Category Archives: Mundania

Weekly Silliness: Song Title Description, Deux

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I liked the last one, but another artist spoke to me as well:

Using ONLY SONG TITLES from ONE artist, cleverly answer these questions:

Pick a band/artist: Annie Lennox/Eurythmics

1. Are you a male or female: Wide Eyed Girl
2. Describe yourself: A Whiter Shade Of Pale
3. How do you feel about yourself: A Thousand Beautiful Things
4. Describe your ex boyfriend: I Love You Like A Ball And Chain
5. Describe your current boy/girl situation: Miracle of Love
6. Describe your current location: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
7. Describe where you want to be: In This Town
8. Your best friend is: Precious
9. Your favorite color is: Cool Blue
10. You know that: Money Can’t Buy It
11. What’s the weather like: Here Comes The Rain Again
12. If your life was a television show what would it be called? Why
13. What is life to you: No Fear No Hate No Pain (No Broken Hearts)
14. What is the best advice you have to give: We Two Are One
15. If you could change your name what would you change it to: Sylvia

How To Take The Power Away from Crazies

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I saw this story originally at the ACLU blog, and had to share.

It seems that members of the Westboro Baptist Church (the home of the vitriolic Fred Phelps, owners of the website godhatesfags.com and justly vilified for their picketing of military soldiers) decided to protest against the University of Chicago (for general reasons), the Chicago Theological Seminary (for religious reasons), and the University’s former employment of Barack Obama in the Law School (for racial[?] reasons) on March 10th.

In response, more than 100 students gathered in demonstration against the Church protesters. They didn’t shout, they didn’t provoke; instead, they mocked. They passed out leaflets explaining that ‘God hates figs’ (based on a biblical passage wherein Jesus rails against the fig no less). A fraternity stripped to their boxers and danced to “I’m Coming Out” and the infamous “It’s Raining Men”.  Students from the CTS held signs reading “Chicago Theological Seminary: Question, Teach, Transform.”

There are fabulous pictures at the above link. Enjoy.

Spamming the Blog: Update

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I found this comment — labeled spam by the glorious Akismet — absolutely hilarious:

I found your topic “Spamming the Blog – cybercoven.org” when i was searching for curtain tracks and it is really intresting for me. If its OK for you i would like to translate your topic and post it on my german blog about curtain tracks. I link back to your topic of course!

They’ve really gotten tricky.  .  . or so they think!

Earth Hour

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Sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, the idea behind Earth Hour is to show how even a small conservation effort — like giving up just 60 minutes of lights — can have a big impact when a lot of people do it. The “official” action is to shut off your lights for an hour starting at 8:30pm, local time.

I’m planning to turn everything electric off. Of course, I’m also going to be out of town for the weekend (wedding in Cleveland, OH and not coincidentally raising Daystar to his 3rd*). But at 8:30pm I’ll be in a hotel room, and I intend to turn everything I can off. J. and I will just sit in the dark and giggle for awhile. (It’s a good thing he still finds me charming.)

You can pledge to participate on the Earth Hour site, either as an individual or as a group. Seattle is a participant, as are many cities in the US.

Weekly Silliness: Song Title Description

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I haven’t done this in a while . . .

Using ONLY SONG TITLES from ONE artist, cleverly answer these questions:

Pick a band/artist: Garbage

1. Are you a male or female: Androgyny
2. Describe yourself: I Think I’m Paranoid
3. How do you feel about yourself: You Look So Fine
4. Describe your ex boyfriend: Bad Boyfriend
5. Describe your current boy/girl situation: Til The Day I Die
6. Describe your current location: Happy Home
7. Describe where you want to be: Afterglow
8. Your best friend is: Cup of Coffee
9. Your favorite color is: Cherry Lips
10. You know that: Why Don’t You Come Over
11. What’s the weather like: I’m Only Happy When It Rains
12. If your life was a television show what would it be called? The Trick Is to Keep Breathing
13. What is life to you: Wild Horses
14. What is the best advice you have to give: Sex Is Not The Enemy
15. If you could change your name what would you change it to: Tornado

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Living Frugal: Greening Your Condo/Apt/Townhome

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We live in a town home — which in Washington is defined as a single family unit with at least one shared wall (a condo is multiple units within a single structure) — which makes ecological living more difficult. This is because we do not own the exterior of our house, need to get approval for interior changes, and don’t have our own landscape. But there are still a number of ways we’ve managed to ‘green’ our home.

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