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Princess Leia & Darth Vader: A Halloween Love Story

Leia shows Vader the plans for the secret rebel base, because isn't that what love is all about -- the sharing? Against all odds -- the disparity in their ages, their cultural differences, her hair balls and his melty-gooey face -- love overcame. Brings a tear to your eye, don't it? Happy Halloween, everybody! . . . . . PS: Apparently this post is featured in today's Five Star Friday! This is my third featured post on FSF (the earlier two are here and here), and it's an understatement to say that I'm proud and honored. Thanks for the props,...

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"Women's Health"

John McCain has finally put the concerns of women where they belong: in derisive air quotes. I cannot tell you people how much I'm looking forward to Tuesday. When I put my vote in for Obama, I will at that moment not just be casting a vote for change and hope, but in my mind I will also be giving John McCain the finger.

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True Internet Dork Mom Confessions: Best Wives Ever Edition

kdiddy: oh my god my husband is deaf sweetney: THEY ARE ALL DEAF kdiddy: "are we going to have some pie?" "i already had some." "what?" "I ALREADY HAD SOME" "WHAT?" sweetney: "I'M GOING TO SMOTHER YOU IN YOUR SLEEP!" sweetney: "WHAT?" kdiddy: hahahaha kdiddy: "I'M GOING TO FART ON YOUR PILLOW. GIVE YOU PINKEYE!" kdiddy: "WHAT???" sweetney: "HATCHET IN THE HEAD! HATCHET IN THE MUTHAFUCKIN HEEEEAAAADD!!!" sweetney: "WHAT?" kdiddy: "YES PIE HAVE SOME! A LA MODE MOTHERFUCKER!" kdiddy: "WHAT?" sweetney: ahhh, good times. Klassy with a capital letter K, people. We so totally win at wifery we should teach...

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Halloween In The Time Of Cholera

A Flickr photo set of extraordinary old Halloween photos. The curator is adding to the set daily throughout the month of October. Link

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Twenty-One

A roughed-up James Dean -- that's how I described him to friends. It's a characterization that would've both pleased and infuriated him, as almost everything seemed to. He was an artist after all -- a fine art photographer who stooped to commercial work regularly to eat and pay the rent, true, but an artist nonetheless. And what is an artist if not conflicted and mercurial? Indeed, conflicted and mercurial was what he was deliberately going for, I guessed. He lived alone in a gigantic turn-of-the-century warehouse downtown, a dark, windowless brick box the size of a high school gymnasium. Somehow...

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I Summon You

From a great web video series called "Black Cab Sessions," in which some fine artists play songs of theirs in the back of a London cab. All the videos are here, and they notably include tunes from Death Cab For Cutie, Okkervil River, and Cold War Kids.

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Saint Smoochums

Her: Mama, I want to be a saint. Me, laughing: Oh, really? Her: Yes. [beat] Her: What's a saint? Me: A saint is a very good person... Her, interrupting: I'm very good! Me: ...who devotes their life to helping other people. [contemplative pause] Her: I kiss people sometimes! Oh yes, someone get Rome on the horn, ASAP. snort.

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