Posts by Dinah Dunavan
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I know there aren't all that many folk in DC but Obama got 92.9% of the vote. That's pretty damn amazing. So only the republican party members who have to live in DC voted for McCain.
You could probably pick out who they are in your apartment complex.
A bit like those 6 in Dixville Notch who voted for McCain. I bet all their neighbours know who they are. I hope they're taking them cookies to commiserate.
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Here's hoping Obama turns out to be a Muslim atheist communist, and not a decidedly conservative liberal. Then woohoo America will get a shake up.
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but she couldn't be bisexual, because that was 'just greedy'.
I wonder if this is more about perceived promiscuity. The belief that if you are bi you have to be shagging multiple partners at the same time (but not in an orgy sense) in order to satisfy your urges. For some being bi means having a series of monogomous relationships with men and women.
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Has anyone else linked to this NPR article? If you have, sorry.
My pick of the bunch:
In one Ohio polling place, a touch-screen voting machine would only cast ballots for independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader. According to the Columbus Dispatch, a poll worker told voters, "You can use it if you want to vote for him."
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Here in the Waitaki Electorate I'm feeling decidedly gloomy about my electorate vote. I could vote for Jacqui Dean, but I've never heard her say anything that I agreed with; or David Parker, but don't get me started on what a weasle he is. A vote for any other candidate is a protest vote and I've always liked to think my vote counted.
That's why I like MMP, at least one of my votes count. -
We had some (not so) young folk turn up one year. No attempt had been made to dress up. I don't do halloween in NZ, and I really don't do holloween for try-it-on teens, so they might have been lucky to get a lolly. Next year we padlocked the gate. No one showed up - yippee. But the next morning as I got ready to drive out the gate $&@*&^%$ somebody had locked the gate and the key was inside with my snoring husband.
Now we live in the middle of nowhere we don't have any problem with trick-or-treaters. But we do have nosey dirtbikers/4wders and hunters and a couple of visits from the local Jehovers Witnessers.
We stayed with friends a decade or so ago in Massachusetts and watched their then 6 year old going trick-or-treating down their quiet suburban street. Very cute, very neighbourly and the fact that it was 4:30pm and getting dark made it not so commercial & ridiculous.
Last year at my ma-in-laws in Connecticut just the one family come knocking, the wee boys from five doors up. Middle-class suburban America appears to live in fear of attack these days and trick-or-treating might be becoming a bit too "un-safe" for most people.
I suppose it does keep the Christmas decorations out of the stores for a week or two.
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Emma, this has been the best blog ever. It has kept me amused for a couple days of otherwise mindless activity at work.
DWJ is the best. A pity libraries and book shops can't agree whether to put her under J or W, or both, or in the case of whitcoulls for a long time, neither.
Signed, Grateful reader.
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Signs that say "12 items or Less
I was amazed, after going in to a supermarket in the USofA last year, to see a sign saying "12 items or FEWER". I wish I'd owned the flashy new camera in a phone thingy that day. I'd have sent the picture to every supermarket in NZ and said "see, there are some things those damn Yanks can do better than us". -
Julia Roberts ... Is it her enormous mouth?
Of course it is her enormous mouth, (and as with Keira Knightley), enormous eyes too. They say, you must be VERY big, I have to have such a large mouth to accommodate you, and my eyes are popping iin response to you!
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No one has yet mentioned my favourite unfinished read - Pamela. Has anyone actually managed to read it all the way through? Why and how?
I tried Tristram Shandy once, managed a page or three. I keep it on the shelf, just in case.
As a teenager I would consume large quantities of papery words. Dune, LoTR, W&P, lots of Shaw, Candide, Bone People, to name a few. I think the intensity of teenage hormones helped me read with such intensity. These days I prefer a book I can read from cover to cover while in the bath, without using up all the hot water and bubble bath.
I bet if I was still a teen I'd be eating up Harry Potter instead of thinking "what boring crap". I got through book one, because it met the above criteria, but after that ... aaargh. Reminds me of the day I read my third (or fourth) Blyton book and thought "what boring crap".