sidetrackedery

(From September 28, 2009)

Sidetrackedery, n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere.

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:: This is useful: Uses for coffee filters, from

poor_skills.
:: This recipe for Chocolate Brownie Cobbler from

mhael.
:: From @MilitaryAvenue, Remains of Civil War Soldier Return Home on Anniversary Rest in peace, soldier. (from militaryavenue.com)
:: From IAVA, Lawmakers agree on use of advance VA funds (from navytimes.com)
:: Also from IAVA, Biden Pushes Iraqi Leaders On Vote Law, Oil-Bid Perks (from washingtonpost.com)
:: Another from IAVA, Soldier to receive Medal of Honor posthumously today (from Sept. 17, from military.com)
:: One more from IAVA: Afghanistan's Other Front (from nytimes.com)
:: From HuffPo, The Sad, Shocking Truth About How Women Are Feeling.
:: And from the above link, What's Happening To Women's Happiness? *sigh*
:: Via HuffPo, Anxious Kids at Risk for Obesity in Adulthood. Well, fuck. (from forbes.com)
:: From time.com, the much-talked about Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? Yep, but if his media pimps are gonna keep him on the air/in print/online, he's got a right to be there. And not from any phony-baloney "god," from the Constitution. He's sure abusing the privilege of the TV show, the radio show, and the books, though.
:: From HuffPo, New TIME Cover on Glenn Beck Ignores Facts, and Worse.
:: Also from HuffPo, Bob Cesca: With a Health Care Plan This Insane, Who Needs Wingnuts? Right on, Mr. Cesca.
:: From the above link, The Baucus Bill: The Worst Policy in the Bill, and Possibly in the World Wait, a housewife looking for asecond job? What'd the first one be, then? (from voices.washingtonpost.com)
:: Another from HuffPo: Mitchell Bard: Baucus Debacle Shows Why Democrats Have to Stop Trying to Woo Republican Lawmakers.

orbitaldiamonds

(From September 25, 2009)

Sidetrackedery, n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere.

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:: From change.org, Darfur Activism: Fact & Fiction.
:: Also from change.org, The Presidential Principle of "Make Me Do It".
:: From a

poor_skills comment thread, Survival Guide to Homelessness and Leaving Abuse.
:: In fact, the whole post is chock-full of good advice about escaping abuse and being homeless/living on the cheap.
:: Roller Derby FTMFW. From

landfill_sky, the Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames :D
:: Fucking AWESOME. From @milblogging, Col. Tim Kopra Tweets from Space, "We're preparing the orbiter for return--setting up seats, pulling out suits.Weather's iffy" :D :D (from milblogging.com)
:: WTFF? From @ontd_political, College president honors "diversity" by naming center after Dick Cheney. Dude, being pro-marriage equality is great, but it doesn't make up for all the other stuff. (via philly.com)
:: Your occasional does of tasteless jokery from an

ontd_political comment thread:

Knock knock
Who's there?
9/11
9/11 who?
YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER FORGET

...

When does a pentagon have four sides?
When it intersects a plane

:: (We can all hang out in the special hell later.)
:: From @zev4, US man fires cannon, hits neighbor's house (from gmanews.tv)
:: Hahaha! From @marlaerwin, It's time to play Cheese or Font XD
:: From @msnbc_politics, This 9/11, Obama has bullhorn on terrorism. (from msnbc.msn.com)
:: From

eh_notsomuch, Call the waaaaaaaaaah-mbulance. About the top 1% complaining about how "hard" they have it now. (via nymag.com)
:: From @newsminer, 'Make your pie and eat it too' at Ester festival. Books, pies, and a McDermott playing the ukulele. What more could you want? (from newsminer.com)
:: From IAVA, U.S. to send more counter-explosives units to Afghanistan. (from latimes.com)

orbitaldiamonds

(From September 13, 2009)

Sidetrackedery, n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere.

