My 10 Favorite Blogs By Dads
October 13, 2008 | Comments: 0
I've had the pleasure and privilege of submitting yet another Top Ten list to Blogs.com as one of their Guest Editors. I don't know why these people continue to listen to me and my opinions about things, but since they are, I'm more than happy to spread the good word about awesome blogs I love. Big pimpin? IT'S IN HERE....
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September 25, 2008 | Comments: 0
Dearest internet, Hey! Howsit goin', dude? Really? AWESOME. Have you lost weight? Or done something new with your hair? Well, you look positively splendid. No, seriously. I so totally mean that shit. How am I doing? Quite a bit better, actually. I started on a new antidepressant -- which is actually an old antidepressant, just one I haven't been on...
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September 24, 2008 | Comments: 185
Yesterday, in between bouts of sobbing and melodramatic whatta wurld-ing, I took M to her six month check up at the dentist. Some days you don't think your life could get any more awesome and then, SHAZAM!, it just does. Anyway, while sitting in the dentist's office waiting room trying to studiously block out the agonized shrieking emanating from the...
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September 3, 2008 | Comments: 25
I was in beautiful Pittsburgh, PA over the holiday weekend, visiting the delightful kdiddy and family. My "Life Is A Teachable Moment" takeaways from that three-day visit include: A fuller, more visceral comprehension of my inability to drink hard liquor in any substantial quantity, even when mixed with tasty, alcohol-flavor-masking pomegranate syrup, because I'm so totally a pathetic old fart...
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April 28, 2008 | Comments: 7
As a confirmed child pimp, I SO NEED THIS BOOK: Tips, man. Can't get enough of em'. A brief excerpt: ALSO: "Learn How To: Determine your traumatizing “type” Cultivate your children’s resentment Give your children enough material to write a memoir someday Defend your choices against others who’ve opted to traumatize differently" Orderable (it's a word, I just made it...
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April 23, 2008 | Comments: 41
I have some things to say. And I beg your pardon if my words gush out ungracefully and artlessly, because all of this has provoked some strong emotions for me, and stirred up what I see as a long-festering crock of rancid bullshit that finally and permanently needs to be chucked into the dustbin of cultural history. So here goes....
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April 21, 2008 | Comments: 17
My trip to California last week can be summed up in two words: DOANS PILLS. I didn't have them, but oh my god how I and my elderly musculoskeletal system wished I did. Tuesday, the day before I left, I pulled something in my back. Well, several somethings. I'm pretty sure this happened when I stupidly lifted a 30 pound...
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April 9, 2008 | Comments: 0
High on the list of the best emails I've ever received, this from my actor friend Marc (click for enlargo-version): Condolences, Marc. But really, isn't having a soul just an impediment to you as a working actor? snort.
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March 5, 2008 | Comments: 23
Listen, you people with the bands, making up the dumb band names up? You need to cut that shit out. Perhaps I'm alone in this, but lately it seems to me as if there's some kind of contest going on for who can come up with the most ridiculous, dorktastic rock band name of them all, and that increasingly the...
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March 3, 2008 | Comments: 9
Part I: Her: “Mommy, what's a tampon?” Me, glossingly: “Uhh, it's something women use during their periods. cough.” (perplexed pause) Her: “What's a period?” [audiable countdown emanating from my skullcase]: beep... beep... beep... beep... Part II: Checkout girl at grocery store, after bagging my groceries and piling them haphazardly on the conveyor-belt beside her: “Have a nice day! Do you...
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February 29, 2008 | Comments: 27
SO! After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, including a brief period yesterday during which I seriously considered hunting down one specific "Customer Service" (SO airquoted) representative from my old web host and cutting his heart out with a pen knife, VOILA! Welcome to Sweetney 2.0, rev 3 (or whatever), now hosted on TypePad. I know, it doesn't look much...
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February 27, 2008 | Comments: 5
I have a difficult time articulating exactly WHY these are so funny, but there's something deliciously surreal about them that cracks me up. Garfield Minus Garfield
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February 25, 2008 | Comments: 0
A superfabulous idea. Sign up (free!), and get an email every week with last year's photos. Awesome!
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February 22, 2008 | Comments: 3
Because people, you NEED to be hanging out with me and all the other Gorgeous Ladies Of MamaPop during our Oscars 2008 Extravaganza. Yes, that's a need, not a want. The festival of betchy snarkitude will start this Sunday at 7pm ET, please to consult the details here. After the show, we'll spend some time braiding each other's hair and...
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February 21, 2008 | Comments: 0
This piece, about a girl with Autism who communicates lucidly through her computer, completely blew me away. Powerful, powerful stuff. Additional video here. Carly also answered some viewer questions here. It's amazing how little we understand about Autism (and about the brain generally). I heard a piece on NPR recently that discussed how Autistic children sometimes emerge temporarily from the...
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February 15, 2008 | Comments: 0
Stupid humans. Seriously, does anyone know of a reanimation story that goes well? Yeah, me neither.
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February 15, 2008 | Comments: 1
Because I'm a flaming dorkwad of dorkwaddyness, I'm very excited to announce that today I'm getting my very own extra speshal edition of Friday Eye Candy over on MamaPop. I picked all the hotness, based upon on my own personal wants/needs/desires. Sick and twisted as those might be. As you may have guessed, Jon Stewart tops my list. Because in...
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February 6, 2008 | Comments: 0
Yeah! Take that, you people with heads! 100%, Grade-A, 600 thread count PWNAGE!!!! I feel oddly accomplished. And more than a little gassy.
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January 23, 2008 | Comments: 0
EDIT: The CBC Radio podcast is up! You can download it here. . . . . . . . . . . Though slightly better than hate mail proclaiming “I hope you die in a fire, bitch!!1!!!” (<-- actual quote from an actual email received by me just this month!), some recent unsolicited contributions to my burgeoning inbox include the...
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October 31, 2007 | Comments: 0
Are preventing me from posting my very first Sweet(ney) Talk column -- which I just KNOW you all are anxiously awaiting. But you're just going to have to anxiously await a little longer. So await with me, won't you? (I'm sorry. My life is a hollow lie. I find amusement where I can.) ANYHOO, in the meantime please to enjoy...
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October 29, 2007 | Comments: 25
This post should be subtitled: Daylight Savings Time Can Suck My Left One (or something similarly drenched in subtle wit). Because yesterday my Blackberry cellular phone thingy -- AKA omniscient oracle of all the days of my life -- was nice enough to alert me to the end of Daylight Savings by automatically setting itself back one hour. Technology so...
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October 26, 2007 | Comments: 16
This flyer was recently posted all over the Baltimore neighborhood of Hampden: No, not lost. Just AWESOME. Thanks to Sugarfreak!
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October 22, 2007 | Comments: 15
I know, I know -- I said that the festival of Truman humiliation would be on Tuesdays. But it turns out that Mondays are actually a much better day for me to post these on, having had the entire weekend to torment my dog (and photographically document said torment for your viewing pleasure). Plus who doesn't need a little pick-me-up...
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October 18, 2007 | Comments: 26
Since the internet invariably does my best thinking for me, I once again turn to y'all for suggestions and advice. Please to provide, oh great and powerful internet hive mind. The upshot is that I'm going to begin writing a column in cooperation with the site True Mom Confessions, probably in the next week or so, and I'm in charge...
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September 10, 2007 | Comments: 5
I say I say I say THANK YOU INTARWEBS.
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September 8, 2007 | Comments: 10
You need help. We all need help. Because this? THIS is a problem: I only say this because I love you. But no, for serious: Professional. Fucking. Help. (shudder)
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August 31, 2007 | Comments: 0
Mormons have always had a peculiar hold on the American imagination, but few know who the Mormons actually are or who they claim to be, and their story is one of the great neglected American narratives. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and FRONTLINE, two of PBS' most acclaimed series, join forces to present The Mormons, a new documentary series about the Church of...
