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Shemping for Debbie

All I want in life is to have coined a phrase.

About Me

I love Scrabble, my family, and picking up after myself.
Here are the only two poems that I have ever memorized.
They will tell you more about me than I can:
I never saw a purple cow
I never hope to see one.
But I can tell you anyhow
I'd rather see, than be one
-Shel Silverstein
In the beginning,
no, long before that,
when Light was trying to decide
who should be In
and who should be Out
of the Spectrum,
Yellow was in trouble (even then!).
Turns out Green
(well, you know how Green can be)
didn't want Yellow in
(some primal envy, I suppose)
but for whatever cause,
the effect was bad on Yellow
and caused Yellow to weep yellow tears
for several eternals
(before there were years)
until Blue heard what was up
between Green and Yellow
and took Green aside for a serious talk
in which Blue pointed out that
if Blue and Yellow were to get together
not that they would, but if they did
(a gentle threat)
they could make their own Green.
"Oh." said Green,
with some understanding.
Naturally, by a sudden change of hue
Green saw the light and Yellow got in,
worked out fine.
Yellow got lemons
and Green got limes.
-Ken Nordine ..
I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V3.6 !
You Are Homer Simpson
You're just an ordinary, all-American working Joe...
With a special fondness for pork rinds and donuts.
You will be remembered for: your little "isms" and philosophies on life
Your life philosophy: "Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel." The Simpsons Personality Test

My Interests

General mayhem and reading quietly.
Here is a neat poem with my name in it:
Experience
by Aline Kilmer

Deborah danced, when she was two, As buttercups and daffodils do; Spirited, frail, naively bold, Her hair a ruffled crest of gold, And whenever she spoke her voice went singing Like water up from a fountain springing.
But now her step is quiet and slow; She walks the way primroses go; Her hair is yellow instead of gilt, Her voice is losing its lovely lilt, And in place of her wild, delightful ways A quaint precision rules her days.
For Deborah now is three, and oh, She knows so much that she did not know.

I'd like to meet:

Roald Dahl
Louis Pasteur
Frank Black
Audrey Hepburn
Pope John Paul II
Myself in another dimension
(you know, the one where I look the same but I'm wearing a cowboy hat)

Music:

Music separates man from beast (or: man from less interesting man)

and
They Might Be Giants

Movies:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/teaser/

Roman Holiday
My Fair Lady

Guys & Dolls
Pretty Woman (yes, it has destroyed a generation of innocent girls by glamourizing prostitution...
I can't help but love it)

From Hell
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Old Christmas cartoons (such as "Somewhere in Dreamland" or "Christmas Comes but Once a Year")
...other feel good movies
...other movies with a nightmarish and evil quality
...musicals (which incorporate both of those elements)

Television:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/teaser/

Futurama!!!!!

Food network- esp. Iron Chef
The Simpsons
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Books:

Private Altars-by Katherine Mosby
Zorba the Greek-by Nikos Kazantzakis

Pnin-by Vladmir Nabokov
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory-by Roald Dahl
My Uncle Oswald-by Roald Dahl
A Hero of Our Time-by Mikhail Lermontov

Heroes:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/thesimpsonsmovie/teaser/
Theodor Seuss Geisel

My siblings
My darling nephew, Alexander
Audrey Hepburn

My Blog

The Simpsons...

I feel like I have to write something about The Simpsons Movie, although I am not yet certain why and what.  It was an extraordinary experience, staying up and waiting in line until midnight...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:47:00 PST

Demo derby turns out to be real derby

The crowd hollers as the heroic men bring their aluminum beasts into the pit. Then, silence. Oh, say can you see (the flag proudly sways from a telephone pole)by the dawn's early light (drop your beer...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:18:00 PST

GRE-at! I'm finished!!!!

On Saturday I took the GRE... I'm so happy to be done!  I did okay, not magnificently, not horribly, just okay.  The big shocker: I scored much higher on the quantitative (Math) portion...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:24:00 PST

Science Fiction conspiracy

In the think tank yesterday, the steel sixty-five mile per hour think tank, I thought in my tank a thought that changed things.  In my head I thought a thought that confused me for a time, u...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:56:00 PST

Questions for teachers

1.  Do you think that students learn better using technology? 2.  Do you think that technology makes your job easier? 3.  Do you think that our school systems (in general) are doing poo...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 07:24:00 PST

Don't read this if you are in a pleasant mood...

I just attended the funeral of a 23 year old sergeant in the military.  It was in the Riverside High School gym, and his body was at the free-throw line.  He received two medals of honor, wh...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 09:53:00 PST

When the cat's away the mouse will post

Ben and I are cat and mouse in the way that Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft (Cat and Mouse in Partnership) are cat and mouse.  Oh wait, that's just as bad.  Okay, I just thought the titl...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 04:01:00 PST

Whooping it up in Iowa City, IA

That's right...I got a taste of the Big City today, and boy was it sinfully sweet.  I was up at the rocking-est book festival on this side of the 'Sippi and was coaxed into having two spirit...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:04:00 PST

Television superstar!

I am the host of KCTC's newest reality television show: Storytime Librarian. That's right--every week, twice a week, you can see me reading books to preschoolers ala Reading Rainbow. I'm thinking a...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:19:00 PST

The avocado will never be forgiven...

Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch!  That is what I get for trying to do the cool Food Network thing and twist the avocado and knife to get the seed out.  Doh!  This is only my second time having ...
Posted by Shemping for Debbie on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 06:38:00 PST