†HAMLET†
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SHAKESPEARE
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†Ophelia†
There is a willow grows
ascaunt the brook,
That shows his hoar
leaves in the glassy stream.
Therewith fantastic garlands
did she make
Of crow-flowers, nettles,
daisies, and long purples,
That liberal shepherds give
a grosser name,
But our cold maids
do dead men's fingers call them.
There on the pendant
boughs her crownet weeds
Clamb'ring to hang,
an envious sliver broke,
When down her weedy
trophies and herself
Fell in the weeping brook.
Her clothes spread wide,
And mermaid-like
a while they bore her up;
Which time she chanted
snatches of old lauds,
As one incapable
of her own distress,
Or like a creature native
and indued unto that element.
But long it could not be
Till that her garments,
heavy with their drink,
Pulled the poor wretch
from her melodious lay
To muddy death.
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| HERE I AM |
| 07.31.04 (9:15 pm) |
Tonight's Cold Case Files was about a love. An "epic" love. a love rarer than "Halley's Comet." A love to kill for.
I've not had that kind of love. I don't think I would want it to the extreme the couple on the show had. Still, what must it be like to love someone to such an extreme?
I've had the kind of love where you want someone to love you so much they would do anything for you. The kind of love where you try and be who they want you to be to the point of losing yourself. It almost drove me mad, well - madder. Not something I'm up for again.
I want the kind of love that will stay home from the much anticipated boy's night out, because you need them. The kind of love that would call in sick because you need to be taken care of. The kind of love that will sit through your ridiculous reality shows because you sit through their equally stupid hot rod documentary or Master's tournament. That's the kind of love I'm geared to.
If you are looking for someone to ride out life in a blaze of glory, guns blasting, arms waving, you are not looking for me. If what you want is a confidant, someone to share comfortable silences with and hold onto at night - well, that I can give. I want to give...
(and for those of you old enough to remember - that's an Air Supply song I ripped off for the title of this blog)
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| BB5 |
| 07.30.04 (5:52 pm) |
Not having access to my usual BB5 forum has left me a bit cranky. I have decided to vent my rage here until I have have posting privileges again.
WTH is going on? Do I like any of these people any more?
grrrrr... I suppose I do.
Yeah, Drew and cowboy are weaklings and the Wondertwins lie with their Bibles open but who am I to judge? Will's doing okay, but I can't help think he needs to get a stronger alliance and soon or he will be out whether the "boys" team or the "girls" team comes out ahead.
I think it's a pretty sure bet that Jase or Scott will be gone next week so I'm not concerned about them anymore. ...and if the other hamsters DON'T vote them out, well, as much as i loathe them, I hope they make it to the final two. Seriously, if one doesn't leave the house - the other morons don't deserve to go any farther in the game.
... as goofy as she was, I will miss Holly. BB5 freaks made me laugh my ass off when they suggested "how cunning" she was in the game - cunning my pearly white butt. No one can play dumb that long that well. I think she's a fairly genuine, shallow but genuine nonetheless, human being. I also don't understand why everyone thought she was so pretty. She had a fantastic body, but the face? Come on...
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| Rebecca |
| 07.27.04 (6:54 pm) |
A few blogs down I posted a schmoopy e-mail from a sorority sister.
Oddly enough I found out on Monday that another sorority sister of mine, lived in the same town in TX that I did and was pretty much in the same boat I was - finding it hard to make friends.
She and I never had anything in common. We ran in different crowds - yes, in sororities their are cliques within cliques - had different ideologies and generally unconciously avoided one another. At least I am telling myself that it was an unconscious maneuver. Yet when I found out we were so close my heart ached that we had not been in touch.
We spoke on the phone today and said nothing about the past - only our shared move and how much we would have loved knowing one another were so close. We are even getting together the next time she visits her family here. It's crazy - all those things those many years ago that kept us at a comfortable distance disappeared and our shared knowledge of a small hometown and the people there gave us a bond that 4 years of high school and another 4 of college never did.
...and for those of you in the know, yeah, it's that Rebecca, and she's doing great as a wife, mother and friend.