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August 28, 2007 | Comments: 0
bwaahahaaaa! bwahahahahahaaaaa! Genius.
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August 24, 2007 | Comments: 9
Now I just need to get my Flight Of The Conchords “Eat. Sleep. Folk.” T-Shirt and I'll be close to achieving Maximum Awesome. Hug it out, betches, hug it out.
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August 22, 2007 | Comments: 2
Those of you who, like me, covet the lo-fi technology, should direct your browsers to Tapedeck -- a nostalgia site dedicated to the lost art of the cassette tape. Makes me long for the back-in-the-day of the mix tape. sigh. /end old lady prattle
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August 16, 2007 | Comments: 4
Random timewasting fun ahoy! dumpr Rubik's Cube Generator
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August 2, 2007 | Comments: 5
(click for flickr enlargo-version)
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July 23, 2007 | Comments: 7
EDIT: Alright, so I know this has been done, done, done, and most definitely by better photographers than I, but I'm going to start doing a Picture Of The Day-type feature here. My intention isn't necessary to produce Art (with a capital 'A'! ooooh, scary!), but just to use a little creativity to keep y'all (and myself) amused and entertained...
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July 19, 2007 | Comments: 14
So, as is the case with most vacations, at least one member of the vacation party must at some point tangle with the fury of Le Vomitmonster. Its, like, a going-on-vacation rule or something, right? Anyway, as my luck would have it, last night it turned out that *I* was that unfortunate, pathetic sap. And it occurred to me, during...
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July 12, 2007 | Comments: 9
Today I couldn't be prouder -- as an American and as a consumer -- since on this very special day, direct from the annals of wacked-out marketing, it is my distinct pleasure and honor to present: Diet Coke Plus. Its like drinking battery acid, but with vitamins and shit in it! Woohoo!
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June 1, 2007 | Comments: 7
Oh for the good ol' days, back when new mothers were encouraged to drink and smoke up! Umm, I mean, FOR SHAME!
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May 14, 2007 | Comments: 0
Perhaps too adorable to eat, but these are giving me the tummy-grumbles nonetheless.
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May 14, 2007 | Comments: 9
Bam Margera: I am so over you. You have become something beyond self-parody. You are corporate-sponsored rebellion, and that bores me. Your 15 minutes are now up. Done. Buh-bye. The Springer Hustle: The best show about the making of the worst show on television, ever? Perhaps... Driving a Prius with a personalized license plate reading “Eco Car” may make you...
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April 5, 2007 | Comments: 11
Its the new “Hang In There Kitten”, updated for the ascending generation of morbidly obese! Oh enormokitty, I feel your pain. Your bulbous, girthtastic pain.
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February 19, 2007 | Comments: 5
I'd heard about this, as you probably have, but I hadn't yet seen the OLPC XO Computer in detail before reading this piece. Its such a wonderful program, and I hadn't expected the design to be so, well, garsh darn cute. Plus, for $130 a pop, once these babies are available in the states they could definitely serve as a...
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January 25, 2007 | Comments: 10
This cannot be sirious. Oh wait, I guess it can. Hey, did you guys know that Elton John's music is “really gay”? And FRANK SINATRA NOOOOO! snort. No backdoor. Heh. Geddit? Durrr... And now, as a sort of self-cleansing ritual, I'm off to watch the first season of The L Word and and make out with my life-sized poster of...
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January 15, 2007 | Comments: 8
My friends, the toothy damage, she is done. But its nothing that a prescription for Vicodin can't fix. Apparently. Wheeeeeeee! But more of my root canal trials and tribulations later... In the interim, please join me over at ye olde Mamapop tonight roundabout 8pm for some good old fashioned liveblogging of The Golden Globes, which promises to be a fabulous...
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January 12, 2007 | Comments: 2
[Ceiling Sky Cat mocks my oral agony. Bastard.] PS: Be like me, kids: go here and laff and laff. Oh and stay in school and don't do drugs. PPS: Have you checked out this lately? Only about a bazillion more pix now. (And yes, I'm clearly in dire need of amusement right now. What of it?)
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December 18, 2006 | Comments: 4
Say, did I mention to you guys that I'm the Time Magazine Person Of The Year? (I'm the dude with the mohawk.) (Or the white kid with a fro. Maybe.) (I AM SO DEFINITELY NOT THE AFGHAN GRANDMA. SHUT UP.) PS: Oh noes, teh awesome!
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December 14, 2006 | Comments: 6
Friends, today I am the luckiest human alive, for I have been selected to be the 49th inductee into the Utter Wonder Hall Of Fame. Are you jelus? Man, if you aren't, you should be. And not just because I've been enshrined in the most awesome blog hall of fame of all-time (at least according to the proprietor C. Monks),...
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December 7, 2006 | Comments: 12
Hi, Internet. Its me. Writing. Content. Hi. Hi Hi Hi! Today's weather here in Baltimore lamely threatens: Chance of snow, 20%. Which is unremarkable but for being the first time I've seen the word snow in a forecast since last winter. And yes, it frightens me a little. (Carol Anne say: Its baaaack.) (Well, its a kind of snow)
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November 12, 2006 | Comments: 5
Aubade
October 19, 2006 | Comments: 4
Almost exactly two years ago today, I posted this poem. And this evening I just happened to read it again, and thought: this expresses *exactly* where I am right now. Which was also true two years ago.
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October 16, 2006 | Comments: 20
Which reminds me: have you listened to Beck's Midnite Vultures recently? Man, SO underrated.* Ahem. Anyhoo, good morning sunshine and hello fair Internet! Did you have a good weekend? Are you feeling well-rested? Or does somebody have a bad case of the mondays, hmmm? But down to business: I have some news to share. And a request for your help....
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October 4, 2006 | Comments: 8
I think now might be a good time for all of us to enjoy some bunny yawns. You're welcome. EDIT: This video treat from my friend Kelly is also well worth a look-see.
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September 28, 2006 | Comments: 14
I have no idea what any of this means, but this graph of sweetney.com sure is puuurty: Who knew I was so, well, clustery? Go here to create your own website graph.
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September 27, 2006 | Comments: 0
My people, This is my second letter to you today. Do you think I'm getting, well, a touch stalkery? Wait. Don't answer that. But say, do a friend a favor and go over to yon SXSW panel picker and pick the hell out of the panel under the category Blogging entitled “Parent Bloggers 2.0: Diaper Diarists or the New Blogebrities?”*...
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September 26, 2006 | Comments: 14
Dear Sweetney Braintrust, I know a lot of you, like me, are constantly struggling with time management, having multiple projects going and fingers in many pies (fingers in pies... why does that sound dirty to me all of a sudden?). Anyway, I was just reading this wikipedia entry on 'time boxing', and was thinking I may have to start doing...
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September 19, 2006 | Comments: 10
But maybe this card -- a token of love from me to you -- will help take the edge off this frightening, sweetney-less world. PS: I have to find someone to send this one to, pronto.
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September 19, 2006 | Comments: 15
Because I have a crush on every boy: [click for enlarge-o version] Whatchu got on yours, hmm (links to pitchers appreciated, but not required)? /random.
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September 11, 2006 | Comments: 9
On a remarkably clear morning five years ago, New York City came under attack. This video memorial, taken from footage shot by eyewitness David Vogler, shows New Yorkers waking up to that grim reality. Crystal Morning tells the story of September 11th, 2001 through fire and ambulance radio calls, the 911 call of a trapped World Trade Center worker, and...
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September 7, 2006 | Comments: 16
I must confess that I'm something of a confirmed data packrat, and seeing how my iBook recently reached a critical seeming less-than-two-gigs-free-space-available, I decided to seek out an external storage solution that would give my hard drive some much needed elbow room. After some serious interweb dealhacking, I came upon that which would enable the continuance of my obsessive-compulsive hoarding....
