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Naebody in Particular

You won't find them on a shortbread tin, but our ancestors live on so long as we keep telling their stories. Scots, Yanks, Canucks and the Auld Enemy. Newest posts are the ancestors, but scroll for the living.

  • live: oscars

    we’re live at the oscars, or at least on my couch in front of a really big tv that’s playing the oscars. it’s just like being there, i swear.

    3 Mar 14 … oy, the poor PA’s that had to find and stage all those typewriters. #Oscars2014
    3 Mar 14 … someday I will grow up and won’t be horribly uncomfortable during acceptance speeches. #Oscars2014
    3 Mar 14 … I honestly wasn’t sure that was Idina Menzel based on how badly Travolta butchered her name. #wtf #Oscars2014
    3 Mar 14 … interesting that they found four celebrities to clap at the end of Bette Midler’s song. #humanitarianaward #Oscars2014
    3 Mar 14 … I’m going to punch my TV. #Oscars2014
    3 Mar 14 … OH GOD PLEASE TELL ME BETTE MIDLER IS NOT ACTUALLY HAPPENING. #Oscars #Oscars2014
    3 Mar 14 … pretty sure that’s the only time you’ll ever hear a Bill Pullman line at the #Oscars. #pullmannotpaxton
    3 Mar 14 … not going to snark on Pink’s performance, but want to meet whoever had the balls to select her over, well, everybody else. #Oscars
    3 Mar 14 … did the Academy actually pay someone to design a building that looks like Tom Cruise’s spaceship crashed into my college dorm? #oscars
    3 Mar 14 … somebody explain to me why watching Ellen deliver pizza was so $&@?ing funny. #Oscars
    3 Mar 14 … pretty sure Ellen just broke twitter. #Oscars
    3 Mar 14 … yup, every nominated movie I’ve seen is in the animated category. thank you, #sparklet. #Oscars
    3 Mar 14 … the #olympics just weren’t the same without @SamuelLJackson. #oscars
    3 Mar 14 … and, My So Called Life finally gets the recognition it deserves. #Oscars
    3 Mar 14 … when did navy blue tuxedos become okay? #oscars #stevemartinwouldbeproud
    3 Mar 14 … Bill Murray is starting to look like one of his characters from Scrooged. #oscars
    3 Mar 14 … if I was married to Julia Roberts, I wouldn’t have let her forget to wear underwear to the #oscars.
    3 Mar 14 … I’ve seen exactly zero of the best picture nominees, but I promise to still be indignant when [insert trendy movie] doesn’t win. #oscars
  • gifts

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    sparklet and I had a father/daughter date today at the Natural History museum and, when the day was wrapping up, she announced she wanted to bring home a present for Mommy and the Mighty Quinn.

    and, amazingly enough, it wasn’t a front for something else — she actually picked out presents that they would like, and didn’t ask for anything herself.

    my little baby is all growed up.