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Damn it’s the end of August already. I want a vacation! We knew one wouldn’t be happening in September this year though so I’ve committed us to some acting classes for H.o.p. He’s not interested in acting but he’s interested in the process. Kind of. He is looking [...]

Hayao Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away” was one of this week’s choices from Netflix and it was great. Netflix gives it a rating for kids over 10 because of some scary moments. I sat to watch it with H.o.p., waited for the supposedly scary moments but there weren’t any that weren’t well-cushioned and were worked [...]

The NY Times reports the interesting case of Dina Babbitt, an 83-year-old survivor of Auschwitz. She and her mother were 27 of 5000 Czechoslovakian Jews who survived Auschwitz. Dina and her mother survived because Dina was an artist. Mengele had seen a mural she’d done of a Swiss mountainside and “Snow [...]

I’d chosen a Nova piece on volcanoes for tonight’s viewing pleasure. It showed briefly people fleeing the eruption of a volcano, the soles of their feet burned through, and stacks of dead bodies.
H.o.p.: You’re my mom, you’re not supposed to show me things like that. It’s too disturbing for an eight-year-old to [...]

I’m here to laud Akismet and heap praises on its creators/keepers.
I’d blogged this AM that I was having spam come through, that I’d realized it was probably something going on with Akismet and that I figured they would get it fixed soon. I noted how much I love Akismet which has caught around 335,000 instances [...]

Speaking of the 50’s blacklist. Night before last we watched “The Producers” again, which stars Zero Mostel who was blacklisted for refusing to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee back in 1955. I’d only seen “The Producers” once before, many years ago, and was glad when Marty picked it up earlier [...]

The spam has started to pour in, slipping past my Akismet. The Akismet is still catching spam but around 80 have slipped through this morning. I go to the Akismet site and see they did some “fine tuning” on the 26th. I go to the Wordpress forum and see a couple others [...]

Woman making tortillas outside Food Mart on Buford Highway
26 Aug 2006

So after we had cleared the wreck (only car remaining on the scene was a a white SUV on the bed of a tow truck, top pretty much caved in), then there was smoke overhanging the Interstate ahead.
“What’s all that smoke?” I asked Marty.
We didn’t know.
My sister writes saying they’d left our nephew’s birthday party [...]