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September 7, 2006 | Comments: 5
This morning I received a very sad and touching email from a reader, which I'm posting an excerpt from below in the hopes that the power of the internet can lend a hand: I'm writing to you because of my friend Paulette and her daughter Isabel. I met Paulette on a message board a few months before my son was...
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August 25, 2006 | Comments: 6
Having just last night suffered a demotion from full-fledged, functional human to pathetic, crapulous fleshmass, I feel I truly understand your pain. You big stupid space rock, you. UPDATE: Woot! Astronomer catfight!
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August 22, 2006 | Comments: 8
1. Inspired by Ephesians 6:10-18. 2. Fitting that there are two songs with “Ass” in the title, no? 3. They're baconlicious! And finally, Sam Jackson ties it all up in a neat little package for us.
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August 21, 2006 | Comments: 8
And now that I've gotten that out of my system (All Better! [snort]), I'm taking a page from Schmutzie regarding The Art Of Getting Over Oneself by reviving this little gem: [clicky-click image to download pdf] Thanks (once again) to The Nonist.
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August 14, 2006 | Comments: 0
A couple days back, this package arrived: Wait for it.... Ta-Da! Booty for everyone! Wheee! For whatever reason, our Trader Joe's stopped carrying Veggie Booty a few months back (bastards!), and since this is M_'s only real regular source of vegetable-like matter, I was forced to take drastic, volume-discounted measures. Now to the task of injecting each individual booty curl...
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August 7, 2006 | Comments: 14
The latest State Of The Blogosphere is blowing my mind, people. For example: - The Blogosphere is over 100 times bigger than it was just 3 years ago. - The Blogosphere is doubling in size every 200 days (only 8% attributable to spam blogs) - About 175,000 new weblogs were created each day, which means that on average, there are...
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August 4, 2006 | Comments: 24
1. I have, like most people, a love/hate relationship with email. Most days I can barely keep up with it and am filled with dread every time I check it and find yet another thing I have to respond to, but then there are days like today when I'm waiting to hear back from specific people about specific things (a...
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July 31, 2006 | Comments: 12
Lots o' postmortemy goodness to come regarding The Trip, but for those who expressed concern: yes, I made it home, though not until 12:30am this morning. [grumble.] Bastard American Airlines. Two additional unrelated notes: 1. One of the most satisfying personal experiences I've had in some time was opening up my RSS reader this morning and clicking “select all” and...
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July 26, 2006 | Comments: 16
I'm stealing Amy's live blogging idear today (but we're friends, so she can suck it (and I of course mean “suck it” with love)), because though I have a quadrillion things to do I'm also so hyper-charged with impending BlogHerdom nervousness that I can't focus for more than three seconds on anything. So behold the glory brought to you by...
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July 24, 2006 | Comments: 13
Never, ever live in a place where inhabitants are commonly referred to as God-fearing people. /randomness PS: Is the interweb broken today? Heeeeello? Is this thing on? PPS: I have three zero standard VOX invites to give away. Anyone?
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July 21, 2006 | Comments: 13
DadGoneMad asked me to respond to the query: who or what have you been obsessed with in your lifetime? And then, in my mind, he pointed a long, boney, accusatory finger at me and bellowed: “YOOOOOU! YOOOOU SWEETNEY! ANSWER!” And then, in my mind, I quivered in fear and hung my head in shame. But back here on planet earth,...
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July 20, 2006 | Comments: 13
Which is pretty much the old 'do, but with some chunky hi/lo-lights. I know. Thrilling.
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July 18, 2006 | Comments: 7
To give you a sense of how today went for me: I think I just consumed my weight in pasta. Yes, my friends, its been a very high carb day. Oh, and if any of you are in the area: think you could swing by and hit me over the head with a blunt metal object of some sort until...
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June 28, 2006 | Comments: 9
I do have goals, you know. So as you might recall, we're leaving at the end of this week FOR THE MOTHERFUCKIN' BEACH, man, and I can barely contain my excitement. Whatever I'm doing this week at any one moment in time has seemed a pallid grey shade of mere existence in the face of my great expectations of Beach...
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June 26, 2006 | Comments: 13
Can anyone divine the source of this? Gotta be a joke, right? You can also dive off a bridge, or blow your brains out. HA! EDIT: But wait, there's MORE!
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June 20, 2006 | Comments: 16
I think I may have just stumbled across the creepiest site ever. You have been warned. Ugh.
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June 19, 2006 | Comments: 11
Last night I dreamt that, for Father's Day, I got Jamie a bear. In my dream, I'd gone to a pet store for some reason or other (dream logic being no logic), and in the center of the enormous, big-box-like pet store there was a large green indoor/outdoor carpeted platform dotted with tiny cubs. About twenty or so people milled...
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June 16, 2006 | Comments: 10
Because ya'll won't leave me alone about seeing The New Glasses in their natural habitat. Behold: Seriously, is there any way to take a non-dorky self-portrait? I mean, without being Heather, of course. PS: This is fitting (when speaking of self-portraiture): I've been reading about Poetry Thursdays, and thought I'd [gulp] offer up this (a few of my poems, PDF...
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June 14, 2006 | Comments: 18
Top o' the mornin', friends! A few bits and pieces: * Threadless $10 sale ends tomorrow! Also, did you notice that they now have kids tees (also for $10 until tomorrow)? * Watched Jesus Is Magic last night, and despite really wanting to like it -- loving the funny broads as I do -- my overall impression was decidedly “Meh”....
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June 12, 2006 | Comments: 12
1. It took $41.75 to fill up my car's gas tank yesterday (a 1998 Toyota Camry... because I'm a Mom). Please insert into your mind a picture of my head exploding.... now. 2. The bathing suit, she has arrived. It will probably be a week or so before I get up enough nerve to actually try it on though. Details...
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June 8, 2006 | Comments: 17
New Glasses Update! I am now in possession of The New Glasses. And I'm sad to say that, despite trying on like a bajillion pairs of horn-rimmed glasses and variations on the theme of horn-rimmed glasses, that particular avenue became a stylistic dead-end. An ugly, freakish dead-end. For though I love the style, the style does not love me. Instead...
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June 5, 2006 | Comments: 1
I've recently been fascinated by Lifehacker's How I Work series (and The Blog Herald's similar How I Blog series), but since nobody's going to be asking ME anytime soon to write about my blog work habits, I thought I'd go ahead and post my own little summary of these, and encourage others to do the same on their blogs. There's...
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May 25, 2006 | Comments: 12
Today I carry a towel only in my mind. I forgot to mention earlier that today, the day I jump ship on Effexor and head to what I hope are greener pharmacological pastures, is essentially also a rapid forced detox day: I did not take a dose yesterday, which means that as of tonight (when I start the new medication)...
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May 13, 2006 | Comments: 3
Have you ever scanned through the iTunes Essentials > Genres & History area in the iTunes Music Store? That's some heavy, heavy shit, man. And deep. PS: Thanks for all the birthday well-wishing, everybody. Ya'll are good peoples.
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May 3, 2006 | Comments: 10
Oh my god, my sinuses. The past 48 hours have been filled with bone-crushing, throbbing head pain, so much so that I literally went to bed last night at 9:30 -- lights out, eyes closed and everything -- which is frankly somewhat absurd. Yesterday I talked to jamie on the phone several times throughout the day, per usual, and the...
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May 1, 2006 | Comments: 12
French Press Coffee. There's a reason why those French are so snooty. Threadless T-Shirts. $10 sale until May 8th only! BUY BUY BUY! [EDIT: DUDES! Enter the code “SUPER TEES” at checkout and get an additional $3 off! That makes the Tees $7! WOOT!] (My selection? “Rock How-To”:) Copy, Right? Liza is awesome. Cliff Bars. Have I mentioned that I...
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May 1, 2006 | Comments: 2
Anna Nicole Smith Wins Supreme Court Case. THE SKY IS FALLING, MOTHERFUCKERS! Thank you for your attention. Have a nice day.
