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Does ANYONE out there (within driving distance) happen to own Season 4 of the Highlander TV series? I, uh... well, I need it for work. By tomorrow. And none of the video places around here have it. Help!

You all have probably heard me babble ad nauseam about the adorable NPR Bat-- so here she is, in full-on stereophonic SQUEEEEE-ness!


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i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun's birthday

-- e.e. cummings

To all my friends, far and near, I give you joie on this, the Longest Night.

We are off to Whitby tomorrow, and SO NOT PACKED, but artnouveauho and I took time off this evening for a trip to Garlic & Shots with our lovely friend P and then a womble around Chinatown. Where I found some, erm, INTERESTING baked goods in the stores. These are for you, jessicamelusine!

( If ONLY H-Mart sold cake rolls in this color )

My old friend J. called me today after way, WAY too long out of touch. "Where the hell are you?" he asked, and I shot back, "in a five-star hotel room in Dresden with no pants on ( Read more... )

They have funny expressions for everything... I'm trying to keep a list of them but we're getting dragged all over Berlin at such a pace that I can barely think straight. HOWEVER, I wanted to share with you my new favorite German phrase (this might even beat 'arschfrißthosen!'), which is 'groß vie ein Klodecke,' or 'as big as a toilet seat.' As ( Read more... )

Well, here I am, soaking up the free wifi in a hotel lobby in Berlin. Tres global glamour! It would probably be more enjoyable if I didn't feel like someone had reamed out my ears with a wire brush, but them's the breaks, I guess, when you fly slightly ill ( Read more... )

...some of you may not know that I'm leaving on the 29th for a month in Europe, some of which will be vacation, and some of which will be gallivanting around the EU as part of a German/American journalist exchange program. I'll be writing about it as rias2007, so if it is your will, check it out! There's not much there yet, but just you wait...

I learned an important lesson today at the framing shop. Freshly cut glass is fucking SHARP. So sharp, in fact, that you can cut the holy hell out of yourself and not even notice till you see smears of blood on the glass. However, I did get some nerdly enjoyment out of it: I was framing original pages of Transmetropolitan and Preacher, and I ( Read more... )