nothing that's worth having comes without risk.

In one scene, the car is there, the rain is there, the umbrella is tilted the wrong way, and this is exactly how it happens. We are leaving from the only Thai restaurant we ever go to and we are crossing the street. It's dark, it's pouring, we are giggling about how Mitch is actually NOT invited to my company holiday party and I am trying to ( Read more... )

ambergris is a hairball of the sea.

right?

my birthday's coming up. i'm the most ineffective party planner ever. i come up with the ghost of an idea of what i'd like to do and assume that everybody i'd like involved telepathically knows and will show up at the secret meeting spot the designated secret five and a half minutes late. bearing chocolate and prosecco ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fQi2usyIeM

this KIND OF renews my love for AB. though intensely strange, i would rather watch it 3 times back to back than play on the monkeybars of an excel spreadsheet. so be it, then.

the head-butting, polite litter scratching, window watching, summersaulting, finicky-eating purrball who loves sitting on the end of my bed.


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...it makes me sad. how did we get to a point where people are going to blow up planes of people with liquid and camera flashes? is hate worth that much? it's depressing to think the most effective way of getting the US's attention is to blow its citizens up in planes ( Read more... )

While tragic, that's my favorite headline of today ( Read more... )

What is with the new Snickers campaigns? When I first saw Peanutopolis i thought it was an ad for a charming new Broadway musical about dancing candy bars. Satisfectellent is pushing it. But Hungerectomy? What words are we combining here? Because it makes Cathy think of hysterectomies, which definitely doesn't make Cathy hungry for Snickers.

is it august already? how'd that happen ( Read more... )