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Get Paid WRITE!

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So this Writer’s Strike…do you think it’s just about money?

Well okay, it’s about money but there’s a little more to it then that.

For me it’s all about telling people who tell stories that- ” you know what….it’s really nice of you to speak up, to share your ideas to open up your soul and mind and let anyone with a DVD player or 10.00 bucks wander around in your head for awhile…but at the end of the day your voice ain’t worth a nickle”…and I’m not joking there.

So read up on this, especially you Labor People ( okay…you KNOW who I’m talking to here ) and show a little support for your Union Brothers and Sisters.

Here are some links…educate yourselves.

Start HERE

Max’s place has done a few posts here and I’d say take a look at the BBC article here

And pass the word along…

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A Totally Self Indulgent Post

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These are stories I care about…that’s why 

 Aliens involved in Crash

  

 

Okay, here’s the skinny….I found out if I put stories up with ‘ Alien ‘  in it I get massive hits from State, Federal and City Employees WHO SHOULD BE DOING THEIR JOBS INSTEAD OF GOOFING OFF ON THE INTERNET ALL DAY

What is it with you guys and Aliens?

ahem

 

The Weird Holiday Gift Catalog Has Arrived!

YAY!

Hey folks! If you’d like to see the WEIRD NEW JERSEY 2007 Holiday catalog click HERE

Weird New Jersey…if these guys were screenwriters I’d actually start going to the movies again.

 

!!!!PIE!!!

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PIE…THAT’S WHAT MY FRIEND TONY SAYS…

 HE’S RIGHT YOU KNOW

PREP TIME 

20 Min
SERVINGS & SCALING
Original recipe yield: 1 -9-inch pie

US METRIC

    

About  scaling  and  conversions

INGREDIENTS

  • 4 ounces cream cheese, softened

  • 1 tablespoon milk

  • 1 tablespoon white sugar

  • 1 1/2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed

  • 1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker crust

  • 1 cup cold milk

  • 2 (3.5 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix

  • 1 (15 ounce) can solid pack pumpkin puree

  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

 

DIRECTIONS

  1. In a large bowl, whisk together cream cheese, 1 tablespoon of milk, and sugar until smooth. Gently stir in whipped topping. Spread into bottom of crust.

  2. Pour 1 cup of milk into large bowl, and thoroughly mix in pudding mix, pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger, and cloves. When thickened, spread over cream cheese layer.

  3. Refrigerate 4 hours, or until set.

  4. EAT!

Diversity Commission Meeting

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PLEASE NOTE: IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT AT LEAST ONE I.C.E. AGENT WILL BE ATTENDING THIS MEETING. 

Maru Mora Villalpando

Community Organizer

Washington Community Action Network

La Red Activa Comunitaria de Washington

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The Lynnwood Police Department will speak before the commission.

Urgency: cases continue to come, WCAN is still receiving calls

DECIDED: WCAN will attend the next DC meeting on November 14th at Lynnwood Library Conference Room, 19200 44th Ave W, at 6:45 p.m.

During the public comments we

v      won’t be emotional or

v      won’t try to debate the police testimonies

v      We’ll be positive during public comments

PLEASE NOTE: IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT AT LEAST ONE I.C.E. AGENT WILL BE ATTENDING THIS MEETING.

If you have relationship with other communities in the area (e.g. Asian, Muslim, parents groups, etc.), help us connect to them by inviting them to this meeting.

If They Outlaw Guns…

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Reading this made my head hurt.

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YouNewsTV™

Story Published: Nov 12, 2007 at 9:43 AM PST

Story Updated: Nov 12, 2007 at 9:43 AM PST

By Associated Press

SOUTHWORTH, Wash. (AP) – A man trying to loosen a stubborn lug nut blasted the wheel with a 12-gauge shotgun, injuring himself badly in both legs, Kitsap County sheriff’s deputies said.The 66-year-old man had been repairing a Lincoln Continental for two weeks at his home northwest of Southworth and east of Port Orchard and had gotten all but one of the lug nuts off the right rear wheel before getting frustrated Saturday afternoon, Deputy Scott Wilson said.”He’s bound and determined to get that lug nut off,” Wilson said.