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April 20, 2006 | Comments: 5
And by “we” I of course mean Me and my jiggling flabbiness. Sigh. Okay, so I've been making progress in millimeters. Though the healthiness of my eating habits could be considered debatable, I've continued working out 2-3 times a week vigorously, which is borderline miraculous. Since I last reported I've lost an additional two pounds, which is fine and dandy,...
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April 15, 2006 | Comments: 5
The amusements here are legion. And be sure to check out her other photo sets. Pearls, people, pearls.
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April 14, 2006 | Comments: 6
* Last night I was reading about the mid-90s Rwandan genocide and got these deep, down-in-the-gut-level pangs to adopt a child in need. Reading of all the orphans of genocide, imagining what they've endured and what a family like ours could provide for them makes me feel simultaneously warm-fuzzy and pukey-dreadful inside. How can we have so much? How is...
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February 26, 2006 | Comments: 1
For all of you interested, I've created a bulletin board for our Challenge. Head on over here, sign up, and LET'S DO THIS THING. PS: Only challenge participants will be permitted; no lurkers or “just lookin'”-ers (not that there is anything to see, as you have to register to view the forums). If you don't plan to participate, please don't...
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February 25, 2006 | Comments: 9
Oooh! I just got a Flickr photo comment from some French person! Fancy! And so inter-na-cion-ale! Anyone willing to translate this for me [scroll to last comment]? Incidentally, I don't believe in those web-based language translators (well, I mean I know they exist, I just think they're less-than-accurate), so please don't send me output from one of those. I want...
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February 9, 2006 | Comments: 1
year after year, youyesyou.net makes it hurt so good.
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February 8, 2006 | Comments: 6
1. my friend xine, mother of a 14-year-old, sent me an email from which the following excerpt has been excised: the only thing good about being a teenager is he'll be an adult sooner. and alas, he's discovered internet porn; it was inevitable. how to disuade the exploration of perversity without really screwing up his puberty at the same time?...
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February 7, 2006 | Comments: 8
so i just saw one of those slick, cinematic pharmaceutical company commercials with dulcet-toned voiceovers and lots of vigorous, energetic people of indeterM_te age Being Active in various upper-middle-class-looking situations and environments, hawking a drug designed to treat something called Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS). and i have to say that i think something about this commercial disagreed with my central...
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February 6, 2006 | Comments: 4
1. extended new t-shirt sizes and more shirt styles available at yon zazzle. buy because you love. 2. dearest leahpeah has just posted her interview with moi. and i thought you'd like to know because, well, who can get enough of me? i know i can't! it might be said, in fact, that i have an insatiable appetite for me....
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February 3, 2006 | Comments: 5
[wipes eyes of joyful tears] thank you, interweb!
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February 2, 2006 | Comments: 15
utter randomness sent to me this morning by jamie: So many years back our friend Ryan Nelson used “tits” (short for “tits on glass,” TOG should be a common IM abbrev in my world) and about a year ago it boomeranged on me to cause a revival of the high school term in my vocab. Most recently though, “wicked” has...
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February 2, 2006 | Comments: 1
like, wow. i particularly enjoyed the ted baxter voice he does when openly mocking o'reilly. dude is just lettin' all the bile hang out... and its joyous to behold. [totally swiped from styro.]
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February 2, 2006 | Comments: 0
my four things thing. cuz all the cool kids are doing it.
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February 1, 2006 | Comments: 18
dudes, its swedish curling metal! “In preparation for the Olympic Games in February, we joined forces with one of Sweden's brightest hopes for a gold medal,” said HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak in a statement posted on the band's web site. “With heavy metal as a source of strength, the girls can now focus on bringing home the gold.” ...for styro...
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January 31, 2006 | Comments: 7
today, in a nutshell: 1. remember the job? yeah, i didn't get that. (bummer.) 2. i just got an email from Anil Dash. (wheeee!) i'm think i'm going to go fix myself a nice strong drink now.
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January 30, 2006 | Comments: 11
or you may get the very first sweetney.com tshirt: (if anyone knows of a cheaper source for tshirts online, shoot me an email at sweetney@thisurl.)
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January 30, 2006 | Comments: 1
file under i should've thought of doing this and made ONE MEEEELLION DOLLARS: the snapshirts blog shirt. they scan your site and generate a “word cloud” from commonly used words. then they slap that sucker on a t-shirt. kinda nifty... in a totally egocentric, navel-gazey sort of way. and of course we all know bloggers wouldn't have the least bit...
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January 29, 2006 | Comments: 7
massive flaming props to Jemaleddin of Tanglebones (Baltimore, represent!) for offering his mad web skillz and enabling me to FINALLY fix that nasty little problem i had with commenter info being remembered here. ALL HAIL JAMAL. a-frickin-men.
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January 27, 2006 | Comments: 19
okay, so i've been hesitant to mention this, but here goes: i'm in the running for a REALLY cool job -- one that would spread great, frothing gobs of goodness and happiness across the land of sweetney and all it contains -- and though i'm terrified that simply by alluding to this i am (as jamie would probably claim) completely...
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January 27, 2006 | Comments: 12
to do a little brainstorming... sweetney: making you feel superior, one blog post at a time sweetney: now with more starfucking sweetney: i have no idea what i mean either sweetney: the scent of ennui, with light undertones of crippling anguish sweetney: the frank stallone of mommyblogging sweetney: not yet completely dead inside sweetney: your alternative to having healthy human...
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January 26, 2006 | Comments: 3
and so i was left to ponder if perhaps M_ would be better off without me.... at least for a time. or, conversely, if i could convincingly imitate an unattended child and thus reap the rewards. puppies are mighty tasty, after all... PS: i have been remiss in reminding ya'll of the ROCKHEALS UPDATE, yo. its the sundance edition, and...
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January 17, 2006 | Comments: 2
no emoticon angry and/or frowny faces. oops! :( ...and i now officially hate myself EVEN MORE.
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January 17, 2006 | Comments: 3
my pal (and resident sounddude for RnR baltimore) mike is looking for “Recipes from the Baltimore Punk/DIY/Indie/Underground” for publication in a forthcoming zine. click here for large/legible version...
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January 16, 2006 | Comments: 14
-- luke wilson is one fucked-up looking motherfucker. -- terri hatcher: “all i'll say is that my daddy didn't give me enough hugs.” -- OMG did he just say angelina jolie is coming up?!? -- re: gena davis: MENSA *and* funny! who knew? -- re: steve carell: what, no thanks to jon? LET US ALL GIVE THANKS TO JON. --...
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January 16, 2006 | Comments: 1
while at a friendly gathering this weekend i ran into a pal of jamie's who, in the course of our conversation, mentioned that he'd recently attended a party with his wife where jason kottke was a guest, and -- contrary to all reason -- that his wife had absolutely no idea who kottke was. so, adorably enough, the wife guilelessly...
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January 13, 2006 | Comments: 0
for all your paraskavedekatriaphobia needs. and, whatever you do, stay away from camp crystal lake today.
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January 11, 2006 | Comments: 19
= this shirt jamie just received in the mail. ya'll are really getting an in-depth glimpse into the psyche of jamie via his consumptive desires these days, eh? anyway... in case you weren't aware: snakes on a motherfucking plane, man. you all do realize that SoaP is a showgirls in the making, right? EDIT: ain't a got-damn thing you can...
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January 11, 2006 | Comments: 4
i think i may have mentioned this in my delicious bookmarks (and of course i'm too lazy to go and actually check), but all hail 43folders conception of the email DMZ, which has allowed me -- for quite literally the first time in years -- to clean out my email inbox completely. to, like, ZERO, dude. I KNOW! it feels...
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January 6, 2006 | Comments: 3
jamie: “i got approval today at work to get my laptop airbrushed. so i was thinking of getting, like, a big moon with a howling wolf below it, and then my name in big bubble letters above it...” me: “like the cheesy 70s t-shirts?” jamie: “yeah. and maybe the word ”howlin'“ right next to the picture...” me: “they approved that?”...
