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The further and continuing adventures of the girl who sat in the back of your homeroom, reading and daydreaming.
About Me
- Roberta X
- Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- I'm *mindlessly* fascinating. My internal monologue is like a frog in a blender, swimming like mad to keep ahead of the blades.
What's On My Other Blogs?
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HERMES "ROCKET"5 years ago
My Blogfriends List
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Meme Dump...1 hour ago
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Ethnic food, Westphalian style1 day ago
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Cults and Music5 years ago
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Defenders Of The Bill Of Rights
(c) 2007 through 2024, inclusive. All rights reserved.
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
Ego vadum perussi vestri prandium
"I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions."
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Blogs: A link here does not constitute an endorsement! Many people have gone nuts in recent years.
- View From The Porch
- Cop Car's Beat
- insert witty title here
- Walls Of The City
- True Blue Sam
- Trailer Park Paradise
- Tom Cochrun/Light Breezes
- Thunder Tales
- The Wandering Thoughts Of J. R. Shirley
- The View From North Central Idaho
- The Unwanted Blog
- The Travis McGee Reader
- The Shekel
- The Miller
- Marko Kloos (.com)
- The Clue Meter
- Staghounds
- SnarkyBytes
- Sharp As A Marble
- Shall Not Be Questioned
- Self Sufficient Slacker
- Say Uncle
- Rustmeister's Alehouse
- Rich's Garage
- Retrotechnologist
- Pergelator
- PA State Cop
- Not Clauswitz
- New Jovian Thunderbolt! (RIP)
- Mycroft HOLMES 4
- Mike Kole: Hoosier LP guy
- Mike Flynn: The TOF Spot
- MArooned: JayG
- Listen To Uncle Jay
- Last Refuge Of A Scoundrel
- Jigsaw's Thoughts
- Insert Title Here
- In Jennifer's Head
- I Work On A Starship
- Home On The Range
- Gun Blog Black List
- Fatale Abstraction
- Fat In Indiana
- Every Blade Of Grass
- EB5AGV RadioRepair
- Cowboy Blob (link fixed!)
- Carteach0
- Caleb at GunNuts
- Brick O'Lore
- Better and Better: Matt G
- Ambulance Driver
Blog Archive
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February
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- Official BlogMeet Report
- "Cartoons?"
- BlogMeet Report
- My Book: Maybe 15% Off
- Hey, That's Not A Deck Chair
- February BlogMeet
- The Hidden Frontier?
- But The Groundhog Promised!
- February BlogMeet
- "Use Live Ammo"
- Firefly Flanac
- Indiana's Vanishing Democrats
- On The Virus In My Eee
- A Personal Note On Things Going Smash
- Another Morning
- Found In The Spam Trap
- What If It All Goes Smash? --The Short Answer
- Morning
- Who Makes The Coal Roll?
- "We Interrupt This Broadcast--"
- Top Shot: Fail
- Gah, Clowns
- The Magic Number Is "12"
- Tasty Goodness
- Firefly: Almost Back
- Go, Belgium!
- Obituary Of A Stranger
- Lovely Weather, Empty Head
- Save The World, Ten Cents A Bag
- Just For The Record
- Television Gone Wrong
- Quiet Night With Mom X
- Free Wireless For Every--
- Question Of The Day
- So Sweet: Huffies All Huffy Over Atlas Shrugged
- Progressivism And The Aristocracy Of Incompetence
- Florida Carry
- Atlas Hoists A Film Camera?
- Speaking Of Pink Guns
- USSF Lander?
- Up Early -- Again
- On The Road Again
- Ever Remembered, Long Forgot
- Zen Moment
- Chaos Becomes Chaotic
- New Door Handle
- Psst
- He's My Hero
- AOL Is Buying HuffPo!
- South Secedes Peacefully
- The Headline: "MSNBC Now #3 Behind CNN"
- A "Dusting" Of Snow
- Envy
- "Don't Tempt The Fates"
- Book Update
- Ice Station Roseholme
- Roseholme's Newest Resident
- Ha! Find One Of These At Mal-Wart!
- The Missouri Underground
- Oldstream Media: Getting No Respect, Plenty Of Lumps
- If You Are Reading This
- Adventures Of Mom X
- Ice Storm & So On
- Things That Should Not Be In Your Bug-Out Bag
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On The Front Lines
What They Say:
"...Savagely cynical Roberta...."
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
--Sepulveda's Revenge
"Your lack of compassion and humanity is stunning."
--Some Canadian dude
"I think my brain just core dumped. What were we just talking about?"
--A travelling Texan
"Die quietly you ignorant hoosier."
--A Sad-Sack Moonbat
"Memetic whiplash has rarely been so much fun."
--A Really Kewl Guy
"I liked the variety of content you have shred with the readers..."
--A Spastic Spammer
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6 comments:
I think I was beaten up by her once in a bar in New Mexico.
You know, they'll print anything in an obituary anymore as long as you pay for it.
As I recall this trend at the local fishwarp started in 2003-ish, not long after my Dad died in any case (his was written by the obituary editorial staff from an interview we had with the funeral directors, which was the only way they'd do it in those days).
It has pretty much turned the obituary page into a joke, IMHO. People in the throes of mourning think they can write coherently, and the Star apparently puts interns in charge of editing obituaries. The result is a nearly-unreadable obituary page full of phrases like "heroic battle against cancer", which I submit is an oxymoron -- there is nothing heroic about fighting cancer, one does it because one is deathly afraid of, well, dying.
Frankly, I intend to write my own obituary so nobody else can muck it up.
Oh, and as far as I am concerned, this right here is the best obituary ever.
If that obit was anything near to the truth, I think I'd like her.
Yeah, I didn't say it wasn't a riot. I was just bemoaning the loss of respect for the recently dead. But that's just one of the many instances where this generation has thrown urbanity to the winds.
Love it. Wish I could have known that lady.
Why do the "recently dead" deserve anymore respect than they... or anyone else ... had when they were "recently" alive?
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