Victory Soap v. 2.0 tag:victorysoap.us,2009:/blog//1 2009-10-06T18:45:04Z Not safe for work Movable Type 3.34 Th-the-the-the-the-that's all folks! tag:victorysoap.us,2008:/blog//1.625 2008-01-02T04:55:40Z 2009-10-06T18:45:04Z Update, October 6, 2009: Hi there! This is just a little announcement for anyone who has wandered over here and is confused as to why there is no new content. I closed this blog on December 31, 2007, and opened... Update, October 6, 2009: Hi there! This is just a little announcement for anyone who has wandered over here and is confused as to why there is no new content. I closed this blog on December 31, 2007, and opened a new one for 2008. See the original post content below. But if you want my latest web ramblings, please go to the main page for all the links to all my sites, or head straight over to my current blog, The Spleenville HQ Chronicles. What does this mean in the great scheme of things? Well, for one thing, it means NO, I DON'T WANT TO ADD ANY ADVERTISEMENTS TO THIS SITE. (Yes, I periodically get spammed from my old sites for this purpose. Stop it. It is irritating, and is not making your business any more attractive.) Now everyone, change your links to either http://spleenville.com/ for the main site, or http://spleenville.com/v2/ for just the blog. ********** Okay, finally -- this blog is closed, hi on over to the new Twisted Spinster. Yep, I'm back, though no clever domain name this time. Unless I get creative. Excuse the lame look of the new blog, I've had too much to drink and don't feel like fiddling with it tonight. Later...]]> Happy New *&$#'kin' Year tag:victorysoap.us,2008:/blog//1.624 2008-01-01T19:31:07Z 2008-01-01T20:41:45Z Yeah I'm stuck here. I'm trying to upload and install Movable Type 4.0, and it's just not working. I might as well go back to Wordpress. New blog coming up -- someday. Update: well, I tried to install Wordpress, and... Yeah I'm stuck here. I'm trying to upload and install Movable Type 4.0, and it's just not working. I might as well go back to Wordpress. New blog coming up -- someday. Update: well, I tried to install Wordpress, and got some "can't read your database" error. I don't know what I did, so I sent a support ticket to my hosting folks. They're probably off today, of course. Maybe I'll just stay right here. But I wanna fresh new blog, waaaaah.... Site update delays tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.623 2007-12-31T18:08:38Z 2007-12-31T18:11:35Z As you all (all five of you who still read my site, anyway) probably know, every year I close the current blog and open a new one. Well. I've been kind of lazy this year, so if you don't get... As you all (all five of you who still read my site, anyway) probably know, every year I close the current blog and open a new one. Well. I've been kind of lazy this year, so if you don't get a brand new blog to read tomorrow it's because I got tired of uploading approximately five million blog installation files one by one (CuteFTP sux BTW) to my site and went to bed, or passed out on the couch from excess Andre champagne consumption, whichever comes first. Also I never did figure out a new domain name so now I'm thinking of getting around to doing so, but it will take a couple of days to propagate... Where is that bottle? Observation on those "heartwarming" family movies on the Hallmark channel tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.622 2007-12-31T04:15:46Z 2007-12-31T04:16:44Z Notice how all the characters in these movies are 1) blond, and 2) all wear denim jackets? Even Santa Claus. I swear this is true.... all the characters in these movies are 1) blond, and 2) all wear denim jackets? Even Santa Claus. I swear this is true.]]> The Internet is officially dead tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.621 2007-12-29T05:01:35Z 2007-12-29T05:05:15Z I just saw a commercial for the Television Without Pity website on the Fox Reality channel.... Television Without Pity website on the Fox Reality channel.]]> Revenge is best served warm tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.620 2007-12-28T00:47:54Z 2007-12-28T00:55:19Z More superior nuanced humanity from the so-called "liberal" side of the brain pan as this... person finds a silver lining to the manufactured global warming "crisis": at least all those parts of the country that are full of rightwingers will... silver lining to the manufactured global warming "crisis": at least all those parts of the country that are full of rightwingers will get flooded. Just in time for Christmas, visions of drowned or displaced and homeless red-staters dance in the heads of progressives... That'll teach 'em to vote for Republicans! (Via Instapundit.) ]]> After Christmas Message tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.619 2007-12-26T20:55:47Z 2007-12-26T20:59:30Z Happy Boxing Day, folks. I didn't do much over Christmas, just lazed around. I'm with Kathy here -- I'm not going to be able to do a serious job search until after the holidays are over, the season sucks. In... Kathy here -- I'm not going to be able to do a serious job search until after the holidays are over, the season sucks. In the meantime, I hope everyone had a great Christmas and have a Happy New Year. Now if I could just get my brain working again, maybe I could post something interesting.]]> Entitlement City tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.618 2007-12-23T01:28:19Z 2007-12-23T03:06:20Z Not being a total electronics geek (I squint at my Doctor Who dvds on a teensy little 13-inch screen tv) I noticed the hardwood floors long before I realized that was a 60 incher in this poor, downtrodden woman's apartment.... Doctor Who dvds on a teensy little 13-inch screen tv) I noticed the hardwood floors long before I realized that was a 60 incher in this poor, downtrodden woman's apartment. I'd just like to say I wish I could afford a place with hardwood floors -- they jack up the price of apartments here at least $150 for that privilege, and you can only have declawed cats. (Note -- this is an update to the previous post.) (Via Kathy Shaidle.) ]]> Idiots write about morons tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.617 2007-12-21T00:45:48Z 2007-12-21T00:47:43Z My eagle eye spotted this little grammar mistake in yet another pity-stroking article about Katrina "victims" fucking up their lives: “What am I supposed to do — leave my daughter and my grandkids on the street?” said an emotional Priscilla... article about Katrina "victims" fucking up their lives:
“What am I supposed to do — leave my daughter and my grandkids on the street?” said an emotional Priscilla Mercadel, 57, whose eyes were red from sobbing last week.
