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Re: Steve Huff's Random Lunatic News

Julie_D — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:34:40 -0000

Funny. That song brings me back to practicing for the annual Junior versus Senior girls powder puff football game at spirit week. We practiced in this big, lush clearing thickly surrounded by hardwood trees, and we were allowed to tackle. It was the first, and last, time I was accepted by the snotty soccer star girls. That would be because I was a rugby player and knew very well how to knock a body on her ass. We went back to hating each other when the game was done.

Re: Huff's Random Lunatic News - Why yes, I AM whack like dat...

Julie_D — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:50:11 -0000

Ha - we often wonder what the neighbors we see every day but never meet must call us! In our neighborhood, we refer to some of our various residents as "the Saab family"; "The Ugly Dachsunds"; "The Albino" (she is only seen out walking very late at night, always in a hat and conducting unheard music); and "Those Idiots with the Taurus Who Haven't Fixed the Noisy Transmission for Years". There is also "The B-52s Lady with French Bulldog" who is always walking her dog when we get home in the afternoon. Imagine the surprise I felt when, just the other day, I heard one of our less couth friends refer to her as "Roxanne with the Hooters", complete with gesticulating hands.

I'm pretty sure they all think of us as "The Screaming Meemies"....

Re: True Crime Tumblr

Julie_D — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:39:52 -0000

Love it ;-)

Re: True Crime Tumblr

Julie_D — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:26:18 -0000

Happened before,
Cath'd cats and dogs akimbo;
errant contractor.

Dagnabbit, you're right, Steve. That IS fun!

Re: Huff's Random Lunatic News - Some small stuff matters

Julie_D — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:17:53 -0000

I am lockstep with you on this one, Steve. I became so disgusted with simple errors and just plain poor writing styles in modern fiction that I just stopped reading it. That's saying something from someone who hid under the bedcovers with a book and a flashlight every night and kept an open Reader's Digest under her napkin at the dinner table. My sister and I read so much that my parents had to start a "no books at the dinner table" rule. But modern writing is in such a shambles that I just cannot take it. The other thing that gets me is formulaic writing - one modern American crime fiction writer whose writing I find to be enjoyable and impeccable settled into a formula after the first three or four books. I got that sinking feeling and have never been able to pick up another of her books, even though she's developed different characters and locales and expanded a bit. Sigh.

Re: Dylan, at the Door

Julie_D — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:21:28 -0000

Steve - that's a beautiful shot, and speaks volumes. Lucky Dillon to have parents who see his beauty. Our son had to suffer through two parents who had no idea what was going on with him for the first four years of his life; the first year after his autism-spectrum diagnosis (sensory integration disorder) was more important as a period in which we became educated in how to understand and help him than it was as a period of progress for him. I'm sure the lifting of the veil for Dillon has as much to do with the knowledge, love and understanding of you and Dana as it does his own fortitude. These are such amazing children - they earn every bit of progress they make. God bless all of you.