My pal Adam got me wondering about who reads my blog, so I'm going to follow his lead (and borrow his verbiage) here.

If you're a regular or semi-regular reader, please satisfy my curiosity. I'd like to know where you are and how you found the blog. If you're not inclined to comment, you're welcome to email me.

You are, of course, under no obligation to do either.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

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Your Linguistic Profile:

80% General American English

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

5% Midwestern

0% Yankee

Hey, I did live in Minnesota for thirteen years.

Via The Slat Rat

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In other news, I am in a Very Bad Mood today.

Mom asked if I wanted to go to a movie. Fucking movies. I HATE GOING to the movies. You pay an obscene amout of money to get in and then you're surrounded by yapping assholes who want to flap their goddamned pieholes all through the goddamned picture, which 9 times out of 10 is a worthless piece of goat vomit that isn't even worth the time, let alone the motherfucking money that would have been better spent of a drink to calm your nerves after listening to the be-turded diaper behind you play Roger Ebert all through the picture.

God, I fucking hate movies. People. This world would be OK if it weren't for all the motherfuckin' people.

Fuckers.

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Just because someone looked at it this way on my referrals list for today.

Click to make BiG.

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Ghod, this is just perfect!!

From Zims' Travel Journals.

In a related story, from the same website, Reasons why I love The Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch:

8. The Cristina Agulera/Porn Star looking chick on the ladder. HOT. Not sure if she's a pop star or a porn star. Still, my Mom's the only other woman I know that can take a sandwich like that.

14. It's good to finally see that the Creepy Burger King has a fitting kingdom. I was thinking... just what the hell kind of place would that fucking weirdo be king of? The Tender Crisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch.

Brilliant. Or something hard like that.

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Bob.......sings?

Click=BiG

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More actual overheard conversation, rendered into meat.

Click it, make it BiG.

Build Your Own Meat

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George Carlin on Religion:

Religion easily- has the best bullshit story of all time. Think about it. Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man...living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

I guess we no longer render unto Caesar, but instead render unto 512's. And really, if God is all that, why would He even need our money? If I was all-powerful, I'd just whip myself up a Rolls Royce, not have some doofus with a bad haircut go onteevee and shill for donations. I'M ALL-POWERFUL!!! I DON'T NEED THE WAL*MART VOTE!

Oy gevalt.

I know, not exactly deep theological or rational thinking and certainly not fresh, but it felt good to type it, so what the hell. Am I doing here.

Here's a roundup of what God's been up to this week.

God's BACK! He's here all week. Tip your server. Try the veal, shun the pork and do something with that shellfish.

That scamp, God! Telling folks all sorts of crazy things!

A Calgary schizophrenic who has admitted to drowning his nephew in a bathtub testified yesterday that God told him to harm the boy. Tesluojch Kandong said the Lord's voice was one of several which spoke to him following his arrival in Canada from Sudan four years ago.

Oh, that wacky God! Fucking with schizophrenics and children!

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How cool is this? Oy! (not "oi") Punk rock = FREEDOM!

Punk rock in the holy land. Xeni Jardin: Jessica Smith from FRONTLINE says:

In Israel, a vibrant punk scene has emerged in a society torn apart by the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. In four candid video interviews, FRONTLINE/World reporter and filmmaker Liz Nord talks to the musicians driving the movement. Like other young Israelis, the punk rockers have been affected personally by the conflict. They have fought as soldiers and lost friends and fans killed by suicide bombers. Bands from both ends of the political spectrum use their music to comment on Israeli society. Others make music just to have fun. But all of them agree that punk rock represents freedom.

Link to show website. [Boing Boing]

11:16:07 AM    

I met some reasonably cool people today whilst buying coffee and since I told them I was a musician who posted her stuff here, well, I thought I'd post some of my stuff here.

Here be those boss tunes you can get right here on the ol' internets.

"Mystery Turtle"
Processed guitars, not so processed guitars and vocals by Maggie Osterberg along with a Jampack drum machine loop.

"'Mystery Turtle' in particular kicks so much ass that its feet must smell like donkeybutt."- Austin Swindburn

"Paging Billy Reid"
Surf-A-Licious pop ode to British Columbia's master of the pop song!

"Clapping Man"
The first song recorded with my new acoustic guitar. It's just me, multitracked, and my Rainsong guitar, doubled. Thanks to my SM58.

All links open QT Stream pages. For downloads, see my music page link below.

Maggie Osterberg Music


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Click photo, make it BiG.

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Click photo, make it BiG.

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Click photo, make it BiG.

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Opinions? We got 'em, lots of 'em! Just one asshole, tho' and that's me.

Ailing Health Care. America does face a real crisis — but it's in health care, not Social Security. By By PAUL KRUGMAN. [NYT > Opinion]

Crouching Tiger, Swimming Dragon. China's thirst for energy has prompted a return, after almost 600 years, to seafaring trade. By By NAYAN CHANDA. [NYT > Opinion]

A Culture of Death, Not Life. Between Terri Schiavo and the pope, we've feasted on decomposing bodies for almost a solid month now. By By FRANK RICH. [NYT > Opinion]

So, to quickly sum up things- we're fucked in the USA, thanks to an out of control healthcare system, a culture of death and while we're fighting over the immorality of our next door neighbors, China is becoming the de-facto economic superpower in the world.

Y'all make the photo BiG? Clickit.

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You Are 50% Normal (Somewhat Normal)

While some of your behavior is quite normal... Other things you do are downright strange You've got a little of your freak going on But you mostly keep your weirdness to yourself

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