Wear lilacs if you were there.

And raise your glass to the memory of Horace Nancyball.

The lead headline in the Pleasants County (WV) Leader was:

Belmont Water Operater Quits to Take New Job

I swear I am not making this up!

And they wonder about the stereotypes of West Virginia?

You Are 86% Evil
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Being prescient can be a real bitch sometimes.

Joyeaux Mardi Gras!

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!

*sets off fire-crackers*

It's the year of the pig.

I am waiting (but not patiently) for these:

Armageddon’s Children Book 2 by Terry Brooks

Gideon the Cutpurse, Book 2 by Linda Buckley-Asher

The Friday Installment of Garth Nix’s Keys to the Kingdom series

Dean Koontz’ Frankenstein Book 3, which was supposed to come out LAST SUMMER!!

The Magician Trilogy Book 3 by Jenny Nimmo ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's significant or anything, but I've seen an awful lot of barges loaded with coal heading north up the river.

I don't know about you but I'm going to work on my extenuating circumstances defense.

You know...just in case.

A local angler, fishing in the Ohio, caught an 18-inch red-bellied piranha. You read that right. A piranha! Those amazonian lovelies that can skeletonize a cow in 2.3 seconds. That's a pic of one as my icon. Nice, innit? A fish and wildlife rep identified the fish and said it was most likely from someones private aquarium. This happened about 8 ( Read more... )

You are never in a billion years going to guess what I got ( Read more... )