One of my half-brothers joined 23andme, which is a little exciting since he is the closest relative I know of on that system. Well, it was exciting until I realized I'm not sure that being connected on there will really reveal much. We'll see. But the site declared me as his grandfather, based on the genetic similarity and, I assume, our age ( Read more... )

Do we need to stop using LiveJournal or are there just going to be more ads now?

I have a reliable first-hand report of "little people" at large in the American Northwest. My source encountered a congregation of these beings in a wooded area. Human-like in all essential respects, the beings were nevertheless small, like normal people in miniature. Although the encounter was brief, my source was able to glean some important ( Read more... )

There was a double murder in Delphi, Indiana last week, and the killer is still at large. Delphi is north of here, a little over an hour from where we live. I have never been there and don't feel any special connection to any of this, other than when they released the suspect photo, I agreed with what I saw people say online: this looks like every ( Read more... )

from http://www.strangemag.com/firstperson.html#giantshrimpRead more... )

I know, keep your head down, ignore the world, ignore the news, whose job is to make you always afraid ( Read more... )

There is a podcast called Dogman Encounters, whose topic is exactly what you would imagine. At present it is up to 110 episodes.

I need to get rid of some of these feeds. How have you been?

Big hoorays for The Lost Thing and God of Love winning.

Boo to Exit Through The Gift Shop not winning. I was so looking forward to seeing who or what would've accepted.

I feel like True Grit will get shut out. I didn't see a lot of these movies. Most.

I keep forgetting, but this obnoxious article has persuaded me I should stop typing two spaces after periods, the way I was taught. I guess that means no double spacing after colons as well? Seriously the tone of this article is annoying. Maybe if you are going to preach about type you have to make me want to smack you? (And when was the last time ( Read more... )