Posts by Jolisa
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You're right Danielle - can we say Camelot? (Without jinxing ourselves).
I think part of the attraction is that they're not quite central casting, more like those friends of yours who kind of look like movie stars when they dress up, y'know? Gorgeous, fit, elegant, incredibly photogenic 99% of the time, but also kind of dorky-looking in a good way (the parents at least; those girls are just plain beautiful).
Cute and geeky - a winning combo, for me at least!
Meanwhile, I've embraced the impending win (must be all the sugar from the cupcakes) and moved on to imagining headlines:
Yes We Did
Barack To The Future -
I'm cheering myself up with these lovely pics. (Warning: may cause spontaneous conception in susceptible viewers).
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Obama's grandmother just died :-( How I wish she could have hung on for another day or two.
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WHAT?! The American education system has been taken over by Gramscians and NOBODY told me?
You got the memo from Pablo's prison notebooks in the other thread, right?
I'll be there by noon tomorrow. Bake a cake, do something.
Excellent. Cake stall @ Jepson school, you're on the noon shift. We'll make enough moolah to buy every kid their own copy of Das Kapital. No child left behind!
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So Amy, what kind of cake are you making? I'm just icing several dozen heavily symbolic dark caramel cakes with heavily symbolic white icing and blue "I VOTED" slogans, for the bake sale. Not feeling the need to ice any in red. They wouldn't sell in my town.
(Is it weird that the American colo[u]r of the "socialist" party is blue, and that the Republicans nabbed red? "The people's flag is coloured.. uh... blue; we're slightly more liberal than you.")
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Do I have it in me to resist offering cake and grief counseling?...nope. Very sad.
Cake or death? Which is pretty much what's on the table. I am crossing fingers for cake, although my partner was wondering this morning if we should get a bigger Obama poster for the front door, in the event of a McCain victory and the inevitable civil disorder that would follow.
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Asterix & Obelix? You nailed it.
Ta! Although sadly nine out of ten people we passed said "Ooh, look at the Vikings," and the other one was invariably a European of some sort...
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Oh, agreed. I love the winter holidays, all that fire and atmosphere, lengthening shadows and flickering jack-o-lanterns.
We get so short-changed in the southern hemisphere. Guy Fawkes' Day in particular was always a bit of a bust, and while I love a summery Christmas, you don't get to do the whole hot dinner plum pudding thing. Plus, if you don't ritually light a candle against the darkness, how can you be sure the sun will return? An official Midwinter Matariki sounds excellent to me - tie it to a weekend, like Queen's Birthday, and we're golden. How do we start the petition?
Could you make lanterns out of kumara? (You can make a really cool one out of a mandarin.)
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What is it with ginger cats?
Our ginger cat is, as a result of treatment for an abscess, sporting a hilarious poodle-esque shaved tail and nether regions. Because humiliation is such an important part of the healing process.
Especially when the bite-that-went-nasty went nasty half an hour and several hundred flippin' dollars before somebody's very important and expensive birthday dinner... bless his little ginger whiskers, but I could have done without that.
That's why they get nine lives, I guess.
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Wrap your laughing gear around more of it here. It's yummy stuff. I just wish I could remember all of them at once.
I think procatalepsis is my favourite, though.