I found out that I'm working at the bookstore on Valentine's Day.

This is fine with me; being a perpetual singleton, I usually spend February 14th in front of the TV with a 2-liter bottle of Cherry Zero, a bag of tortilla chips, and a bowl full of that salsa & sour cream stuff I throw together, with one of two outcomes:

• Depressed because the movie is ( Read more... )

On Stephenie Meyer: "Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."

On James Patterson: "[He] is a terrible writer but he’s very very successful."

No word on what Mr. King thinks of Keith R.A. ( Read more... )

I am having way too much fun with this...


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The first one, snurched from KRAD:

Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the 50 Greatest TV Shows ever .

1. Bold the shows you watch/used to watch.
2. Italicize the shows you've seen at least one episode of.
3. Underline the shows you own on DVD (or VCR tape).
4. Post your answers.

50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep ( Read more... )

As always, I'm the last one to catch on to whatever's the new hip thing in the cultural zeitgeist. The fact that I have caught on probably means that something's fifteen minutes of relevance have elapsed around fourteen minutes and forty-five seconds of time. Despite that, I present you with my very first Obamicon:


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Snurched from just about everyone...

My Political Views
I am a left moderate social libertarian
Left: 5.83, Libertarian: 2.87

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Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence along with these instructions in your LiveJournal. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

"As we waited for shots to be set up, Bill [Clark] urged Keith [Ng] to tell me about some cases he'd worked, which ( Read more... )

Those genius busybodies from PETA strike again.

This time they're trying to get people to protest the "torture" of fish by rebranding our finny friends as "sea kittens." Because after all, most people don't go torture kittens for fun on the weekend, so why go torture a sea kitten by putting a hook in its mouth?

Sweet zombie Jesus, don't these people ( Read more... )

This one had me in stitches:

Baba hates kwanza, made up holiday. We need to replace it with Whedon day..
-TEH BABA

Snurched from romulantbonz

"If I were X, I would be..."

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