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  Wednesday, September 04, 2002

I was in a writing course once and the instructor started off by asking people for their favorite word.

I felt like a freak for picking what I did, but that’s okay, because everybody there, from the buzzcut lesbian to the grannies with their eyeglasses on decorator chains claimed that their favorite words were “love” “hope” “peace” “forgiveness,” etcetera.

BARF!

Mine was “wallapalooza” which is as far as I’m concerned as fine a word as you will find anywhere. I got it from Oprah, which is an excellent provenance for a word.

To his credit, the instructor’s face fell. Oh dear, you could see him think, one of THOSE groups.

He dropped his usual references to Greek tragedy and substituted what he could remember of Agatha Christie, James Herriot, and Jane Austen.

I still feel bad for him, and that was three years ago.

I Wish I Was a Lesbian and Not a Hetero

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Continuing Canadian Gay Chick Day on the raincoaster blog, here’s a perky Loudon Wainright tune. I’m pretty sure Canadian Gay Chick Day is a national holiday or something and it’s not just because I got it into my head when I was at Tinseltown. Isn’t it the Out on Screen Festival as well?

I applied for a job there once, but I was too breeder. Oh well. They were nice about it but basically told me if they had ANY gays apply, they’d go ahead of me in the queue.

Which reminds me of an old Starbucks story, but that’s perhaps for later. It appears the experiment to sleep at “night” and be awake in the “daytime” has been a failure.

kd lang does Sesame Street’s greatest song, “I Love Trash”

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cybermen vs daleks

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What’s that coming over the hill? Is it a monster?

Short answer: YES

Long answer: But it won’t allow embedding, so fuckit. Here’s another video:

Does that woman ever close her mouth? I mean, seriously, ever?

pepe the prawn on the latest dvd offerings

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Prawn, Squid, what’s the diff, when it come down to the cool factor?