Forum: Music, as such ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5838906 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:51:23 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5835253
One year ago all she would do was lie at the bottom of the bed staring at me in fear and suspicion. Now she's a lap dog and a face-licker.

One year ago I couldn't even get a collar on her to take her for a walk; now morning and evening walks are her favorite time of day.

One year ago she spent all her time at the bottom of the bed; now, as soon as the light goes out, she "sneaks" up to the top, dives under the covers, snuggles up into the hollow of my belly, and stays there all night.

Which is why she bit me the last time. I moved my arm, half-asleep, and she freaked out and chomped down.

Forum: Four-paw delights ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5835253 Tue, 08 May 2012 12:44:02 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5834573 Massachusetts vies to establish itself as a player by torturing disabled children at a school for people with special needs:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/11/video-reveals-teens-electro-shock-torture-at-massachusetts-school/

Here's the school's website:
http://www.judgerc.org/


Meanwhile, there's a petition up on change.org:
http://www.change.org/petitions/judge-rotenberg-educational-center-please-stop-painful-electric-shocks-on-your-students

The man who started the petition, Gregory Miller, used to be a teacher there, says:

Forum: The Daily Sun ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5834573 Mon, 07 May 2012 22:44:05 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5830441
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ABgZNHYyzU&feature=relmfu

Forum: Music, as such ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5830441 Fri, 04 May 2012 15:54:50 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5829475
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4260&context=etd

Actually, the dedication may be the most interesting part. Nevertheless, it appears to be getting loads of downloads. 

Forum: The library ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5829475 Thu, 03 May 2012 22:47:04 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5821496 y Milton paper is reading like the sort of thing Milton himself would write. Pretty much, I'm throwing everything against the wall and hoping something sticks. Sort of like Areopagitica, or The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Will Dr. Meakin appreciate this, coming from Dori rather than from Milton? Not bloody likely. 

Forum: The library ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5821496 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:39:55 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5820093 What a great band! Why have I never heard of them? (Doesn't the male lead look kinda like Sean Penn?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RYHBPaHRNw

Writz (Famous Names)

Forum: Music, as such ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5820093 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:11:38 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5816368 Cream in My Coffee, with Martin Shaw as a lounge-lizardy crooner in an upscale resort hotel in the 1930s. He's quite excellent -- all pencil-thin moustache and slicked hair -- oily but charming. The story is wonderfully honest (and depressing - it's Dennis Potter, after all), about an elderly couple whose love for one another has long since been ruined by resentment. They go back to the hotel where they once attempted a marvelous fling, in an effort to recapture a past that, as we see in flashback, is hardly worthy of recapturing.

Peggy Ashcroft is excellent as the wife who is just barely hanging on.

Forum: The Screening Room ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5816368 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:55:51 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5809325
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yKoLBSK8SSE

Forum: Four-paw delights ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5809325 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:56:37 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5798844 This book tells you a lot about the human spirit, puts you in a magic world, has a touch of Victorian England and reminds you of the writings of E.A. Poe. Great stuff!!

Forum: The library ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5798844 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:22:26 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5798112 I’ve just finished reading “A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets” by James Bowen. It’s an excellent book.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/bob-the-busking-cat-7573094.html

Forum: The library ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5798112 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:34:10 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5787879
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tnwj

Forum: The Screening Room ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5787879 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:16:53 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5779245

Forum: The Magic in the Heart of Things ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5779245 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:03:46 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5768615
Then a 17-year-old female volunteer took her for a walk. A registered sex offender grabbed the volunteer by the hair and tried to drag her off -- why? I don't know; maybe he wanted to ask her opinion on the paint color he was planning for his living room -- and the dog jumped in and changed that girl's life.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/dog-saves-girl-sex-offender-attack-florida_n_1376566.html

Forum: Four-paw delights ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5768615 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:58:31 GMT http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5768611
Last month a 28-year-old volunteer in a neighborhood's community watch saw a black kid walking to his stepmother's home. The volunteer followed him for awhile, apparently accosted him, then killed him. He has not been arrested because he says he feared for his life.

The kid was seventeen.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/trayvon-martin-shooter-couldnt-stop-crying-shooting/story?id=15997075#.T29MsYHW5lc

Forum: The Daily Sun ]]> http://dorid.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=5768611 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:54:17 GMT