Verbal Remedy AKA Denise
- Location
- Del Mar, California, The One That's In A State Of Steep Decline
- Birthday
- January 18
- Title
- Columnist, http://www.doesthismakesense.com
- Company
- Much preferred to the alternative.
- Bio
- Born. Grew up. Kept growing up. Started growing older. Still at both the growing up and growing older. Stay tuned.
MY RECENT POSTS
- #ThatIsRape: FAQs to Help Keep
You Off The Sex Offender List
March 19, 2013 05:15PM - Live the Homeless Lifestyle!
You Know You Want To!
July 18, 2012 05:03PM - $40
December 21, 2011 05:20PM - It's Almost Bank Switch Day.
Will You Do It?
November 03, 2011 12:26PM - Irreconcilable Differences
July 24, 2011 03:27PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “It's been hard and it's
not going to get any easier in
future
decades. Sadly. I
f…”
March 19, 2013 10:52PM - “Nelle, are you going to
have this gig again in the
new
season? Your recaps make
w…”
March 19, 2013 06:11PM - “Nelle, are you going to
have this gig again in the
new
season? Your recaps make
w…”
March 19, 2013 06:11PM - “Hi and thanks,
everybody, for dropping by.
Please do bury
the
Steubenville
apolog…”
March 19, 2013 06:04PM - “Feel free to add your
own #ThatIsRape tips on
Twitter. The
people there seem
to n…”
March 19, 2013 05:20PM
Verbal Remedy AKA Denise's Links
- MY LINKS
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- When You Don't Hate Your Ex...
- On My Brother's 40th Birthday
- Video Tour of The Momdominium
- Racist Assholes I Have Known
- Tarot Decks and A Reading By Liz
- A Tale of Two Mothers
- Gutpunched (On Alcoholism and Addiction)
- Things I Do Not Believe In (Atheism)
- Confessions of a Grasshopper (Why I Don't Save)
- Shattered (101-Word True Story)
- My Worst Job (Told by the Chicago Tribune)
- Picky, Picky, Picky (Trichotillomania)
- Patterns (High School Theatre)
- So, How Many Sex Offenders Do You Know? (Creepy Map of Hometown)
- Tracks (Growing Up Working Class In A Small Town)
- Seeing My Father Tonight (Adoption Reunion)
- I Have This Friend... (Genetics and Alzheimer's Disease)
- The Last Days (Leaving an Alcoholic Relationship)
- You'll Change Your Mind (Childfree-ness)
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- Shopping Amazon.com
- Uh-Oh. Skin Mice.
- Your Dating Profile EXHAUSTS Me
- I Don't Care What You Paid: It's Worth Crap Now
- Somebody Tell Me Why I'm Doing This 5K, Please?
- Dangerous Shoes! Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!
- Did a German Pope Just Call For a "New World Order?!"
- Illiteracy on Craigslist
- Shaving The Cat (Not a Euphemism)
- My Boss Tries To Be Helpful...
- NO. You, Coworker, Cannot be my Facebook Friend.
- Bless Me Father, For I Have Sinned
- Liquor Cabinet Mysteries
- A Great Online Bra Finder
- I'll Show You Mine if You Show Me Yours (My Virtual Model)
- The Five-Paragraph Essay Must DIE
- The Animal Goes Mad (Dog+ Amorous Raccoons.)
- Waking Me Up (Not A Pretty Sight)
- Dude. I Think I Wrote This Snopes Thing.
- Happy Weirdness To All
- Sexy! Naked! Collared!
- Life's Little Indulgences
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- How To Make Shit Up And Get The Media To Talk About You: Faking "Studies" 101
- My Living Will, Such As It Is (Feel Free To Copy)
- Racist Assholes I Have Known
- Personal Ad Tips (For Guys)
- For Rent: One Planet (Slightly Used)
- Human Civilization 2.0 (or, we're so screwed)
- The Future of Transportation (?)
- COBRA Extensions and the Stimulus
- Ban Marriage!
- Now Will You Give Your Kids Their Damned Shots?
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- A Dirge for Gourmet Magazine
- Golden Beets and Garlic Kale
- Chile Hot Chocolate Surprise
- Pumpkin Gnocchi
- The Amazing SFESGDM Diet!
- Taffy Apples (Dad's Recipe)
- "Oh, I Can't Cook..."
- My Last Supper Requests
- Cabbage, Cabbage Everywhere
- Cooking & Gadgets
- On Idiots @ Epicurious
- Community Supported Agriculture
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- Eddie Izzard Iz Running 30 Marathons...In A Row
- Rick Springfield: Still Impossibly Hot
- Mandy Patinkin SINGS!
- Literal Music Videos
- 70s Toy Commercials
- Susan Boyle's Idol, Elaine Paige
- Screw Thumbs. Try this Movie Rating System.
- Rufus Wainwright is a GOD
- "Sugar" and "Sleep Dealer": Released Now, Worth Your Time
- Goodnight, Sweet Lorne (Andy Hallett Dies)
- Me First And The Gimme Gimmes RULE!
- Why I Hate Seth Meyers (Mostly)
- Natasha Richardson is Brain-Dead!?
- What Remains
- I.O.U.S.A.
- What The BLEEP Do We Know?
- Ten Cheesy Films You Should See
- A Chapman Stick Artist
- Blade Runner: Perfection
- MY LINKS
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- No Words (Photographs posted upon hearing about Dakini Dancer)
- Zumalicious's Cliche Fiction Challenge
- My Naked Face (With Dog)
- 6 Pretty Things for Susan
- I Never...
- 101 Words
- So, What's Your Porn Name?
- 25 Things
- 100-Word Autobiography
- For Sale Baby Shoes Never Worn
- A Poem for Feathered Thing
- The Spikenard-Bronwyn Challenge
Confessions of a Grasshopper
What am I going to do with my money, asks OpenSalon.
Why, I'm going to do what all sensible people do. First, I'm going to buy up all the railroads! Next: Park Place and Boardwalk--with hotels.
What Money?
But seriously. I, like other OS-ers, am not in possession of gre… Read full post »
Six More Pretty Things for Susan: Japan Edition





This Year's "Inconvenient Truth"
My morning commute is heavy on NPR, light on caffeine. This morning, engrossed in Marketplace (aka, Day 2 of "What The Fuck Happened To Wall Street And How Can We Fix It?") I completely missed my exit and had to drive an extra 8 miles to turn… Read full post »
These Are Things I Do Not Believe In

You can't prove conclusively there's a God. You can't conclusively prove there isn't. People have an absolute right to choose what they want t… Read full post »
Sexy! Naked! Collared!
Alright, alright, alright already. Dogs are cute! Cats are cute! They're very, very cute. But they aren't nearly THIS cute.

R.I.P., Squirrel (2002-July 2008). Loved ya much, little buddy. Enjoy the Cucumbers of the Afterlife!

Gentle Reader,
Do not we all, each and every one of us, even in times of uncertainty and hardship, deserve a little something that makes us sit back, close our eyes, sigh, and savor one or two very special fleeting moments of this woefully short experience… Read full post »
Gutpunched

Melting
I have never been thinner--never in my life, not even as a child--than during the three-year period I loved and lived with a beautiful, brilliant man who was battling what clear-eyed clinicians call "end-stage alcoholism."
Certainly the total lack of alcoholic calories in my d… Read full post »
The Way of All Flesh

All Photos: Sally Mann, from What Remains
A few winters ago, a friend and I (hung over or quite possibly still tipsy from the combination of the previous evening's wine and altitude) wrenched ourselves out of bed at 5:00 am and drove down the hill to… Read full post »
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