and so the eve has passed, and a new Christmas dawns...
and in the moment, one delicious moment, those at hand's reach and heart's reach,
i think on you.
thank you for the memories, and the delights, and the ways that you've enriched my life...
with a kiss and a whisper
Merry Christmas.
(...by sun and candlelight)
righto - back to work I go.
well, it's the eve of the eve...
and I should really post something.
and will.
when something comes to me.
hey...
okay, I cannot take credit for this idea - it was forwarded along to me in an email but I like it.
a lot.
A win, win, win solution on solving the Immigration issue:
1. Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
2. Take the dirt, raise the levies in New Orleans.
3. And put those troublesome Florida alligators in the moat.
Are there any other problems you would like for me to solve?
~Yeah, why aren't you (whoever you are) - running for president?
Newsflash: AOLHELL's real estate just got cheaper.
cheaper than albert's frilly cape even.
so cheap...in fact,
that it's absolutely free now.
so now, I have no problem taking advantage of filling up their server space with unnecessary stuff.
so here goes:
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Here ye! Here ye! One and All:
The Freely Floralilian Journal of Pointless Posting is hereby re-opened for pointless business...
On occasion, that is. (because she is still a busy Queen, doncha know.)
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"Why Flora?" some of you might ask -
Well, it's simply because it's one less password I need to remember.
- don't flatter yourself into thinking anything else, AOL.
oh, and happy third blog birthday to me too. thanks for reminding me Connie!
So the damn japanese beetles are chewing on my Crepe Myrtle and Flowering Plum - leaving lacy remnants of what used to be leaves.
And all the while having orgies - those "in your face" orgies on top of orgies on top of orgies of shameless sex - humping and thumping and swapping and chewing and grinding and buzzing and flying into walls and into my hair and down my shirt...
Enough! There is something decidedly creepy about having to retrieve a fresh from sex beetle from between my cleavage - traumatizing even - Enough I say!
And so I went out and bought some beetle bags - those "Japaneze beetle traps"..deciding against sprays and pesticides - deciding to go the humane way and collect those pesty creatures, save the environment, play fire against fire with a tiny potent sex lure......only to find them full to the brim, spilling humping little shiny green beetles over the rims in less than 24 hours.
The green bags bulged with the squirming humping beetles meeting their demise under the shear weight of the orgies on top of them - dropping in one, after the other, after the other - all frantically searching for the "sex " they have so eagerly detected. Add to it the 97 degree sun constantly beating on the pulsating humpers and soon I have a bulging bag of slowly saute-ing humpers getting that one last pathetic and futile hump in.
I feel bad.
Kinda, sorta.
To see the rippling, squirming, bulging bag, and then seeing a few of them trying to wiggle out of the three air holes on the bottom; trying to wiggle free of the pressing weight, and the suffocation, and the heat...and almost, just almost, hear the tiny whispered screams of ...."helllllp me.....helllllp me...." from their little mandible faces with little hooked arms outstretched..
I ponder the distress calls briefly - letting a small amount of guilt seep into me for inflicting such pain and suffering on the little horny creatures...worse probably than a few sprays of Japaneze Beetle Pesticide....
nah.
"Die! You little bastards! Die!" I say and cackle hysterically in the face of their torture.
I think I need to stop watching CNN.
Okay, unfortunately I don't really have any time to post anything pointless -
But I do have time to alert women to a little known type of breast cancer that is not detectable as a lump or on a regular mammogram screening - until after it has flared up. It is aggressive and needs to be attended to quickly. You do not have to have a lump to have breast cancer.
Think you have a bug bite, a little swelling, a little enlargement, or different texture to the breast skin, itching, even a sudden inversion of the nipple? The symptoms are similar to mastitis or a breast infection. If they do not or have not respond to antibiotics within 2 weeks - then by all means see your doctor immediately.
Please visit The IBC (inflammatory breast cancer) Research Foundation website for more details. http://www.ibcresearch.org/
(oh please - you've seen worse in fashion magazines...)
There. Now you can't say you didn't know anymore.
Pass the word on ladies.
"Oh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought
of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison
monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to
quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese."
-- Mr. Burns
you go mr. burns!
