Jesus said "suffer the little children to come unto me."

But when it came to eating, he picked the lepers as his dining companions.

"You're like a vegetarian version of Dr. Lecter, Jim."

That is one of the nicest complements I have ever received.

If I was the actual conscientious type, I would have kept a list of the books I read this year as I read them, with links to the Amazon pages, but I am a lazy sod. Besides, that's really self-indulgent. Like putting up a list of the books I read this year DOESN'T make me an attention whore ( Read more... )

"But, honey...it's 'all you can eat.' You only had a few bites."

"Ecch. That's all I CAN eat."

You have this romantic notion about self-destruction, and aren't afraid to let everyone know how deep your pain is, in just two lines.

We GET it.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, ( Read more... )

In 2004, Party Ben's (www.partyben.com) wonderful mashup of Oasis' "Wonderwall" and Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" became a minor hit, and quite a few radio stations played it. You can get the original mashup here, about 2/3 of the way down ( Read more... )

The kinds of women who protest Victoria's Secret lingeree window displays as offensive,

often are also the kinds of women who would not look good in Victoria's Secret lingeree.

Our town is allowed to display Christmas trees, but not Nativity scenes, because that's a religious symbol. OK, fine. No religion for the holiday, because God forbid someone whould be offended ( Read more... )

I put an entry up in a community to which I belong, and a reply to a post I made flabbergasted me.

Here is one line from it:

"My coach is absolutely ridiculous, he makes me cry and I'm 22. I think about quitting all the time because of him."

Is it just me, or does this seem almost silly for a person of that age to react like that?

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