I call bullshit on my supposed freedom from herdlike behaviour. I'm totally following shezan's lead. (Of course, I'm only posting because it called my style intellectual.) ;p

So, lapin_agile, your LiveJournal reveals…

You are… 25% unique (blame, for example, your interest in meta-lit), 25% peculiar, 25% interesting, 25% normal and 0% herdlike. When it ( Read more... )

I have decided that Harissa = Love.

(Secret ingredient to transform stew from yum to ZOMGAMAZING!)

That is all.

This entry was originally posted at http://lapin-agile.dreamwidth.org/120372.html. (There are
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Okay.

Why does every French film Netflix suggests for me have the same bloody plot?

Just watched Kristin Scott Thomas in Leaving, and now everything else in my video queue appears to have the same plot: bored housewife [or countess] has affair with tradesman because she finds her husband overbearing/undersexed/inattentive/wotevah ( Read more... )

I may officially be a 'news' junky now. This week I've added Le Monde to my daily 'news' consumption. (See * below.) It's not because I love the news for its own merits. (Who could, really ( Read more... )

...especially fortune cookie memes about sex, except when I do, I guess. Via matociquala

Pick up the nearest book to you.
Turn to page 45.
The first sentence describes your sex life in 2012.

From the Original Sacred Harp (1911), a shape-note songbook:Amazing grace! how sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me!
At least the meme didn't specify p. 55: ' ( Read more... )

I've no illusions about myself: I'm a terrible blogger. I just don't write about what happens in my life. But there is, in fact, a lot going on here at the moment, so in honor of shifting my attention away from livejournal to dreamwidth fully and finally, I'm going to see if I can't commit to posting here on some sort of regular basis. (Almost said ( Read more... )

Alternity is reaching the mid-point of its Year Four plot. Tonight is the YULE BALL. If you are a Potter fan and are interested in reading a journal-style rpg that's retelling the full seven-year story in a twisty, through-the-looking-glass universe in which Voldemort survived and came to power (as the UK's Lord Protector), now would be a great ( Read more... )

It's feast or famine with my posting. Today you get recipe spam.

Sorry.

Ingredients

1 tablespoon vegetable oil ( Read more... )

We were having leftovers (LO1: beef; LO2: pasta salad w/ an olive/mustard tapenade) and this emerged.

Beef and Penne with Olive Peppercorn Sauce

2-3 TBS butter/olive oil ( Read more... )

About the accent, at least.

And such a polite way of putting it, though I'd have left out the bit about the importance of national identity altogether. Because, really? Not so much.

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American ( Read more... )