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in times new  roman in microsoft word, a regular asterisk is bolder than a bolded one.

cute

the phrase "cute as a bug" is cute as a bug.

phone

if they'd had cell phones when i was growing up [and if i'd had one as a kid], life would have been far easier for me in those long periods of standing around mortified that i had no one to talk to.

kansas city

whenever someone says kansas city, I want to ask them, "kansas or missouri?" because i know all about there being a kansas city, kansas, and a kansas city, missouri, and how they're right there touching each other on the map, and i want people to think i'm smart for knowing this.

sad wake-up

when you dream you've just landed an agent (a dream so vivid you have one of those moments where the dream-you thinks to herself, this is so great, i'm glad it's not a dream), the one thing that should give it away, beyond the fact that the agent has sent you a sheaf of pages praising each and every one of your chapters, is the fact he's also sent you a pile of forks and tiny spoons.

rubberyummy

when your dog likes to go into your closet and pull out one of your shoes and then pull out of your shoe the rubbery inside part, the part that i think is called the insole, and chew on it, and when you then find that insole [or most of it] lying on the rug and shove it back into your shoe and then walk around all day with one of your insoles stuck in your shoe upside down, so the heel part is where your toes are and the toe part is where your heels are, it doesn't feel any different.

hmmmm

it's hard to hum the theme to metropolis.

beep

most people's debit card pin numbers, when entered, sound like shave and a haircut.

pocket

if you put a doggy poop bag in your pocket every time you go out to walk him and you don't take it back out if he doesn't use it because you're afraid one of these days you'll be caught without a poop bag, you will end up with a pocket full of poop bags.

chirp

Chickadees sound like jawas.

snow

Frozen fog is not snow but makes the world look enough like it's covered with snow to make me happy.

One of the most attractive things about Joan Crawford to me is the tiny spaces of shadow at the corners of her mouth when she talks.

[hard to find a picture of. this was close...]

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Mandarin oranges are the cocktail weenies of fruit.

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I live in the northwest of a city that is in the northwest of a state that is in the [pacific] northwest of a country.

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i really like the word slippery.

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My Facebook friends list contains nine last names that are adjectives.

Little
Strong
Jolly
Sweet
Urban
Rich
Ace*
White
Freed

*ace as in "ace reporter."

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After the Rapture, Powells' Red Room is going to lose some sales since there will be plenty of Bibles out there lying around with no owners.

Come to think of it, I wouldn't want to be a door-to-door Bible salesman, come Sunday.

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I have more fashion sense than the guy I saw today with his jeans hanging down to about his knees, with a belt on (do those low-hanging pant dudes wear belts?) - and with a pair of white underwear hanging out of the back pocket.

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The scent of the shampoo in the peach-colored container is: Lady Trying to Use Perfume to Cover Up Cigarette Smoke.

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I am a highly suggestible person - witness this blog which I created on impulse because a friend told me to.