul, and made it wear a maid's dress.little_octagon: Is actually a little DODECAGON.lozenger8: Her teacher training involves wrestling crocodiles and taming wallabies.majellen: Was actually the first person to circumnavigate the Earth. Her screen name is a snarky reference to the guy who claimed credit for this feat, despite actually having been killed in the Pacific.mikeleffel: Based the design of Quizzy on an actual glasses-wearing owl who visits his house on Thursday nights.mmpoetatheart: The two M's at the beginning of her screen name refer to the fact that she invented M&M's.not_glimmer: Named the Long Island Iced Tea, but refuses to admit it because she's tired of people saying, "But there's no TEA in it!"obsessical: Can't remember what D is for.onib: Spent one night in Bangkok, but wasn't allowed to come back after giving the hotel (Best Far Eastern) a bad review.petie_s: Regularly has lunch with the Loch Ness Monster.revme: Was the narrator on "The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest."rockinlibrarian: Was once known as the Sixth Beatle.secretnthewings: Doesn't REALLY have a secret in the wings, but pretends to in order to feel important.shadarko: Once visited Oz, but was kicked out after cutting all the leaves from the Royal Palm Tree. He managed to avoid the seven consecutive death sentences by pleading insanity.skylark_king: Once dated the world's only green-skinned girl, until she left him for Dave Gregory.slfcllednowhere: Is the five hundredth reincarnation of the Prophetess Miriam, sister of Moses, whose own prophetic powers were written out of the Bible by sexist Levites.themall: Was Samuel Beckett's inspiration for the play Waiting for Godot. GODOT (General Occidental Digital and Oral Telecommunications) is actually the phone company that is supposed to fix Jamal's cable modem. He's now been waiting for them for the past year and a half.tisok: Is the love child of the bizarre union of Mike Doughty and John Vanderslice.travspence: Lives in a hollowed-out Saguaro cactus.twobitme: Has a secret laboratory in the Galapagos Islands where he makes tortoises into zombies. So far, no one has been able to tell the difference between the living and the undead tortoises.unclemilo: Is the Lindbergh baby.yosef: Dared shadarko to cut the leaves from the Royal Palm Tree.zaph: Was responsible for the breakups of both Moxy Früvous and Da Vinci's Notebook.zimbra1006: Her band was originally called the CORONER Laughers, after the time she and goldenmoonbear spent the weekend telling jokes in a morgue.What I'm not making up is that I had a series of memorable dreams last night. In the first one, I had purchased some new Discworld book, which was done in the same basic format as The Last Hero. It was a Watch story, and it had Commander Vimes at odds with the head of the Palace Guard. There was something in it about posing for statues. In another dream, Beth and I attended a Tori Amos concert at a school auditorium, at which Dorothea was working on the stage. It was kind of a weird stage, too, in that it could be automatically raised and lowered by a considerable amount. The concert ended abruptly, and I was wondering whether it would start up again. The really odd thing is that both of these dreams included a reference to McSweeney's. The Discworld book had members of the Watch reading some parody version with a name like "McSwynny's," which wasn't something Terry Pratchett would have been likely to come up with. And in the other dream, Tori had an article in McSweeney's. Why that publication would come to mind is beyond me, since the only issue I've ever read is the one that came with the CD of (mostly) They Might Be Giants music. Within the second dream, I was thinking it was a crazy coincidence, and that I would have to blog about it. Since it turns out that both references were the result of the same subconscious, though, it isn't quite as coincidental as it otherwise might have been. Another dream, which didn't contain a McSweeney's reference, had someone call my cell phone wanting to cancel their own phone plan.
And since I have to get up early tomorrow morning, I should probably go ahead and post this, and then hit the proverbial hay. I did get the new Frank Black album tonight, and I should have a review soon. I have to listen to it first, though. {g}
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Date: 2006-06-21 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 03:23 am (UTC)It's true.
Date: 2006-06-21 03:37 am (UTC)I think it's for something that you play with sticks...
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Date: 2006-06-21 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 11:18 am (UTC)Because you're descended from the Baum family's disgraced cousin, the secret shame of the family?
One of the Oz books has a live ruler, but it was one of the post-Baum books.
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Date: 2006-06-21 11:19 am (UTC)Re: It's true.
Date: 2006-06-21 11:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 12:17 pm (UTC)A: What's this?
B: This is Frank Black's crappy new album.
A: No wonder it sucks.
and I was all "....man, I like this record..."
busted
Date: 2006-06-21 09:59 pm (UTC)I tried to resist the charms of Earl, Jr, but all that bullshit, it was just too much for me resist. Plus, hey, how often does a girl get to marry five or six people at a time? :)
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Date: 2006-06-21 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 11:50 pm (UTC)(Actually, the album didn't have a sticker. At least, the copy I bought didn't. But there WAS someone else at the store who was interested in the record, which was cool.)
Re: busted
Date: 2006-06-21 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-21 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-24 06:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-24 08:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-30 05:43 am (UTC)BLAST! My cover is blown!!