So, I am now watching Season 2 of Mad Men on DVD. Supposedly, everyone who is anyone in the whole world (by which I mean Manhattan) has watched this before me ( Read more... )

Son, do you know what I'm stoppin you for?

Man, I hope I don't get eaten alive by ticks tomorrow.

1. I'd give my left nut to be able to finish this stupid fucking rat novel in a timely fashion. I'm convinced I could sell it now. If it takes two more years to pry it out of my brain and smear it on the page, not so much. Fuck, it'll probably take me two more years to figure out how to format the in-story emails coherently in standard manuscript ( Read more... )

Ok, this is an idea I'm just playing around with, turning over to see what maggots crawl out and so forth ( Read more... )

A 26-year old Greek woman has become an overnight national hero after setting fire to the genitals of a 23-year old drunken Briton who allegedly tried to sexually assault her in a crowded bar.

She also won a technical Oscar for best non-internal use of ouzo.

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I swear on my grandmother's grave, I had no idea when I used 1984 as a metaphor in reference to We Need to Talk About Kevin that the book ends with the main character protesting her love for the character (both of the characters) that have utterly destroyed everything meaningful about her life and performing allegiance to a system that tells her ( Read more... )

Many years ago, with one of my high school boyfriends, I had an in-joke. It was a pretty you had to be there sort of thing. It revolved around, if we ever had a kid, and the kid ever became a born-again Christian, the techniques we would use to dispose of this kid's said body after killing him. Yeah, amazingly, I have not always been the shining ( Read more... )

The Bush Administration considered sending U. S. troops into the streets of Lackawanna in 2002 to arrest suspects who had been suspected of training and plotting with al-Qaida, the New York Times reported on its Web site late Friday.You know, I totally understand why the FBI might feel a little intimidated about coming on to the mean streets of ( Read more... )