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| Schmoopy sorority e-mail |
| 07.25.04 (6:40 am) |
When I was little, I use to believe in the concept of one best friend, and then I started to become a woman. And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open up, God will show you the best in many friends.
One friend's best is needed when you're going through things with your man. Another friend's best is needed when you're going through things with your momma. Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.
One friend will say let's pray together, another let's cry together, another let's fight together, another let's walk away together... One friend will meet your spiritual need, another your shoe fetish, another your love for movies, another will be with you in your season of confusion, another will be your clarifier, another the wind beneath your wings...
But whatever their assignment in your life, on whatever the occasion, on whatever the day, or wherever you need them to meet you with their gym shoes on and hair pulled back or to hold you back from making a complete fool of yourself...those are your best friends.
It may all be wrapped up in one woman, but for many it's wrapped up in several; one from 7th grade, some from high school, several from the college years, a couple from old jobs, several from church. On some days it's your mother, on others your sisters, and on some days it's the one that you needed just for that day or week that you needed someone with a fresh perspective. Perhaps the one who didn't know all your baggage, or the one who would just listen without judging ... those are good girlfriends/best friends.
Men are wonderful, husbands are excellent, boyfriends are awesome, male friends are priceless... but if you've ever had a real good girlfriend, then you know there's nothing like her!
I thank God for girlfriends, those who honor intimacy, those who hold trust, and those who've just got your back when you feel like life is just too heavy. I thank God for you. The special bond we share that's unique to us. The words we've shared. The prayers we've sent up. The laughs, the tears, the phone calls, the emails, the shopping, the movies, the lunches, the dinners, the late night talks, afternoon talks, the weekend talks, all the talking, talking, talking and the listening, listening, listening... So whether you've been there 20 minutes or 20 years: I appreciate you!
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| UM |
| 07.25.04 (6:36 am) |
- Sleep:: tight
- Stats:: pro
- Portfolio:: model
- Lipton:: tea
- Telly:: vision
- Immigrate:: to Russia
- Viable:: sperm
- Serene:: mountain
- Mountain:: lake
- Natalie:: Wood
=http://subliminal.lunanina.co... target=_blank [image]um.jpg[/image]
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| Drew |
| 07.24.04 (8:19 pm) |
Why can't they always look this way?
::sighs::
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| There's no place like home. |
| 07.23.04 (4:22 pm) |
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| Remember the important things |
| 07.22.04 (6:38 am) |
First day at work went well.
The truly important thing is that I ordered cable tv - choc full o' movie channels. ...and DVR!!!!
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| Job |
| 07.20.04 (5:36 pm) |
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I have a job - it's menial, it's low paying but it comes with benefits. Let's start a pool on how long this one will last.
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| Decisions, decisions... |
| 07.19.04 (3:47 pm) |
If presented with the opportunity what would you guys do:
1.Take a lower paying job in a small town because rent is free
or
2. Take a higher paying job but move into a new place to a city with lower standards of living...
or
3. Stop worrying until actually offered a job.
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| ~~WAAAH~~ |
| 07.18.04 (8:23 pm) |
Does any of this sound familiar?
Things that are QUITE difficult to say when you are drunk:
1. Innovative
2. Preliminary
3. Proliferation
4. Cinnamon
Things that are VERY difficult to say when you're drunk:
1. Specificity
2. Antidisestablishmentarian ism
3. Loquacious
4. Transubstantiate
Things that are downright IMPOSSIBLE to say when you're drunk:
1. Thanks, but I don't want to sleep with you
2. Nope, no more booze for me
3. Sorry, but you're not really my type
4. No kebab for me, thank you
5. Good evening officer, isn't it lovely out tonight?
6. I'm not interested in fighting you
7. Thank you, but I won't make any attempt to dance, I have no co-ordination
8. Where is the nearest toilet? I refuse to vomit in the street
9. You're right; I can't jump over that table.
10. Oh, I just couldn't - no one wants to hear me sing
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| UM |
| 07.18.04 (7:53 am) |
- Nostalgia:: 60's
- Irreplaceable:: Unforgettable
- Odd:: balls
- James Spader::sex
- Flamboyant:: Prsicilla
- Intense:: eyes
- Simple:: magazine
- Septic:: tank
- Ton:: weight
- Turkey:: WKRP
=http://subliminal.lunanina.co... target=_blank [image]um.jpg[/image]
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| MEMEMEMEMMEEMEMMEMEMEMEMe |
| 07.16.04 (7:55 pm) |
I just did this - and I stole it from =http://shespecies.tblog.com/Shespecies
CyberPal said: This was as far as I know, originally a LiveJournal meme, but it was so goofy and intricate that I had to join in the fun. So. Bear with me and join in too.