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January 5, 2006 | Comments: 6
i am trembling with excitement and expectation. if you haven't seen the original, man, get on that shit. for reals. [thanks, debbie!] EDIT: tracey and jamie go to amsterdam! Technorati Tags: entertainment, humor, movies
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January 3, 2006 | Comments: 3
very VERY cool DC-area web dev joint looking to hire all the following peoples: --ASP.NET Developer --CF Developer --Front-end Developer --Account Manager --Interactive Strategist if you are rad and interested, email me at sweetney(at)sweetney.com.
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January 3, 2006 | Comments: 3
do not taunt panexa. and for crissakes, be sure to read the important information for women, ladies.
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January 2, 2006 | Comments: 0
i was just thinking: i should have an all-caps day (oh, i'm sorry -- an ALL-CAPS DAY). a day in which i only blog, speak, and generally live in ALL-CAPS. nothing half-assed or middling -- only that which achieves ALL-CAPS levels of psychological, emotional, and intellectual intensity. you know, going 110% all day, just like that television commercial for underarm...
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January 2, 2006 | Comments: 1
i'll be doing some major and minor site redesign over the next couple of days, so don't be frightened by any site wonkiness or style horrors you may encounter in the next 48ish hours. sistas gonna work it out, yo.
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December 31, 2005 | Comments: 6
i was just reading alice's post about her struggle to find time to write amid, well, LIFE, and felt more than a twinge of self-recognition therein. whether you stay at home with your kid(s) or work in an office all day, or don't have any kids and work in an office (or restaurant, or chain store, or sewage plant, or...
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December 31, 2005 | Comments: 7
taking a page from styro, newly absorbed into The BORG (aka The LJ): Four Jobs You’ve Had in Your Life: DJ; Bookstore Clerk; University Instructor; Writer/Editor. Four Movies You Could Watch Over and Over: Showgirls; Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle; The Royal Tenenbaums; Manos: The Hands of Fate (MST3K version, natch). Four Places You’ve Lived: Detroit; Washington DC;...
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December 31, 2005 | Comments: 1
# Wired News: Best (and Worst) Gadgets of 2005 because i'm an enormous flaming GEEK. # The Book Of Cool for you skaters/bikers/etc out there. some very amazing stuff. # Top Ten National Geographic News Stories of 2005 includes “ligers”! # REUTERS Showcase pictures of the year from REUTERS. # IFILM - Viral Video: Best of 2005 oh webby goodness....
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December 28, 2005 | Comments: 4
my site was recently accessed by someone performing this google search. again i am left asking: what the hell is wrong with you people?!?!
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December 21, 2005 | Comments: 4
the best of the blogs are accepting noM_tions.... and so i threw a vote in for the most deserving alice in the mommy blogs category. because, guys, WE ALL LOVE DOOCE, but c'mon! give some other lady a fighting chance, why doncha? [thanks, paige.]
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December 20, 2005 | Comments: 0
file under: time-wasting avoidance word-to-the-wise: stay the hell away from ask metafilter.
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December 20, 2005 | Comments: 9
so we watched mr. and mrs. smith last night, and enjoyed it far more than expected. twas unexpectedly funny, and some of the action/fight scenes were simultaneously hilarious and spellbinding (the culM_ting shoot-out is so john wootastic, it bordered on explicit homage). two thumbs up! two thumbs up! oh yeah, and it certainly doesn't hurt that two of the most...
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December 19, 2005 | Comments: 1
this would constitute part III of my personal war on christmas. santarchy. heh.
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December 17, 2005 | Comments: 2
i just added my desktop to Lifehacker's Desktop Show and Tell Pool on flickr, and i gotta say i'm fascinated to an embarrassing degree by the photos of other people's little windows to the interweb. its voyeurlicious! ps: yes, i'm aware that simply having a public blog means i probably qualify as an exhibitionist. pps: shut up.
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December 12, 2005 | Comments: 1
i just got through putting together holiday cards for a mass mailing, and my mouth now tastes like i've been sucking on a stale, bitter pine cone for several hours. all that envelope licking... my DNA will now be dispatched to points north, south, east and west, including several fancy international destinations. lucky spit. i started off in earnest, jotting...
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December 7, 2005 | Comments: 4
earlier today i had the thought that -- particularly *now* -- dissent IS patriotism. i was proud of myself for about, oh, 2 milliseconds. then i googled 'dissent is patriotism', and came up with this image of a bumper sticker. [shakes fist in air] i'll get you, howard zinn! EDIT: oh my god... i'm becoming one of those t-shirt sloganeering...
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December 2, 2005 | Comments: 2
just a heads-up that i've added a buncha stuff to sweetney's holiday shopping extravaganza 2005 this week. so, in the words of those oh-so-beastie boys, ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out.
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November 23, 2005 | Comments: 3
i just read M_ The Cat in the Hat for the first time ever (wipes sweat from brow), and in the wake of that feel as though i just mainlined some amphetamines or something. weird. though now that i think about it, the cat really is something of a pusher -- coming to these kids when their mom is gone...
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November 22, 2005 | Comments: 7
last updated: 12/13 : 8pm simply because i love, and because i'm here to help: offered below is a compendium of nifty stuff of which i approve for your holiday shopping pleasure and ease (by the by, i'm not a store, just a fellow product consumer). i'll be adding to this continually until late december, so bookmark the permalink now...
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November 22, 2005 | Comments: 3
let me help you out with that holiday shopping, friend: timex flip clock. $25ish. perhaps my best purchase this year. [bows]
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November 16, 2005 | Comments: 5
tickets have been purchased to fly here. during this month. to visit these of our peoples. and to catch some of this. and maybe some of this and this, but please god not this. but i'd bet on lots of this, and the resultant this. woot! wholly unrelated ps: regarding a certain toddler's epic naughtiness of yesterday: yet another ear...
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November 10, 2005 | Comments: 1
today -- swear to Gandhi -- i saw a beat-up, rusted-out baby blue mid-80s ford escort with SPINNER RIMS. what the hell is wrong with you people?!? by the by, jamie just came home, sat down on the couch next to me, and handed me TWO of these: (yes, its a POCKET NINJA.) and yes, i did swoon a little.
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November 8, 2005 | Comments: 29
a. what song lyrics are stuck in your head right now? b. (optional:) what significance/meaning do you ascribe to them relative to your present life (if any)?
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November 3, 2005 | Comments: 4
i was just over at styrofoamkitty reading C's post about blogging having jumped the shark (a term which makes me giggle each and every time i *think* it, let alone read it), and i gotta say i'm inclined to agree that, in its present form, The Blog is in a death spiral -- at least as far as its presence...
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November 3, 2005 | Comments: 24
is there really some sort of brouhaha going on around this here interweb regarding dooce's new design/layout? peoples need to get themselves some LIVES, man. and how can anyone be so mean-spirited as to begrudge her the opportunity to make a living off her site? when i read terms like “sell-out” in reference to what she's doing i just want...
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November 1, 2005 | Comments: 0
jamie seems to think this rather ummm odd email i received is some sort of spam, but i'm unconvinced.
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October 19, 2005 | Comments: 5
umm, guys? not to be a broken record, but we should really be getting on that whole global warming thing, pronto.
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October 18, 2005 | Comments: 8
not to make gross generalizations about an entire human population or anything, but WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE? [via the exceptional styro, who i met this past weekend, and she is glorious. it was like spending time with an old friend i hadn't seen in a while.... and she “eats punks like you for breakfast.”]
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October 18, 2005 | Comments: 23
that's one big-ass duck (taken at the yearly duck derby in baltimore, where they race rubber ducks. don't ask.). mmm...inflatable slide... random: zelda, the eldest of our three kitties. since fall has hit i've become increasingly obsessed with our home's interior, all suzy-homemaker stylee. and because i'm always curious about how other people's homes look inside and how other people...
