at this point, i think this will stand as my last livejournal entry. not for drama reasons, but to be sensible. if you are using this service as a loudhailer and would like to vaguely invite me or my family to a large social outing, please do so by email. yours in quiet - aleta

i put this in my other journal, so i thought you folks might also want to have fun with it.

here's a vacation photo from our trip this summer:

if you can guess what it is, you get a cookie and a kiss on the cheek.

if there was a show dedicated to different scenarios where callum keith rennie rescues teenage girls who are threatened with date rape...

i would pre-order the dvd.

oh, and the rest of the movie was good, too. i liked recognizing susannah hoffman from andrea's housewarming party.

there's no way i'm going to pay actual money to see how johnny depp escapes from the vagina dentata. no. way.

god, what a load. they turned down the cool on depp trying to increase the gain on bloom. two mediocre leads and the only time i woke up was when great cthulu was playing the organ.
Current Mood: disappointed

In response to this entry, a response I'm too chicken to post on the forum because they seem pretty rabid over there.

Why Babies are Better than Books

1. When you're sick of the immediate company and can't go home for awhile, you can't retire to a secluded room to feed a book. And if you go off to read by yourself in the middle of a party, people think you're an asshole.
   
2. For 3 years or so you can dress a baby any way you want. Try that with a book sometime, let me know how it works out.
   
3. Babies net you a lot of presents and cash when they're born, plus a flattering amount of attention. No one has ever thrown a party to celebrate my purchase of the new Neil Gaiman book.
   
4. Babies get more interesting as they age. Most books are not such perfect works of art that they can sustain a reading a day for several years.
   
5. Books don't settle down, get nicer or stop making you upset when you hold them close to your heart.
   
6. If you make up a silly song with your new book's title and sing it while you walk together in the grocery store, people will avoid you. And rightly so.
   
7. Babies give you an instant topic of conversation with people you don't know very well but have to be around (co-workers, friends of friends, fellow worshippers). With books it's much more hit and miss finding a common story.
   
8. Both books and babies smell good, but babies smell better.