"...and then one or another dies. And we think of this as love cut short; like a dance stopped in mid career or a flower with it's head unluckily snapped off - something truncated and therefore, lacking its due shape. I wonder. If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for [all of us] without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love....It is not the a truncation of the process but one of its phases; not the interruption of the dance, but the next figure. We are "taken out of ourselves" by the loved one while she is here. Then comes the tragic figure of the dance in which we much learn to be still taken out of ourselves though the bodily presence is withdrawn, to love the very Her, and not fall back to loving the past, or our memories, or our sorrow, or our relief from sorrow, or our own love." ~c.s. lewis
http://journals.aol.co.uk/his1desire/JustOneGirlsHeadNoiseUK/
As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to
ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably
more than once and it's harder every time. You'll break hearts too, so
remember how it felt when yours was broken. You'll fight with your best
friend. You'll blame a new love for things an old one did. You'll cry
because time is passing too fast, and you'll eventually lose someone you
love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you've never
been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of
happiness you'll never get back.
~anon the wise.
The daughter, (bottom right), snagged the role as Ariadne in a new play in Philly - entitled Design for Loving -
for tickets and information - please click the link - we would love to see you there!
http://hometown.aol.com/inthelime/designforloving.html
AOL is threatening the very existence of organizing online and the Internet as we know it.
AOL wants to charge an "email tax" for sending email. Those who don't pay would risk their emails not being delivered.
Can you help change AOL's mind by signing this emergency petition?
Dear AOL user,
The very existence of online organizing and the free Internet as we know it are under attack by America Online. We need to fight back quickly.
AOL just announced what amounts to an "email tax." AOL would sell access to your inbox to giant corporations—allowing them to bypass spam filters and get messages directly into your inbox with a special high-priority designation. AOL says this fee will help deter spam, but it will actually help companies spam you more efficiently—and it'll lock out online organizing groups that can't afford to pay the price.
Can you sign this emergency petition to America Online and forward it to your friends—especially those who use AOL or care about keeping the Internet free?
http://civic.moveon.org/AOLpetition/?id=6819-6115103-7I4prETiWucf18W45yII.g&t=2
Petition statement: "AOL, don't auction off access to my inbox to giant corporations, while leaving my friends, family, and favorite causeswondering if their emails to me are being delivered atall. The right way to deal with spam is to put more control in the hands of users and to keep email free."
AOL is not used to massive citizen outrage. When thousands of AOL users sign a petition, AOL will begin to understand they face a huge customer rebellion. Everyone who signs this petition will be sent information on how to contact AOL directly as well as future steps that can be taken until AOL drops its new policy.
The big loser would be customers—whose email from non-paying senders would increasingly be marked as spam and go undelivered. AOL pretends nothing would change for senders who don't pay, saying their emails will still be "accepted." But this is an empty promise since "accepting" non-paid emails means many will be thrown into the black hole of a spam filter or "stripped of images and Web links" to the point of being unreadable, as reported in the New York Times.1
Another loser would be democracy on the Internet—which has thrived as regular citizens have been empowered to organize online, participate in civic life, and communicate with each other for free. If an "email tax" existed when MoveOn began, we never would have gotten off the ground.
Under AOL's proposed pay-to-send system, online organizing all across the political spectrum will suffer. Issue groups, charities, and other non-profits with large email lists will have to pay thousands of dollars for every email message sent. And AOL would get two paydays: one when you pay for your account and another when you're emailed by companies that bought priority access to your inbox.
Can you sign this emergency petition to America Online and forward it to your AOL friends?
http://civic.moveon.org/AOLpetition/?id=6819-6115103-7I4prETiWucf18W45yII.g&t=3
Thanks for all you do.
–Eli Pariser, Noah T. Winer, Adam Green, and the MoveOn.org Civic Action team
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
P.S. The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Cindy Cohn summed up the "email tax" issue beautifully in a column this Wednesday:
Email being basically free isn't a bug. It's a feature that has driven the digital revolution. It allows groups to scale up from a dozen friends to a hundred people who love knitting to half-a-million concerned citizens without a major bankroll...
Once a pay-to-speak system like this gets going, it will be increasing difficult for people who don't pay to get their mail through. The system has no way to distinguish between ordinary mail and bulk mail, spam and non-spam, personal and commercial mail. It just gives preference to people who pay...Spam is a real problem demanding real solutions, but taxing the internet...isn't one of them. The best solution is to put more power in the hands of users to control and configure spam filters...not allowing [companies like AOL] to auction off access to their email boxes and ransom free speech.2
Sources:
1. "Postage is due for companies sending e-mail," New York Times, February 4, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1453
2. "AOL, Yahoo and Goodmail: Taxing Your Email for Fun and Profit," Electronic Frontier Foundation, February 8, 2006
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1454
so, true to AOL form, as a present for this friday the 13th. All of my favorite places, compiled over - oh, I dunno, over 13 years or so...
has been totally wiped clean.
thanks aol.
really, thanks for nothing.
DATE=UP: the favorite places are back.
whatever.