1. Take your blog username or your real name and replace each letter with the corresponding number (A=1, B=2, etc...). If your name contains numbers, you'll need to convert them to letters first before you can convert to numbers.
I used my username.
Drama = 4 18 1 13 1
2. Add all of the numbers together to create a kind of super number.
37
3. Make a note of the first digit of this number, then add the digits of the number together.
3+7 = 10 = 1
4. Find the post of this number in your blog archives. If you don't have that many posts, add the digits together again. Keep doing so until the number is smaller than your pathetic number of posts.
My very first post.
5. Take the digit you noted in step 3, and count that many words into the post.
3rd
6. Use the resulting word in a Google Image Search.
7. Post the results for us all to see. If you take this to your blog.. make sure you let me know what picture or image you came up with
Ahem....
My results...
=http://www.drinkyoo-hoo.com/"a"
hehehe...
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| CSI has run amok |
| 07.16.04 (6:23 pm) |
....and no, I am not talking about the third spinoff in as many years...
From a fanlisting...
I'm sure most of you have heard the news that George and Jorja Fox have been
fired from their roles on CSI over a pay dispute. Both George and Jorja are an
integral part of the show and if they aren't reinstated - the dynamics of the
show will never be the same again.
Please join your fellow fans in making your views known to CBS. I know most of
you will be really angry and frustrated but please do not send insults. Calm and
rational statements will benefit George more in the long run. Remind CBS of
George's contribution and exactly why you watch the show and do not want it to
change.
Whatever the outcome, this fanlisting will continue to support George 100%.
Contact Les Moonves-
leslie.moonves@tvc.cbs.com
Nancy Tellem-
NTellum@cbs.com
(325)575-2380
Thank you for your time!
Regards,
Tracey
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| BB5 |
| 07.15.04 (7:16 pm) |
Anyone watching BB?
Just so you all know, Scott and Jase shall henceforth be known to me as Siegfried and Roy. No further attempts at trying to tell them apart or individualizing them will be made. Thank you. Enjoy your flight.
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| Names have been changed to protect the innocent |
| 07.15.04 (7:53 am) |
My buddy Cari sent me this - I have decided to post eacha nd every getting to know you post for posterity - immortalize my friends on my blog... I suppose I should put up my answers later...
1. IF YOU COULD BUILD A HOUSE ANYWHERE, WHERE WOULD IT BE?
I don't know....somewhere close to my Mom
2. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE ARTICLE OF CLOTHING?
My fave blue shirt
3. IF YOU COULD HAVE CHOSEN YOUR NAME, WHAT WOULD IT HAVE BEEN?
I like my first name. I'd just change my middle name. Mine sounds too country.
4. WHERE IS YOUR FAVORITE PLACE TO BE?
Junking somewhere.
5 WHAT IS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE PLACE TO BE?
Where I'm not wanted.
6. WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE IN THE MORNING?
About 6:00
7. WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE KITCHEN APPLIANCE?
My Toast-N-Bake. This appliance is a stud.
8. WHAT MAKES YOU REALLY ANGRY?
People who blow off my friendship.........
9. IF YOU COULD PLAY ANY INSTRUMENT, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Piano
10. FAVORITE COLOR?
Green
11. DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE AFTERLIFE?
Yes
12. FAVORITE CHILDREN'S BOOK?
The Great Jam Sandwich & The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
13. YOUR FAVORITE SEASON?
Spring
14. IF YOU COULD HAVE ONE SUPER POWER, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
Ability to freeze time....my kids are growing up way too fast
15. IF YOU HAVE A TATTOO, WHAT IS IT AND WHERE IS IT?
None...but I want one for my 30th birthday. However, I'm too chicken to get a shot so....
