The Black Doll's Imbroglio

black_doll @ 2008-06-30T09:31:00

2008-06-30T13:19:44Z

Good luck tomorrow Dave!!!

Be thinking of you.

black_doll @ 2008-05-08T13:59:00

2008-05-08T17:49:06Z

Forgotten Florida By Amanda Baird Book Preview

black_doll @ 2007-10-31T10:18:00

2007-10-31T14:14:41Z

What Do You Have To Say? - Music: My First Favorite Band

2007-09-10T16:24:13Z

What was the first band you became a fan of?

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First band EVER I became a fan of?

Culture Club. And by fan, I mean, totally and completely and utterly obsessed with. For many years

black_doll @ 2007-06-27T09:46:00

2007-06-27T13:47:45Z

Well, in my best Cher voice, If I could turn back time I'd get Louise to realize how hideous fur is and was, and get her to change her ways!

She was well known for her love of fur.

However, look! Louise without makeup! Still stunning.

Tell me something I don't know.

2007-06-11T15:34:27Z

MORRISSEY WOWS HOLLYWOOD

British rock star MORRISSEY returned to the Hollywood Bowl last night (08Jun07) for the first time in 15 years and was almost floored by a succession of stage invaders.

Ten fans beat security measures and scrambled onto the Bowl stage - to hug, kiss and manhandle the former The Smiths star, who has become an unlikely cult figure in Los Angeles, thanks mainly to a huge Latin fanbase.

The sold out Hollywood show was filmed for an upcoming concert movie DVD, but Morrissey didn't let his over-eager, stage-invading fans ruin the evening, often chuckling as they found clever ways to get as close to their hero as possible.

The Brit, who called himself "an old harpsichord that nobody ever plays" during the show, performed a string of new tunes, as well as solo classics such as Everyday Is Like Sunday and First Of The Gang To Die and Smiths favourites How Soon Is Now, Girlfriend In A Coma and The Boy With A Thorn In His Side.

He ended the two-encore show by ripping off his shirt for a second time following a stirring performance of Smiths classic There Is A Light That Never Goes Out.

And the spectacle of a filled Hollywood Bowl wasn't lost on the singer, who announced his gratitude to fans who had stuck by him since his last show there.

Prior to his arrival on stage, Morrissey treated fans to a slideshow of his heroes and heroines in action - with vintage and rare footage of the New York Dolls, Brigitte Bardot, Alan Bates and James Dean in action beamed onto a large screen. The James Dean footage was from a silent wardrobe fitting sequence from the tragic actor's East of Eden movie.

Link wiht picture

black_doll @ 2007-06-01T08:17:00

2007-06-01T12:18:26Z

My pirate name is:

Mad Dog Rackham

Part crazy, part mangy, all rabid, you're the pirate all the others fear might just snap soon. You have the good fortune of having a good name, since Rackham (pronounced RACKem, not rack-ham) is one of the coolest sounding surnames for a pirate. Arr!

Get your own pirate name from piratequiz.com.
part of the fidius.org network

uuuuuuggggggggggghhhhhhhh

2007-05-07T14:45:26Z

Itchy ears?

Doctor finds spiders in ear of boy with earache
What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear -- "like Rice Krispies" -- ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

Read more if you really want to.

black_doll @ 2007-04-10T08:24:00

2007-04-10T12:25:21Z

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPIDERJ!!

"spiderj" looks REALLY weird written.

I stole this!

2007-04-05T12:21:09Z

You Are 68% Misanthropic

Here's the truth: Most people suck. You are just lucky enough to know it.
You're not ready to go live alone in a cave - but you're getting there.

How Misanthropic Are You?

Damn! If only they didn't ask about kids!

I'm not right

2007-03-22T12:56:03Z

With all the shit going on in the world all the time...children abused/abducted, people murdered, the "war," etc....this is the one story that really deeply disturbs me:

Panther roamed far from home
The big cat killed on I-4 was tagged and tracked by researchers for years.

:(

Hate that stuff. HATE it.

I heard in passing yesterday something about a panther and I-4...I didn't pay attention and was hoping it was captured and released. But, of course not.

Where I will be on Saturday

2007-03-16T15:36:12Z

I am going to help out the Central Florida Great Dane Rescue group!

Seminole County ’s 4th Annual Pet Adopt-A-Thon !!!

Seminole County Animal Services is hosting its 4th Annual Pet Adopt-A-Thon on Saturday, March 17, 2007 from 10:00am to 3:00pm . Representatives and adoptable pets from Seminole County Animal Services, the SPCA of Central Florida and dozens of local animal rescue groups will be in attendance. Admission is absolutely free and there will be lots of door prizes donated by many local businesses. Food and drinks will be provided by the Seminole County Citizens Emergency Response team with all proceeds from food and drink sales going directly back into the C.E.R.T. program.

