As you may or may not have noticed, two days ago I installed a new photo gallery (coppermine). You can get to it the same way you got to the images before, by clicking on the "Images" link to the left. I'll be adding captions to all of the pictures over the next few weeks, hopefully an album or two a week. When I finish, I'll add some other pictures I've had lurking around my computer as well.
On another note, I'm considering installing a message board to the site, mostly just to see how it works. It would allow anyone who registered (by submitting an email address and creating a password) to post whatever they wanted and for discussions to continue without my prompting. Basically, it would let the inmates run the asylum. It's something I'm in favor of (asylums), but I am interested in whether or not it would be used.
Thus, please comment here or email me with your thoughts or wishes in regards to this. I've noticed the daily hits to this site have been increasing over the past few months and I want to encourage this.
For those of you who checked out the comments from the last post, you see how I have mutant genes. My sister, Deirdre, has two different length legs. For those of you who are confused about that last statement, let me explain it for you.
It's really, really funny.
Yeah, two different length legs is hilarious, especially when it isn't happening to you. I am only cursed with sweet hernia goodness, so I guess I came out okay. Well, if you consider that I slipped earlier today, causing me to fall into a mini-split that felt like it ripped every muscle in my lower abdomen, then maybe the hernia thing ain't that great.
Although it may look like only DD and Allison would actually post to the board, I may install it anyway just to see how it goes. In the fun world of radio, unemployment is always around the corner, so it's good to have other marketable skills.
Speaking of which, feel free to check out my girlfriend's unfinished site, AmberKMiller.com. She claims it's bad now, but will get better. Where have I heard that before?
Apparently, it's high Irish Times here. Two Deirdres and two Chris Boylans.
If you check out the comments from the previous post, you'll see that "Big" Deirdre stopped by and left a message. It is somehwat uncommon to have the name Deirdre. (With the "R". I believe, the other spelling, Deidre, is more common.) I think it is downright rare to have two Deirdres on the same street, necessitating that the older one be reffered to as "Big".
Add to that, I got an email from a third Chris Boylan. You may remember the first email from earlier. I'll post it and hopefully the reply tomorrow. To keep up with the whole Irish thing, he is from Ireland. Apparently there are not many Boylans over there, so he got extremely excited.
I usually don't put up two posts in an evening, allowing them to properly breathe. However, I forgot about this earlier and it needs it's own time.
Have you seen the promos for the putrid piece of filth that is the "Jessica Lynch Story"?
NBC figures, let's quickly set up a pointless and more importantly factless movie, fill it with jingoistic nonsense, and foist it on a public that we have so successfully made mindless over the past fifty years that they will eat it up with a spoon.
The worst part is that she didn't even need to be rescued!!!
As USA Today reports, she was being taken care of in an Iraqi hospital by people she got along with. They had tried to return her to the military, but their ambulance was shot at. When the commandos stormed the hospital, they were offerred a master key so that they would not have to break down all the doors, destroying facilities that are desperately needed in the rundown country.
They refused the key.
Add this to the fact she now suffers from "amnesia" (a chrage her father denies!), so she conveniently cannot deny the story that she was held captive and heroically rescued.
Want some more? How about the reason she was injured was not her barbaric captors, but rather a Humvee accident. You can read more about her heroism at United Justice. Now, i take no responsibility for this site as I just found it tonight, but the links are interesting.
One last good one. The black female soldier captured at the same time as Jessica and released 11 days later is fighting to get medical disability from the Army. While Jessica got a full 80%, Shoshana Johnson can't get more than 30% for her injuries - and she has no book deal. The were captured because of the same mistake, but obviously, Jessica needs more money to heal the wounds.
P.S. Recently, Jessica was unable to meet with the Iraqi who helped save her, because she was too busy preparing for her book's release. She will split a million dollar advance with the ghostwriter.
I hate the media.
