CHICAGO (Wireless Flash) -- A person's taste in vodka can give you a good shot of their personality.That's what one smell and taste expert sniffed up in a recent study for Stolichnaya vodka ( Read more... )

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of The Manchurian Candidate is not The Manchurian Candidate.

That honor goes to Zoolander.

ETA:

There is a Goddess and she likes me; she really likes me! Why else would the casting of Voldemort come about just as I was feeling sad and blue?

Happy happy joy!

These days I am geographically constrained to lead an ascetic lifestyle. No snuggles. No drinks. No parties. No bookstores, no libraries, not an ounce of spending money. No Chinese takeout. Next to no people [admittedly not always a bad]. The pious lilt of [actual not metaphorical thankgoddess!] convent bells within hearing distance. Recycling ( Read more... )

Yet how can I possibly live without it? :( It's acting most strange. Shutting down for no reason; making little wheezing noises; refusing at random to show capital Q's or even [eep!] vowels when the wind is north-northwest.

On the other hand, my problems do seem, erm, pebble-sized compared to this woman's lotNo more hyperbolism from me. No sir ( Read more... )

Reading the below article had me thinking I might abandon my long-standing principles and give this odder than cod creation a chance after all:



[oh the yumminess of okra]

Randomly quoted quotes that have annoyed, tickled or made my card-carrying bleeding-liberal heart swell with pride lately:

"I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side." -- John Kerry

"Look, I support Bush. I even went to see that movie he starred in - Fahrenheit 9/11" ( Read more... )

Being in Tromsø this summer means spending more consecutive time with my mother than I have since... well, since I moved to Italy at seventeen. My unquenchable thirst for space and novelty makes things less than trouble-free. But every time I'm about to join Virginia Woolf in a petition for a room of one's own, my mom turns around and surprises me ( Read more... )

Hee!

Those stupid subscription cards that fall out of magazines.

85% of Republican politicians.

The disproportionate marriage of biiig broadsheet papers to tiiiny little coffeeshop tables.

Non-ironic 80's nostalgia.

Annoying overpaid twins.

Those very short-legged people that always occupy the roomy rows in first class.

The squeaky voice of the ( Read more... )