These are pretty gross. I still like the mocha ones

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3.25 hrs on skizzetag - 3 pics done.


So I accidentally knocked a cup of water onto my keyboard, which then stopped working. Right now I've got an old keyboard and usb adapter on loan from Soreth, but it doesn't work quite right... it doesn't recognize the spacebar, so I've been copy/pasting spaces all night. Thankfully, Jeshala has a spare mac keyboard she is sending me. This is an annoying way to type!

spitting image
-To say that someone is the spitting image of another person means that they look exactly like the other. There are many theories as to how this expression came about, whether it was derived from split image (as if the original person was split into two or duplicated), a joining of spirit and image, or if it has been consistent over the years and does indeed come from spit. The latter is the most provable of all the known theories. In a 17th century work, John Partridge, a supposed astrologer, cites an example of a variant of the expression from around 1400 C.E.: "He's...as like these as th'hads't spit him." We find later versions of this phrase throughout the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, all involving spit and some even mentioning spit out of his mouth in reference to the look-a-like. It seems that spit and image and spirit and image came after spitting image was already in use, so they are likely corruptions made to make more sense of the phrase. Other European languages have similar expressions, which also lends credence to the origin being the idea of spitting a duplicate out of one's mouth. For example, in French it is être le portrait craché de quelqu'un 'to be the spitting image of someone,' and in Norwegian it's som snytt ut av nesen paa 'as blown out of the nose of.' In England and the United States, there are some modern variations that turn up, some formed as more seemingly logical deviations of this idiomatic phrase: he's the spit of his father, spit and image, spitten image, and spit n' image.

OH.

MY.

GOD.

T-this week's new Venture Brothers ep.

There aren't words. Watch it Sunday if you can't online. J-just. Do it.

quad.ra.ge.nar.i.an [kwod-ruh-juh-nair-ee-uh n]
–adjective
1. 40 years of age.
2. between the ages of 40 and 50.
–noun
3. a person who is 40 years old or whose age falls between 40 and 50.

[Origin: 1830–40; < L quadrāgénāri(us) consisting of forty (quādrāgén(ī) forty each + -ārius -ary) + -an]

Quadragenarian. Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Quadragenarian (accessed: July 18, 2008).

Example:
Wednesday I was 39 but Thursday was my birthday so I am now a quadragenarian; yet no one has taught me the secret handshake!

Today marks the start of the Cecil County Fair.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAW! :D

We're talkin' pie eating contests, lawnmower races, rodeos, and LIVESTOCK. Oh boy! I get to walk past the row of cow butts again! That wasn't sarcasm either. I am VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS. Aside from the barnyard critters, there's the food! The glorious HORRIBLE FOR YOU carnivalesque food.

Also, my mother is trying to convince me to care for my sister's new chocolate lab while she's at the beach next week. As much as I like dogs, this would involve long periods of being in a huge house all by myself and I'm feeling the need for company this week. But. It'd save my Mom a lot of gas money since she has to commute all the way from her apartment to my sister's place and I just live around the corner. So, we'll see what happens. Maybe I can find a park and take puppy pooter for walkies ♥ and get some much needed excercise and sun.

Also, watched Oliver and Company for the first time in at least a decade and some change. "Why Should I Worry" is still one of my favorite musical bits from a Disney movie -- so freaking cool! I blame seeing this movie as a kid for my desire to be the dog whenever I was invited to play house with someone. THE DOGS CLEARLY HAD THE MOST FUN, COME ON!

http://harddrive.fm/podcast/HardDrive-20.mp3

5 months of the Hard Drive and still going strong. 4 hours of tunes and talk with a special feature "Kittiah checks his bank balance for the first time after coming back from the US." Hold onto your seats..!

http://harddrive.fm/podcast/HardDrive-19.mp3

This one was a sneaky bugger. It hid, it corrupted, and finally WinAmp 2.97 with its waveout plugin saved it. Who'd have thought? Lovingly recovered and restored, 4 hours of top tunes and talk.

http://harddrive.fm/sets/Miyabi%20%40%20RBW%20120708.mp3

Release Your Body [Beatless Version] by Kaito
Domino by Oxia
Smile & Receive [Apparat Remix] by Swayzak
Always Something Better [Trentemøller Remix] by Trentemøller
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger [Breakers Break vs. Sneppid Remix] by Daft Punk
Drop the

“The Blue Blanket”
Sue Ellen Thompson

Toward the end, my father argued
with my mother over everything: He wanted
her to eat again. He wanted her to take

her medicine. He wanted her
to live. He argued with her in their bed
at naptime. He was cold, he said,

tugging at the blanket tangled
in my mother's wasted limbs. From the hall
outside their room I listened

as love, caught and fettered, howled
at its captors, gnawing at its own flesh
in its frenzy to escape. Then I entered

without knocking, freed the blanket
trapped between my mother's knees and shook
it out once, high above

their bodies' cursive. It floated
for a moment, blue as the Italian sky
into which my father flew his bombs

in 1943, blue as the hat I'd bought her
for the winter she would never live
to see. My father's agitation eased,

my mother smiled up at me, her face
lucent with gratitude, as the blanket
sifted down on them like earth.

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K comes home soon!

I went out to the café the other night and managed to eke out a couple more good sketches for the deck - which I needed, as there's next to nothing left in the 'good rough, take it to AI' pile! But on the other hand there's not much left in the pile of unfinished cards at all - one Major, five Courts, and six extras that I'm not allowed to touch until after finishing the stuff for the show.


Indecision and indolence: Gee, I can't decide which liquor to sip next, thinks the Chevalier of Cups. Then she goes for a ride on her octopus. I think I need to make her face a little longer, but otherwise I like this.

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Also, a big thanks to mutleyjames, mharpold8, and kamenkyote for their donations!

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/wondermark/~3/338832917/426-in-which-tree-gets-talk.html

I like this Flickr set of iconic photographs recreated in LEGO.

dire straits
-To say that someone is in dire straits is to say that they are experiencing tremendous hardships and that their troubling circumstances do not look like they will turn out well. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find too much information on the origins of this phrase except that it was probably used for at least a century (if not longer) by the 1980's. At this point it was already considered a cliche expression. It gained a popular resurgence, however, due to the success of a British pop group called Dire Straits, which was formed in 1977. As to why these two particular words were linked, researchers are uncertain. However, the expression does make sense since dire means 'causing great fear of harm or calamity, indicating trouble' and straits, 'a narrow passageway, difficult times.'