Yes, it's time for another bizarre animals update.

Beavers make big-bucks dam
Animals weave stolen money into dam in Louisiana

The Associated Press
Updated: 2:50 p.m. ET Nov. 15, 2004GREENSBURG, La. - These eager beavers had a whole new slant on money laundering ( Read more... )

As the madness that is NANOWRIMO overtakes us I suddenly become required to do an extremely regimented poem to fry my brain... woe is me. Fortunately I already did a Villanelle--apparently I wasn't as crazy as I thought.

Here is the explanation for the rules on Sestinas.

Love-Story by the Sea in SummerThe beginning of the story ( Read more... )

I hope everyone got a chance to see this tonight!

I took a few pictures with my camera (sadly no telescope only the zoom function).

( 2 of which are here )

So I dyed my hair last night. And it's BLUE! I like it at any rate.

It's 6 week dye (roughly) and you have to bleach to blonde first to get the blue to be bright. Personally I hate the blonde (I look like some sort of demented-Cher, icky!) but some people liked it.

LINKS to Pictures

Step One--Bleaching
Results of Step One: front and back
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Before the madness that is NANOWRIMO overtakes us all I decided to do an extremely regimented poem to fry my brain... I'm a glutton for punishment.

Darling apollotiger inspired me to post this. Read his villanelle here!

Villanelle LullabyGo to sleep, count the sheep ( Read more... )

A poem about 9/11 and the Iraq War. {Please note that this is COPYRIGHTED material!!!}

Names ( Read more... )

If you have no idea what the title of this post is talking about please follow this link to the story on MSNBC.

Scary isn't it?
But the thing that really scares me is that we normally don't hear about these things in the United States. Unless it involves killing children, a 'civilized' country, or in some way is/might become a danger to us ( Read more... )

In honor of my being stung by a ground bee today, we have 'freaky bugs.'

Follow this link to a story about Camel Spiders. This comes to us from a mythbusting site that states status: true. That's right ladies and gents, these nasty giant spider critters actually exist ( Read more... )

About that title...
Well I'm hardly going to post the Inner workings of my mind on a public site now am I? But as no one is going to be interested in the surface workings (or for that matter the rest of this either) I've decided to let you in on the Middle Workings of My Mind, which as you will soon find out are indeed scary.

Okay, so what ( Read more... )