( All I can say is that my life is pretty plain. )

( Have Proper Love of the Craft )

I'm in Istanbul right now, and I have had that song in my head for every second of the past twenty-four hours.

( I was sitting at the counter in the diner on the corner... )

I had an experience today in the middle of the desert today that underscores the differences between the culture in the Middle East and the U.S. Our guest and I walked into a movie set from the 1970s that we had thought was abandoned. It turns out this was someone's home, it was clear that we made the owner very uncomfortable. To compound matters, ( Read more... )

( Flee Circus )

( In which we lament the lack of gingerbread )

( Plus ça change, plus ça change )

Today I made the mistake of popping onto forums and whatnot regarding my imaginary friend, the Slender Man, and his culpability in a recent murder in Wisconsin.

If I had to tally up what I've read so far, roughly 20% of the comments I read were defenses of Creepypasta (as in "I read Creepypasta/played D&D/watched the X-files/consumed horror in ( Read more... )

I learned this week that a seventeen-term US Representative from Texas--the oldest living member of Congress, was turfed out of his seat. I was horrified.

I am not horrified that a millionaire Tea Party candidate with beliefs which most certainly clash vehemently with my own won the primary, and, in a gerrymandered, middle-class, Caucasian district ( Read more... )