Last night I watched the most atrocious trainwreck of a made-for-tv movie ever to grace my television set. I recognize that my fondness for the occasional Disney Channel movie does significantly increase the odds that I will find such a thing, but "High School Musical" broke all the records of bad movie making. You know all those Lorenzo Lamas ( Read more... )

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Applejack!

1. The Eskimos have over fifty words for Applejack.
2. The fingerprints of Applejack are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene!
3. Applejack will always turn right when leaving a cave.
4. The pigment Indian Yellow was manufactured from the urine of cows fed ( Read more... )

Your Social Dysfunction:
Happy

You're a happy person - you have a good amount of self-esteem, and are socially healthy. While this isn't a social dysfunction per se, you're definitely not normal. Consider yourself lucky: you walk that fine line between 'normal' and being outright narcissistic. You're rare - which is something else to be happy ( Read more... )

Wacky rainstorm--hit the windows so hard it woke me up. Seems to have died down, but I'm half afraid to turn on the news to find out what's happening in the rest of the area.

Today I decided that I had to get out of the house. I went over to a friend's apartment for a New Year's get-together last night (much fun was had), but other than that have been stuck in my apartment with bronchitis since Tuesday (and had to cancel plans to see insomniacat et al in Vegas--not pleasing). I decided that the thing to do would be to walk down ( Read more... )

Found this randomly today...it pleased me:

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. "
Oscar Wilde

Go here...trust me ( Read more... )

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-christmas9dec09,0,4039464.story?page=2&coll=la-home-nationRead more... )

Children are starving around the world, bombs are going off daily, and we still have no clear plan for ending the war, and this is what we're worried about? Someone get me some dark chocolate to dull the pain ( Read more... )

December 5th, 1876 - President Ulysses S. Grant apologized to Congress for mistakes he
claimed he had made during his presidency

What a novel idea.