Meme stuff. Apologies to Maestro Goya.


Third of May, with pepper spray by ~MadameManga on deviantART

And once again I am reminded why one of my non-negotiable conditions for choosing a university to attend was that it must have no football team. (Nor fraternity houses.)

That was THIRTY YEARS AGO, kids. Does this look like social progress to you?

Archiving it here: my reply to a question about feeling guilty for enjoying works of entertainment made by 'bad' people, or with disturbing elements. Anyone who knows me reasonably well will probably be able to predict exactly what I had to say about that. :) ( Read more... )

A couple of years ago while visiting Yellowstone Park, we bought a book called 'Death in Yellowstone'. ( Read more... )

Will make no sense except to those who watched WWE Raw last night. I.e., pro wrestling. :D


Punkbar by ~MadameManga on deviantART

Reading this and other short articles on this site, all documenting experiments in human psychology. Some of these have counter-intuitive results (or at least counter-popular-wisdom) regarding how external situations and other people's expectations influence our behavior, no matter how much we think it's internally driven or a matter of inherent ' ( Read more... )

Things which suck ( Read more... )

Sorry about this, but there have been so many spam posts in this journal lately that I am having to set comments to friends-only to avoid being snowed under by porn links in Cyrillic languages. Arrgh.

*Experimentally returning comments to registered users only, to see if that's sufficient. Maybe I was getting spammed because of inactivity? Or just

Thirty years ago today. It doesn't seem nearly that long, since the memory is so vivid and detailed. I was still so young that he was the first of my real idols to go.

And many more ( Read more... )