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October 12, 2005 | Comments: 16
sounds like some of you have already received it! leave all mix-related thoughts, questions and opinions in the comments here, por favor. i've been listening to said mix pretty much non-stop since this weekend, so i'll be interested to hear whatchu all make of it. continue to rock on, fair readers.
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October 12, 2005 | Comments: 1
sooo... i mailed out 25 autumnal cds yesterday, with the remaining 35 or so to go out before the week's end. whoever gets their cd first (see: if you get it today or tomorrow) give me a heads-up via comments or email and i'll post an open thread for mix comments/feedback/banter. woot! now please get thee to a-viewing the new...
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October 10, 2005 | Comments: 4
balt amour. [in the voice of cartman:] kick ass!
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October 10, 2005 | Comments: 13
every single teenager featured on Mtv's My Super Sweet Sixteen. it would put me in debtor's prison, but i'd go to lock-up happily, knowing i'd really made a significant contribution to society in my lifetime.
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October 7, 2005 | Comments: 6
alrighty, so the mix is mixed: 23 songs, 1 hour 18 mins 23 seconds, 79.1 MB of LOVE. i expect to send these out in waves of 10-15, with the first batch going out saturday, in the order in which your requests came in. i'm hoping to have them all sent by the end of next week... yet there is...
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October 7, 2005 | Comments: 3
on the positive side of things, dude must've successfully completed therapy recently or something.
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October 6, 2005 | Comments: 10
while i am staunchly anti-meme for 364 days of the year, this one is damn near poetic: Google “[your name] needs” and see what comes up. Tracey needs to grow up and admit the problem isn't Mooney. Tracey needs to (respectfully) stop being self-righteously wrong, become humble and do some research. Tracey needs someone to have her back. Tracey needs...
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October 6, 2005 | Comments: 0
so umm hey, about that autumnal mix... i stupidly underestimated the interest in my mad mixmaster skillz, mainly because i'm a huge, flaming moron like that. so i just wanted to send out a call for donations to cover even a little of the materials/postage expenses involved; if you signed up for a mix and CAN (this is *in no...
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October 3, 2005 | Comments: 4
file under RAD: rick rubin is producing neil diamond's upcoming album. [from an article in the chi trib:] ...the singer recorded an album with Rubin, who has also previously worked with Slayer, the Beastie Boys and Rage Against the Machine -- none of whom, you can bet, would ever be in regular rotation on Neil Diamond's iPod. The still-untitled collaboration,...
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September 28, 2005 | Comments: 1
Wie man sich bettet, so liegt schläft man.
September 23, 2005 | Comments: 5
[german proverb: As the cap is put on, so it must be worn. (or: You made your own bed, now lie in it.)] global warming's a bitch, ain't it? EDIT: welcome to our new man-made environment, people.
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September 23, 2005 | Comments: 10
dude, i so want to go to the mars cheese castle..
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September 21, 2005 | Comments: 13
from today's baltimore citypaper, in a piece on a photoblogger: The only thing worse than a blog is a photoblog. Posting endless, pointless thoughts and musings and opinions and personal anecdotes to the web is tired enough, but throwing in snapshots of these people, or—shudder—their pets or children or friends or people they see when going out, please, kill us...
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September 20, 2005 | Comments: 5
just in case you weren't aware... unlike jamie, WHO WON'T SHUT THE HELL UP ABOUT IT. and i say that with love, people.
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September 20, 2005 | Comments: 3
got my threadless regrowth t-shirt yesterday. its quite nice. you should get one.
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September 19, 2005 | Comments: 1
this is probably why you want to know your husband for, oh, more than 6 months before getting married. also: didn't see that comin'. [snort]
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September 19, 2005 | Comments: 4
smartly, beauties -- get ye to yon web page, for today be international talk like a pirate day. avast!
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September 19, 2005 | Comments: 2
i don't deserve you internet peoples. truly. but please do write and fill me in on why you felt compelled to be so generous. i'm all ears, sugar. anyway, thank you.
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September 14, 2005 | Comments: 0
the sweetney clan's good pal marc nelson (aka marcus kyd) is putting on this ambitious work once more at the black cat, DC, in a coupla weeks (thus the other sweetney gets to again play AV geek for a night)... check it, folks! Taffety Punk Theatre Company presents AND THEN IT FASTER ROCK'D: Shakespeare's Collected Noise September 27th, 2005 8:30...
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September 9, 2005 | Comments: 3
an updated blogroll is a happy blogroll.
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September 8, 2005 | Comments: 11
are comments not showing up on my site? i just upgraded the other day to the latest version of movable type, so perhaps that has something to do with it? at least one person says that their comment isn't appearing... technology. grumble. EDIT: umm, after some close inspection of the new version of movable type i found some 40-odd comments...
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September 8, 2005 | Comments: 1
Buy this tee for only $10 & we'll donate $20 for Hurricane Katrina Relief. Up to 50 grand. Thank you. that is so very cool.
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September 7, 2005 | Comments: 2
AIM IM with Beth Adams 4:51 PM hey there. how are you hanging in? Have you seen this joke? Q. How many Bush Adminstration officials does it take to replace a lightbulb? A. There is nothing wrong with the lightbulb. The lightbulb works just fine, and moreover it is getting brighter every day. And those who would suggest otherwise are...
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September 6, 2005 | Comments: 0
best added-value improvement made to home electronics/appliances in the past 10 years? the popcorn button now featured on microwaves. call me a lazy american consumer (i do), but dude, that shit ROCKS. now back to your regularly scheduled Xtreme apocalyptic endtime hoedown.
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September 4, 2005 | Comments: 1
during an interview with stanford U professor and climatologist stephen schneider, discussing global warming's demonstrated impact on (ahem) weather intensity, quoth he: “well i mean, how bad can we expect storms to get? because you know i remember that movie we got last year -- The Day After Tomorrow -- and you know i'm a guy who *believes* in global...
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September 1, 2005 | Comments: 5
i just hit cnn.com to check in on how things are in new orleans, and was met with the following headlines: SCENE OF ANARCHY BREAKING NEWS: New Orleans hospital halts patient evacuations after coming under sniper fire, a doctor who witnessed the incident says. More soon. what the hell are we doing, people?
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August 30, 2005 | Comments: 7
the fine, incredibly talented peoples over at charm city cakes are in the running for the today show's “today throws a wedding” wedding cake selection this year. the cake is chosen by the viewers, so take a moment and head on over here and cast a vote for CCC! (charm city cakes created my 35th birthday cake, and though it...
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August 25, 2005 | Comments: 6
behold the absurd glory of my father in the late 70s: my getup is first communion garb; i cannot be held responsible.
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August 24, 2005 | Comments: 3
flickr is pissing me off... i've tried uploading pix a bunch of times today to no avail. grr. anyway, that's my mom on the right. and who knew she dated a cast member of West Side Story? i wonder if there was a knife fight at the prom. or if people inexplicably burst into song throughout the proceedings.
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August 24, 2005 | Comments: 5
i'm told the setting was a birthday party, and that she was reaching for a balloon. regardless, i *love* this photo.
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August 23, 2005 | Comments: 1
my sentiments exactly: awesomest video by the awesomest band. (hi lalitree!) a send-up of IBM's “tech crisis” commercials: Sometimes you've got bigger problems than a gun-weilding maniac. Like printing. the national economy=not good. (okay, so this isn't exactly “amusing.” sorry dudes.) japanese subway roaches cause mass freak-out.
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August 22, 2005 | Comments: 4
what the hell? did anyone else know *ANYTHING* about this? yes indeedy, mondays suck.
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August 19, 2005 | Comments: 6
upon receipt of my teddy (who i still have, but he now resides in M_'s room).
