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Christmas Music in the New Tradition
Posted: Sat 13 Dec 2008 4:32 pm
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What’s Christmas in the 21st century without this gem?
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You Ain’t Just a-Quackin’, Duck
Posted: Sat 13 Dec 2008 11:19 am
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I’ve been thinking this for many, many years—at least about the Democrats. Unfortunately, the GOP has also gotten into the act, and that my friends is what’s causing its electoral implosion: alienating its base by trying to appeal to these bozos:
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Tinker, Tinker, Tinker…
Posted: Thu 11 Dec 2008 6:24 pm
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Well, as it happens, I am still tinkering with the website, still with the idea that it look a bit less like a blog. Yet I wanted to make the front page not so content-free, so I think I managed a halfway decent compromise. The gallery picture is smaller, but it also means I can use the thumbnail a slightly smaller image instead of a full-size one, so the page loads faster (you click the pic to access the gallery, or the caption to see that pic full size).
The whole thing still needs work, though.
Updated: Sat 13 Dec 2008 16:53
Satisfied with my changes (for now) I’ve implemented them on the live site.
My Current Writing Assignment
Posted: Wed 10 Dec 2008 12:12 am
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...which I keep procrastinating and am in danger of not getting done on time, is Christmas cards.
This would be the first time in a few years I’ll have sent any. If I ever manage to send any.
Updated: Thu 11 Dec 2008 18:34
Got one done. Cramped up my writing hand something fierce; been too long since I did a lot of longhand, I guess.
HODAR to SAR? (continued)
Posted: Mon 8 Dec 2008 10:28 pm
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Just met with the vice-president of the Marquis de Lafayette chapter of Sons of the American Revolution to sign my application for membership.
As it happens, five years ago a cousin in Colorado was admitted to Daughters of the American Revolution on a claim of descent from the same ancestor, who signed “William McGehie” on a document known as the “Albemarle Declaration” in 1779. Other signers of this document include Thomas Jefferson, who was one of William’s neighbors. Anyway, my latest common ancestor with this DAR applicant is my great great great grandfather, who is William McGehie’s grandson, so apparently that link was proven to DAR’s satisfaction and will presumably also satisfy SAR.
Years ago I traded correspondence with a cousin (actually my dad’s cousin, who knew him when he was a toddler) who had been trying to satisfy DAR of that line of descent and hadn’t been able to quite prove it. I think she managed to get in on the basis of another ancestor though.
Chris and her mother are both DARs with multiple qualifying ancestors, so you just know there will be efforts to add to my collection. I doubt I would have been as happy about getting in though, if the ancestor in question weren’t a McGehee.
I still haven’t done a damn thing about Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Maybe that’s because I live in Georgia, though I don’t think that ancestor—William McGehie’s great grandson—had anything to do with Gen. Sherman.
Thing is, I don’t think there are any SUVCW chapters around here…
Updated: Mon 8 Dec 2008 23:20
I was wrong, there are chapters in Georgia after all. I’ve sent an inquiry to someone who’s listed as being in Peachtree City. We’ll see.
Updated: Sat 20 Dec 2008 22:37
Just took inventory and I now have a total of 29 additional potential revolutionary ancestors—based on birth and death dates in the (quite possibly inaccurate) information I’ve compiled via Ancestry.com.
These include not only five-times-great grandparents like William McGehie, but also six- and seven-times great grandparents, going back to one born in 1688, as well as a handful of four-times-great grandparents (though one of those was born in 1772).
Admittedly, toddlers and octogenarians are unlikely prospects, and at least some of these may not even have been in the New World until after the Treaty of Paris ended the war. But for now let’s just say these are “persons of interest.“ And there are certainly more that I don’t yet have dates for—or even names.
I can begin to see how it is that one storied SAR member can have “over a hundred” qualifying ancestors. You get enough generations involved and anything’s possible.
AP Passes Along Marching Orders
Posted: Mon 8 Dec 2008 12:10 pm
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According to an AP headline, President-Elect Barack 0bama plans on smacking the economy upside the head if it improves without having first gotten worse.
At least, that’s the way I’m reading the headline…
Another Reason Why I Can’t Watch Even FOX News Anymore
Posted: Sun 7 Dec 2008 10:55 am
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People in TV journalism seem to be under the misapprehension that viewers look to them to be deep thinkers. Trust me, blondie—if you wanted anyone to respect your intellect, you should have stayed as far away from TV news as possible.
