random babble…

Randomly (natch) The Guy asked me after dinner if he could do a regular segment here at Random Babble.  I am always looking for new good material and fun co-Babblers, and I think regular segments are a fun thing to have on blogs (b/c I have OCD and like things orderly).  It was so unsolicited and cool sounding, and right up my nerd alley that I couldn’t resist.  The Guy has achieved notoriety here, so I will let him introduce himself to you all as he sees fit.  You should see his first post tomorrow.  Perhaps I can persuade him to do other things occasionally and maybe we can provoke him into conversation sometime.

He is a master of all things gamer-dork related, and he has fully embraced his inner nerd.  I will state for the record, however, that he is SO not the DM of me!

So, w/o further ado…

ahh…John Cleese.  He is so funny when he goes crazy.

Those of you w/ kids, how long do you keep stuff?

The Kid brought home a ton of great artwork and schoolwork. I am really very proud of her, and it is exciting to see how she has improved over the months. I really very much for some reason am inclined to keep it all forever! The practical me says that we don’t have that kind of space, and WTP am I going to do w/ all of this accumulated work over the years?

So, Readerland, how long do you keep your kids’ stuff? Do you have any solutions? For now, I am photographing some of it, and have put some of it up at BaCaW in a Photobucket slideshow, but that is not a permanent answer.

I mean, how can I part w/ all of this?

Gimme whatcha got!

And might I recommend this week checking out this post by Ojibway Migisi Bineshii which sums ups my own feelings on blood quantums.

Have a great day, readerland!

From my favorite episode of Friends.  This just made me laugh so hard I almost peed.

Every.  Time.

This one is for Tobes.  Actually, it’s for all of us.

I am one of those totally dorky people who becomes so invested in a TV show character that she has spent years watching grow that she will cry at certain moments in that show.  This scene in the final episode of BtVS made me blub.  Completely and totally w/ snot pouring down my face blub.

To me it says a lot more than a bunch of girls getting supernatural powers.  It is a message that speaks beyond the pop culture and right to the heart of all women everywhere.

To you who think that Whedon isn’t a feminist, you have missed the fucking mark.  You have not been paying attention.  It’s called seeing past the pop culture and using your brain and seeing what the fuck he is trying to accomplish.  Joss Whedon gave us the first true female heroine on television in pop culture.  I know we had Wonder Woman, the bionic woman and such…but Buffy was the first girl who was like us.  Whedon gave us this girl, this person who looked like us and gave her the ability to not only not lay down and cry waiting to be rescued but to kick a little ass and do the rescuing herself.  Regardless of what SMG might say off camera, Buffy is a feminist icon.  She was just a girl, and a force to be reckoned w/.

Ever since his work on Roseanne, Whedon has been creating women who stepped outside of what was expected and perceived.  They were mouthy, they were sometimes crass and obnoxious.  They were sexual beings in charge of their own lives (once they figured out how to get there).  They were beautifully flawed and yet perfectly admirable.  

So, w/o further ado, I give you my favorite blubworthy Buffy moment.

Here’s to the Slayer in all of us.

(Cross Posted)

I have been meaning to do this for a while.  I cook a lot in my spare time…and try to find simple things to throw together when I have time.

Tonight it was vegetable pizza.

2 cans refrigerator crescent rolls or your favorite crust, baked and cooled (this will make two small or one larger pizza).

1 lb cream cheese, softened

1 cup sour cream

either 1 pkg hidden valley ranch seasoning mix, or roasted garlic powder and dill to taste, whichever you prefer (i always just throw in whatever until i like it)

various chopped vegetables, including but not limited to cucumbers, tomatoes (seeded…b/c otherwise ewww), broccoli.  I also use shredded carrots in lieu of shredded cheese, or you can actually use cheese.  tonight i used minced green onions.

mix the cream cheese, sour cream and seasoning together until smooth.  spread over crust, and sprinkle w/ lots of veggies.

Enjoy!

This is in my collection of things to take for potlucks or other bring your own dish gatherings.

Joss Whedon is NOT a male white supremacist.  

If you think so you do not know what the poop you are talking about.  Try seeing past your misandry and using common sense b/f you spew bile all over the interwebs.

And certainly, b/f you think to try…do not bring it here.  Slander will not be tolerated.  Just ask the guy who tried to talk about the Dalai Lama here.

So many things I could say about this.

In some ways, it’s funny b/c it hits a little too close to home.  If I don’t laugh…

I just cleared two comments from my spam filter in Russian.  Now, I really have no way of knowing if it is in fact spam and not an actual comment, since I get several hits a day from Russia, but since I neither read nor have a translator for Russian, I have no choice.

What is some of the best spam you have filtered?  And does anyone else seem to notice their spam comes in cycles, IE, all viagara sites one day, porn the next, online poker the next…just curious.

As an off topic aside I think I am going to start a “you googled what to find me?” weekly post.  Some of them are just too great.