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    Feathers and Cupcakes
    Feathers and Cupcakes
    Feathers and Cupcakes
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    Feathers and Cupcakes

    By Mary Kitt-Neel

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    This collection of blog posts from 2006 covers vital topics like social activist cats, the world's biggest pot cave, trying to read James Joyce's Ulysses, the Love Potato, and the threat to marriage that nobody talks about: using the good scissors without permission.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMary Kitt-Neel
    Release dateOct 4, 2010
    ISBN9781452344942
    Feathers and Cupcakes
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    Mary Kitt-Neel

    I am a full-time freelance writer, writing website content and blogs for my clients. I also enjoy writing fiction, both novels and short stories. In addition to being a writer, I spent over a decade as an engineer at an Air Force facility, and I have also worked as a newspaper journalist.

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      Feathers and Cupcakes - Mary Kitt-Neel

      Feathers and Cupcakes

      Mary Kitt-Neel

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      Copyright 2010 Mary Kitt-Neel

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      The gospel according to Beavis (or is it Butthead?)

      As I was sitting in my kitchen a few minutes ago, sniffling and drinking my 43,435,349,394,557th cup of hot tea today, Dudezilla walked through on his way to his room from having been outside playing basketball. Here is a transcript of the wisdom that poured from his mouth:

      All our cleaning rags are made out of material that’s not good for cleaning. None of them are towel-y enough.

      (Then, on his way back through the kitchen, towards the front door)

      The light bulb is burned out in the pantry, by the way.

      So I said, Too bad they don’t let YOU change light bulbs.

      (He said nothing on the way back to his room to get whatever it was he forgot on the first trip, so his last bit of wisdom came as he was again headed towards the front door.)

      "Why do they say, ‘clean as a whistle?’ I mean, if it was a whistle, wouldn’t it have, like, your spit and stuff all in

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