absolutwillie

Month: April 2008

  • i laugh

    and i rather like the music too! Last.fm rocks in so many ways…

  • 10 suggestions for success – from my friend Feisty Female’s blog

    1. Do something that you are passionate about. It must be worthy of your time, talent and energy.

    2. Take care of those you love – they are your priority.

    3. Be accepting of people you encounter and be nice to them – it costs nothing.

    4. Be bold, courageous and adventurous – trying and doing new things is good for your spirit.

    5. Be decisive and have an opinion – a state of oblivion should not be acceptable.

    5. Be forgiving – bitterness eats away and it most definately doesn’t add to your charm.

    6. Be optimistic, enthusiastic and cheerful. It impacts those around you.

    7. Loyalty and commitment – always a sign of character.

    8. Deliver on your promises. In actual fact exceed peoples expectations. Keep in mind that is sucks being disappointed.

    9. Don’t be over-critical on everything and everyone around you – it’s purely a questions of perception and you aren’t perfect either.

    10. Get moving and make things happen!

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  • silliness (thanks Kelly!)


    Your Slogan Should Be


    Willie. Uncommonly Made, Uncommonly Good.

  • bonfire of the vanities

    let me see if i can get some reaction out of the ‘sphere today. can you think of a plot?
    here’s a list for you to ponder:

    dramatis pesonae:
    the hairdresser: Maurice
    the pianist/interiors dealer: Miguel (Maurice’s life-partner)
    the art dealer: Cobis
    the clinic’s pre-admissions clerk: Jean (Cobis’ life partner)
    the clinic’s liaison officer: Jobe
    the printer/writer: Guillermo

    ingredients:
    3 course dinner
    Liza with a “Z” (dvd)
    Barbara Streisand CD collection

    Scene:
    Cobis & Jean’s house with a view of the bay.
    saturday
    fall 2008

  • i readed your bloggy

    …but i don’t cook so good.

  • there's a shopping list on my stoep

    i found this oddly intriguing list amongst my papers:

    “Wednesday Yummies“

    15 dried figs (500g)
    italian country bread
    fresh greens (watercress, rocket, baby spinach)
    black olives, pitted
    fresh rosemary & thyme
    olive oil
    wine vinegar
    1x lemon & 1x orange
    1x chicken
    50g vermicelli
    butter
    1x large red onion
    250g mushrooms
    mild curry
    ginger
    sea salt & black pepper
    white & red wine
    plain yogurt
    75g cooked ham
    parsley
    chutney
    puff pastry
    1/2 cup of sugar
    cinnamon sticks
    1x egg
    self raising flour
    —————–

    it’s in my own hand – but I have no clue as to what it was for.

    can you slap together a menu from this? (i want recipe’s people!)
    leave a recipe as a comment – or link to the recipe on your blog ;0)

  • the Meme is Andrew Johnston

    memes
    out here in the blogosphere, we’re quick to call a jig a meme. copy it, paste it, tag some peeps and forget about it. sharp! it’s a meme…

    yeah well no fine. so let’s call it a blog-meme.
    or meme2.0

    but it’s not a real meme. remember my post about Mark Twain’s meme?
    that’s the ticket. it’s like a brain worm. it gets into your mind and stays – endlessly looping.
    its stuck.
    its stuck.
    its stuck.

    Andrew Johnston’s requiem is a real meme.

    he’s been singing in my head since I saw his video on cb’s blog.
    i’ve played it for my parents – who’ve been humming it ever since.
    i showed the video to a neighbor. she sings it at work.
    i sing/hum the requiem.
    i watch Andrew over and over again.
    i’ve posted his video on my facebook profile.
    i pray for him every evening at bed time.
    i’m blogging about him again!

    let him sing some more!!!

    Andrew: record and release the track on the web – your magic is changing the world! your voice makes me happy. your song melts frozen hearts. from what i’ve seen – your song reconnects people to the Divine. sing, Andrew. sing!

    to the Brits: vote for him!

  • i wept

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LExJ6oN4hUo&rel=0&w=425&h=355]

    i’d like to thank cb for posting this.
    i am haunted…

  • amen sister!

    now here’s a quote that actually makes me want to go to new york and flaunt my pantones!

    New Yorkers Are Ultra-Sensitive About Color
    Guy at bar: And so I keep trying to tell my wife that sienna is not a color.
    Girl passing by: Yes it is! Burnt sienna is a crayon you slanderous prick!

    –Restaurant, Bleecker Street
    via Overheard in New York, Apr 11, 2008

  • Tree of Art in the Limpopo Province

    there’s an e-mail doing the rounds about an amazing art tree in the limpopo province. amazing as it is, this is not a real baobab that some savant spent half a millennium carving into a monument to his erotic fixation with martian women.
    sorry to burst the bouble, people, but these pictures are of disney world’s “tree of life“.




    awesome? certainly.

    worth clogging up every inbox south of atlantis? no.

    i wish people would think before forwarding bull:

    1. no-one sends you money for every mail you forward. spam doesn’t pay.
    2. the angel of death will not weld your rectum shut if you don’t forward spam.
    3. photos of mutant weredonkeys are fake. calm down to a panic and hit “delete”.
    4. no government or super lottery uses yahoo accounts. they can afford their own domains. duh.
    5. doctors, kings, princes and deranged necromancers that offer you gazillions of dollars from some unattended spanish inheritance trust in nigeria are evil. give them your details and the angel of death will disembowel your smurf collection.
    6. spamming 7 people in 7 minutes will not bring you great fortune in 7 hours. nor will your long deceased great grandfather knock on your door at 7am to ask for some fresca.
    7. spamming 70 people, though, will magically invoke the demonic twin of chuck norris. pull yourself towards yourself and run – this dude doesn’t wear pajamas…
    8. if you really want to know what color my underwear, favorite cyanide cocktail or answer to furry nipples is – phone me.
    9. i am not a better friend for returning/forwarding money-fairy emails. real friends will haul your delusional behind to the insane asylum, where nice people in padded rooms will talk to you about being napoleon and their passion for flying circumcisions.
    10. sending $50 to someone you don’t know is very kind. you will not, however, find a yacht in your slippers in the morning.

    *sigh* i feel better now.