Let’s Party, Rats!

By laird sapir :: Published July 27, 2012
My Party Rats love Night Blogging!

Happy Friday! Its Party Time! Here’s a little randomness to get your weekend started off right.  A few weeks ago my sister gifted me with the strangest item – a package of “Party Rats”. This may have been the best gift I’ve ever received. To quote from the package, What? You haven’t heard of Party…Read the Rest

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Ginny & the She-Woolfs

By laird sapir :: Published July 19, 2012
Virginia Woolf loves the (19)80's!

About two weeks ago, we had a storm. It was dark, rainy, and catastrophe-ridden. Well, at least, for a certain giant magnolia tree in my front yard, it was catastrophe-ridden. The tree, which is host to some sort of bizarre fig vine (a story for another post) just couldn’t handle the weather. It dropped a…Read the Rest

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This World Is . . .

By laird sapir :: Published July 2, 2012
Orhan Veli Kanik

For some reason today I woke up thinking about the Turkish poet, Orhan Veli Kanik. (Random, I know. ) I’m fascinated by Orhan Veli, and  I’ve always found his spartan phrasing full of emotion.  He died young, at 36, after falling in a ditch after drinking. (Apparently, he was quite a drinker. I’m not judgin’).…Read the Rest

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Innovation, thy name is OHEA.

By laird sapir :: Published June 27, 2012
Innovation, thy name is OHEA.

There really isn’t much that I can say about this….                But I have questions. What if  you like having more than one thin blanket on your bed? Can the OHEA handle that action? What about pillows? Can it arrange more than two? And who the hell greenlighted this…Read the Rest

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Wikirandom Lives!

By laird sapir :: Published June 25, 2012
Wkirandom Writer's Challenge - 3 second flash fiction contest

Have you been keeping up with the Wikirandom Writer’s Challenge?   There have been a number of great contests since the original one here, in February, and I’m working on a comprehensive list of links for you… But this month’s contest is over at Elaine Smother’s blog, and the prompt is…awesome. So – go and…Read the Rest

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I told you: Sit and Relax.

By laird sapir :: Published June 19, 2012
I told you: Sit and Relax.

Ok, I just couldn’t resist sharing this one with you – Why stop at Magical Trevor when there is a whole wide world of video weirdness out there? I’m not sure who this Luang Por is, or what his teachings have to do with pseudo-psychedelic singing cajun-cowboy-alligators, but I’m loving it. And the video kinda…Read the Rest

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Gettin’ Friendly…how to get Facebook to pull the right info from your blog

By laird sapir :: Published June 14, 2012
How to make Facebook re-crawl your site and update it's cache

Ever had this happen to you? You write a great blog post, publish it, and you want to share it with everyone you know. So you go to Facebook, paste the URL into the share box…. and Facebook pulls up some random image and a description that has nothing to do with your latest post?…Read the Rest

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Magical Trevor

By laird sapir :: Published June 12, 2012
Magical Trevor

Happy Tuesday, everyone! The lovely Liv Rancourt recently tagged me in a post on her blog: “Be Inspired.” While I am not ready to share the details of my current work in progress with the world wide web, I can definitely share with you one of my inspirations…and that would be people who create cool…Read the Rest

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