don't you just HATE it when you make a chance remark that leads you into a horrible revelation that you didn't want to make ?. aka ... it's awful when you have to say something BIG to explain something SMALL ? case in point ... this is an actual conversation i had recently: friend of 4 years: "i'm surprised you never dated a professional kind of guy" me: "i sort of did once. a psychologist. years ago. well ... we went on 3 dates, anyway" fo4y: "you did ? ... you ne...
it's true. i couldn't care less what you believe. or believe in . any of you. because chances are i will respect, accept, and try to understand you regardless of what you do or don't "believe". with the obvious exceptions of ALL socially intolerable "beliefs" (racial supremacy being one of many examples), if you are enriched by something i can't fathom, then i will stand aside with every courtesy and let you get on with your thing. i stand firm in everything i believe, yet i ...
no sausages for me, please. it goes against my beliefs . you see, i’m a vaginaterian . *yawn* everything has a label these days. every day, some "new" faction, occupation, phobia, syndrome, disease, condition or definition requires naming . it makes me tired. as if the english language isn’t bastardized enough with made-up words; now we have to put up with up countless new “words” for things which have always existed . do we think we are somehow “approving” homosexuality by “for...
“would you rather have critical comments or no comments ?” i was asked this recently in a comment on my poetry. it’s a very insightful question that i was glad to be asked. making a comment on poetry can be difficult. poetry is very personal , so it's not like a "normal" blog in which you can offer actual input . yet, if something you read touches you in any way, it’s a compliment to it’s author and they deserve to know about it. there is the consideration that not all poet...
... (there's something about jesse ... if you don't believe me, see for yourself) ... sld6 : judging your attractiveness on what others think is asking for an image problem miggy: exactly. and there is a vast difference between attractive and beautiful sld6 : im gonna go see if the washer is empty now and then ill be back miggy: how enthralling i must be sld6 : im back miggy : great miggy: i assume that when women talk to you ir...
sent to prison for speaking your mind on your blog ... that couldn’t happen to you , right ? "reporters without borders*" is a group that highlights the plight of people imprisoned and branded as “cyber-dissidents” for publishing their views on the internet. their website reports that 72 online authors worldwide have been charged with being “cyber-dissidents” and are currently imprisoned , with new incidences on the increase. consider the case of the chinese blogger and journal...
"ask not what your blog can do for you ..." ok, so you’ve been here a while now, you’re enjoying your blog and you’ve decided to make it an ongoing project. me too ! . so, like me, you might be becoming interested in adding some “extras” to your blogging experience. (yet, also like me, you might find that things like “rss feeds” or “offsite posting” sound a little like medical procedures). i admit to reading numerous excellent articles on ways to promote your blog. yet, (th...
So, you came home after a few coldies at 3am and decided it would be a bit of a lark to auction your corpse on eBbay ?. Never mind. We've all done it, right ?. So spare a thought for a British man who has received death threats after failing to make good with the delivery of his body to the successful eBay bidder, a German cannibal named "Donnie". 22 year old Daniel O'Dee listed his corpse for sale as a drunken dare, and before eBay could remove the listing, he received a reportedly ...
i, gentle reader, have laryngitis. i cannot speak !. i have not been able to utter a single word in almost 35 hours !. the only person happy about this is my husband. he is filling the void of my banter with annoying ease by making jokes about "how quiet it is in here". my mother is also here. i took her "shopping" today. she got lost and i was forced to attract her attention by clapping and waving my arms in a manner that made all the other shoppers assume that i was ...
miggy say " blog idea like erection " because ... ... always happening at inconvenient or inappropriate times ... sometimes seems to be leading up to something but ends in disappointment ... acting on impulse can have disastrous repercussions ... intended recipient rarely in same mood at same time ... care is needed to avoid getting pregnant with anything you won't want to look after later ... sometimes happens in response to questionable or unexpected ...
sick of difficult self-help books that expect results ?. (nasty concept, that ... reward for effort) ... well, never fear, mig is here, and failing is easy . anybody can do it. i've done it heaps of times in the past, so i thought i'd save you the time and show you how to do it step-by-step. ... ready ? ... ok, these were my top 10 life mistakes ... (or) 'how to be a failure': 1/ have your entire emotional existence tied to something as unreliable as anoth...
the world needs a suggestion box. i figure here is as good a place as any to start one up. so, unfold your torn half-sheet of scrap a4 paper and scrawl down a message to the world. the idea being to blame nobody in particular, just give the world a hint at what it might do to sort things out. i'll go first ... dear world, i think it would be wonderful if everybody living in you saw each other as part of the one giant family (i warned you. first stop, idealism central). ......
as much as i am all for allowing anybody at all to have their say, i draw my personal line at seeing genuine articles getting spammed out of the forums by 6 or 8 straight posts from an overzealous biznet promoter or a dodgy ‘importer’. i just scanned the first (full) page of the ‘business’ forum, and we have a courier service, a ‘trade guru’, a ‘make money online for no investment’, a ‘usa import/exporter’ and fourteen posts from the same biznet marketer. there are articles in t...
i read recently some statistics from one of the ‘oldest’ blogsites on the internet. i am aware that it probably includes everyone who ever registered there, so i can’t vouch for it’s currency, as many of the bloggers 'registered' would be long gone by now, having jumped on the first blog site available then run out of steam shortly thereafter. it is, however, a very interesting snapshot of the age of your ‘average’ blogger (if there can be such a thing as an ‘average blogger’) when bl...
part of a recent article of mine briefly touched on how many points it is possible to accumulate via launching a deliberately 'toxic' or 'inflammatory' post, then sitting back to watch the score go up via a hundred outraged people promptly arriving to announce that the post is offensive/stupid/racist/sexist/blah blah. it was discussed that, instead of adding fuel to the fire in a 'toxic' post and rewarding it with points at the same time, we could simply bypass it and go instead to the 'n...