http://www.semiconscious.org Being a Compendium of Drunkenness, Misanthropy, Eardrum-Shattering Volume...and Librarianship. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:26:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Bathe With Jesus. (link via Cardinal Ugenesis Nixon Thunderfawk. It's not my fault!) Some things, once seen, cannot be unseen. I will now go scrub my eyeballs with Brillo pads. http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/23/unclean/ Today is the Special Lady Friend's 3rd annual 29th birthday. She's awful purty.           http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/22/mushy-stuff/ Send. Karl. Rove. To. Jail. NOW. Yes, fine, there are far worse criminals in the Bush administration than ol' Turdblossom. No argument there. But this is such a clear-cut case of impudent, brazen contempt for the law that I don't see how even the spineless wimps of the Democratic Congress can ... http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/18/oh-please-oh-please-oh-please/ As of tomorrow, it will be one year to the day since the Special Lady Friend and I arrived in Maine, fresh off our 4,300 mile odyssey, moving back from Seattle. (Although, if you want to be pedantic about it, this is a leap year, so technically today is exactly ... http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/17/anniversarah/ For my birthday last month, the Special Lady Friend and her mother cordoned off a 4X6 plot of yard in back of the house and planted me a garden. Today, I harvested the very first leaves of romaine lettuce and made a salad. Alas, said salad was just lettuce, but ... http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/15/the-secret-victory-garden/ Contrary to popular opinion, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are not (respectively) a hilarious comedian and the creator of delicious candies. What they are is the collective owner of 50% of all the mortgages in the United States of America. They're also roughly 1.7 trillion dollars in debt combined, and ... http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/14/todays-economics-lesson/ It's a red letter day here at Semiconscious Dot Org. Regular readers know that your humble author loves him some metal and some punk. Wellsir, not only is there a Dropkick Murphys/Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert tonight at the Civic Center, but last night I found out that the new Melvins ... http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/11/set-phasers-to-riff/ Yeah, I'm pissed too. The debate is raging over nyah, so there's no point in rehashing it here. Read for yourself. Condensed version: yours truly is feeling a hell of a lot less forgiving towards Barack than are most of his friends. Yeah, I know the human race probably won't ... http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/10/obama-and-fisa/ I've been deeply opposed to capital punishment since I was 14. Well, no more, pal. A book bandit who checked out hundreds of books and DVDs from area libraries and then sold them online will be going to prison. Thomas Pilaar, 34, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison and ordered ... http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/09/hangings-too-good-for-him/ Why, scientists, why? Do you hate America that much? What other reason could there possibly be for the horrifying news that you are recklessly and foolishly giving Rubik's Cubes to octopi? Octopuses belong to the same family as slugs and snails, but scientists believe they are far more intelligent than their ... http://www.semiconscious.org/2008/07/08/prepare-to-be-breakfast/