Hi. I'm George. This is my LJ. A few months back, I made a semiconscious decision to post everything friends-only. If you're reading this because you've actually heard of me and want to know what's going on in my life, drop me a line at my last name at gmail ( Read more... )

Ganked from various:

Step 1: Put your media player on random
Step 2: Post the first line(s) of the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.

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So an NBA player has come out of the closet. John Amaechi is, of course, a former player, because no one is yet dumb enough to come out while still playing the game. And, just as inevitably, the idiots immediately start in with their idioting: LeBron James, however, said he didn't think an openly gay person could survive in the league ( Read more... )

List six songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your six songs ( Read more... )

You know, back in the day, it was a good idea to listen to your "god" about what you should and shouldn't eat, because couched in all that crap about how this animal is unclean and that animal is unholy was some pretty good advice. Pork isn't the best choice in societies without refrigeration and the ability to cook foods consistently at high ( Read more... )

Glass Houses, Rachel Caine
"Young adult novel"?
Caine writes damn good vampires
Good for all ages

Gravity Wells, James Alan Gardner
Lots of good stories
Gardner's kind of showing off
"Teleology"?

Children of Chaos, Dave Duncan
Logical magic
The only kind that I like
So this was quite good

The Right Nation, John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge
Brits reasonably
Talk to us about our own
Conservatism

In those thankfully infrequent moments where I just cannot think of the next word, when a sentence is so convoluted I can't even remember where the hell I started it, I close my eyes and lean back and think, Art Buchwald thinks you're pretty goddamn funny. And that works every time.

Buchwald died this week, after a lifetime of poking at the ( Read more... )

Ganked from thealmightyajax:
You are The Joker
The Joker
67%
Riddler
61%
Mr. Freeze
53%
Dark Phoenix
50%
Green Goblin
44%
Dr. Doom
44%
Venom
39%
Lex Luthor
37%
Magneto
35%
Apocalypse
31%
Poison Ivy
31%
Catwoman
28%
Mystique
24%
Juggernaut
24%
Two-Face
24%
Kingpin
19%

The Clown Prince of Crime. You are a brilliant mastermind but are criminally ( Read more... )

Well, looks like we're finally back on Baghdad municipal power. Apparently, our generator sucks ass or has some sort of evaporation problem or whatever. On the plus side, my new alarm clock/flashlight rules. Already worth the thirty-five bucks. And it even has a thermometer in it to tell me that, no, it's not my imagination, and the brand-new ( Read more... )