Although he’d heard the clang of the front door being closed rather more forcefully than necessary and heard the stomp of their boots up the hallway, Brinkley didn’t so much as glance up from his newspaper when the pair entered, bringing with them the unwelcome scent of petrichor ( Read more... )

There's clearly something about the month of March which is suggestive of new beginnings. Sap rising, the little creatures of the field re-emerging. We did it - we drove back the night one more time ( Read more... )

So, I got to contemplating a bit.

Seduction capital - how desirable you are to other people. I'm not sure how men and women found partners in the Dark Ages, but we can assume that for the average shit-covered peasant it meant drawing on a pretty shallow pool consisting of persons of opposite gender in the immediate geographical area. Perhaps ( Read more... )

Hello Hive Burn-All (Livejournal)!
What's new?
A ranking system? So my aged journal which I haven't updated in three years is around 240,000th in the grand scheme of things? While that does make me feel incredibly worthless, it also makes we wonder about everyone who ranks lower than that? What are their journals about? The Catholic Church's role in ( Read more... )

From hell's heart, I stab at thee!

Just completed the single-player campaign on Black Ops and yes, it was a truly great game. Also, I took the plunge and ordered Dead Island, although what with an impending holiday and other responsibilities it looks like I won't get to play it until Tuesday. God-damn!

Following  a self-imposed fast, I've been gaming like a motherfucker.

We should pause here to consider why the standard simile for enthusiastically persuing an activity is "like a motherfucker". I suppose we can only assume that to address someone as a "motherfucker" is not only to infer that they're engaged in an incestuous relationship with their ( Read more... )

So here's what happened: like everyone else on your friends list I decamped to Facebook which is far preferable to blogging. After all, why compose a lengthy and deeply considered diatribe on the nature of whatever-the-fuck when you can tell the 7,482 people on your Facebook that you've just had an egg sandwich?

But you know what, Facebook just isn' ( Read more... )

So what the fuck's new with you?

I'm going to have one last shot at this blogging thing. If it sticks, it sticks, If it doesn't then I'll just confine my creative output to bursts of inanity on facebook. Alternately, I've been toying with the idea of a video blog. Making it proper interesting, like a v-blog version of Cracked.com or something ( Read more... )