Is it any wonder that the media is so easily taken in by nonsense that a normal person (that is, not a "journalist") wouldn't accept as gospel from a four year old, when they can't even use the English language correctly? "Sobbing" is something you do with your vocal chords. The sentence should have read "...whose eyes were red from weeping" or "... whose voice was hoarse from sobbing." This sort of thing crops up all over the place and it drives me crazy. (Via Kathy Shaidle.)]]> Dissatisfactions tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.616 2007-12-20T21:23:58Z 2007-12-20T23:28:26Z I had to leave the house and venture into a Walmart today. I don't want to talk about it. Anyway, I couldn't stand my own hair -- my head looked like a mop that had been soaked in rusty water... Goblet of Fire) from my Netflix queue I chose and was delivered of the second "bonus" dvd, which just has a bunch of crap on it (interviews, etc., I guess) that I don't care about. This means that I can't watch the fifth movie (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) which I also received in the same mailing, because I am anal retentive and despite the fact that I have read books one through six I know that if I watch the movies out of sequence the universe will collapse or something. So I have nothing to watch but dvds I already have, or television, until I get the fourth movie. The holiday season continues to suck.]]> Oh my God tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.615 2007-12-18T00:37:12Z 2007-12-18T00:37:12Z I'm not leaving my apartment until January 6th. It should be semi-safe by then.... leaving my apartment until January 6th. It should be semi-safe by then.]]> A wimp for all seasons tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.614 2007-12-17T20:28:49Z 2007-12-17T20:30:47Z I just found out I'm not the only person who hates that Louis Armstrong song "What A Wonderful World." Now here's a greater challenge: am I the only person in creation who can't stand that awful Dan Fogelberg song "Same... only person who hates that Louis Armstrong song "What A Wonderful World." Now here's a greater challenge: am I the only person in creation who can't stand that awful Dan Fogelberg song "Same Old Lang Syne," the one about stalking his ex-girlfriend? And that goes double for that "Leader of the Band" song, blech. If he hadn't just recently croaked I'd never have to think about that song again, since I don't listen to AOR (MOR -- whatever) radio, but the blogiverse has become inundated with sobbing Fogelberg fans who can't believe the Great Mushtunesmith has passed into the great beyond. Yeah, yeah, cancer sucks, but as most of us are going to die of it, unless a heart attack or stroke gets us, I don't see why writing treacly songs gets someone a special send-off. That's like giving my encoffined remains a parade because my X-Files/Doctor Who slash fiction became* a surprise bestseller in the 2040s. Okay okay. Cue hysterical male rebuttals: "It's about fathers and sons! And he wasn't stalking her, she was glad to see him!" Blah blah blah. (*Will have become? It has occurred to me that a civilization of time travelers should have at some point devised a special verb tense just to handle time-out-of-joint scenarios, and if therefore so how would the Tardis translate that into English? Discuss. God I'm bored.)]]> Stick a fork in it this year is done tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.613 2007-12-17T19:41:49Z 2007-12-17T19:43:23Z Now I just jammed a splinter into the index finger on the same hand whose middle finger I sliced yesterday. I'm not going to make it to New Year's Eve, I just know it.... Now I just jammed a splinter into the index finger on the same hand whose middle finger I sliced yesterday. I'm not going to make it to New Year's Eve, I just know it. Global cooling comes to Florida tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.612 2007-12-17T18:07:34Z 2007-12-17T18:10:37Z Quick! Form a committee in some remote land and fly everyone there. It's in the 50s outside and it's 66 degrees inside my apartment. I am wearing a jacket. I have become weak. And in other news -- Paris Hilton... Paris Hilton = Auton. Am I right or am I right? The gold paint can't disguise her plasticky evil!]]> Slice tag:victorysoap.us,2007:/blog//1.611 2007-12-17T01:32:31Z 2007-12-17T01:34:32Z There's nothing like nearly killing yourself by almost chopping off your finger and bleeding to death while preparing a healthy meal of salad and falafel. The reason more people don't eat more fresh fruits and vegetables? The deadly knives wait.... knives wait. I nearly passed out and had to lie down with my hand up in the air until I quit gushing blood. Also: you realize just how much you use your left middle finger to type when it's wrapped in a mile of bandaids.]]>