16. CAN YOU JUGGLE?
Not a clue. Not even tasks.
17. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DAY
Saturday
18. WHAT IS IN THE TRUNK OF YOUR CAR?
I have an SUV - there is no trunk - but there are tools. You should have asked what's in my back seat. I have children, it's a goldmine of crap. Not literal crap.
19. WHICH DO YOU PREFER, SUSHI OR HAMBURGER?
Hamburger - specifically a Chilli's Old-Timer cooked medium.
20. FROM THE PEOPLE YOU EMAIL THIS TO, WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
Alicia or Gail
21. WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND?
April
22. WHO DID YOU RECEIVE THIS FROM?
Kimmie
23. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CARTOON?
Bugs Bunny
24. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MEAL?
Tokyo's in Sherman. Gotta have the fried rice........
25. WHAT PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE A PARENT?
Get a sense of humor.....you'll need it. The advice I'd give to "friends" of parents is to not forget about us. We're busy, but we're still around
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| Let me spell it out |
| 07.14.04 (5:12 pm) |
I WAS DUMPED!
My grandmother, without warning and with apologies to me for not wanting to bring the matter up, tells me to fight for my ex if i have feelings for him.
What part of, "I don't see a future for us," should lead me to believe there is anything left to fight for?
Do I miss him? Of course!
Do I want to be with him? Of course!
Do I have some pride? A clue? OF COURSE!
I think I fought long enough. If - and it's a big IF - there is some sort of future for us, then he is going to have to make some decisions and capitulations. Not me. Not this time. Time to take care of myself.
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| Redhead |
| 07.13.04 (6:01 pm) |
So, if I were younger and her nose was bigger and her face a little horsier, I would look like this - okay, so I have the same facial coloring, eyes and hair - otherwise I look completely different.
=http://www.sweet-plastic.net/... target=_blank [image]DRAMA_292956948.jpg[/image]
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| blue eyes |
| 07.11.04 (6:41 pm) |
Blue eyes baby´s got blue eyes
Like a deep blue sea
On a blue blue day
Blue eyes, baby´s got blue eyes
When the morning comes
I´ll be far away
And I say
Blue eyes holding back the tears
Holding back the pain
Baby´s got blue eyes
And she´s alone again
Blue eyes baby´s got blue eyes
Like a clear blue sky
Watching over me
Blue eyes ooh I love blue eyes
When I´m by her side
Where I long to be
I will see
Blue eyes laughing in the sun
Laughing in the rain
Baby´s got blue eyes
And I am home
And I am home again
Blue eyes laughing in the sun
Laughing in the rain
Baby´s got blue eyes
And I am home again
-Elton John
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| Another Datalounge Delite |
| 07.09.04 (8:05 am) |
Found =http://www.datalounge.com/dat...,1,1:threadhere first.
LIBERAL
IS NOT A DIRTY WORD.
Liberal means:
1. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
3. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
4. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. "
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| BB 5 |
| 07.08.04 (6:57 pm) |
Oh yeah, freaks in the house this year.
Meet my =http://www.cbs.com/primetime/...Big Brother Bitch for this season, lets hope he lasts at least three - fourths of the way through.
(yes, he was picked entirely for eye candy value - please God let the twin they switch in be his.)
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| Ralphy, Ralphy, Ralphy... |
| 07.07.04 (5:34 pm) |
AP
[b]Watchdog Group Complains About Nader Aid [/b]
By SAM HANANEL, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - A watchdog group says it will file a complaint with federal election officials, accusing two conservative organizations of illegally helping Ralph Nader (news - web sites)'s presidential campaign, possibly with support from President Bush (news - web sites)'s re-election campaign.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington planned to file its complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission (news - web sites). It says the Oregon Family Council and Citizens for a Sound Economy violated election laws last week by telephoning people and urging them to help Nader get on Oregon's ballot in November.
Spokesmen for both groups denied wrongdoing.
Both groups acknowledge trying to influence Nader's petition drive Saturday in Oregon, in hopes that getting him on the ballot would take votes away from Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) and help Bush win the battleground state.
