I'm curious as to how many of my friends will recognize this:

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Listening to a friend's podcast, it occurred to me that if folks like Andy Serkis are often getting passed over for winning an Oscar, wouldn't it be nice to have an organization that awards prizes to people in those circumstances, to acknowledge that some judges are idiots and there are other folks who appreciate them? Then I got hung up thinking ( Read more... )

My home is very poorly decorated, mainly because I don't have much of an eye for decor, or a sense of how to do it, and almost never go shopping for it. Well, for a change I'm in a kind of shopping mood, for Rene Magritte!

( Paintings under cut )

I occasionally play hidden object games (HOGs). Not as often as I used to, because they become repetitive after a while. I started playing them when I went looking for new point-and-click adventure games, my favourite (but largely neglected) genre. That's when I found the Jayisgames website, which lumps them all together under their adventure ( Read more... )

Since I'm at home recovering from a terrible... something that my stomach was doing to me all last night, I thought I'd talk about some of the games I've tried over the last couple of months.
( Bastion )

From an old issue of the Cerebus comic before it went downhill, there's a scene where two of the Marx brothers, who are politicians in the story, get cornered by a very earnest, pushy salesman who doesn't speak English very well, who wants government money for a project ( Read more... )

Someone on DeviantArt is in the process of adapting The Call of Cthulhu into a Dr. Seuss styled-work.

Or not yet, but it's in the works.

Despite the tragic events in Norway and with Amy Winehouse... sometimes it's the smaller things, closer to home, that hit more strongly, simply due to being more familiar.

So long, Elwy.

America's Wall

Sur le Quai

Snailiad

King Uszniewicz & the Uszniewicztones

Juan de los Muertos