Jen’s Corner

Tonight was a nice, quiet evening - we shut off all the lights and watched Corpse Bride and It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown - my kinda night.

Happy Halloween everyone!

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The only way to see a movie in the theater is to see it at Alamo Drafthouse. Period. End of story.

My wonderful husband, who actually reads email newsletters he's subscribed to, and who tolerates my Johnny Depp obsession, discovered that the Alamo Drafthouse was having a movie/feast combo that he knew I'd want [...]

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Short version: Kinky Friedman wants childless adults to pay the most while getting fewer benefits. A friend of ours from a couple of LJ communities sent Mr. Friedman a less than polite email regarding this policy. The response from his staffer? “Fuck off.”
The Texas plan would include four tiers of coverage, [...]

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http://www.census.gov/population/www/popclockus.html
US Population Estimate:
300,000,369 at 12:55 GMT (EDT+4) Oct 17, 2006
World Population Estimate:
6,550,974,077 at 12:55 GMT (EDT+4) Oct 17, 2006

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I got a yummy package in the mail today from - four different BPAL scents! Thank you so much, I can't wait to give them all a try. Now hurry up and get done with that pesky surgery!

Here's what she sent: Succubus, Silk Road, Absinthe, and White Rabbit.

So tonight, [...]

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Getting tons of these this morning:
[Error: Database handle unavailable at /home/lj/cgi-bin/LJ/User.pm line 299. @ w93]
Way to reinforce the dropping of the paidness, LJ!
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This book was quite entertaining, and most of the stories were strong. These short stories were a great twist to the old myths - ranging from funny, to mildy chilling, to downright silly. Definitely a great light read!

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Health officials: Toddler died from tainted spinach

A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that sickened at least 192 people and killed one woman in a nationwide outbreak, health officials said Thursday.

Kyle Allgood was the second confirmed death in the outbreak, which [...]

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So my paid LiveJournal account expires in three days. What with the SixApart changes and all, and having my neatokeen wordpress blog that's more or less completely under my control, I'm really starting to wonder if a paid account is worth it. I don't use voice posts. Polls are cool, but I [...]

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I just saw the worst political advertisement I've ever seen.

I still don't believe exactly what I saw, so I've been looking for it online but I haven't found it yet.

It was for Carole Keeton Strayhorn, the self-styled “One Tough Grandma” who's trying to win the Governor spot in Texas. First, she's talking about her [...]

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The pictures were marvelous and the captions and accompanying text brought the history back to life. I'm no good at reviews, but I definitely enjoyed the book. It brought back memories from history class and childhood, and it was fascinating to read about the inner workings of a news service.

Plus, I “know” the author - [...]

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This is totally cool. Apparently there was a serious power outage in Downtown Houston. Well, it affected the paper - so for a while their online edition is being published on Moveable Type.

I think that's totally cool - even if I can't get to a couple of my comics yet.

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OK, so I know I've got a few BPAL addicts on my friends list, and I think I want to find out what all the hubbub is about!
However, I have “issues”:
Item the first: I'm a complete klutz when it comes to all things girly. I read the descriptions on the BPAL site and [...]

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