Allegra Rivett Sloman's blog

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As promised…..

Naomi Wolf on 10 steps to fascism

Last night I dreamed that I was asked by Paul to accompany him to a restaurant somewhere in the States and it turned out we were at some shadowy political meeting. I tried to find out what was going on and was given bland commonplaces and no substance. Finally somebody said, “This group is called [...]

There’s good news….

So when I was a kid growing up my parents had a book called Abyss, full of scary deep see creatures.  Then I saw a movie called Abyss, which I really liked although it was deeply flawed.  Now here’s a v. cool link to abyssal creatures.  Dumbo octopots are cute!

One stop shopping….

Excellent compression of the man’s work.

Useful, accurate, funny as hell.

Run, slide, rinse,  repeat.

My chest cold is now to the point where I am rarely coughing – I’d like to thank my poor beleaguered immune system. I still need a good swift slug of DM-D-E to get to sleep and still wake up coughing, but hell, wakeytime was 5 am today and that is really an improvement over [...]

I would like to apologize unreservedly for my error in linking to the article about cell phones hurting bees.  It isn’t true, and I shoulda researched it more carefully… or at least not presented it as something resembling fact. Honeybees have many problems, tracheal mites, pesticides, etc.  Radiation is actually fairly far down the list [...]

Aged thirteen, is just this minute having a gallstone removed from her biliary tree.  I light a candle for her swift recovery.  When she has recovered from that they will schedule surgery to get  the rest of it.  She was, by the garbled fifth hand account I got, hours away from pancreatitis and the ghastly [...]

I don’t mean to whine, but when I siddown in a stall at work to do my bidness, it’s a bit of a shock to have to look at Roberto Luongo smirking at me. You see, we’re having a jeans day (hell, why not have a celebration of naturism day) at work and there are [...]

I finally got 7 straight hours of sleep (mind you when I woke up I disgorged about 4 world class loogies… but oh well).  As a result I no longer feel like I’m trailing a dark cloud of bleakness.  And I got some exercise in, so I’m almost, but not quite, perky. Dr. Filk moves [...]