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Category Archives: release of calcium from intracellular stores
Because The Night
Kids are wonderful. Also generous. When they were small and running with stenchly ichors from various orifices, they donated a wide variety of microscopic organisms for the amusement of my immune system. That was then. Now, though.
Posted in Apparitions, arby's, cats and other myths, cecil baldwin, chthonic, eldritch, erumpent, h p lovecraft, mysterious hooded figures, news from lake wobegon, preternatural, release of calcium from intracellular stores, Science-fiction, stephen king, the charnel house stench of uncovered graves, thinking about thinking, welcome to nightvale, Writing & Reading
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Learning How to Say ‘No’
Notwithstanding inasmuch as which my reputation as an editor at Your Favorite Weekly Professional Science Magazine Beginning With N, I’m just a girl who cain’t say ‘no’. I’m in a terrible fix. I always say ‘come on, let’s go,’ just … Continue reading
Posted in big boots would have been better than crox, jeremiad, overachievement, release of calcium from intracellular stores, sanity, thinking, thinking about thinking, venlafaxine, Writing, Writing & Reading
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Cake
Earlier today the Croxii collectively attended my sister’s birthday party, which was held at her family’s beach hut on Cromer West Beach (the déclassé end of Cromer, if you ask me, but we’ll let that pass) Cromer West Beach, earlier … Continue reading
Posted in Andy Connelly, cake, Delia Smith, Domesticrox, Nigella Lawson, release of calcium from intracellular stores, Science Is Vital, science of cookery
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Pride
Today the Fine City of Norwich hosted its Pride event, and me and the Croxii went to take a look. Pride comes before a Hall. In this case, Norwich City Hall
Posted in beach, Blog Norfolk!, Cromer, happiness, Imagine, John Lennon, Leviticus, libertarianism, mermaids, my inner hippy, no coach parties, on the ball city!, phallic eructations, Politicrox, Politics, Pride, pubic hair, release of calcium from intracellular stores, straight but not narrow, thinking, thinking about thinking, UKIP, you might as well give up now and shop at mr fatbastard
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Plagues
Now, bear with me, I shan’t be long. You see, the mispoche are coming round later and I’ll have to get started slow-cooking a large leg of lamb for our seder. I’ll be leading it, which means that I’ll be … Continue reading
Posted in eldritch, Passover, Pesach, pharaoh, plagues, release of calcium from intracellular stores, rpg couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag, seven transmembrane helix G-protein coupled receptors, Silliness
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That Was The Week That Was
What a week it’s been. Honestly, if you’d have made up this week’s news, nobody would have believed you. So, what have we had? * A meteor exploded over Russia, quite close to the city of Chelyabinsk.
Posted in Apparitions, blade runner, chelyabinsk, chthonic, eldritch, erumpent, glaziers, meteor, oy veh my poor feet, pistorius, Politicrox, release of calcium from intracellular stores, sasquatch, Science Is Vital, Science-fiction, Silliness, that ursula andress moment, Writing & Reading
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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #766
I have been deluged with several signs portents signs from our Latin America Correspondent, Dr A. C. of Santiago de Chile. There’s this; this; this; and, notwithstanding inasmuch as which, this; I wonder what this is trying to tell us?
Posted in Apparitions, chthonic, data entry at the OK corral, dog, eldritch, erumpent, jeremiad, Large Hadron Collider, no coach parties, release of calcium from intracellular stores, seven samurai, Silliness
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Music
It will not have escaped the notice of either of my readers that I have been somewhat absent of late. Absent in more than one sense, as I have been fighting off a rather vicious episode of depression caused mainly … Continue reading
Posted in chthonic, citalopram, deep purple, depression, eldritch, erumpent, excuse me madam but does this bus go to the station, mirtazapine, Music, oh L I'm fifty, release of calcium from intracellular stores, rock, sertraline, stealer, sycorax, zither
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Information
It might come as a surprise to you both that I have a page on Wikipedia. I didn’t create this page. Nobody told me it was being created, nor did they ask me for any input. They could have had … Continue reading
Posted in benveniste affair, chthonic, data entry at the OK corral, jeremiad, john madox, malfeasance, release of calcium from intracellular stores, Research, seven transmembrane helix G-protein coupled receptors, unknown, wikipedia, Writing & Reading
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It Has Not Escaped Our Notice #151
This example kindly sent in by Dr M.-T. H. of London, who found it in the lucre-driven, full-on, high-energy, 24-hour bagel-fuelled city that is New York. So exhausting they named it twice.
Posted in excuse me madam but does this bus go to the station, Ham and High, release of calcium from intracellular stores, Silliness, thinking about thinking
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