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August 18, 2005 | Comments: 2
congrats to benn, rachel and (of course!) emily on Lulu Eightball's inclusion in this week's Entertainment Weekly Must List (at #1, no less!). From booze to bumblebees, Emily Flake's delectably deadpan comic strip finds humor in dark and unexpected places. i love it when good things happen to good peoples.
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August 18, 2005 | Comments: 0
i just got an email from netflix by which i can give people 1 free month of the service. so, uhh, if you've ever thought to joining it but held off, now might be a good time to consider the joys of the netflix. send me an email at sweetney AT sweetney.com noting your netflix interest and i'll hook my...
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August 14, 2005 | Comments: 12
our dear friends bill & shellie recently announced that they're knocked-up, so i'm sure they're already excitedly scouring baby name books, looking for a uniquely fitting moniker for their offspring-to-be. to aid them in this quest, i've collected the following list of truly distinctive first names, any of which i believe would add a heretofore unachieved degree of character and...
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August 10, 2005 | Comments: 17
you lurkers crack my ass up, what with your fears i'll think you're stalking me (please?), and claims of having nothing clever to say. take note: commenting cannot be confused with stalking, at least not by me. the only way i'd think you are stalking me is if you, like, tracked me down and showed up at my door one...
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August 9, 2005 | Comments: 122
i know you're out there. i can hear you breathing. so please drop a hello, hey, or hi in comments, just so i can stop feeling eerily watched by a thousand silent eyes.... and whatever else you'd like to add, including an answer to the following query, if the spirit moves: why do lurkers lurk? and if a blog entry...
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August 7, 2005 | Comments: 10
this just in: Spin Magazine is good for more than just wiping your butt with! just read their interview with dave grohl in the current issue, and thereby came to understand that the song best of you was inspired by grohl's “experiences traveling on John Kerry's campaign bus.” which made an already likable song very nearly lickable in my view....
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August 4, 2005 | Comments: 14
since right now it would appear that i have the ear of a sizeable percentage of the interweb (for, like, the next 15 seconds, since you're all trained by MTV-style rapid editing and hopped up on xxtreme energy drinks and dubious herbal supplements and thus unable to attend to anything for much longer than that) due to some linkage from...
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July 27, 2005 | Comments: 0
people's idiocy and blindness absolutely astounds me. and i think i'd be a lot more pissed off more often were it not for my view of justice as a sort of natural force -- karma, if you will. that despite convincing deception, and for all intents and purposes getting away with it (whatever it might be) , you will always,...
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July 27, 2005 | Comments: 3
anybody know of, uhh, anyone fitting this, err, description in the, umm, LA-area? Extreme characters and hideously unattractive types, ages 18-50. Odd body shapes or very lean to extremely skinny. Missing teeth, wandering eyes and serial killer looks with real long hair & beards. Wigs & makeup are not what we're looking for. We also need little people, very large...
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July 26, 2005 | Comments: 3
a few prototypes... whattaya think, bri?
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July 26, 2005 | Comments: 2
so i was driving back from target yesterday (as i am wont to do), and came to a stoplight directly behind an SUV with one of those FUCKING MAGNETIC RIBBONS slapped on the back of it. only this ribbon was green and the text said “support magnetic ribbons.” dude, this is so *totally* a rip on my buddy brian's ribbon...
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July 15, 2005 | Comments: 22
what do you do when you're feeling down, stuck in a rut, and full of general blahness about life and the world? what rituals, spells and incantations do you deploy? what helps you get through, lifts you up, sets things straight in your mind? no, i'm really asking.
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July 12, 2005 | Comments: 2
file under hi, i'm an idiot. i predict there will be some long, thick bangs in ms. kari smith's future.
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July 7, 2005 | Comments: 1
this morning's events aren't really helping to bolster my rapidly receding faith in humanity. so please stop sucking so hard. thanks in advance, sweetney
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July 6, 2005 | Comments: 3
[phone rings] me: hello? lady: hello, may i please speak to the person responsible for marketing the website sweetney.com? me: uhhh.... marketing? lady: oh, yes... is the website a business? me: uhhh... no. lady: oh alright then. thank you for your time. me: uhhh.... okay... [click] umm, what the fuck was that all about? and umm why was i too...
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June 28, 2005 | Comments: 2
Heat Advisory for Baltimore Metro Area Some of the hottest weather so far this summer will be over the region today. The combination of high heat and humidity will drive heat index values to around 100 this afternoon. A heat index between 98 and 103 is currently forecast. During heat advisory level conditions, the combination of hot temperatures and high...
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June 27, 2005 | Comments: 3
last night i was catching up on mtv’s “meet the barkers”, and literally had to stop watching when they dropped everything (including a warhol they'd just bought) and left their (spacious, beauteous) estate -- without the kids of course, as they were being tended by a seemingly sweet and grandmotherly nanny -- to jet off to hawaii on a moments...
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June 24, 2005 | Comments: 0
just in case you were thinking of getting me a gift, but couldn't decide what to get. cough.
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June 22, 2005 | Comments: 13
the internet is populated by PEOPLE who have real feelings and who shouldn't be treated like inanimate objects who will carry none of what you say around with them after it's said. my personhood doesn't end when i log onto my computer. i don't suddenly become “sweetney” instead of tracey. i'm still tracey, and the shit that hurts me in...
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June 21, 2005 | Comments: 2
i'd say this is mean, were it not so funny. surprising expiration dates. guess i'd better get on throwing out, oh, about half of what i own. just a little reminder regarding the genius that is will ferrell. i gots to get me one of these. enjoy the comic stylings of triumph at the jackson trial. i love it when...
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June 20, 2005 | Comments: 4
think my neighbors would freak out if we hung this flag on a pole from our front porch? its the flag of the pirate stede bonnet, and it is rad. yes, i'm serious.
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June 17, 2005 | Comments: 3
uhh HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, JAMIE! four years, and it feels like 50. but i mean that in a good way. heh. you complete me, light up my life, and blow my mind (69 times). okay, so i'm bad at this sort of thing. but you know i love you, other sweetney.
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June 17, 2005 | Comments: 3
1. i seriously SERIOUSLY fucked up my back during the installation of two airconditioning units earlier this week (what was it... lift with your legs? lift with your lower back? awww, fuck it... [insert sound of my spine snapping like a twig]). i am hobbling old-lady stylee. werd to your grandmutha. 2. i may very well consume an entire bag...
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June 16, 2005 | Comments: 4
does anyone know of a painless, easy way to stop the fucking trackback ping spam? for the first few months of this bloggity blog i had trackbacks open by default... and boy am i paying for that oversight now. anything i can do to close all trackback pings globally? ANYTHING other than having to go back and individually close trackbacks...
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May 31, 2005 | Comments: 2
proof that there's more crazy people out there than you might think.
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May 31, 2005 | Comments: 4
[for your ready reference] 1. the complexity of these people's psychological messed-up-ness deserves attention and extensive study by JAMA. 2. i knew far too many people like this in my 20s. seriously. 3. why is it so often the case that the assholes get all the charisma? 4. i have never heard a single complete song by either of these...
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May 11, 2005 | Comments: 1
this is the worst i've felt allergy-season-wise in recent memory. daily i suspect that my sinuses are gonna finally burst, and i feel all itchy/sneezy/watery-eyes-y/hacky-coughy pretty much 24-7. this despite taking prescription allergy medicine AND sudafed for good measure. anyway, today M_ -- who is clearly cursed with my pathetically weakened immune system -- has been crabilicious since waking; she...
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May 3, 2005 | Comments: 5
so i'm being interviewed next week by the baltimore city paper regarding rock-n-romp (they want to take a picture of me and everything! its like i'm famous! [snort]), and i'm trying to figure out how to conduct myself and phrase things without letting on that I NOW HAVE NO BANDS TO PLAY THE FIRST FRIGGIN SHOW. i shall speak only...
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April 29, 2005 | Comments: 0
wanna put your worries and troubles (or termites -- more on that later) in perspective? like, woah.
