Merry Axmas
12 Days of Christmass Murder
Yulecide
Menorage
Deck the Balls
Frosty the Snow Maneater
The Santa Clause

I buy a lot of bread, well, ish. I get a loaf every two weeks or so, and it invariably goes bad before I finish it. I keep my bread in the fridge and have no qualms eating it two or three days past the posted date, but even so I often have a third or a half of a loaf left when I go to toss it or buy another. This waste of bread makes me feel

It is a common misconception that orange juice with pulp originally started as simply unfiltered orange juice squeezed straight from the fruit. Marco Polo describes orange juice being filtered or strained in China as far back as 1284. The original "pulped" orange juice was the French jus d'orange avec le poulpe, which is orange juice mixed with ( Read more... )

At long, long last, I can now announce that all four Rube Waddell albums are now available on iTunes. Ladies and gentlemen, start your hootenannying.

This film makes me want to both destroy things and myself.

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As a lit nerd, this xkcd greatly amuses me.

I have just discovered that Bonnie & Clyde had a bag of pistols in their car with them when they were gunned down in '34. While this isn't my golden-fleece bucket o' pistols, it's a historical step closer.

As many as 30% of cats in South America aren't actually cats, but cat beetles: an insect that has evolved into a near-perfect mimic of a cat. It was only discovered in the mid-Eighties when some scientists were engaged in a project to map the feline genome ( Read more... )

I want Gary Sinise to star in a new adaptation of Red Harvest, or really any other film noir classic.

So, I bought a pack of Moleskine notebooks to carry around with me. I don't know how I feel about this. On the one hand, this is very handy, and has already been used to jot down dreams, turns of phrase, paper ideas, and story concepts. On the other hand, now I'm one of those douchebags who carries around a notebook and pen (I abhor pencils). ( Read more... )