The event will be held in the large field at the corner of Hwy 17-92 and Bush Boulevard in Sanford . The field is across from Flea World at the entrance to the Seminole County Operations Center at Five Points.

black_doll @ 2007-03-15T08:16:00

2007-03-15T12:18:02Z

Happy Birthday bitchylarue!!!

black_doll @ 2007-02-28T08:53:00

2007-02-28T13:54:24Z

ZODIAC was great!! I really liked it!

This pretty much speaks for itself

2007-02-23T23:41:29Z

You do have to endure the whole thing and see the end.

I think I saw this in a dream...

2007-02-19T20:02:06Z

Elmwood Plantation, by Robert Tebbs

Good scary movie

2007-02-15T13:27:19Z

Ok so The Descent was pretty good!! I was real pleased actually. Short movie, to the point, creepy. There was once scene involving a broken bone I skipped past and...I had to mute it a few times just to make it less scary. Fun!

No WAY!

2007-01-12T17:23:42Z

Florida exodus? Statistics show residents starting to leave for less costly locales
By Paul Owers
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

January 11, 2007

For the first time in 30 years, United Van Lines Inc. says it moved more people out of Florida than in, and analysts see that as a sign that consumers are looking elsewhere for a cheaper slice of life.

The nation's largest moving company reported 16,212 inbound shipments to Florida last year and 17,019 outbound shipments. United moved more people to Florida in each year from 1999 to 2004, but the number of inbound moves fell in 2005, spokeswoman Jennifer Bonham said.

The study isn't scientific, but it does underscore a recent trend in which fed-up Floridians are moving to other parts of the country, in part to escape rising property taxes and insurance rates.

United's report shows that North Carolina, Oregon and South Carolina were the top destination states in 2006. Michigan, hit hard by automobile industry layoffs, North Dakota and New Jersey were the states that saw the most people leave.

The housing boom brought more people to the Sunshine State at the start of the decade, but the run-up in home values during the past five years sent property-tax rates soaring. Many residents now say they can't afford to move elsewhere in Florida because of the huge hit they'd take on taxes.

What's more, busy hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005 led to massive rate hikes from the state's largest home insurance companies.

"It all just pushed us past the breaking point," David Levin, a Delray Beach-based housing consultant, said Wednesday.

A couple of years ago, Paul Mount saw an early-morning infomercial about cheap land in Tennessee. He and his wife ultimately moved there from Wellington in July 2005.

They live in a log-cabin home on two acres near Chattanooga. In Wellington, their property taxes were $9,300 a year; their tax bill in Tennessee is $1,100.

The threat of hurricanes, rising utility rates and the cost of homeowner insurance also convinced the couple that they should leave Florida.

"We just got tired of it," said Mount, 52, a former Broward County sheriff's deputy. "Everything is financial. The state of Florida is just going crazy."

Recent U.S. census figures show that Florida gains 1,000 people a day while losing 400, said Grant Thrall, a professor of business geography at the University of Florida. But some residents clearly are reconsidering because of the cost of living and other factors, Thrall said.

"People move to where their well-being is going to be the greatest," he said. "Many people find the urban-built environment of Florida totally disgusting."

As Floridians struggle with housing affordability and wages that have not kept pace with the cost of living, other states are aggressively trying to capture the Northeast migration that Florida once relied on for its growth, said Levin, the Delray Beach housing consultant.

"They're eating our lunch," he said.

Although Florida remains attractive compared with cold-weather states, "it is losing some of its luster," said Charles Longino, a Wake Forest University professor who studies the exodus of Florida senior citizens to North Carolina.

United Van Lines, based in suburban St. Louis, has tracked shipment patterns on a state-by-state basis since 1977. Its 2006 study is based on 227,254 interstate household moves among the 48 contiguous states and Washington, D.C.

Paul Owers can be reached at powers@sun-sentinel.com or 561-243-6529.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-bk-leaving01112007,0,824452.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

Spay and Neuter

2006-12-22T15:26:23Z

Canine roundup raises ruckus

An early-morning effort in Sanford, intended to stop cat killings, riles some dog owners.

SANFORD -- Authorities knew their targets would be out prowling late at night, and they were waiting. It wasn't long before more than a dozen were spotted along the darkened streets near downtown. The group was quickly hauled in and locked up.

There were no Johns looking for an illicit rendezvous in this roundup. But there was a Miles, and a Bing, and a Jake.

