http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com What is that! Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:36:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Update, October 6, 2009: Hi there! This is just a little announcement for anyone who has wandered over here and is confused as to why there is no new content. I closed this blog on December 31, 2004, and opened a new one for 2005. See the original post content ... http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=800 Fireworks. Next door. And the screaming child that is clearly audible now that my windows are open. http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=799 Okay, I already opened the asti spumatne... spumanet... the bubbly. Hey, it's already New Year's somewhere. Off to watch the culturally edifying spectacle of Comedy Channel's South Park New Year's Eve special. http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=798 Yeah, the air conditioner is definitely blowing out non-cooled air. So I have both ceiling fans going and the windows are open. I left a message on the maintenance voice mail -- it's not the emergency line, as it's 65 degrees outside. Not especially cold, but they don't consider a ... http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=797 Okay, I'm doing it differently this year: I'm going to warn you all ahead of time that I am changing blogs again. I like to do that -- new year, new blog. That way I keep up this "dear diary" pretense. Anyway, it's on a new site so when it's ... http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=796 Over at Blair's, where it's already 2005, predictions are being made. Go drop in one of your own. Do it for the Children(tm), somewhere. http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=795 Right on cue, some lowdown, pimple-assed, shrunkendicked spammer attempted to leave umpteen poe-cur spams in the comment sections of old posts. Of course, since all comments go into a moderation cue*, the spams were immediately sent to internet oblivion, so the scrotumlicking asspickers have just wasted their time. What I ... http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=794 It's a truism that disasters, natural and otherwise, bring out the best in humanity. A more exact observation is that events such as last week's massive tsunami cause the dropping of masks, where human beings and their organisations display their true natures. Sometimes those natures are revealed as good; but ... http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=793 The leftards and dictator-remoras of the world have been spreading the story that Americans are stingy for some time now. It is, of course, a lie -- which anyone can see by reading this post. Of course, there are those who prefer to believe lies rather than truth: it makes ... http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=792 I want one. Even though I have a perfectly fine Hoover in the closet. Which I force myself to drag out maybe every two months. (Via Florida Cracker.) Update: via David Foster, an interview with the co-creator of the Roomba. Synopsis: one day we'll all have our very own Rosie! (But will ... http://twistedspinster.spleenville.com/index.php?p=791