So, I watched the foreign adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and...yeah. I need to talk this shit out.

( Cut due to possible triggers for survivors or anyone else who might be offended or disturbed by talk of non-con, sexual assault, rape, and extreme violence against women as well as spoilers for the film... )

Yesterday morning, on the way to work, I was going sort of downhill on my bike, at a pretty decent clip, when my tires got stuck in the streetcar tracks and I basically got flung over my handle bars and landed, face-first, on the pavement ( Read more... )

You know what's amazing?  The fact that we FINALLY live in a world where we can wake up in the morning and have an actual, tru fax conversation about how Kate Winslet saves old ladies from burning buildings nowSeriously. The universe must have realized what a shit storm it tossed our way yesterday and is desperately trying to make amends ( Read more... )

"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." ~Jack Layton

We love you, Jack. Thanks for loving us so much in return.

My elevators at work have those mini-televisions on the wall that broadcast things like the latest news, stuff happening in the building, etc. This also includes a seemingly cute Word of the Day thing that is actually evil if you know what’s really going on, which is that someone in this building is getting paid to pick words, define them and then ( Read more... )

The following is why my Platonic Life Partner is my Platonic Life Partner.

AT LULU LEMON IN THE EATON CENTREPLP:  ::picks up random item::  Oh!  It's on sale!  It wasn't on sale last week! ::cue rapturous delight ( Read more... )

Question:  Why would I spend my valuable time watching UFC fights when I could just as easily watch gay porn and have a significantly more satisfying payoff in the end without all the mood-killing dude-jeering in the background ( Read more... )

I bought another pair of boots last night.  I don't need them at all ( Read more... )

Dear Lunch Thief ( Read more... )

I know. It's been a while since I posted about DOOL.

But, does anyone on my flist remember that storyline from the mid-to-late 90's when Stefano kidnapped Marlena *again* and kept her in a giant, guilded bird cage under the streets of Paris and then John saved her but then *he* was caught by Stefano and then there was a trial under the streets of ( Read more... )