The suspects: dogs.

The charge: decimating the cat population in three downtown neighborhoods.

In a span of four months, there had been more than four dozen confirmed cat killings and maulings. Outraged cat owners demanded that something be done, so Seminole County's Animal Services Department put together a sting that shifted patrols into the early morning hours, when most of the attacks had taken place, and focused on the hardest-hit areas.

"As soon as we put an officer in the area starting at 5 a.m., that's when we starting seeing results," said Mike Wittmer, animal-services director.

While no one has positively identified any of the 16 dogs picked up in the past two weeks as cat killers, reports of attacks have dwindled to none, Wittmer said.

"I think we've identified part of the problem," he said. "I think those dogs are part of the problem."

The penalty is harsh. Half the rounded-up dogs have been euthanized, Wittmer said, because they were not wearing tags and no one claimed them. Six others were returned to their owners, and two are up for adoption.

Those sent home essentially are on probation.

"We're being pretty hard on people who own the dogs we're picking up," he said.

In addition to paying fines and an impound fee, the owners were put on notice that animal-control officers would be knocking on their doors the next time a cat attack or loose dog is reported in the area.

"We're going to those addresses first and asking to see those dogs," he said.

That would suit Ted Newsom just fine.

Ashes, Newsom's pit-bull mix, bolted from his home on East 21st Street about 4 p.m. one day. By the time Newsom and his son hopped into their Jeep and drove around the corner, an animal-control officer had already grabbed the dog.

After two days at the pound, Ashes was released back to Newsom.

"I would actually welcome them coming to my house," Newsom said. "I'm 99 percent sure Ashes would be asleep on the couch. I don't have a halo over my head as a pet owner, but I make an honest effort to make sure my dog is contained."

Wittmer was never convinced that the wide-ranging attacks were the work of one or two dogs, he said. Yet witnesses consistently described a black dog and a dirty yellow one fleeing the scene of several attacks.

Those descriptions could easily match Jeff Bonkowski's dogs, Miles and Bing.

The two Labrador retrievers got loose twice in the past month, Bonkowski said, though he insists he does not let them roam. They dug under the backyard fence of his home on South Laurel Avenue, he said.

But Bonkowski is not about to let his dogs take the rap for all the attacks. Many occurred when Miles and Bing were with Bonkowski inside the house or out of the area, he said.

"I do sympathize with them that they did lose their cats," he said. "But it is a two-way street. I'm not condoning any dogs attacking cats, but people have their cats out, too. If people didn't have their cats out, this wouldn't be a problem."

Molly Pflueger said both her cats were killed in her backyard. Her son identified Bonkowski's dogs as those running from the house after one attack. But the dogs were returned to Bonkowski because no one saw them attack the cat.

Pflueger said she would keep an eye on Bonkowski's house to make sure the dogs remain contained.

"If they get out, they're going to kill again," she said.

"stray" dogs are killing owner's pets.

No pet should be left loose outside. Every pet should be spayed and neutered.

Fiiiiiiive Greeaaat Danes!

2006-12-14T19:42:23Z

On the twelfth day of Christmas, black_doll sent to me...

Twelve xhotwingsxs drumming

Eleven puppy52s piping

Ten blythe dolls a-leaping

Nine old houses dancing

Eight butterflies a-milking

Seven swamps a-swimming

Six purses a-sightseeing

Five gre-e-e-eat danes

Four plantation ruins

Three cracker homes

Two louise brooks

...and a LiveJournal meme in a pear tree.

black_doll @ 2006-12-06T14:10:00

2006-12-06T14:10:03Z

Oh god.

LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT was AWFUL.

Such a major movie disappointment. Bravo has it at number 50 for "scariest movie moment." And it's Wes Craven's first film (though, do I find any Wes Craven film "scary?").

Not scary, not creepy, not gory, not messed up....the rape scene is disturbing, yes. But it's a rape scene. The house isn't even...a scary house and is not in the movie much at all...also it's like a ranch style house, not the looming gothic one pictured in the movie poster.

It was god-awful AWFUL. Dammit it pisses me off.

black_doll @ 2006-12-01T14:39:00

2006-12-01T14:39:50Z

Holy shit it's December.

ROFL and all that

2006-11-29T13:59:23Z

This is really cool

2006-11-28T17:38:32Z

I like this song MR BRIGHTSIDE and someone paried it expertly with scenes from PANDORA'S BOX, my girl's seminal (?) film.

Very cool...

100 years ago

2006-11-14T16:45:59Z

Happy 100th Brooksie!!!!