31 days ago by Laurel

My original plan for an artsy farting for today was thwarted, so, instead you get this lovely picture of an amigurumi jellyfish that I handcrafted, all on my lonesome, on a dark and stormy night, with no defense against the predators and fiendish elements of the darkness… Tis truly a cute jellyfish, ...

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48 days ago by Jenn

This story has been waiting a long time to be written. Lurking, wanting it’s turn. It’s a tragic and even macabre tale. Not one I like to readily recall. The memories have slowly started to fade, but certain smells will bringing them rushing back, vivid and raw. Most horror stories start with “It wa ...

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56 days ago by cartoongoddess

So what are you doing tonight? Tagged: dark and stormy night, friday, local fun, rain

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63 days ago by staff

Since 1982 the English Department at San Jose State University has sponsored the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest,named for the british novelist Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton. Bulwer-Lytton is known for the famous phrase “It was a dark and stormy night.” A whimsical literary competition the ...

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74 days ago by Richard

~ ~ ~ I just came across an advertisement for this, and it looks to be right up my alley (as they say). Those of us who love to read may find it irresistible, though I have only seen this ad so I can’t vouch for the quality or how well the game plays. Here’s the text [...]

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74 days ago by JM Vergara

Yes we must be eager and zealous for the sake of helping those who have dead, and those who are dying, those who have so much losses, those drowned in pain. But may it never be that we do so at the cost of the Gospel. Related Posts Satisfied with Heaven even if Christ Were Not There Count Your Life ...

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107 days ago by E. Ann Bardawill

Ja's Bar - Smack and Mirror's J.A.’s bar is absurdly quiet these days. Jamie’s at the bar signing a copy of Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet for me and we make up 50% of the customers. Dana sits in a back corner, desperately looking in her purse for a digital camera cord, muttering rude words ...

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121 days ago by Vladimir

Our recent Zipcar electrical failure trilogy reminded us of a request from Consumer Reports Cars last week. For the November issue, they’re looking for your stories of car battery failure, epic and otherwise. Do you have one to share? They’re particularly looking for stories about battery failures i ...

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127 days ago by Lou Hoffman

Technology Review claims to be the oldest technology magazine in the world, going back to 1899. Coming out of MIT, there’s a certain cachet to the publication as it strives to educate us mortals on emerging technologies. Not exactly considered the magazine for hammock reading during a lemonade summe ...

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137 days ago by Sugeng Kurniawan

Google stopped counting, or at least publicly displaying, the number of pages it indexed in September of 05, after a school-yard “measuring contest” with rival Yahoo. That count topped out around 8 billion pages before it was removed from the homepage. News broke recently through various SEO forums ...

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