Monday afternoon: Absently eating animal crackers

[liamstliam]

1. Wow. Big day. Welcome, welcome, welcome to cluegirl, l3arcelona, and the newly renamed  mama_hogswatch.

2. Bright sunshine again, and it's going to be that way for a couple more hours. That's kinda cool. But I have not seen my deer herd, or anything else interesting in weeks.

3. But I have seen dead skunks. Five over three days. Which was pretty funny, considering someone suggested last week that we shouldn't rely on a groundhog in Pennsylvania to tell us when it was Spring in the North Country. The suggestion was "the first dead skunk."

4. Today was "Liam Cannot Do Anything Right At Work Day." I got press releases into two newspapers, but each had the name of the organization I work for rendered incorrectly (read, wrong). I made the mistake, but my two bosses missed it, too. I kept printing letters upside on stationary. I still cannot access my work e-mail from outside the county system, even though a monkey probably could. And so on. And so on.

5. Veyr busy week. Presentation about the intiative to 20-25 people at 8 a.m. tomorrow, the big Youth Summit for 300 kids Wednesday, and a presentation for the school board in Argyle Thursday. Next week, two days of training in Syracuse and dinner with the lovely fireroseboudic.

6.  Fascinating food story from the Wall Street Journal. Check out the graphic.

7. And body sushi via bytchearse.

8. Apparently numbered lists are "Liam-like posts," at least according to patrikia and at least one other person I remember.

9. Yeah. Eliot Spitzer. You want to talk about "Fall From Grace." Man had a fricking *mandate* and he peed it away.

Comments

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

9. Yeah. Eliot Spitzer. You want to talk about "Fall From Grace." Man had a fricking *mandate* and he peed it away

I'd be more apt to phrase it "he f***ed it up".

What a bloomin idiot he must be. Does it never occur to public figures, when doing this kind of nonsense, that sooner or later they'll be found out? How can they still be so clueless, in this day of the tabloids?

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

I think he started screwing up long before this.

While I agree with him on the drivers' license issue, he should not have made that a hill to die on.

And the helicopter investigation shit was just stupid.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

but can you sing the dead skunk song, dear one? :)

[liamstliam.livejournal.com]

Loudon Wainwright III, who wrote and sang it, lived in Avondale for a while, and that's technically part of Westerly, RI, where I grew up.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

most excellent!! i remember shocking the hell out of someone a few years back who didnt believe it was a real song. :D

[laurensa.livejournal.com]

I have the Dead Skunk on CD. (part of a collection of 70's songs called Have a Nice Decade)

Now I have to go find them because I shall be singing it all day --and if you think you can scare people with your singing, dear Liam, you've never heard me!

[rickthefightguy.livejournal.com]

Okay, but.

Journalists suck.

Spitzer was NOT (as everyone, including NPR, keeps reporting) _involved_with a prostitution ring. He hired a prostitute. Involved sounds like he was running it, or taking donations from them. He was a freakin' client is all.

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

"invasion of the body snackers*

made me giggle =)