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:: From the awesome artist

quirkybird, her comic Bite Me! :D Go read it!
:: From

queer_theory, the blogs 69 Love Songs, Illustrated and Feasting on Art. :)
:: Heehee. From a link in an

atheism comment thread, the Cult of Cthulu. :P
:: From a friend on Yahoo! IM, Pangender on Wikipedia, from there to Genderqueer.
:: From Genderqueer, United Genders of the Universe, Gender Queer Revolution, Genderfork.com, and Polygender.co.uk, and thus I felt a little less alone. Not exactly androgynous myself, but I do rebel against rigid gender roles.
:: Wow. From CNN Politics, Wilson calls White House to Apologize.
:: This is something Fizzy showed me. It's the last piece from the NYT reporter in Afghanistan who was killed. 'I would not leave Afghanistan'
:: From

poor_skills, this and this on Amish Friendship Bread starters and recipes. :)
:: From another

poor_skills comment thread, Paula Burch's All About Hand Dyeing. :D
:: From @milblogging, Wisconsin Troops: A World Away, But Maybe A Little Bit Closer Than You Thing with the Power of a Military Blog :) (from milblogging.com)
:: From

greencow, Waking up Canadian (youtube)
:: HAHAHAHAHAHA! From Fizzy via Gtalk, Chris Franklin - Bloke Famous Aussie comedian Chris Franklin doing a parody of Meredith Brooks's "Bitch." (youtube)
:: Heehee. Fizzy just showed me this to show Chris: Super Mario man: 20 years and still chasing Princess Peach. XD (from theage.com.au)
:: From

quirkybird, the Stumpdown Comics Fest 2009! (Yes, it already happened.):: Another from Fizzy: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' :D (from news.bbc.co.uk)

orbitaldiamonds

(From September 10, 2009)

Sidetrackedery, n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere.

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:: From

antitheism, Why Do Christians Insit That Hitler Was an Atheist? 'Cause he, yanno, wasn't.
:: From

metaquotes, Straight men? in my gossip community? :P
:: From

antitheism, something I'd never given any thought to: foreskin restoration. Random sidetrackedery is random, y/n/foreskin?
:: From

trexsandwich just now, Pix Pâtisserie *om nom nom*
:: Awesomecakes! From

poor_skills,

poorskills and from there, TimeBanks.org, which is a freaking awesome idea. :D
:: This is fucking cool.

quirkybird linked to her Flickr photostream, and one of the sets is Battlestar Galactisimpsons!
:: From

curriejean at

antitheism, Articles written by Currie Jean at helium.com :)
:: I love puns. Especially puns from

rahmbamarama. :D
:: Well, shit. From @newsminer, State confirms swine flu cause of Fairbanks student's death :(
:: HAHAHAHAHA. From

antitheism, The Brick Testament. :D
:: This is so sad. From

eh_notsomuch, 10 years later, the real story behind Columbine.
:: Ugh. From @gayatheist, Catholic Church Steps Up Anti-Gay marriage Efforts In Maine. Dammit, what the hell is the problem with allowing consenting adults to marry?!
:: From

metaquotes, dome69 believes in the power of vagina. Is a great read that makes several good points.
:: Oh. My. Flying. Spaghetti. Monster. From

metaquotes, Aliens Rickroll the World. :D :D :D
:: Yep, more

metaquotes! kkatowll is having car troubles.

orbitaldiamonds

Sidetrackedery, n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere.

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:: From this post in

ohnotheydidnt, Antiziganism, or prejudice against the Romani people (otherwise known as Gypsies).
:: **flees

stupid_free and

ohnotheydidnt for the ~~relative sanity~~ less-fuckity of my flist**
:: My goodness, this is awesome. From

outercourse in a

nacho_cheese comment thread, Los Colorados: Hot & ColdIs so cute!
:: From

iisz in

atheism, A Pale Blue Dot. YouTube vids here and here. :D
:: From the YouTube site of that second video, subtitle.in! Like the Braille Printer, another duh, of course it'd be out there kind of awesome thing. :D
:: This gem from

colbertobsessed:

Oh, and Glenn Beck is fucking insane, but I think we all know that already, lol. I saw that clip of him weeping for his country. HOLY MOO COW. Really? I mean, really?

