I think I posted about this back in school, but it's more true now than ever, so here we go again:

Is modern life so terribly dull that our only refuge is magical tales?  What started with Buffy now includes Angel, Supernatural, Reaper, Medium, Ghost Whisperer, Ghost Hunters, True Blood, Vampire Diaries... and that's just TV.  Now there's a novel ( Read more... )

Little Women and Werewolves.

Yes.

Also, Laura is fantastic and bought me Soulless.  It's just as fabulous as you said it was.  Better!

SNORM.

A storm of snore?  A swarm of storm?  A snore swarm?  A normal snore?  A storm norm?   A snore term?

I wish I'd had this for my Senior stole.

Also, I've started taking screenshots of the weird shit Google spits back at you in the first search screen.  For instance, if you type in "Who" in Google, the 8th result is Who moved my cheese?

If you type in "What are," the first result is What are these strawberries doing on my nipples I need them for the ( Read more... )

I'm still puzzling over why I receive emails like this.  Did I subscribe to a mailing list when I was doing Senior Sem research?

Anyhow, I love that

• "blogger" is synonymous with "BIG FUCKING LIBERAL ACTIVIST"
• "liberal" is a much worse word than "Democrat."  In that Wilson graphic, the word "liberal" is gi-hugo-normous.
• poor Joe is now a "target" of the ( Read more... )

I only now realized that the locations in her books are puns.

Knockturn Alley = Nocturnally
Diagon Alley = Diagonally
Grimmauld Place = Grim Old Place

Is there anything else I've missed?

Yay for Google Earth! This is my Grandfather's Farm. The fuzzy broccoli shapes at the top are the pine trees he planted, and the white squares near them are the house, the tool shed and his workshop (the house is the only structure not completely parallel to the road). The unterraced blob along the right is the fenced cow pasture. The ( Read more... )

Credit where credit is due: Fark user Elchode

Oh, and my favorite XKCD so far: Diet Coke+Mentos

Has anyone kept up with the recent allegation that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?

I'm torn.

On the one hand, it is heinous and despicable to create rumors like that.  Period.  There's no excusing a campaign of outright lies and character assassination.

On the other hand, the point of the allegation is to highlight the fact that ( Read more... )

This is the memorial to the Battle of Stalingrad. It was the world's tallest statue for a while:


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