Happy Birthday to Mistress zooby, who I adore to a scary, almost stalker-like degree. May your upcoming year be filled with joy, Cadbury Creme Eggs, and tawdriness!

( And because I can't resist music memes... )

This is blatantly cribbed from the lovely and talented thelovehater, but it looked like too much fun to pass up.

Poll Music Picks - the Singles

After the ridiculous Internet drama of yesterday, I've decided to further distance myself from the OTZ messageboard. As much as I enjoy the posts of many of the fine people there, I admit that I'll never feel secure in my own journal knowing that someone broke the trust of a confidential conversation ( Read more... )

You know your Monday is going swimmingly the moment you realize you've just caused a bleeding papercut on your own top lip. And then later on in the day when someone offers you a buffalo wing, and you accept, neglecting to remember said wound? Well, having the fire of hell shoot through your face is pretty damn swell, too. And it's raining ( Read more... )

...especially when excellent people like manoosha and blaireliza have already blazed the trail.

1. XTC
2. Husker Du
3. Public Enemy
4. Joy Division
5. Sufjan Stevens
6. Elvis Costello
7. The Jam
8. R.E.M.
9. The Clash
10. The New Pornographers
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I have to admit that I'm in a bit of a tizzy right now. Christine's winter session in Dallas is this week, so we dropped her off at LAX on Friday, leaving me the primary Weestak caregiver until next Sunday. We did this last year, but that was back in the salad days when I had a low-stress job with flexible hours. My current lifestyle, by ( Read more... )

To avoid offending anyone's delicate sensibilities, I hereby invite everyone to participate in the poll...

( ...after the cut )

State's Evidence #1 - Discussing Jon Stewart's controversial Academy Awards hosting gig:

Oscar pundit Tom O'Neil calls him "hopelessly miscast," saying Stewart's anti-establishment sensibility was likely to backfire the way comedians Chris Rock and David Letterman were widely perceived as having flopped during their turns as host ( Read more... )

As odd as this sounds, the Winter Games have taught me a great deal about myself. The results are in, and I've won the gold medal for Boring Vindictiveness ( Read more... )

I thought my little VD gift pack for Christine - a lovely orchid, dark chocolate truffle bar, and bottle of port wine - was so wicked cool when I gave it to her last week. (I'm always prematurely romantic.) It paled, however, compared with the awesomeness of what she put together for me, the centerpiece of which was a tee from Threadless ( Read more... )