A new theatre company is in town, and they're starting off with a production of The Taming of the Shrew at the Elmira Theatre Company, in Elmira (about a twenty-minute drive out of Waterloo ( Read more... )

( Cause really, who wants to read about someone else's RPG, right? )

I won't be seeing it, despite - no, in fact, because of - my belief that it's simply the best animated series ever made. And I really, realy hope you won't pay to see it either.

I was going to write a long post explaining why, but instead I'll write a long post AND link to this brilliant explanation, from right here on Livejournal ( Read more... )

A friend of mine here on LJ, cbpotts, is a writer living in New York state. Her partner's parent was unexpectedly killed in an accident, and they simply don't have the money to afford for them to get from their home to Hagerstown, MDIf any of you can help her out, you have my word she's both Good People, and a hell of a writer. She's offering various ( Read more... )

69 years ago, a madman took his first steps on the trail to his downfall, when he ordered his armies east against the Soviet Union, to begin what the Russians call The Great Patriotic War ( Read more... )

...TOTTENHAM'S GONNA DO IT AGAIN
THEY CAN'T STOP 'EM
THE BOYS FROM TOTTENHAM
THE BOYS FROM WHITE HART LANE(the scansion really only works if you pronounce Tottenham properly: it's a two-syllable word, pronounced "TOT-nam ( Read more... )

Important news (link from Shakesville):

McNeil Consumer Healthcare has recalled ALL non-expired lots ofChildren's & Infants' TYLENOL, Children's ZYRTEC, Children's & Infants' MOTRIN, and Children's BENEDRYL (all liquid medications ( Read more... )

Anyone in Northern California got a home for a lovely older yellow lab?

Signal-boosting explicitly encouraged.

I miss Toby so, so much. :/

... on something sneaky LJ's gotten up to in stealth redirect of your outbound links, and more importantly how to make it stop.

And please, any discussion we have of this, let us avoid the jokes about how the Russian LJ is this, and Russians are that, and Soviet LJ, and blah-di-blah, okay? Let's try for a bit to remember that there are a number of ( Read more... )

Okay, for those who haven't seen this yet, bcholmes, someone I'm quite proud to call a friend, has a set of links here for how you can get help to Haiti. I trust her judgement on which places to send money far more than I trust the UN or our government ( Read more... )