When I planned to someday read "Journey to the West", it was ignorant of the fact that this classic of Chinese literature is 1400 pages longNot to say I'm not planning to make a good run of it, now that I'm past the bit I know backward and forward (I will confess to having an unreasonable love of Monkey Kine/Son Goku ( Read more... )

It's official.

Starting tomorrow, I'm discharging my duty to America.

For the lawyers, can anyone tell me why it would be illegal to arrive at settlement payments by averaging individual jurors' calculations?

I'm interested in knowing, after the extensive game played on my friendslist, if anyone would be interested in playing a game of lj-based Mafia (Explanation hereIf you're not interested for the reason that it's too soon since the last game, I'd like to hear that, too ( Read more... )

I have a lot of excess semi-sweet and baking chocolate in the house, but no butter, eggs, or milk.

Does anyone have any good vegan chocolate-based recipes? Cake would probably be preferred, but anything tasty would be great.

This might be nitpicky, but shouldn't a television channel be able to accurately identify what movie it's playing?

We're not talking about the cable guide or TVguide, but the actual, "You're watching" spot.

So, here's a question. I've been watching "A Haunting", a Discovery Channel show, for a while now ( Read more... )

( Spoilery, if you care about Heroes Spoilers )

On a lighter note, here is a picture of Joe Biden and his new puppy.

So, Bolt.

( Not really spoilery )

( I was at a (straight) wedding this weekend )