From about arm’s length the man fired the shotgun at the wheel and was “peppered” in both legs with 00 buckshot and other debris, with some injuries as high on his body as his chin, according to a sheriff’s office report.

“Nobody else was there and he wasn’t intoxicated,” Wilson said.

South Kitsap Fire and Rescue personnel treated the man at the scene before he was taken to Tacoma General Hospital with injuries Wilson described as “severe but not life-threatening.”

He said deputies were unable to get a full statement from the man, relying only on what they could learn while medics treated him at the scene.

“I don’t think he was in any condition to say anything,” Wilson said. “The pain was so severe, and the shock.”

Write On!

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Until I was in my early twenties I must have had a couple of dozen Pen Pals from all around the world- of course the Internet changed all of that and now me and a few of my ” Pals” from the old days send mail via the Internet.

I think that e-mail changed the flavor of letters and only recently has some of that come back.

Another thing that changed was my stamp collection.

In ‘the day’ I’d save the envelope ( which we used to decorate ) with the stamp in the corner and I’d put them in these photo albums. Every once and awhile I’d go through them and think about how neat it was that I was writing to people in places like Scotland or Germany or somewhere here in the States.

Now days I have site meter- it’s not the same as the stamp, but on the other hand I can’t imagine that the kid I was would have guessed that one morning she’d wake up every morning to find that people from these places had read something she’d written.

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Canada Winnipeg, Manitoba
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United States Grand Rapids, Michigan
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United States Oakland, California
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United States Jacksonville, Florida
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United States New York
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United Kingdom London, London, City of
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Norway Trondheim, Sor-Trondelag
  8 
United Kingdom
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Qatar Doha, Ad Dawhah
 10 
Romania Constanta

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Bosnia and Herzegovina Ljubuski, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegov…
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United Kingdom Barrow In Furness
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Czech Republic Rudn, Stredocesky Kraj
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United States Columbus, Georgia
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Italy Rescaldina, Lombardia

 31 
Australia Preston, Victoria

 36 
Netherlands Zoetermeer, Zuid-Holland

 63 
Egypt Cairo, Al Qahirah
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Germany Recklinghausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
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Hungary Szeged
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Australia
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Spain Santa Brgida, Canarias
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United Kingdom Elgin, Moray
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Australia Busselton, Western Australia

 

I don’t have the stamps anymore, but what I do have is a better understanding about communication- how important it is to ourselves that we are part of a community and that in that community we have a place and a voice.

It’s an important understanding to have.

Write On.

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Advise This

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I’m catching up on the news when I come across this story:

Surgery on girl born with eight limbs deemed a success

“Wow”  I say and click the link.

The little girl and her Mom are in the first picture…nice looking family I say to myself and before I get into the story I see this:

A photo of the girl before her surgery appears at the end of this story. Viewer discretion is advised.

Please …. do they run Viewer Discretion advisories in front of  stories like these? 

  • Teen killed in wrong-way crash with semi

  • Woman, baby dead of apparent CO poisoning

  • UW student says she heard the screams

    • Okay there aren’t detailed pictures of these stories…but keep in mind this little girl isn’t a dead child or a murdered woman or the victim in a car wreck.

    She’s just a little girl.

    For Wolfgang on Día de los Muertos

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    If your memory serves you well
               We’re going to meet again and wait  
        So I’m going to unpack all my things
        And sit before it gets too late 
    No no one alive will come to you
    With another tale to tell  
        And you know that we shall meet again 
          If your memory serves you well

     Dylan and  Danko

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    Wolfgang A. Mozart

    aka

    Insanity Jones

    July 1991- October 17, 2007

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    how Wolfgang became Insanity:

    explained in a letter to my friend Heather Blakey:

    …Anyway, Wolfie does some strange things. Once he got mad at me for DARING to shoo him of the bed  when I was changing the sheets and he went outside to the walk in front of my window when it was just pouring down rain.

