this guy is horrible. hilarious, even, if it weren't for the fact that people are dying because he shut down all the health facilities outside the urban areas

take that back. instead, the dumb bbc is revealing parts of the savemachupicchu plan in bits and pieces, scattered about 15 minutes apart. the plan is far more comprehensive, and i will be reading it shortly.

grr bbc, you're letting me down.

so the peruvian national institute of culture plans to increase the entrance fee to machu picchu by $10 in order to stop the damage being done to the site by tourism. is the $10 going to deter people from coming (it won't, unless you're peruvian...and in that case the price they're making you pay is ridiculously high already) or help them restore ( Read more... )

deep throat, the john galt of our time, was identified last night to be w. mark felt. it's the end of an era, really, but i'll bet you that more people are snickering to see "deep throat" plastered across the headlines of every newspaper than actually remembering the watergate scandal which shook the nation. it would be dishonest of me to pretend ( Read more... )

if you have any clues as to why my stomach might have exploded last night, please contact me at your earliest convience.

one.org

done!

...emily looked out the window and saw that it was christmas, and that she didn't have to study for exams any longer, because they were still four months off.
the end.

yo muy serio voy remando
muy adentro sonrío
creo que he visto una luz
al otro lado del río...

i'm becoming such a good cook that it's scary. i don't know what will happen when i'm actually charged with the task of food preparation - total food freedom could get out of hand. out of hand in an amazingly tasty way. new food of the week - condensed milk. quite possibly the sweetest substance on earth (literally way way too sweet), when mixed ( Read more... )