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So long, and thanks for all the fish...kind of...

it has been a good run, and a fun experiment, but the time has come to change things up. this will be the last post at thecarnage.blogspot.com. i am off to build a blog hosted on my webspace. web design and creation for me is something that happens in fits and spurts. from getting ninety percent of the new firefly site up and running in three days, to taking two weeks to get the damn quote engine working. so, while a new blog is coming, just as i never say i will post an entry on day x, i can't say when it will actually arrive. the tentative goal is sometime around the next rubble post. (he shoots, he scores) the blogspot posts will stay here if anyone wants to link to them or move them to a new blog/live journal/movable type install. now go read moralcalculus and functional, with flare. you'll be glad you did.

Das Dotzi

this is for you, faru. anyone who ever wanted to get suggestions for a baby's name by one of those name books knows that some of the weirdest, most stupid names are listed up there. for example "dotzi". trust me when i tell you that "dotzi" is not a decent name in germany, neither for a boy nor a girl. so it is not surprising that the last time i saw one of those name lists - almost 3 years ago when my friend, the incomparable faru, was pregnant - and found "dotzi" on it, there was only one possible article to go with it. das. "das" is the neutral german definite article ("der" is male, "die" is female). and even though the name dotzi never made it into the top 3 - in fact it didn't even make it into the top 100 - it kind of stuck in our heads and we tend to call the baby girl dotzi from time to time. everyone knows who "das dotzi" is and although the name is just too silly it somehow got a loving, caring undertone because das dotzi is simply awesome. i sometimes babysit her for a few hours, and i have been babysitting her in the afternoons last week which i love and works very well because she knows me since she was born - and she is in love with my boyfriend chris (whom she calls moh-de). faru and i have been watching "finding nemo" with her so often that everytime one of us says sharkbite she answers uh ah ah. but she of course also influenced our speaking. tee is tea, vorsicht became waussi, silke siih-ke, brötchen bröht-sen, arm aahm -- the list is almost endless. and das dotzi is so crazy about music (= siihk); the last time tom jones feat. stereophonics 'mama told me not to come' was played and the lyrics started: "put some whiskey in your water, sugar in your tea" she screamed "tiiih?" soon enough she will start speaking better and better (i already made her say "krokodil" properly, so she is now officially ready to watch steve irwin every sunday), and i will miss her siihk and waussi and all the other words she made sound so brand new. and tonight the little girl will stay with moh-de and the big girls will go out :o) you all have a great weekend.

Hmm

I'm not much for posting tests anymore... it's not that I mind when other folks do it, because usually it's something amusing, but for my own self, I usually have something to rant about that supersedes tests and suchlike. Song- Shinedown, 45. It's a song that plays a lot when I'm writing the June scenes. And I'm staring down the barrel of a 45, Swimming through the ashes of another life There is no real reason to accept the way things have changed Staring down the barrel of a 45 ----------------------------------- And this test, which came up just so perfectly I had to post it. How did they know I was a Viking?

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Lo! Who is that, skulking along the icy wasteland! It is Archer, hands clutching a meaty axe! He bellows thunderously: "By Odin's mighty spear, I hereby snap and go berzerk!!!"

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The Shock...The Horror...The four hour woody???

I agree with most of what you said on the nipple incident Josh. The uproar is yet another example of the complete and total lack of logic involved in situations like this. FCC poo-bah Mikey POWELL (how'd he get that gig ya think?) was outraged that his children saw it. Well what did ya think when they saw all the commercials for the woody drugs? That was somehow more appropriate? Nice touch with the football going through the tire by the way. Subtle... I am assuming that a fancy guy that is in charge of the FCC probably has children that can read. So did you have to explain to the little ones what a four hour erection was and why a person with one should consult their doctor? Anyone that is outraged by two seconds of a woman's nipple can feel free to just keep right on fucking off. Asshats. Oh, and for anyone wondering why I haven't been posting. My time has been spent doing this. As always, with the much appreciated help of Annie at The Rubble.