But Melanie Sloan, the watchdog group's executive director, said Tuesday that the conservative organizations are also corporations that are prohibited by election law from making campaign donations.
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| RIGHT WING FLAMERS and TROLLS, Attention... |
| 07.07.04 (11:53 am) |
Let me have it guys and gals!
[b]GW Bush Has Done What No Other President Could Do:[/b]
[i][b]Spent the largest surplus in the history of the U.S.
Shattered records for biggest loss of value in the history of the U.S. stock market during any presidency.
Over 3.3 millions Americans have lost their jobs from 2000, until present.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US History.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history - surpassing that of the 1970's.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history - again, surpassing that of the 1970's.
Dissolved or abandoned more international treaties than any president in US history.
First president in US history to have all 50 states of the union simultaneously reach insolvency.
First president in US history to order a unilateral and unprovoked attack and military operation on a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission (HRC).
First president in US history to refuse an audit by United Nations election inspectors during the last U.S. election.
Spent more money on polls and focus groups in the first two years of presidency than any other president in US history.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties (via the Patriot Act) for Americans than any other president in US history.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
In less than a year, made the US the most resented country in the world - the worst diplomatic failure in US and World history.[/b][/i]
[b]WHAT COULD HAPPEN IN FOUR MORE YEARS? [/b]
From a mb post at the Datalounge
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| Twisted Archaeology Joke. |
| 07.06.04 (7:51 pm) |
Found here: =http://forums.delphiforums.co...Behind the Veil
DATE: 3004:
Place: Planet Earth, North American Continent, somewhere in the south.
"Jim, Jim come over here. You have to see this, I think I have found something."
Jim ambles over to where John is leaning over a small plastic box have buried in the rubble of what was once Dallas, Texas.
Jim peers over John's shoulder and says, "Well, open it. It must be something sacred because it says, 'Private, Do Not even think of touching' on it." Visions of Pandora's Box race through John's head as he slowly opens the lid of the plastic box.
Suddenly, he falls back on his butt and cries out, "Oh my Lord!!!! Oh my Lord!!!! What have they done? Why??!!!! Oh Why???!!!!!" He places his head in his hands as tears flow from his eyes and phatom pains rack his genitalia.
Jim looks over the box and slowly reaches out and picks one of the items up. Turning it over in his hands, he says, "John....John....It's alright buddy. They aren't real. But why plastic?"
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| Definitive Proof, the elusive second gunman. |
| 07.05.04 (11:03 pm) |
Oswald did not act alone!
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| Unconscious Mutterings |
| 07.05.04 (6:50 am) |
Coupling:: BBC America
Grounded:: For Life
Habit:: Nuns on the Run
Chainsaw:: Massacre
Rental:: dvd
Deleted:: selection
Online personals:: Urk
Penguin:: books
Offend:: not much
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| Why? |
| 07.04.04 (7:45 am) |
Why is it my hear tplummeted when my grandmother told me how much weight my ex has lost?
Was I so depressing he wanted to eat himself to obesity? :(
Why do I react this way on hearing what should be good news?
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| Obligatory Hoilday Post |
| 07.04.04 (12:36 am) |
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| Archaeological Wonderland Found in Utah. |
| 07.03.04 (11:31 am) |
The funniest thing about the whole story is that the guy didn't want any old hippies (read archaeologists) digging up the sites. ...and I saw him say it on the Morning Show - straight from the horses mouth!
Articles: http://www.nytimes.com/auth/l...://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/01/national/0 1RUIN.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3857761.stm" title="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3857761.stm" target="_blank"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/am...
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| Unfortunate Turn of Events |
| 07.02.04 (4:35 pm) |
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It seems that there is a young man from my hometown on Big Brother this year. It's the Garth Brooks wanna be, security officer. Could they get a college student or one of the wacky fundamentalists? Nooooooo... they get =http://www.cbs.com/primetime/...this guy. Why do I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach?
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| Saddam's words |
| 07.02.04 (6:05 am) |
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George Bush is the criminal. To sound utterly childish, takes one to know one.
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| Wednesday |
| 07.01.04 (7:05 am) |
Spent yesterday in Dallas looking for work. We'll see if anything comes of it.
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