From the monthly archives:

December 2005

If it ain’t broke…

December 27, 2005

I just saw Brokeback Mountain today and WOW… it is such a sad movie. There were several points where I was holding back the sobs. The only other movie that has ever gotten me to sob is Sommersby. I really hope that people will watch this movie and come away realizing that people should just [...]

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In my continuing support of the “War Against Christmas”

December 27, 2005

Here are some excerpts from the Dec 7 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as posted on Media Matters for America (see the whole article here) : O’REILLY [video clip of December 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor]: Predictably, the opponents of public displays of Christmas continue to put forth counter-arguments on ‘Secular [...]

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THE HORROR!!! A White hair!

December 21, 2005

I found my first white hair today. ACK! I’m getting OLD!!! How can I have acne and a white hair. That’s just too unfair. You should only be inflicted with one or the other. I had dinner with Samm Iverson (a friend from VCU) at Tortilla Factory tonight. Was fun. Lots of chatting and catching [...]

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The Nip/Tuck season finale…

December 21, 2005

…was not all that. The whole carver thing was a letdown. They should have maimed Sean and Christian more. And what was with the whole stupid Matt and Cherry storyline??? How is Cherry planning to explain to a doctor that someone cut his thing off without going into who it was? What they should have [...]

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Overlooking the truly needy

December 20, 2005

Being the holiday season here, there is talk about donating to charities all over tv. The Salvation Army announced on the news here today that they are short $200,000 from what they collected by this time last year (not sure if that is local or national) because of donations to Hurricane Katrina victims. While I [...]

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Blah ba-blah blah blah

December 19, 2005

My gramps has another doctor’s appointment today. He’s started losing his hair, but seems to be doing okay. He had three girlfriends over last night and they played bridge for over two hours. I was almost drawn to the table… I haven’t played bridge in years and have forgotten some of how it is played [...]

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Interesting facts about Christmas that Christian fundamentalists don’t seem to be aware of

December 16, 2005

For all those people arguing that Christmas has always been celebrated in the US: Franklin Pierce was the first president to have a Christmas tree in the White House Ulysses S. Grant declared Christmas to be a federal holiday in 1870 Because of it’s pagan origins, Puritans condemned the celebration of Christmas and the celebration [...]

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