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New Year's Resolution
A little bit early:
I will stop reading the comments on the Guardian's CIF articles. I know they are like a tasty, tasty trainwreck, with blood and guts and brains strewn all over the tracks, but what they actually are is a never-ending time sink that leaves you feeling slightly slimy after, like you've just shaken hands with a Republican. Don't ( Read more... ) -
This is why I watch Barca a lot
It's a sad indictment on Fiorentina's current form that I respond to them beating Roma 3-0, instead of with, "Hey! Fiorentina kicked Roma's arse!", with, "Hey! Riccardo Montolivo didn't totally fuck up!"
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Maybe "pretty, slightly fey young Brits" is my type, because I liked Loki better than Thor, too.
I finally saw X-Men: First Class. It was actually a good movie, as long as I didn't remember it was, you know, X-Men. Alternate universe, I kept telling myself, alternate universe. It's not like Marvel doesn't have enough of them ( Read more... ) -
In Flanders' fields the poppies grow//Between the crosses, row on row
I am the man who looked for peace and found
My own eyes barbed.
I am the man who groped for words and found
An arrow in my hand.
I am the builder whose firm walls surround
A slipping land.
When I grow sick or mad
Mock me not nor chain me;
When I reach for the wind
Cast me not down
Though my face is a burnt book
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NPR's list of Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
I know I'm late to the party. I only actually read the whole list when John Scalzi (one of my favourite sci-fi authors) posted a link to NPR's nifty new flowchart. It's hilarious. Check it out.
Perusing it, though, made me realize a few things. I know everyone else figured these things out before, when the list first came out, but indulge me:( Read more... ) -
Stop the presses!!!
Arsenal in not totally fucking up shock!
Now lets see how the rest of the day goes. (On a similar vein, I seem to have developed a reflex whereby every time the commentator on a Fiorentina game says "Ricardo Montolivo" I shout "Don't fuck up!!" So far it's not working.) -
Congratulations on winning the "totally fucking things up already" award, Barcelona
Considering you had to beat out Arsenal to win it, that's pretty fucking impressive.
Edit: Better. Stop kicking the Republic of Clarence, though, that's just not on. -
*headdesk*
Arsenal! What is with the fail?? -
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Valar in Aman, I think Kun Aguero’s Tengwar tattoo of his name is actually spelled correctly! (see picture here.) Unlike that of his former Atletico compatriot Fernando “Fernanod” Torres. -
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Congratulations New York!!! Apparently, this doubles the number of people who live under marriage equality laws in the US, and New York doesn't have residency laws for marriage licenses (and the federal law is that all states have to recognize marriages performed in other states, even if that state doesn't have legal same-sex marriage), so that's ( Read more... )
