I don't care how stupid I am, but every time Graham ends an email with "Lots of love, older sis" it makes me smile.

Fermina Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she heard Digna Pardo's horrified shriek and the shouting of th servants and then of the entire neighborhood. She dropped the tasting spoon and tried her best to run despite the invincible weight of her age, screaming like a madwoman without knowing yet what had happened under the ( Read more... )

On your current playlist, hit shuffle and pick the first twenty songs on the list (no matter how cheesy or embarrassing), and write down a line of the song. Try to avoid putting the song title in the line. Then, have your friends comment and see if they know the songs. As soon as they get one right, cross it out ( Read more... )

1.What did you do in 2004 that you'd never done before?
A whole lot. For me to know and you to forget about finding out. ::tips hat::

2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I had one, and haven't had the opportunity to keep it yet. And probably won't; it's not important now.

3. Did anyone close to you ( Read more... )

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Jora tells me of the vagaries of being a costumer for a Toronto high-school production of Brecht's The Good Woman of SetzuanJORDANA: And I have to go out and find a ten-foot branch ( Read more... )

[Governor Hardin and David Gale are engaged in a debate on Batter's Box]

Governor Hardin: Alan, let me say something I always say and I'm gonna keep on saying. And that is that I hate killin'. That's why my administration is willing to kill to stop it.

David Gale: So, you don't subscribe to the idea that 'a good state is the one that protects its ( Read more... )

I really need to figure out the Libertarians.

And, strangely, seeing Kill Bill: Vol. 2 made me really sort of want to have children when I grow up.

Kim wants this for Christmas.

Anybody feel like telling me how much that is in USD?

La mala educación ("Bad Education") is rated NC-17 in the States, and only 15 in the UK. I can't see it in my own country, but if I were British I'd be fine.

I mean, really, what is it? The gay sex? Hello, Velvet Goldmine was only R. Is it that much worse in Spanish ( Read more... )