{"id":472,"date":"2005-01-01T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=335"},"modified":"2005-01-01T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-02T06:00:00","slug":"bullshit-filtration-system-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=472","title":{"rendered":"bullshit-filtration system, indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year, druzhki!!<\/p>\n<p \/>For you, various items, some of them perhaps even interesting.<\/p>\n<p \/>I. Photographs.<\/p>\n<p \/>Here are a couple blurry offcolor phone-pictures I love so well: <a href='http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/images\/catscouch.jpg' target='xoxo'>the animals<\/a> and <a href='http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/images\/stpaul.jpg' target='xoxo'>downtown St Paul<\/a> the other day with the bizarre weather: mostly overcast with some anemic blue sky peeking through, and this strange smoky haze. Supposedly the air-quality index was at code red.<\/p>\n<p \/>I did a <i>lot<\/i> of home-improvin&#8217; this weekend, but was courteous enough to not start drilling into my walls until after 10am on New Year&#8217;s day. I put up a shelf and oldschool hotel-style towel rack in my bathroom. <a href='http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/images\/kitchen.jpg' target='xoxo'>In the kitchen<\/a>, I put up my spice shelves and knife rack. Also, I have already accomplished New Year&#8217;s Resolution The First: <a href='http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/images\/jade.jpg' target='xoxo'>I got me a little baby plant<\/a> and put it on one of the tables Scotty got me for my moving-in adventure. It will relocate to the smaller table, as it fits there perfectly, but only after I can be sure the cats are leaving it alone.<!-- hey baby, what am i gonna get for the other one? maybe i should move the whole zen thang... hmm. anyway. xoxoxoxox --> They usually choose laying-down and eating over knocking shit over, but sometimes they surprise me.<\/p>\n<p \/>II. Movie.<\/p>\n<p \/>I saw <i>The Life Aquatic<\/i> and loved it, except for the overly-trippy animated sea creatures. It&#8217;s a movie that will appeal to a very limited audience, I think, but it&#8217;s awesome. Bill Murray is one of those actors I can&#8217;t stand 99% of the time, but <i>Lost in Translation<\/i> is one of my favorite movies ever. Same goes for Jim Carrey: I love <i>Eternal Sunshine<\/i> but mostly I&#8217;d rather vomit in my shoe than have to watch one of his other films.<\/p>\n<p \/>III. Trackin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p \/>I&#8217;ve mentioned before my superfantastico user-tracking system. <a href='http:\/\/www.bertine.org' target='homie'>Homie<\/a> ported it to PHP this weekend, so now three of us are a little too obsessed with it. If you have ever done this thing in which you spill your guts for complete strangers to view and judge on a regular basis, you will understand the interest we have in this information; if you don&#8217;t, you may feel violated, but you shouldn&#8217;t. I figure it&#8217;s only fair to know a little bit about you, since I tell you almost everything about me. Right? Right.<\/p>\n<p \/>The most interesting detail I&#8217;ve come up with is that out of my top 40 most-regular readers, I only know 15 of you. For certain, at least. I confess I&#8217;ve developed a fascination with a few of you I know nothing about except a location and the pattern of your visits. Feel free to introduce yourselves. I promise I won&#8217;t stalk you; I don&#8217;t have the time. I just like to know.<\/p>\n<p \/>IV. Stalkers.<\/p>\n<p \/>Surprisingly, this conversation was unrelated to the previous item. I was thinking about it after this LJ interview the other day, so tonight I was telling Homie that I figured I have pretty good instincts and am unlikely to end up in a situation in which I am murdered or locked in a cage in someone&#8217;s basement, but who knows?<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class='small'><i>me<\/i>: well, it&#8217;s good to know you&#8217;d avenge my death, though!<br \/><i>her<\/i>: i will avenge your death to the fullest amount allowed by law<br \/><i>me<\/i>: um<br \/><i>me<\/i>: you&#8217;re supposed to kill him.<br \/><i>me<\/i>: what are you going to do, write a nasty letter?<br \/><i>me<\/i>: drive by his house honking loudly?<br \/><i>her<\/i>: i&#8217;ll make sure it looks like he killed you in a death penalty state, how about that?<br \/><i>me<\/i>: ok, that could work<br \/><i>me<\/i>: it&#8217;s not as satisfying, though.<br \/><i>me<\/i>: i was envisioning tarantinoesque bloodshed<br \/><i>her<\/i>: yeah, i think tarantino is overdone<br \/><i>me<\/i>: EXACTLY<br \/><i>me<\/i>: jenni ripley: overdone<br \/><i>me<\/i>: wait<br \/><i>me<\/i>: i don&#8217;t like the sound of that.<\/div>\n<p \/>V. House-news.<\/p>\n<p \/>I haven&#8217;t had house-news in a while! It&#8217;s been off the market for a month since our realtor&#8217;s contract expired, and who&#8217;s gonna buy a house over the holidays? It will be relisted soon, and my aunt is the realtor. She said the market is expected to get about 700% better, and I do not even exaggerate. Haha. Anyway, fingers crossed as always.<\/p>\n<p \/>VI. Knittin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p \/>I&#8217;ll keep it short this time, I promise. I gave my sister her scarf today. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s my best work, but she loved it. This weekend I knitted the cutest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen, of which I will post photos only after it has been delivered to its new owner. My mom asked me to knit a full layette for my brother&#8217;s new baby. I&#8217;ve been dying for an opportunity to knit those tiny little clothes. Also also, I&#8217;ve been listening to <i>Diary<\/i> by Palahniuk while working on these items. Holy shit, it&#8217;s depressing me. I have to take regular breaks to look at pictures of rainbows and unicorns and teddy bears just to balance that out.<\/p>\n<p \/>It seems to me that the audiobooks go more directly to my brain than regular reading. I&#8217;m not joking! You know how supposedly TV bypasses your usual bullshit-filtration system? Same kinda thing. That&#8217;s my very scientific theory, at least.<\/p>\n<p \/>VII. Sleep.<\/p>\n<p \/>Like, now. Night!<br \/ >Jenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year, druzhki!! For you, various items, some of them perhaps even interesting. I. Photographs. Here are a couple blurry offcolor phone-pictures I love so well: the animals and downtown St Paul the other day with the bizarre weather: mostly overcast with some anemic blue sky peeking through, and this strange smoky haze. 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