The fact is, my opinion of my fellow H. sapiens in general is at an all time low these days, and I’m starting to doubt letting just anybody read my fiction as I write it. I’ve begun to think about taking at least that content behind password protection. Since I moderate all registration requests I’d be able to limit access to future output that way.
Updated: Tue 9 Dec 2008 23:58
Done. Also, comment spam is rearing its 0bama-voting head again, so non-member comments will be (1) forced to use preview and (2) CAPTCHA, and (3) will then await my approval before being published.
New registrations have to be approved too, but if you make it through that gauntlet you don’t have to put up with the other crap.
More Christmas Music
Posted: Fri 5 Dec 2008 12:29 am
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Sorry about that other one, heh.
This one could do without the Thomas Kinkade visuals, but you can’t beat Dean Martin for the song.
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A Peek Behind the McGeheeZone.com Curtain
Posted: Thu 4 Dec 2008 12:19 pm
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There is a reason why I have virtually sworn off politics on this site, but it isn’t what some may conclude.
Lately I’ve been seeing some other bloggers, who shared my opinions about how the Nov. 4 election should have turned out, focusing on things like Barack 0bama’s birth certificate, or trying to answer proggs’ continued pushing of the “Imelda Palin” line because of how much the RNC allegedly spent on clothes for her during the fall campaign.
As far as 0bama is concerned, I am neither seeking to make nice with him, nor to pursue him like a pit bull, simply because it’s not up to me to decide when or whether he succeeds or fails. It’s on him now, and I say let him succeed or fail (with quiet confidence as to which it will be) on his own merits. Questions of presidential legitimacy are exactly what led the Left to its eight-year-long case of Bush Derangement Syndrome, so I say leave that shit alone. Barack 0bama will take office on Jan. 20, and will exercise the powers of that office thereafter for the next four years. Then it will be up to the voters to judge (1) whether he has delivered the Hope™ and Change™ he has promised, and (2) whether the Republican Party’s alternative candidate is any better.
You know what? I think (2) is of somewhat more importance to you and me than is (1). So, I’ll probably resume comment on politics at some point, but not right now. I just don’t have anything useful to say. (Except, you know, what I’m saying here. To my fellow bloggers.)
Let 0bama succeed or fail on his <sotto voce> puny, nonexistent </sotto voce> merits. People will be a lot more willing to listen to alternatives if they’re coming from people who haven’t been nagging them endlessly for four years about what a useless schmuck their new president is.
As for the proggs’ Palin Derangement Syndrome, why let that be The Narrative™ about her? We should talk instead, for example, about how much her campaign appearances in Georgia helped increase Saxby Chambliss’ margin of victory in the Dec. 2 runoff. Instead of answering the proggs’ accusations with counter-accusations, focus not on mythical negatives but actual positives.
Negative campaigning may work, but not in the absence of a counter-balancing campaign of positives.
Let’s Start the Christmas Music
Posted: Wed 3 Dec 2008 7:00 pm
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Up first, a snappy re-imagining of “The Carol of the Bells.“
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Updated Wed 17 Dec 2008 1:25 pm
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Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:54 pm
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Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:54 pm
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Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:53 pm
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From the LITTLE SPRINGS POST-RECORD: May 23, 1880
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:53 pm
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Dark Heart
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:53 pm
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An attempt in the sci-fi vein to further explore, among other things, the possibilities for nanotech integration—and not of the “gray goo” genre.
The Reluctant I
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:52 pm
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In this, the first of the exercises mentioned here, the challenge is to write a 600-word story from the first-person point of view, but severely limiting the use of the first-person pronoun. The “I” nevertheless has to be important to the story.
Inorganism
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:51 pm
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Having recently seen I, Robot, I’ve been inspired to write something based on what I see as a more likely evolution of existing technology—one in which robots as conceived by Asimov don’t quite exist.
Medicine Mountain
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:51 pm
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Wash & Zoë‘s Wedding
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:51 pm
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Prior to the release of Serenity, the studio-hosted Browncoats website hosted a number of contests, including one calling for fans’ versions of the vows said by Zoë and Wash when they were married. I couldn’t settle for merely writing vows—I had to write the whole scene.
From the LITTLE SPRINGS POST-RECORD: August 3, 1879
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:50 pm
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Just a Slob Like One of Us
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:50 pm
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Have No Master
Updated Tue 16 Dec 2008 4:50 pm
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The “noble wolf” is a predator, people!
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