It’s that time again, folks… NaBloPoMo is upon us. I managed to do it last year, and apparently I’m just a glutton for punishment, because I’m going to do it again this year.

Have I mentioned I was quoted on Blogtations? Have I also mentioned September’s Blogtations Award? Just in case I forgot, today is the last day to vote for me for September’s Blogtations Award. Have I also mentioned how remarkably lovely you’re all looking today? Really, you’re just fantastic.

I made a new animated header up there. Whadahya think?

I’ve been kicking this idea around in my brain for awhile, so I thought I’d just throw it out on the stoop and see if the cat licks it up.

What do you think of Signing Saturday?

Would you be interested in reading about American Sign Language?

Cool? Lame? Hawsum? Interesting? Boring?

What if I told you to say it in your head like an announcer for Monster Trucks? Like… “signing Signing SIGNING saturday Saturday SATURDAY!!!”

How about I just dive right in, and you let me know? Okfine.

The best place to dive into learning American Sign Language is where learning ANY language (Yes, it’s a language; that’s another lesson for another day.) and that would be your ABCs and 123s!

Grab a signing buddy to learn with you. This helps you to learn a lot easier. Plus, you each have a personal cheering section to encourage you; bonus plan, baby!

This is going to get a little graphic intense so I’m gonna cut here for the feed reader peoples. Click over for some pages I made you with the ABCs and 123s on them, some flashcards, and a little bit about Deaf culture and probably waaay more than you really wanted to know about me and my hearing loss. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m getting so tired of the political emails flying around with Lies and Opinions dressed for the Halloween party as Facts. I’m going to make an inbox rule: all emails with either “McCain” or “Obama” in them will go directly to a folder named “Shuddup and Bite Me.”

Seriously, how can anyone at this stage in the game send an email that accuses Obama of being a no-birth-certificate-havin’ Muslim baby-killer? *cringes at the search engine traffic that will surely ensue*

HunkyDory tries to keep things light, yet indulges in serious conversation, too.

Dory: 10:49  http://bluechristian.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-i-am-voting-for-barack-obama.html
Hunky: 5:19  Where you is Woman?!
Dory: 5:19  (Autoreply) Out and about running errands… might be driving; might not… IM me to see
Hunky: 6:32  i need this:  http://www.penisreductionpills.com/
Dory: 6:33  *orders right away* finally, an answer to our prayers for more comfortable instances of marital union
Hunky: 6:43 I am pro-life, and will always be pro-life. But I refuse to be held captive by mis-definitions which hold “pro-life” to be merely the protection of the unborn. Community — loving one’s neighbor — is in the Christian sense something that has no boundaries. I am responsible for my neighbor, whomever that neighbor may be. And while I will not say “a Christian cannot vote for Candidate X”, I will say that to fail to think through some of these issues very, very carefully before repeating as biblical the boilerplate of Carl Rove / John McBush is singularly non-discerning. And I think that I, too, have the Spirit of God.~ Jon
Hunky: 6:43  Jon Trotter
Hunky: 6:43  I like that definition
Dory: 6:43  very eloquent
Hunky: 6:44  Meanwhile, the Supreme Court since 1980 (when the Repubs took over and — except for the Clinton era — kept the White House, has not made any significant change to Roe v. Wade.
Further, if Roe were “flipped,” what we’d have then is a state by state ruling on abortion. Likely outcome, not radically different than what we have now, except for a few states whom would outlaw it.
Further yet, the term “Pro-life” is one which only has staying power if as a culture we make as extravagant an effort on behalf of born children and their single mothers as we’re making for the unborn children. Republicans are astonishingly obtuse on this point, as are many Evangelicals. “Don’t use my tax money to help that mother financially!” Oh, but do make sure she has the baby, despite having no support structure around her to even care for herself, much less raise the child? Hypocrisy.
Hunky: 6:44  That came before
Hunky: 6:47  That’s not what Republicans believe and as the Republicans go, so goes the Christian Right
Dory: 6:48  “Christian” and “Democrat” are not mutually exclusive, as much as the church would like them to be.
Hunky: 6:55  Actually it might be as much as the Republicans might like them to be mutually exclusive.

My name is Dory, and I approve this IM.

I welcome your comments; heck, sometimes I beg for your comments. But if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all. Don’t be a jackass, please.

Don’t be that guy.

Nobody likes that guy.

In case you hadn’t noticed, I have some lovely blog bling over there so’s I can brag on being quoted by Blogtations. Practice your mad voting skillz by voting for me for September’s Blogtations Award!

If you vote for me, all of your wildest dreams will come true.

City Girl put this up and then through the magic of The Innernets, I kissed her full on the mouth from across the country. Hunky and I have made it through the middle of the 7th season and then we started over again to uncharacteristically practice delayed gratification. City Girl, Brandy, and me need to get together for a West Wing slumber party. Oh, there would be wobbly pop, you bet yer ass there would. And Hunky says he would be hiding in the closet with a digital camcorder.