Trigger Warning for Oooh! Shiny!!

The delightful Strange Maps just pointed me to a Brit Lit Map . . . which turns out to be a poster available from a high-grade threat to one's budget called The Literary Gift Company. I especially encourage people not to look at the mugs. Or the earrings. For heaven's sake, not the book bags.
“Quotable ( Read more... )

Whitney Houston visits Lemont's dream

I got to ConFusion. I thought I could afford it, and ended up on the cheap thanks to Matt Duhan for the ride AND turning up a guy who wanted half a room, so I only ended up paying for one room night. And the Registration desk did a reasonable job of digging out the name of a Fan GoH whom no one there had ever seen ( Read more... )

Note for those born less than fifty years ago - In “The Sixties”, one of the great arguments was between the Politicals and the Life-Stylers, whether to smash the system or simply to walk away from itIn 1968, there was this Bohemian writer visiting New York. Not bohemian as in chosen lifestyle, but from Bohemia ( Read more... )

My sexual self-image is "vanilla het", which leaves quite a wide gap between what I'm inclined toward and what I might object to. I've never made a systematic survey, but I have friends and acquaintances of a wide range of preferences/tastes ( Read more... )

When I ran into the first-hand twitter account of the raid that took out Osama bin Laden, I figured it was a cute joke and moved on. It seems it’s real.
Now, the news (BBC via NPR) mentions that the guy selling American flags at Ground Zero for $25 was an Afghan refugee.
God Bless America. I wish I knew what tone of voice to use for that.

This post has been composed and sitting in my memory for a couple of weeks. I'm doing ok this winter, not extra depressed enough to notice, but I checked the excessively finicky sunrise-sunset-day length website in my bookmarks, and between February 1 and February 28, daylight increases by 70 minutes. Over an hour ( Read more... )

nominate The Ray Bradbury Tribute for Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form Hugo!

From NASA's Earth Observatory Image of the Day page. I know at least a few people who will enjoy this, and some of them will see it here, so this is intended to propagate it.
. . . I need a good little word for something like "narrowcast meme" or "viral in a narrow target demographic". That's one of the things I seem to use lj&fb for the most.

The next time a member of the Obama glee club tries to tell me he isn't a moderate Republican and he's done wonderful things, I'm going to projectile vomit ( Read more... )