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In misery there's comfort
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Back at the restaurant, just reopened. And so familiar - and yet -
Not where I'm meant to be.
In misery there's comfort, the comfort of numbers, the joy of familiar faces disappeared over the winter, old customers, staff, of new faces - I'm 3 days a week, they've hired a new waitress. My age, maybe older, short, plump, career waitress, you can tell pretty quick she knows where her hands are and what's up. A perpetually stretched smile across a weather-beaten face, she's wintered in California, Arizona, someplace. And so you balance the familiar with the new, when it's slow - and it's always slow in April, but never fear the rush is coming up quick - I introduce her to...
Well, Ken of course. Who else. Start by telling her about the six pack of gerbils he picks up at the Superette every night, about how he's got the best supply of what's-it-called-that-date-rape drug GBH that's it and the time I was in the basement partying and I woke up with a PICKLE in my...
And so on and so forth
It's mindless, this, and I have to escape, time now to plan it, in the meantime the comfort of the other bad habits that accompany it, Vodka, Cigarettes, I'm never sure which one is going to kill me first.
Not this year.
Bathe in My Milk...
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Don't know how I haven't stumbled across this sooner: http://batheinmymilk.com/
There are still great things on the internet...
OBEY
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An absolutely terrible book from the "Standin' Tall with Obedience" series by Janeen Brady. Link courtesy of Popkin, Via Boing Boing.
Now, I actually gave this a listen - far more than I should have - and I can't help but think that Ms. Brady's next series should have been titled "Can you keep a secret?", I mean, this is exactly the sort of drivel that you would expect a ambitious church leader would indoctrinate his flock with...
It might not be so bad (it would, who am I kidding?) if it followed on the heels of "Reasonable Boundaries" or "Please don't touch me there...", but it doesn't...
Who thought this was a good idea to publish? And - really - it's one thing to look at it and cringe, quite another to think children might watch and take it seriously. Or adults might make them watch it, and I would be soooo mistrustful of any family or church that had this on the shelf...
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAMhzwaskuo&list=OLAK5uy_lt5NEDkB0xlV6rI_qjIa07bRJN_Ad4p_0
I've been Scooped!!
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Plagiarized! Copyright Infringement!
So, random thoughts, googled "Six-Pack of Gerbils". Which is my phrase, I've used it for years, and then posted it on my blog here http://rodboyle.com/index.php/78-creative/3137-a-six-pack-of-gerbils to ensure that it was correctly attributed to myself.
Before posting I of course - like a lot of ideas - searched google for. And it didn't exist.
Now, googling it I find it has a full 7 results - AND NONE OF THEM ARE MINE!!!
Bloody hell.
Makes me wonder how much else has been lifted here...All that struggle for original expression, scraped to bulk up some other websites content and search results.
Well, at least it's not being used by Pet-Smart, which would lead to a long and costly litigation...
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