Look, if you people are going to keep showing up here, I might as well do something sort of useful for you. Look, here's a link to a printer company site that has nice things you can print out and construct for free. Try the Halloween stuff. Also, here's their Japanese site, which has some more Halloween stuff the other one doesn't. The little zombie skeleton on the diorama on the Japanese site is especially adorable. Remember, you need a pdf reader. Don't say I never did anything for you.
Oh, I suppose I should bookmark my blog here, too. I forgot to do that and had to go through my profile page from a comment at Doghouse's place. That's just sad.
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Holy cow, a comment! Hi, Larkspur. Um, does Vanity Fair accept bitter rants from random deranged persons? And if so, what are they thinking?
Apparently someone posted it somewhere they have standards and stuff, and it pegged the "profanity and incivility" meter or something. Which is the sort of thing that's fine at Tbogg, but probably not everywhere, heh. Perhaps the TV Guide Letters column...
I read the "People who need to shut the fuck up" thing, and promptly mailed it around to several of my friends who have jobs and lives and stuff and don't spend all day reading blogs and giggling.
And, yes, I think it's just us here. Which gives me a bigger readership than most blogs, I suspect. Better quality, at least.
Good heavens, what a question. The major thing I do, I suppose, is origami. Not the clever, elaborate, creative kind, but the folding-the-same-model over-and-over-again kind. I started in on peace cranes a couple of years ago when my father died. At this point, they're pretty much a habit. I've done over sixteen thousand in the two and a half years since, and everytime I feel aggravated with life, I go into a fairly serious binge. It's maybe not a bad thing, since while I can read as I fold, I can't type as I fold, so I end up not saying a lot of incredibly stupid things I otherwise would. (Yes, it's possible for me to say even more stupid things even more often.)
Also, when they're folded, you can box 'em up and mail them to people, which I'd do more often if I wasn't so cheap about postage, so I mostly only do it when my partner demands I get rid of some of them because they're taking over the house again.
The obvious followup question is--Doesn't that get *boring*?
Oddly enough, not really. It's sort of a meditative thing. But, it's a lot less boring if you don't just use all the same kind and size of paper, which means I've also become obsessive about collecting it. And downloading it. And printing out pictures or other designs that make nice paper. (You'd be amazed how good a photo of cherry tomatoes or buttons looks when folded into a crane.)
Also, they make good cat toys. Several of my other hobbies combine well with my cats. I like to watch documentaries about fish and sabretooth cats, for example, which they seem to enjoy. I have several fishy screensavers and computer games, which they also get a kick out of. I like to make cardstock models, which also make good cat toys, especially when filled with catnip. And, you know, I just like to dangle strings, or try to read things, or try to walk through doorways, or own things that shred well or show fur nicely, or move my feet in front of their claws. Like that. I'm sure you have similar things with the dogs. Possibly it's a form of bonding or just masochism.
Really, there are about a zillion things I'm doing at any one time. I'm a chronic multitasker. I'm also a chronic procrastinator, though I'm sure that's obvious by now.
Read your comment on WoC and clicked on your link. In all seriousness, a headache blog written by you would be well worth a read. You are a truly fantastic writer, and I always enjoy your comments very much.
I know your pain with the migraine thing. I get them too. I've been lucky lately, the frequency has slacked off quite a bit. I'll come to a bad patch, where it seems like I'm in one phase or another of the migraine process all the time, and then they'll go away and leave me in peace for a while.
they say migraines tend to go away or at least lessen in severity as one gets older. Maybe we'll catch a break, huh? Something to look forward to! :)
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they say migraines tend to go away or at least lessen in severity as one gets older.
I've noticed that. These days the zigzag flashing-light show and the scotoma are as spectacular (and disruptive) as ever, but the pain is less, and can be handled by off-the-shelf painkillers. So I no longer get prescriptions for truck-loads of interesting chemicals that even Bill Burroughs would hesitate to swallow. Does this mean I'm getting older? Bugger.
You're probably already on the Flying Pig mailing list. But if not -- their latest design for cardstock cutting & pasting results in a mechanised paper Flying Spaghetti Monster, and this cheers me up more than I can possibly say.
I only just noticed your comment down-thread at WOC but thought I'd respond here. I don't mean to sound like a D. Sidhe groupie, but there are relatively few commenters around whose writing is consistently worth reading, and, sorry, you happen to be one of them. Witty or insightful, mean or stupid (or so you say), your writing is polished, funny, and fun to read. On the other hand, I definitely don't want to throw you off your game, so if being more aware of a readership makes you self-conscious or inhibited then I take it all back. I just figured that since you have a blog already, you could post some of your more substantive comments here, which are often just as interesting as the posts being commented on (if not moreso) without having to think you have to somehow fatten or gussy 'em up for bloggy publication. That's all. Carry on!
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