no sleep para last night, but i broke out in multiple cats. hee! New hypothesis on the soundest quasiscientific reasoning: The amount of wine absorbed before sleeping is inversely proportionate to the number of cats generated by morning.

i could drink the wine which is in the fridge. truly, that would be a simple thing.

but i'm looking at the mugful from the freezer.

and i'm looking at the microwave.

and i'm thinking of an incident involving a potato and a banana.

*fiendish glee*

*steeples hands*

They include a cutesy little self-help book called "Don't sweat the small stuff!", a peace-making present gifted to you by the most intimate of best friends; a girl who, you've recently found out, felt up your partner and tried to convince your partner to fuck her - several times! - over the course of the last month or two ( Read more... )

Context: A night in early December. Post-staff dinner, Garuva's, Fortitude Valley. Another woman and I pay first and slip outside to wait for the others in the cool breeze ( Read more... )

In 2008, ( Read more... )

Go read this blog

...it's cleverlarious.

When brassieres start to fall...
[/sadly punny jazz moment]

Tonight we got to see some marvellous "caburlesquerie", thanks to what I can only describe as turner23's burlesque brokerage service. (Fiend, you seem to be the unofficial social secretary of all the BEST Brisbane performance art events! How many tickets did your recommendation alone sell ( Read more... )

In Bujold's Miles Vorkosigan series, it's mentioned a few times that the duties of a prisoner-of-war are "Survival, escape, sabotage... in that order" [IIRC]. Is this exclusively Vor, or does it originate in Earth armed forces training? If it does, do you know which countries/which centuries? I want to get some of the kids at work hooked on making ( Read more... )

I know I don't have that wide a readership, or even a quorum of furball-trousered philanthropists. But this is a good story. Well-told, too. Maybe you could pass it on, if you can't afford to donate? I'm sending a few bucks.

From takhisis, the author of Two Lumps"One of the things that always weirds me out about taking the boys to the vet is that they're ( Read more... )

Hamlet: What's this? A rat! Dead, I'll wager, dead!

* HAMLET thrusts his sword through the tapestry
* GERTRUDE gasps - POLONIUS is revealed behind the curtain

Audience: DOIN' IT WRONG

(it just came to mind.)