I love old pulp novels. Particularly old pulp novel covers, the lurid subject matter & the often bright, garish colors. Tomorrow I leave for Kentucky and a Green Industry Conference, which will be about as exciting as it sounds. Not sure if I'll have Internet during the coming couple of days, so I leave you all with this, to sate your Desire for ( Read more... )

Where black nail-polish and black lipstick are available at every corner drugstore. Seriously, girls, stock up ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or was this just the single worst filmic adaptation of a Lou Reed album in the history of the world?

So this morning I popped my knee out of its socket. Does this happen to everyone? I twist my knee in some way and then it's like one of my hamstrings is pinched and can't move. The pain is excruciating. I feel like a suspension bridge about to give way. The moments between when I try to move my leg, though, are tinged with this euphoria, like my ( Read more... )

So I finally cleaned out my car today. I finally just got fed up with it. It still needs vacuumed, and come to think of it I didn't do the trunk, but it's still a pound or two lighter from all the wrappers and pop bottles and receipts and gum wrappers. Amongst all the detritus I found ( Read more... )

Sort of. I mean, he's dead, so it's academic as to whether he's having a happy birthday or not. It is at once amusing and irksome that "academic" has become a synonym for "meaningless."

I'll take over your friends' page, bitches!!! (external links to YouTube)

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Will they ever connect, ever?

Please show your work.

Vocabulary Lesson #6: One Thing About Osythia

Joe Soap--originally slang for a stupid or naive person. Came out of the British military in WW2 to refer to over-eager, slightly dumb recruits. Likely it's Cockney Rhyming Slang for "dope." These days it can just mean average joe.

Whelmed--So you've been ( Read more... )

I knew Audrey Hepburn was evil.

And I don't think Mohinder's Dad is dead. I think the actor on the "about the author" photo is a guy I've seen in the movies. Plus, if I don't see the body, he's not dead.

After two and a half seasons of Lost, I've become an eagle-eyed television viewer. So I get it with the constant f-holes, thanks.

Are there mirrors ( Read more... )

Ever had a song in your head for which there was no cure? The kind of song that, though it exists, doesn't exist recorded so all you've got is these faint strains playing against memory?

There's a moral lesson in here, somewhere, about man and his place in the Universe. About the shape and sound and feel of regret, and the inevitability of sorrow ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: This could also be read as "opinions I have formed," as this information was mostly gleaned anecdotally and not scientifically ( Read more... )