Victory, Bitches!

Not guilty on all counts, Michael Jackson, er, Beats It.
Actually, considering the man came this close to being someone’s prison baby with the high heels on, he’s looking less like a man about to have a celebratory sleepover and more like a man about to spew puke out of his paper-mache nose-hole.
I must admit I’m [...]

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Bob Vila is a hack; The Survivor Crew are Pussies

Alone in the Wilderness The Story of Dick Proenekke and how he built a cabin by hand in the wilderness
Every now and then, PBS airs the kind of programming that is truly engaging, inspiring and life affirming. Of course, this almost always means that they are shilling for money, sometimes with a vigor and [...]

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animism: the belief that natural objects, natural …

animism: the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself possess souls. 2. the belief that natural objects have souls that may exist apart from their material bodies. 3. The doctrine that the soul is the principle of life and health. 4. belief in spiritual beings or agencies.

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eidetic: of, or pertaining to, or constituting vis…

eidetic: of, or pertaining to, or constituting visual imagery vividly experienced and readily reproducible with great accuracy and in great detail(Webster’s)
M.C. Escher had an eidetic memory

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test

Minutia (and other indoor sports)again

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Oookay, the most spoken word in the World

So according to dictionary.com, OK is the most frequently spoken word on the planet, as of 2004. I’m not sure why this is so unsettling to me. I guess I was hoping for something more positive. I suppose that I can find some comfort in the fact that at least, we’re not over [...]

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peristaltic

This bit in Defamer made peristaltic my favorite word tonight.

We’ve all seen at least dozen instances of their utterly unconvincing tonsil-hockey, and our involuntary reverse-peristaltic reactions have long given way to reflexive yawns.
-re: Tom Cruise and his “amazing” love, Katie Holmes.
Dictionary.com/peristaltic: “per·i·stal·sis     P   Pronunciation Key  (pr-stôlss, -stl-)
n. pl. per·i·stal·ses (-sz)
The wavelike muscular contractions of the alimentary [...]

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Anne Bancroft Dies at 73

Sigh.

She even made Point of No Return bearable. Though Nina Simone helped. Plus she had a cooler than Newman and Woodward Hollywood /Broadway marriage. A True Dame in the best sense.

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Eleemosynary

I picked today’s word more for the WTF factor, than anything else. I knew I was going to use it before I even saw the definition. Fortunately, when I did read the definition, my less than charitable moods and feelings as of late made this quite the appropriate and relevant choice, I think.
Eleemosynary [...]

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Why are you here, again?

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for, I don’t know -W.H. Auden.
I wish I could say I’ve been doing deep and substantial reading, but I came across this quote during my Page 6 rounds.

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