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Home » October 2003
October 31 2003

Twilight Zone moment. Or something.

Catholic school girls take revenge (while wearing their uniforms, of course).

I was curious about St. Maria Goretti and found this.

Wow, Catholics and deviant sexual behavior separated by just about 100 years.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 31, 2003 21:53 | link | comments (3) |

Happy Halloween! I am cooking this morning, getting ready for our party this afternoon. I'm trying to make this bleeding heart mold, but I think the milk kind of curdled. Oh, well, I guess that's OK for Halloween. We're also making creepy witches fingers, strained eyeballs and some spidery-looking things out of crackers. Plus the usual cold spaghetti and peeled grapes and stuff for kids to stick their hands in in the SCARY ROOM.

Here are some extreme pumpkins. Pumpkin carving with power tools, and pyrotechnics too.

And a nice article for the holiday from the Guardian.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 31, 2003 08:40 | link | comments |

I notice that punkvoter has finally gotten some content on their site. Yes! Insurrection in the ballot box.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 31, 2003 05:53 | link | comments (2) |

I always enjoy David Cohen's education strangeness in the Guardian and this one is no exception. I especially like Rodent news (2): rats go pop. Shades of Mark Morford. Pale, pale shades, but shades nonetheless.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 31, 2003 04:17 | link | comments |

Yet again, death
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine

I remember reading a piece by Phillip Moffitt in Yoga Journal where he wrote about the difference between sadness and grief. Sadness being a natural, healthy feeling; grief being a sign that you can't accept that something really happened, that you can't go back and change anything, that yes, it's really, really over.
It's funny how life goes on, whether we want to let it or not. Humans are just the ones getting stuck in a muddy rut.
BTW, I can't even remember when I read that thing, let alone how accurate my memory of his ideas is.




posted by: cemeterygates at October 31, 2003 04:05 | link | comments |

More death . . .
 
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
When we told people we were bringing my mother-in-law to live with us when she got really sick, lots of people said it was a big mistake. Including people who seem to feel that the only place to die is the hospital or a nursing home. Including people who told us we would damage our kids forever if they were around someone while they were dying. The hospice folks and our family doc were about the only people who weren't all creeped out and actually said it would be a good thing. Lots easier for the kids than the adults.
On the night my mother-in-law died, I wondered how the kids would be. After my she died, both the girls wanted to come in and see her, one just to look at her and one to say good-bye. My son didn't want to. We had talked about it before and they all knew could do whatever they wanted. I went and took a nap and when I got up Solvij was "riding" the hospital bed up down, up down, while watching TV. I guess she wasn't too freaked out that someone dead had been in the bed a couple of hours before.
The thing that did scare Solvij was when the people from the mortuary came to get my mother-in-law. There was a man and a woman, both had to be over six feet tall and both wore black clothes. I mean, they were huge! She took one look and ran in our bedroom, closed the door, and turned on the TV, loud.



posted by: cemeterygates at October 31, 2003 03:42 | link | comments (3) |

October 30 2003

Small town life and death

People are telling me all kinds of things about death because my mother-in-law died recently. Here's one odd piece of advice I received.

The first funeral a kid goes to should not be a family member's. OK, so whose should it be? I mean, what funeral other than a family member's is a kid likely to go to? Or should parents just choose one from the newspaper and take a kid there for the "experience?" This has to be one of the stranger things I've heard.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 30, 2003 18:03 | link | comments |

Check this out, just in time for Halloween. Hogwarts headaches--caused by reading long books without a break.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 30, 2003 09:31 | link | comments |

October 18 2003

Small town life

There are these two bints I wait on nearly every day. One buys Earl Grey tea with a "splash" of soy. Really, it's a two second pour of soy, but doesn't "splash" sound just so much better? The other buys a brevé (of course she can't pronounce brevé--is it breva, or breeve, or what?) While they're waiting they stand there and endlessly trash different people they know.

The other day they were there yacking away. Another woman who broke her ankle a while ago came limping down the street on her crutches. Bint 1 and bint 2 were saying things like, "when's she ever going to get rid of those crutches? what a crip!" As she approaches one says, "Oh sweetie, how are you, we've been soooo worried. You must be in so much pain." I wonder if cripgirl thinks they're her friends.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 18, 2003 19:04 | link | comments (2) |

October 17 2003

Homeschool prom night. I heard about this and I thought, "that's a cool idea." Until I looked at the website and saw the Royal Court part, and the corsage part, and the limo part, and the photo part, and the tux part. It brought on a head rush, remembering things I hated about high school. Prom King and Queen rank right up there. I do think having a dance for homeschoolers is a fine idea.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 22:25 | link | comments |

Hello Jesus. You can own your own Jesus toy.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 22:04 | link | comments |

Here are my cemetery gates. Please excuse the hideous webpage.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 21:55 | link | comments |

Someone should throw that freaking elliptical machine at the gym off the bridge.  Scroll down to the Fernbridge pic. This is the only image of Fernbridge I could find on google.


posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 21:53 | link | comments (2) |

Had to wear dirty socks to the gym this morning. Crunchy.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 21:52 | link | comments |

Test your knowledge of plastic pony trivia.
Take the Porn Star or My Little Pony? Test.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 21:51 | link | comments |

Have to have a Smiths link to start.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 21:49 | link | comments |

It is 84 degrees outside. Unbelievable. Cats are lying under patches of shade in the yard.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 21:49 | link | comments |

Solvij's birthday today. Nine years old. She's waiting to be a decade old.

posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 21:48 | link | comments |

Mother Theresa dances and sings.

New requirement for canonization: your own musical.


posted by: cemeterygates at October 17, 2003 21:48 | link | comments |