:: From

ontd_political to

ms_treesap's userpics to

nextjuly to Rappin' Rudd vs. Hip-hop Howard HAHAHAHA "What up my diggers!" (youtube)
:: From @BWBooks, 'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter I know I've posted another link about this, but it's still sad. (from npr.org)
:: THIS EPIC FANART OF KEITH AND RACHEL by

jesidres, found at the Aug. 28 Shenanigans Friday at

ontd_political.
:: From a

poor_skills comment thread, RecipeMatcher, Supercook recipe search, and CookingByNumbers.com. Very useful!
:: From

atheism, Why Fred Phelps should be left the fuck alone. tl;dr Freedom of speech includes freedom of being an asshole.
:: AWWWWW. From @lechatsavant, Ted Kennedy and Bo Obama! :D
:: SING IT. From military.com, Vets' Groups Slam 'Death Book' Claims. A bit late on the draw, but very well done.
:: And here's Tammy Duckworth laying the smackdown on Fox News Sunday. And ugh, be moar of a douche, Chris Wallace. (youtube)
:: From...I don't remember...on Twitter, US extends Blackwater Iraq contract. FAAAAAIL. (from english.aljazeera.net)

orbitaldiamonds

(From July 29, 2009)

Sidetrackedery, n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere.

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:: From

atheism, Pilot who paused to pray in emergency gets 10 years FOR GREAT JUSTICE. (from irishtimes.com)
:: From

syntaxia, Oversaving, a Burden for Our Times (from nytimes.com)
:: Just saw this site mentioned on MSNBC Live. (Jul. 28) bakemeawish.com Soup from a stone, fancy that!
:: A public service announcement from

kawaii_not.
:: From

sarken, Keith Olbermann looking into the camera and saying, "tit." WIN.
:: From

exceptindreams, The Crickets Have Arthritis. Yeah, I cried. But I think a non-nutter would cry upon reading that too.
:: This recipe for microwave bread from

poor_skills:

Microwave Bread

2 cups of all purpose flour
2 teaspoons of baking powder
3 tablespoons of sugar
1 cup of milk
1 egg.

Mix all ingredients together in a glass bowl and stick it in the microwave for 5 minutes or until solid. Eat while hot.

If you like sweeter bread add some more sugar into it.

There are also several recipes similar to this on the internet if you want to check them out.
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/312
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=15995.0

:: From Fizzy via Gtalk, Shaken but not stirred by stadium-rock spirituality (from theage.com.au):

Christian pop, ’80s power anthems, Metallica meets Cheap Trick. A mosh pit for Jesus was jumping with teenagers in rapture and a balcony of Planetkids went off for Christ. Music blared from the stadium sound system while the screen seduced us with slick videos edited so fast the phrase ‘‘subliminal image" kept popping into my head. Lyrics flashed up: "Come like a flood and saturate me now." I wondered what Freud would have made of the disproportionate use of such words as ‘‘come’’, ‘‘touch’’ and ‘‘feel’’, and the phrases "move within me" and "being filled". My favourite was "King of Glory, enter in".

and

A pastor banged on about sacrifice and said it wasn’t important how much we sacrificed just as long as we gave as much as we could. No matter how small it was. I didn’t know what he was on about until the giving cards came round. And a little bucket for coins. No lid with a slot. A big open bucket, so you could be shamed by your paltry donation.

Then there were the plugs for the Mighty Men’s night and Beautiful Women Seminar. Male volunteers were encouraged to get involved with the ladies’ seminar with the promise of ‘‘being able to tell 3000 women what to do’’. Beautiful women. Mighty men. Note: not mighty women and beautiful men.

