danalaina

after what feels like forever, things are kinda moving again.  i'll be moving out of Southern California soon.  going to do some time in Chicago, i think, and then hopefully off to the Pacific Northwest.  the climate on the coast there is probably the best i can hope for.

go vote, people - if for no other reason than what could happen to our Supreme Court when justices retire.  otherwise, live, love, enjoy.  you can be sure i'll be doing my best to do the same.

d~

i'm not interested in the last words.

i'm interested in the best words.

the OWS movement is trucking right along.  whatever their goal(s), they're clearly making some folks nervous.  incidents in Oakland, at UC Davis, at Berkeley, in NYC several times now.

the police and local governments seem to be trying pretty hard to keep a handle on things, both to contain the protests and to restrain overzealous cops on the scene.  the longer things go, though, the likelier it seems that it's gonna get uglier.

i dunno where the Occupy movement is going, but if winter doesn't freeze it out, then i expect it's going to take something big to shut it down.

please know, mjranum, that i had nothing to do with this being posted outside of DA.  i've asked for the guy to attribute the image or to take down the video.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEKgjM…

well, nothing you people should care much about, anyhow.  my blood pressure was 160/100 recently...that's news.  and i suspect that it's not going to drop much in this political climate.  every other day i'm fuming about something ridiculous in D.C.

southern California might be starting to slide into winter...ish.  that's nice.  it was a pretty hot summer.  the day star burns us.

i haven't really had the urge to fiddle much with pictures or paint recently.  but i'm doing a whole lot of cooking these days...i think that's where my creative juice is going.  that's about all i have patience/concentration for at the moment.  i have NO idea what i'm doing for Thanksgiving, though.  i'm oddly stressed about that.

oh, if you like the fantasy genre (the  dragons and magic type, not the bow-chicka-bow-wow stuff), check out an author named Patrick Rothfuss.  he's got the first two books of what i assume is a trilogy out, and they're really good.  even though i love it, the snob in me generally considers fantasy to be fast-food fiction - light weight, generally unfit for critical treatment.  i'm not saying he's Shakespeare, but Rothfuss is definitely a cut above the norm.

(a note for me for later - remember to look up John Hodgman's book(s).)

and this link is my current giggle.  "Jackpot, fishypoopypants," gets me every time.  enjoy.  

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFB6LQ…