The Pythagoreans

“Wherein have I erred? What have I done? What duty have I neglected?”

-- Pythagorean self-examination at the end of each day

Big Blue

I broke out Big Blue last night, the heavy blue blanket that Mother knitted and gave to me. I resisted the move at first, thinking it too early in the season to pull out the big guns, but gave up around midnight, being barely able to hold my own with the light blanket and figuring that it will only get more bitter cold by three in the morning.

Keira Knightley

I'm quite rigorous about what gets exposed... no bottom half! I don't mind exposing my tits because they're so small - people really aren't that interested.

-- Keira Knightley

So, she only wants to give the paying public what they are not interested in??

Ms. Sina

Ms. Sina comments, asking for "Lolita". I think I will have to oblige her and devote the next month or so to little Lo. It is nice to know that somebody is reading something from my pages and not just looking at the nasty pictures.

Pics

“Christian the Lion”

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an ingrown nail?

Is that an ingrown nail? The left little toe. I cannot get under it to clip it. Will that require medical attention later? There is no pain now. It just doesn't look natural and you feel that it cannot end well.

Politics

"We’ve got to make sure that we are not the party of big business, big banks, big Wall Street bailouts, big corporate loopholes, big anything. We cannot be, we must not be, the party that simply protects the rich so they get to keep their toys... It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments — enough of that. It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters."

-- Governor Bobby Jindal

There has been quite a bit of this kind of talk since the Republicans lost big in the presidential election, but will we see anything of this philosophical evolution in the next couple of years?

my barbecue chicken

Alright! It had been a while since I kept from messing up the baking pan when I do up my barbecue chicken.

"Yeah, but you do go through a lot of aluminum foil."

Which makes it that much more frustrating when I still manage somehow to mess up the baking pan.

"*shaking head* It's still an awful lot of aluminum foil."

I think we can afford the luxury. For now.

"And what about later?"

I think I will be more distressed about missing the chicken rather than crying about the aluminum foil.

Marilyn

Anonymous: "I don't know if this is true or not but I heard Marilyn didn't like to bathe everyday and that she liked sitting in her own odor."

That is from a blog on here and it got thousands of notes when it is incredibly incorrect, Marilyn was infamous for loving to bathe in cold ice water with Chanel No 5 for hours, often causing her to be late for things.

-- AlwaysMarilynMonroe Tumblr

tamales

Pop returned from his rounds just a shade before six, and he brought some tamales that were still hot in the bag. I decided to make an early dinner of it and microwaved some rice and finished off the tortillas, enjoying my dinner with the big-screen TV, not minding that I had to cut short my afternoon reading session. It is good to be a little flexible.

New Word of the Year

"Omnishambles" has been named word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary.

The word - meaning a situation which is shambolic from every possible angle - was coined in 2009 by the writers of BBC political satire The Thick of It.

But it has crossed over into real life this year, said the judges.

-- News-LJ

Is this meant to replace the great American term 'cluster fuck'?