http://okaycity.com Fri, 16 May 2008 19:05:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://okaycity.com/2008/05/16/okay-we-get-it/ Sorry to inundate you with videos, but this one's too good not to share: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICf7MaXyKs] Video by Al Ridenour. http://okaycity.com/2008/05/15/our-children-are-in-great-danger/ Sweet Jesus, Keith Olbermann is my hero. This in reponse to Dubya's ludicrous (and, frankly, insulting) claim to have given up his golf game in solidarity with families of Iraq vets. (Which, it turns out, he didn't.) This video is in two parts: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr8nrRZOpXw&eurl=http://www.youtube.com/user/cmdrgmh] [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrDnpYDQauw&eurl=http://www.youtube.com/user/cmdrgmh] http://okaycity.com/2008/05/15/shut-the-hell-up/ When I was a kid we used to pull the stamens out of these and suck on them. Anybody else used to do that? http://okaycity.com/2008/05/15/mmm/ http://okaycity.com/2008/05/14/a-daily-occurrence-this-time-of-year/ I've been reading dooce for almost four years now. When I first discovered Heather Armstrong's blog I'd already pitched a couple attempts at blogging onto the internet and found myself stymied, not only by the general malaise that tends to come with blogging over a long period of time, but ... http://okaycity.com/2008/05/13/things-i-learned-about-my-dad-in-therapy-edited-by-heather-armstrong/ The original version of this can be found over at Comics Curmudgeon; taking a look at it might prove illuminating. http://okaycity.com/2008/05/13/wherein-i-try-my-hand-at-comics-remixing/ Two website-related little things: 1) I don't know if you guys are reading the Weekly Links there off to the side. I hope you are; they're really fantastic things. Sometimes, when I really like a certain crop of links, I'll leave them up for TWO weeks just to make sure you've ... http://okaycity.com/2008/05/12/metapost/ Helena has tagged me. I'd like to be all cool and say that I hate memes - and really, I do, the idea of them. But dammit, they're fun and Helena's so cool that I was kinda giddy to be tagged by her. Helena herself posted, before tagging me, about the ... http://okaycity.com/2008/05/12/things-you-can-bring-up-in-conversation-should-ever-we-meet/ Every year I'm convinced that my hydrangeas aren't going to come back up, that THIS is the year they stay dead because of my negligent and unflinchingly bad care, but every year they're back. http://okaycity.com/2008/05/12/thats-three-years-ive-gone-without-killing-them/