the otherwhirled

  The Reuters caption reads: Ghulam Hassan Banday, a Kashmiri Muslim clerk, displays a relic (inside of the glass tube) of Prophet Mohammad to devotees at the Hazratbal shrine, on the outskirts of Srinagar March 13, 2009. Following the March 10 celebrations for Eid Milad-un-Nabi, or the Prophet’s birthday, tens of thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered on [...]

the way the cookies work over on the weblog awards is essentially thus: a cookie per user per computer. you’re allowed to vote once per day (per user per computer). here at casa del other, we have five computers. each computer has 4 to 6 users. so, every day, drifty has been getting 23 votes from [...]

I don’t know why, but this song has been stuck in my head in a way for the past three days that songs haven’t gotten stuck in a long, long time. If you were watching my lists on LastFM, you’d think there was something seriously screwed up with me, and there probably is. On the [...]

A hearty Happy Birthday goes out today to the one I affectionately call “Ancient One” (even though she’s younger than yours truly), the Texas Tornado, the gal who was lucky enough to have her first kiss from Commander Other long before he was an Other….Sherri! Congratulations on maundering through another year, Ancient One! We hope [...]

“US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, inadvertently coughed up a fur-ball during an interview at The Women’s Conference. Surprisingly, the fur-ball immediately jumped to its feet and began wailing for ‘Mommy Bristol’.”

“….mama’s got meh sum puddin cups!”

…because the depth of a campaign can be summed up succinctly enough without them.