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Today I realized that the Sean Hannity music (where it says "From coast to coast, Sean Hannity is on") is O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana, by Orff). I was not, mind you, listening to Sean Hannity on purpose. (I wouldn't do that, at least not with out serious ironic intent. The man's an asshat. Conservative talk radio, it is full of asshattery.) Given my druthers, we would listen to the local country station which has (a) country music (b) the weather and (c) a half-hour call-in show every weekday where people call in to sell shit. However, others at work prefer the talk radio and so there was talk radio today.

And then I got to thinking. Is there a liberal talk radio? I mean we know there's conservative talk radio. There's Sean Hannity and there's Neal and there's Rush and there's G. Gordon. Conservative talk radio, right? So what do the liberals listen to? (I asked this of brother-the-elder, who totally stole my punchline when he said NPR.)

In other news, cousin Heather visited my house today, where Youbee (not socialized for strangers and especially not for toddlers) freaked out and leapt from the top of the TV to the bed to the dresser to the open window (screen kept cat from falling out and it's a first floor window anyway) and back again. Tess laughed her ass off, which scared the shit out of my cat even more. (Youbee, who felt somewhat put upon, eventually fled under the house but did come back out about an hour or so after the cousin and her delighted toddler left, so no harm done.)

Heather said my decorative skills were mad leet and that the only thing my house need to look proper was a bong. I'm pretty sure that this was not a compliment but I can't argue that it's a fairly realistic assessment of my housekeeping skills. (I am many things, but a housekeeper is not one of them.) Maybe I should straighten up a bit... or buy a bong.

Finally, because you waded through all that other crap, I was trolling the craigslist ads this evening. I read the personals, you see, because I find them fascinating. Some of them are lonely, exemplars of our isolation as human beings in these modern times (the number of "is this thing even on?" postings is higher than I think it should be). There's a recurring theme of "Please be real" because apparently a lot of the replies people get are from those other, y'know, fake people. A lot of the m4w personal ads include pictures of genitalia, which I don't really get. Maybe guys think it helps their case. Anyhow, this evening, I read an ad that was particularly worthy of mention... http://westmd.craigslist.org/cas/818381096.html Now, I certainly hope they are not serious, but assuming that they are, I, for one, would love to see video of the intervention. (They had me at the phrase "Vagina is mandatory." and the writing throughout the ad was a fucking delight to read.) Excelsior, boys. Best of luck with that.