:: Bookworm WIN. From Fizzy via Gtalk, Library fan nears 25,000th book :D
:: From

klaudie via a train of links I can't follow back to its source, You Can Do Better!

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orbitaldiamonds

(From July 13, 2009)

Sidetrackedery, n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere.

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:: Phelps (WBC) people getting pwned in an epic way, courtesy of

lavenderfrost. :D
:: Yeah, what she said! From

eh_notsomuch
:: Fizzy sent me this from Cake Wrecks. XDDD
:: Well, this hit a little too close to home. (from PostSecret)
:: From Daily Kos via @Shoq, Former CIGNA executive says Michael Moore was right all along
:: HOLY SHIT FUNNEH. Rule 34: If it exists, there is porn of it. No exceptions. (from PunditKitchen)
:: The sack lunches, from

militarylove. Made me cry.
:: FUCKING COOL. From

metaquotes.
:: Yes, another one from

metaquotes. I couldn't just let "Righteous American Penis of Justice" go un-re-quoted, now, could I?
:: How to make Rice Cooker Bread. From a post at

poor_skills.
:: Linked in an

antitheism entry, Don't ask, don't tell documentary explores gays in the military. Especially read the comments.
:: From this post in

antitheism, Atheists call for 'debaptism' (from the BBC) Neato. :)
:: Via

lavenderfrost, This is your Nation on White Privilege (Updated) (from redroom.com)
:: This gem from

metaquotes:

On that topic, it occurs to me that Easter is truly the original holiday of the Living Dead (one of the originals, anyways-- I'm sure there are older mythologies too). And that, therefore, it ought to be taken over by the zombie contingent and adopted as one of their holy days. So remember, kids, leave out a nice basket of brains for Jesus so he won't come after yours!

:: From

quirkybird, a lovely poem called "Woe".

Woe!

It is true, our tribe is similar to the bees,
It gathers honey of wisdom, carries it, stores it in honeycombs.
I am able to roam for hours
Through the labyrinth of the main library, floor to floor.
But yesterday, looking for the words of masters and prophets,
I wandered into high regions
That are visited by practically no one.
I would open a book and could decipher nothing.
For letters faded and disappeared from the pages.
Woe! I exclaimed-so it comes to this?
Where are you, venerable ones, with your beards and wigs,
Your nights spent by a candle, griefs of your wives?
So a message saving the world is silenced forever?
At your home it was the day of making preserves.
And your dog, sleeping by the fire, would wake up,
Yawn, and look at you, as if knowing.

Czeslaw Milosz

:: And some RBR fun that I posted to

metaquotes. :)

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orbitaldiamonds

(From March 25, 2009.)

This is why I'm not all that fussed about being so far behind in my flist, even with all the, you know, fussing. o.O

(I've been saving this stuff for the past few days. It doesn't look like much but just one of these is worth being a month behind for.)

Some of these are locked. If they're from

rahmbamarama, all you have to do is join to see 'em.

:: http://community.livejournal.com/rahmbamarama/366875.html
:: http://community.livejournal.com/battlestar_blog/1467870.html
::

sarken, here:

The Pundit Kink Meme is the most massive timesuck to ever suck time.

:: I found this because I went through

sarken's weheartit and then a keyword search for quotes and I went to the site it was from:
:: http://www.wordboner.com/
:: http://community.livejournal.com/rahmbamarama/374796.html?thread=20030220#t20030220
:: The entire community

re_cma, an offshoot of

rahmbamarama, where I learned that stecorem pro cerebro habes means "You Have Shit For Brains." XD
:: I found

nacho_cheese via

poor_skills. Yeah, I blog-hop. This is how I stay so behind for so long. Anyhow, check out the current first entry:
:: Fucking BRILLIANT: http://nacho-cheese.livejournal.com/364455.html
:: Well, it's way past my bedtime (I'm trying to reset my sleep schedule again), so until several hours from now, adieu. :)

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