Do I know any Simon and Garfunkel fans with money? They're playing the ACC on May 12th.

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme...

This song was playing in one of the stores in the Eaton Centre this afternoon. I had to trace it back to the speakers just to make *absolutely* certain I wasn't going crazy.

Christmas tree = up.

Also, I may need to expand my Christmas music collection.

Oma: The universe is vast, and we are so small. There is really only one thing we can ever truly control.
Daniel: What's that?
Oma: Whether we are good... or evil.

Context still makes it better, but I'm not in the mood to summarize five seasons right now. Interesting that the last time I heard those words was nearly three years ago.

... reminded me of The Neverhood and of FF7.

After some discussion, a consensus on the appropriate mapping was reached:

1. Aragorn
2. Gandalf
3. Merry (or maybe Pippin)
4. Pippin (or maybe Merry)
5. Sam
6. Gimli
7. Legolas
8. Boromir
9. Frodo

Moody Blues: They're in their sixties now, but they were on stage for two hours (20-minute intermission, no opening act) and played all the songs of theirs that I knew and a bunch that I didn't. It reminded me how loud concerts are. The least anticipated of the concerts, but still enjoyable ( Read more... )

What's your favourite way of telling someone it would be unwise to offend that they are, in fact, an idiot?

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, 2009 Results"It was a dark and stormy night, dark like the inside of a spare tire in the trunk of a 1957 Chevy sitting up on blocks in a tumbledown barn somewhere in rural Ohio, and stormy like the romance of Pete Kimball and his girlfriend Betty Lou, who used to make out in the back seat of that Chevy when it was new ( Read more... )

There was a thunderstorm this morning.

"Ha, you call that a thunderstorm?!" said Mother Nature.

There is a thunderstorm this evening.

Do I know anybody who likes The Moody Blues (August 12)? How 'bout Great Big Sea (August 22)?

Word of the day: depoposcisti.