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April 27, 2005 | Comments: 1
emmett, declan and calia, welcome to the world (such as it is). if there were more cute babies in the world, i think we'd have a real shot at world peace. thanks to the new parents for doing their part.
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April 27, 2005 | Comments: 1
you might wanna sit down for this one. Sumatran Quake Left 'Scar' on Earth's Gravity no. seriously. thanks to gwyd.
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April 26, 2005 | Comments: 0
NOTE: all spoken for as of today (sorry, but you snoozed). we're clearing out some backyard space for rock-n-romp -- as well as for the backyard playcenter-type thingy -- and so we have a couplea gigantor red hibiscus that must go. we're keeping one, and one has our neighbor's name on it, which leaves a single, solitary hibisci (?) looking...
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April 26, 2005 | Comments: 2
here's my deliciously masochistic recipe for how to make your experience of a shitty spring cold even more painful: 1. don't eat a single real meal during the day (note: half a cereal bar does not constitute a meal). 2. liberally dose yourself with echinacea and green tea extract. do not bother to read dosage directions and warnings. 3. drink...
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April 22, 2005 | Comments: 1
uncanny resemblance: Pope Benedict XVI and Emperor Palpatine. ZOINKS. [courtesy of dear xine.]
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April 21, 2005 | Comments: 0
of impending tripletdom, that is. let the countdown commence.
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April 21, 2005 | Comments: 0
fishing.
April 20, 2005 | Comments: 25
what one cd would you recommend i add to my collection (if i don't have it already, that is), and why? ONE cd, people (double albums accepted, however).
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April 20, 2005 | Comments: 9
the following radness is courtesy of my long lost best friend john huston, who just emailed me out of the blue.* behold. *i had not spoken with john since...well, since i was pregnant with M_, i think. we met when i was 15 (16?), and i consider him to be the single most influential person in my life, parental units...
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April 19, 2005 | Comments: 7
at some point during yesterday's power-tools-n-alcoholfest (wooo-hooo!) someone addressed the issue of having an 'online persona'. now, as someone who thinks of identity as pretty fluid and constructed in all contexts -- 3-dimensional or not -- this got me thinking about both how people may read what i write (with a certain tone or attitude -- constructing their own versions...
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April 15, 2005 | Comments: 0
to do: build a stage for rock-n-romp when: this sunday, april 17th, at 1pm where: casa de gaughran-perez how: with the help of many generous volunteers (you?) there will be beer and lunchy-type vittles for all! if you're interested in helping, hit me email stylee at sweetney AT sweetney.com for more info.
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April 15, 2005 | Comments: 1
finally got our VA taxes printed out today...a mere 4 hours before the date they're due. this is the first time in my life this has ever happened -- that i've waited until tax day to mail them. i used to be so type-A about crap like that, i'd get them done before the end of january. *early february at...
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April 12, 2005 | Comments: 2
lifted from the blog of ACW: The April Happy Hour will take place on Wednesday, April 20th, from 6:30pm until who the fudge knows, at the Club Charles. They do indeed have food there (I double checked for y'all) and upon a “refresher” visit, I feel we should all be able to fit into the lower or upper levels easily....
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April 9, 2005 | Comments: 8
would i be considered, like, x-files-level paranoid if i told you that i'm made *just a little* uncomfortable by the number of people who visit this website from a computer at some sort of government-type institution? okay, so most of them are from the smithsonian and national art galleries, but still. the moles of The Man are everywhere. have i...
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April 8, 2005 | Comments: 2
what a ridiculously self-conscious buzzkill of a bad idea. someone must pay. ps: i hate america. have a nice day.
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April 4, 2005 | Comments: 10
billy joel's “we didn't start the fire” is REM's “its the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine”.... for your dad. pearls, people. with love from me to you.
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April 4, 2005 | Comments: 4
while i'm in no way opposed to constructive criticism and/or commentary regarding stuff i post here, let me just say that from this point forward people who post comments here using a clearly fake email address and/or URL will have their comments deleted immediately. its a personal pet peeve of mine -- how the potential for anonymity on the interweb...
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April 4, 2005 | Comments: 1
what is going into shock? anal probing fucked up ladies wet shit reenacted with bunnies and -- praise jeezus -- BLACK ROUND ASS!! i think these terms adequately reflect the overall quality and substance of this site's content, no? [snort.]
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April 3, 2005 | Comments: 7
i need to get me one of these:
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March 31, 2005 | Comments: 3
i ask you: just how dumb do you have to be to perform an actual search engine search for “www.sweetney.com”? people, please. you have a brain. use it.
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March 30, 2005 | Comments: 2
i finally realized why i like brian & greg from this season's amazing race. its because they remind me of the richie character in the royal tenenbaums. witness: ps: that “MELTDOWN!” magazine cover cracks me up every time.
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March 22, 2005 | Comments: 9
do you have a name for your computer? as in: all of my macs* have been named 'singularity' (fitting, no?). and i've used gort's icons to symbolize it. always. am i alone in this dorkiness? *i suddenly feel as though i should break out into some julio englesias inspired tune, "to all the macs i've loved before..." oh bondi blue...
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March 19, 2005 | Comments: 0
i really, REALLY overdid it working in the garden yesterday. everything hurts. but especially when moving and breathing. mama.
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March 16, 2005 | Comments: 1
a little sumpin'-sumpin' from the NYT about stickin' it to the man, one medium coffee order at a time. a telling little info tidbit garnered: Some groups are more frustrated than others. In 2002, Harris Interactive, a market research group based in Rochester, conducted a phone survey called the Daily Hassle Scale that asked 1,010 people to rank the aggravations...
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March 12, 2005 | Comments: 6
napoleon dynamite vs. harold and kumar go to white castle -- who wins? okay, you're right, who am i kidding....
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March 11, 2005 | Comments: 2
regarding this, i'm going to have to state the obvious and say Nirvana, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. because, c'mon -- how perfect would that be?
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March 9, 2005 | Comments: 7
a plea: i need to find someone (or, better yet, someones) with carpentry skills who'd be willing to donate a few hours of their time in april to help us build a stage for this summer's rock-n-romp performances. it wouldn't have to be anything too elaborate, just sturdy and big enough for our purposes. please, if you can help --...
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March 8, 2005 | Comments: 0
well, that was odd.
March 3, 2005 | Comments: 12
you may recall that a while back i posted something referencing the song “magnet and steel” by walter egan. get this: i just got an email from him, both thanking me for the “plug”, and noting his possible availability for rock-n-romp. unfortunately, the week he'll be around these parts isn't a rock-n-romp week. [weeps]* but i'd like to take this...
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March 1, 2005 | Comments: 2
re: the laptop: its now taken. but thanks for the interest and stuff. re: blogger happy hour thingy: i *cannot* believe you people. is no one going? LAMERS!
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March 1, 2005 | Comments: 1
i have 50 gmail invites. jesus. anybody want one? or, uhh, 5?
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March 1, 2005 | Comments: 3
only of interest to locals, natch -- When: Wednesday, March 16th Time: 6:00 p.m. to 'whenever' Where: Dizzy Issie’s, 300 W. 30th Street, Baltimore, Maryland so who's going? c'mon! hump night, man! i probably won't be able to make it there until 7/8ish -- promise me you'll all still be there (and -- even better -- drunk)....
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February 28, 2005 | Comments: 8
learned from recent experience working on that rock-n-romp thing i keep bringing up: musicians are NOT definitive, decisive people. and there are a few fairly, i dunno, renowned people that i'm dealing with here. one doesn't wanna hassle them but, you know, i gots to fill dem dates, spanky. i mean, think of the children. and so i h a...
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February 28, 2005 | Comments: 0
John and Jackie Knill of Vancouver, British Columbia, pose at a resort in Khao Lak, Thailand, on December 12, 2004. The couple were killed when the December 26 tsunami struck the resort. Their digital camera was found, and though the camera was destroyed, searchers w