Grab the nearest book. Find the 5th sentence on page 23. Append it to the paragraph below. Append your name to the list below of people who have contributed to the paragraph. Post the result to your LJ ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ran out of gas.  Well, my car did, anyway.  I called some service places. and they wanted over $100 to come out and give me 2 gallons of gas.  This was the tow company that Geico recommended.  Ha!  I called Uber (you have to use an app on your phone, you don't actually call them.), got a lovely young man  ("when will you be here?" " ( Read more... )

If you don't mind subtitles, this is a delightful movie - just the thing when you want something heartwarming and funny. 

This is the day my mother died.
Years ago.

They didn't tell me until months later, long after she'd become a pile of ash
Illicitly dug into the plot
Where her mother and father were.

That plot - the one that caused a rift with the church ( Read more... )

Thanks to all who weighed in on the date format - good to know my instincts were on track.  I got voted down, but that won't happen again! .  I have citations!!!

I haven't  been able to find a good answer to this, and I know there are a few of you out there who use commas in the right places.  Here's the question:
We often (in label textx) write the release date of a game or console. The proposed text for the next exhibit was written:

" . . . released for arcades by Namco in Japan in December of 1982. ( Read more... )

In an effort to help you waste as much time as possible, I wanted to let you all know that Dramafever, the TV-movie streaming site that I watch K-drama on, has added "British Historicals." I think I am about to lose the day to Pride and Predjudice.  There are even 3 Upstairs Downstairs episodes. Not too much stuff available now, but I imagine it ( Read more... )

If you haven't seen Pixar's latest movie, Inside Out, you should.  Like a lot of Pixar's early movies, there are parts of it way to high level for kids, but still fun for any age.  You know the old, "I laughed, I cried"?  Well, DIL cried, I laughed.  I won't even tell you may favorite parts - go see it and then we can compare ( Read more... )

Today is the one year anniversary of the sinking of the Sewol FerryIn our time, the ferry started to sink around 7PM and was submerged by about 9:30PM.  The icon I have been using this year is a white chrysanthemum, symbol of mourning and sorrow in Korea, placed near  the sea where the ferry went down ( Read more... )

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