Sunday, December 21, 2003

Huh?  I see on Fark that minnesota may try deer contraception? Wouldn't that suck to be on a hike and get hit by an errant contraceptive dart? 8:05:04 PM    comment []

Tim will know I just took the two kids next door ( ages 11 and 13) on our now annual trip to the comic book store, where I buy them an armload of comics for Christmas.  On the ride over there, the older one asks me if it's true that you can smoke a dollar bill and get high because each dollar bill is 1% cocaine.  I said that I didn't think so.  I explained that they were talking about a story that supposedly all money has traces of cocaine stuck to it, but that "traces"  means a few molecules. "Then how many dollar bills would you have to smoke to get high?" I was like, "all of them" Then, " how about newspaper? does that have cocaine in it?"  I tried to explain that the idea was that so much of our cash flows through the hands of cocaine people that some of it gets on our money and that I didn't even know if that was true, that I had heard the rumor just like them. 7:49:03 PM    comment []

Otto Skorzeny death notice Another clipping from Time Magazine. Ex-nazis always had a friend in Franco, it seems. 4:32:30 PM    comment []

Mary is usually blue After the Atrium today, Maggie, Frank and I toured the various nativity scenes in the undercroft of the Basilica.  Maggie said, "There's Mary!" and turned to me and said, "she's usually blue"  and I looked around and it was true.  Just about every Mary was wearing something blue.  Turns out it signifies her purity.  I had no idea.  Kate volunteers as a teacher in the Atrium and I was exclaiming to another Atrium parent how neat it was that the kids are learning all this stuff that I never knew and she says, "Well, you know, Kate is a gifted teacher. "  4:27:22 PM    comment []