The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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I was just teasing Gromit, Lemon.... no worries!

I am rather envious of anyone who can ride a bike from place to place rather than taking a car. The weather here doesn't allow for it. Unless Gromit can invent a bicycle that can be used in 80 km/h winds and -20C temperatures, of course!!

I still say that octopi must be scarier than sharks. Think about it - what Elder God has ever driven men insane merely by having them look upon his shark head?

I get smarter every time you post, Deacon! There's always research involved on my part.
I swear I'm developing a question mark shaped wrinkle in my forehead!

These sorts:

Don't need to. It's been done.

Leitra (Old style. The new one is sexier.)


go-one
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Or look up the Twike at http://cargocycling.org/commuting. The twike site itself seems to be only in German: http://www.twike.com


The streamlined body is only necessary for the wind. The temperature is no problem without. Wooly mittens with a windproof shell solve the biggest problem.

Ah, NOW I get it. I hate it when literary references are lost on me.

Halloween at last! Now I have an excuse for posting this in here......
Nothing makes as great a side dish as "corny on the macabre".

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Alu "Lobotomy Sessions" CD Release Party. "Circus Cosmos" Live Performance. Copyright Alu Music 2008.

"Circus Cosmos" (Music and Lyrics by Alu)
© 2008 ALU Music

I saw you in my bedroom again last night
croaking on a toadstool with your bagpipe.
I saw you in the corner sipping Singapore Slings
with the lizards and dragons and fairy-tale kings.

"Welcome to Small Town," she says to me.
"We've got endangered species and absinthe dreams."
The flowerbeds are blooming on my windowsill.
Bombs keep falling. The army's dressed to kill.

You are the photograph I've never seen.
You are my phantom, the fountain of dreams.
I've been living in a mortuary my whole life long.

There's a vampire in the closet smiling at me.
He casts spells with chocolate and coconut cream.
The rabbit hole is waiting outside my cave.
My tightrope is burning. We must be saved.

You are the photograph I've never seen.
You are my phantom, the fountain of dreams.
I've been living in a mortuary my whole life long, my whole life long.

And if I could, I'd film my dreams
and show you what's inside.
We'd watch them on the silver screen
and you would run and hide.

And if I could, I'd chop up my brain
and show you what's in there.
We'd fly her on a big jet plane
in a box that says "Handle with Care.
First Class for Major Repairs"

You are the photograph I've never seen.
You are my phantom, the fountain of dreams.
I've been living in a mortuary my whole life long, my whole life long, my whole life long, my whole life long.

© 2008 ALU Music

girl meets monster at mall after online chat is funnier than hell.

unfortunately, my daughter had a friend who met a monster she met at the mall after chatting online and ended up in a suitcase in the bottom of a landfull under 20 feet of compacted trash, after having been beaten and strangled to death. funny only goes so far.

I'd forgotten about that, Nan... that message is there.

On a cheerier note, my livingroom and den are occupied by the kid (in a full kimono she got via ebay) several pirates, a gypsy, and what I think might be a stripper. Kid worried about the menu for her party all week. We went to "the good stores" to get really good ingredients to make fresh bruschetta (a nice batch of roma tomatos from the organic place and an excellent smoked mozzarella); basil, red dragon welsh cheese and English bacon quiche; finger sandwiches of spiced turkey and baby swiss on 8 grain bread, cut into little coffins; "bleeding tombstones" (little tarts shaped like gravestones and filled with rasberry jam and served with whipped heavy cream; and, shortbread cookies with orange icing with sprinkles on it. To drink she has cinnamon spiced lemon/lime/orange punch. Except for the cookies, I spent all morning in the kitchen and am now safely banished to my bedroom in the back of the house. The poor old blind cat was dutifully dressed up in a lobster suit and was included in the group photos I took of all of them. He is also now hiding in the back bedroom with me.

It sound like it's going well, but it was supposed to start at 2:00pm and that's when the mini-quiches were ready. Most of the group showed up about 45 minutes late, and I expect the quiches are like rubber, but they seem to be eating them anyway.

By the time that breaks up the trick-or-treaters should start arriving. I wonder if we'll get many? A couple of years ago we had so many we ran out of candy. Last year I think we had two or three only.

Better go remind the kid that her fudge is in the fridge and ready to cut now. Hope you guyz is having a good Halloween. If in the USA, don't forget to set the clocks back an hour tonight.

It would be simpler if you could recognize monsters by looking at what the outside of the head looks like.


I am not sure I should ask, but why is there ambiguity about the last one?


I've never lived in a country where Halloween was an event. What is the attraction?

Cute costumes on kids, the opportunity to dress up any way you want without anyone being allowed to make fun of you for it (on the TV series Beauty and the Beast, Vincent loved Halloween because it was the one day per year that he could walk Above and get compliments, not fear), and of course candy!! !

I like the day after Halloween, because all the Halloween-specific candy that didn't sell in time goes on special...

you obviously haven't seen what most of the teenage girls and young women are wearing as costumes. or maybe it's SoCal.... where they can pass for street clothes.

Oh no, It's not just SoCal..... It was 6C here with winds gusting to 70km and there were teen girls and young women wearing next to nothing! I think it has more to do with brain cells than location.