I'm putting a new roommate plea on copperbadge's next Radio Free Monday; this is where prospective new roomies can contact me ( Read more... )

LiveJournal keeps logging me out. Has anyone else noticed that there isn't a straight forward Login In link on the main page, or is one of my ad blockers fucking things up? What the hell?

Wondering if it's even possible to tell a well-meaning friend that he is mansplaining without hurting his feelings. Because he will take it as an attack, even if all I want to say is, "your experiences are not everyone else's experiences." And he is, overall, a very nice guy and a true, supportive friend, he just doesn't understand the difference ( Read more... )

There comes a point when one of your favorite internet personalities has posted a video of himself reading the fic that got you into the work of another favorite internet personality and you simultaneously feel incredibly gleeful and little bit sycophantic... anyone else?

iTunes survey borrowed from thistlerose

How many songs total: 3,158
How many hours or days of music: 11 dats 2 hours 50 minutes 28 seconds

Most recently played: "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire Chapter 2 The Scar" by JK Rowling, read by Stephen Fry
Most played: "No, I Don't Remember" by Anna Ternheim
Most recently added: um... the "Recently Added" list is ( Read more... )

I don't normally go in for all this tribute stuff, but Maurice Sendak was an incredible man with an incredible body of work. His Ida was one of my first heros. Just a couple weeks ago, we did a project with the artwork of children's stories, and I rediscovered so many of his works which I had loved ( Read more... )

A couple of guys I knew growing up almost died a couple days ago. I can't really say we were friends, we were never that close, but our moms worked together and we were friendly. I liked them, and I enjoyed the time we did spend together. They're a few years younger than me, twin brothers. I'm friends with their mom on facebook, so I hear about ( Read more... )

Yesterday I weighed myself twice; the first measurement was 155.4 lbs, the second was 154ish... Today, I did the same and ended up with 153 and 156. I think my scale may be a little off. Anyway, it gives me a ballpark reference, I guess ( Read more... )

I was walking home from work and thinking about my resolutions for the coming year and how I aught to write them down when I got home and not get distracted by teh interwebs. I almost got distracted by my friendslist anyway ( Read more... )

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