June 18, 2005

Corrections

The comment approval process has definitely slowed the comment spam down, thank goodness, but I still get some interesting remarks from strangers on occasion and I thought I'd bring a couple recent ones to your attention.

First, someone (I wonder who it could be? who could it be that has such knowledge? such interest? such love?) corrects my characterization of the Gottman Institute. Well, I stand corrected and let the dead blog record show it.

Second, someone doesn't like what I have to say about Pestducken very much. I held off on approving this comment for awhile because I didn't want to encourage more death threats, but I think even someone who wants to "stuff [me] then eat [me]" deserves a little freedom of speech on my blog. Some of you will remember that I decided to start using the word "cunt" more often in everyday speech, so I can hardly be offended if the world starts in with me. The sad thing about this one is the whole ratducken story is about what a hard time I had killing a rat in the first place, but great artists are always misunderstood.

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February 12, 2005

The new tagline (blog description) is here!!!

Thanks to Melissa for suggesting, "it's the thought that counts." Brilliant! Perfect! I haven't figured out how to get it to show up on page one (might have to re-do the banner -- I think it's actually under it now), but the description now appears on the archive pages -- which otherwise look kind of crappy. Wow!! Things are going to start happening to me now.

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February 11, 2005

NEW LOGO!!!! FINALLY IS HERE!!!!

check it out: Pete helped me get up my new logo and look. AND!! If you bookmark me in a program that you haven't already booked me in, or somehow or other otherwise get me out of your cache, you will even see a little me in your toolbar!!!

thanks to pete for the redesign and logo.

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February 9, 2005

Pictures of me; my need for a tagline; Chinese New Year

Pictures of Me!
There's a couple sketches of me at the bottom of this page by my friend Chris Baldwin. I don't know how much I like the one on the right, but he's done some other cuter pictures of me (including the one on the left) so I won't complain.

I wrote the introduction to his latest collection. I'll let you know when it's out so you can buy it and see how brilliant I am when illustrated by his drawings! (not to mention seeing his clever drawings and words ...).

I need a tagline
On another topic, I've decided I need a tagline -- all the cool websites seem to have them; even Chris has one, and the bloggies had a whole category for them -- so I want my own. Some ideas so far I've come up with:

Better than butter.
Better than bacon.
Butter, then bacon.
I thought of it first.
If you dream it, no need to make it.
Writing is doing something.
Goats are cute except for their butts; actually, that's true of a lot of animals.
I don't remember names, I can't remember faces, but I never forget a smell.

Well, I'll come back to this, but let me know if you have any ideas. I suppose I could get one that changed every time you reloaded the page. I don't know how that works, of course.

Chinese New Year
It's Chinese New Year today. Year of the Rooster, 4702. Happy New Year!!! It was also (what I at least considered) my unofficial anniversary with Chris. He didn't like the way I proliferated anniversaries, but I like a lot of them! Why the hell not? Tim and I celebrated our post-it note anniversary AND our paperclip anniversary. I think that was one month and two months, respectively. I made Tim a little book out of post its and he made me a paperclip necklace. We were both notaries at the time, and hoped that our children would be notaries, also, or at the very least pink collar. Anyway, I'm feeling kind of maudlin. I'm planning on getting some schezwan/sichuan eggplant and listening repeatedly to "Pomp and Circumstance" as played by a marching band. It was (what I at least considered) our song -- it was the only thing stately that I had to play at midnight, our first Chinese New Year together. If I had a fuller record collection it could have been aud lang sein or some Chinese song. God knows what I'll do on Valentine's day.

Anyway, I have to finish a job application, which is why I'm blogging so much. I'm applying to teach high school history. Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm also broke.

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December 9, 2004

Patent ideas

My new idea is to create "new" content by recycling the old in self-referential entries.

We once had the idea of writing a script called Patent Porn and then we thought about Patenting our Relationship which, in light of current personal events, doesn't seem like such a bad idea, not near as silly as some of the things you'll find Patently Silly. I am particuarly fond of the limericks.

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December 2, 2004

The Superfund Story that Was Too Shocking to Blog About!

Those of you who have followed my adventures with Pica at the superfund site can read it in the form of a photo essay here at limetea.net -- including the story that was too shocking to merely blog about! I'm 'published'!!

There are undoubtedly better things to read on the site, so look around!

(and then come back and buy some stuff from my cafepress.com shop!

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November 13, 2003

Mary's Great Products!!!

Just in time for Christmas, I have set up a cafepress.com shop so I can buy stickers and stuff with my booby sillouette on them at cafepress.com.

I added a dollar to some of the items, just in case this turns out to be a "profit deal" and I have like 100,000 silent readers who have been patiently waiting for the invitation to send money. Otherwise, I guess you all know what you're getting for christmas/birthdays/wedding now.

I can't promise that I won't improve my logo sometime.

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