Thursday, April 19, 2007

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    Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
    By Christopher Moore
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    I didn't know what to write today, and then I remembered my calligraphy pen.  I always like it when people do this sort of thing.  You handwriting experts out there, have fun.  I did forget to mention in my little story that I stayed in at recess a lot during first grade.  I was a perfectionist when it came to how I wrote my letters.  It was, apparently, all for naught.

    As I was preparing this portion of my blog, I stumbled across a friend's blog.  Prepare to be horrified again at the sick, twisted selfishness of some young people in our society:

    "You all may not have heard about this recent incident because it's here in MD, but a 2-year old boy was sliding down a park slide (you know, one of those plastic tubey-like things) and, after making it to the end, began howling and screaming in pain. His grandmother, who was with him, took him to the hospital. He has 2nd and 3rd degree burns from sulfuric acid that was poured on the slide by two juvenile hoodlums with nothing better to do than ruin a kid's life. These juveniles dumped drain cleaner on the slide to see if it would eat through plastic."

Comments (10)

  • travelerblue

    As I said earlier, charge the brats with attempted murder and throw their asses in prison!!! 

    I'm not one to judge handwriting.  I keep changing mine to 'mess with peoples minds'.  Calligraphy pens are fun.  But you know I have a drawer full of pens - I'm just weird that way (OK, I'm just weird!)!!!
  • thenarrator
    Somehow, I have this deep feeling that, as we have criminalized almost all adolescent behavior (prosecuting things that are truly just pranks or poor judgment like underage drinking) we have driven a certain subset of adolescents into ever more extreme behavior in the traditional desire of teenagers to "stand out." So, maybe we need fewer rules, no "zero tolerance" policies, and a whole lot less of the kind of attention to insanity that NBC displayed today.
  • FidelisDeo

    I am a handwriting junkie.  Everything has to be centered perfectly.  If i don't dot something correctly or something i'm always tempted to crumple it up and start anew... yeah... i'm not proud of that!

    It is truly frightening the horrible things that humans are capable of...

    Faith, hope, love.  Clinging to that like air today.  God bless your day, Emily.
  • douglasg610
    Hmm...what does it mean if you cross your t letters as low as that? Does it mean anything?
  • juneblue
    Give yourself a break there! It's kind of hard to write "normally" even in cursive with a calligraphy pen! Ugh...that story. Ugh. Ugh.
  • DancingSun
    i could have gone all day without that story. it challenges my belief in the inherent good of people. sigh. and yes, ugh.
    i do hope they are prosecuted, and learn something about consequences. and that i don't have to hear anything about those kids not being charged. ugh. *crossing fingers*
    many blessings to that poor little boy.
    ds
  • ydurp

    I love pens, especially calligraphy.  What could be more fun than going to a paper shop and playing with the pens.  I have a daughter who enjoys that, too. 

    You know, I THOUGHT I recognized that name.  I never miss her editorial in Gourmet.  Didn't realize she had books out, so thanks.
  • naqahdahnellie
    that made me laugh. i remember in 3rd grade, or whenever we learned to do cursive, and we had that lined and dotted lined paper with the examples at the top....i tried my HARDEST to make my letter identical. i didn't want half-ass, i wanted PERFECT cursive. well....now you can't even read my writing....oops!
  • nadia_mt
    that is horrible! what makes people do such things? so sad! the poor little boy!
  • leadwoodfolk
    That's so awful.

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