Not one, but two people have told me today that they're codependent on me...I am intensely flattered ( Read more... )

"This is canon for black kids. We all know it by heart." -- Alissa, watching The WizI saw the director's cut of Donnie Darko today. It feels fuller, although the length borders on uncomfortable. It isn't perfect but it got my mind churning just like it did the first time ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning, looked outside to see everything white, and was immediately eight years old. In a flash I could remember all the lyrics to all the Christmas carols, I remembered the smell of dirty Jersey snow melting inside the scarf that's wrapped around your face, and I wanted to go ladle chowder at a soup kitchen and befriend everyone ( Read more... )

THE SUN IS SO HOT THAT EVERYTHING ON IT IS A GAS. ALUMINUM, COPPER, IRON, AND MANY OTHERS.

For Henry, or anyone else who's waiting for that fourth horseman of the apocalypse: I bring you The Turducken Champion...

I have sung "Particle Man" in two different hemispheres.

In case you can take reading more about it (and I'm getting to a point where I can't), here's an article by someone who argues that Kerry legitimately won the election.

As Bela Lugosi once said, "Fuck, it's cold ( Read more... )

democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal ( Read more... )

i propose the universal theory of protests: the people who participate think the people who don't are assholes, ane the people who don't participate think the people who do are assholes. Personally I decided that i needed somewhere to direct my frustration adn that doing something was better than doing nothing, so i went to the bard rally/response ( Read more... )

( It's been a while since I posted a quiz, but still I'm embarassed )