    He sat there with his back to me, just twitching and slamming his tail on the ground.

    Well, I know a tantrum when I see one, so I left him out there.

     He was literally sitting in a puddle by the time I checked on him the second time. I had to go outside and pick him up. It was like picking up a stone statue of a cat because he wouldn’t move a muscle. Oh, and he managed to do that dead weight drop so he went from 14 to I swear 30 pounds in the space of 15 minutes.

    The day that happened I started calling him Insanity Jones whenever he did weird things.

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    Stories Inspired by Wolfgang aka Insanity Jones

    Insanity Jones

    In Defense of Insanity

    Where The Insanity Began

     

    sounded like Indiana Jones, but I couldn’t do it. It’s Wolfie’s story and that’s that.

    Day Of The Dead- A Celebration of Life

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     It’s a wonderful tradition and worth learning about- please check out the links and enjoy.

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    From The Day of the Dead Blog: 

    As in many Latin American countries, Mexico commemorates the Day of the Dead or All Souls’ Day on November 2nd. The legacy of past civilizations is graphically manifested on this occasion through people’s beliefs that death is a transition from one life to another in different levels where communication exists between the living and the dead. This communication takes place once a year throughout the country…for more click HERE

    A resource listing of web sites about Day of the Dead:

    Ozuna Learning Resource Center/Library, Palo Alto College

    Great History ” Why ” and How To ” site

    Day Of The Dead

    The Bee’s Knees Award Goes To….

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    TONY LA STELLA

     

    !!!! MY FAVORITE SINGER !!!!

    HE’S GOT ONE HECK OF A VOICE

    HE’S COOL

    HE SINGS SWING MUSIC

    PLUS

    HE’S ITALIAN

    NEED I SAY MORE?

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    Hey Dawg I mean Gawd

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    Hey Big “G” look who stopped by for God Chat

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    …just messin’ with you Dawg.

    Okay, here we go:

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    Hi God how’s your week been?

    Mine has been boodles of fun-

    First off this group that hates… Gays and Lesbians and Transgender people…oh and brown people and people who aren’t Christian Extremists like themselves and they probably even hate that cute little dog from the Taco commercials because they think he’s “illegal” came to Lynnwood, Washington to hold a rally.

     

    There’s a good part God, there were more people OUTSIDE protesting then there were people inside attending the meeting itself.

    Somy friends and me stood outside and waved signs and had a good time supporting our community.

    The best part was the cars with families that honked and waved and yelled good job.

    My personal favorite was the guy who was driving this big truck that slowed down and yelled, “ Love for us all. “

    The bad part is that one of the groups’ ‘leaders’ is involving himself in local politics.

    Ahem.

    Oh and Lord of Wonders, I know you love those stories about the Mountlake Terrace City Council- but I don’t have any new ones. Don’t get all high and mighty on me, that divine intervention thing is in your department.

     

    Now Lord, there this woman who wants people to celebrate a sugar free Halloween– that’s the kind of thinking that should get you assigned to the short bus and we both know it. Don’t think I’m letting this Halloween thing go- if Church people aren’t trying to make it ‘Church Friendly’ then Granola Heads are trying to make it healthy.

     

    What next? Will we have to worry about Valentines coming under attack because the disembodied hearts remind people of human sacrifice and temple steps in South America drenched with blood….and heyyyyy….

     

     

    No- if I mess with that one, every Jeweler and chocolate manufacturer in the on the planet will be after me.

    And last but not least, if you forgive me for having bad thoughts about you for letting my cat die, then I’ll forgive you for the fact that the Halloween Monster Fest on AMC really, really sux this year.

    Pax?

    Good.

    Take Care

    See you way later

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    And

    Ahhhhemennnn