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Every year, at Christmastime, typically just before, I watch my favorite Christmas movie, It's A Wonderful Life. For years, even as I watched the movie, I disbelieved it. I was certain that none of made so much difference in the world as that movie purports. I always had this point of view: Put your hand in a bucket of water. Then, pull it out ( Read more... )

Um. Yeah.


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"We were making more money than a hug salesman in retard town"
- Spanky Pig in Comedy Central's Drawn Together

I know it's awful, but it just made me laugh.

Okay, so I tried this several times to what it generated, and I found that each time I liked the new one as much as the first ones. They all seem oddly appropos, so I post them all. Definitely good for a laugh.


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I think I haven't been doing enough light reading lately. I've been reading a lot of nonfiction. A lot of history and politics. A lot of biography and philosophy. Nothing wrong with reading about those things, but I just think I need to add a little light fiction. To that end, I think I'll start up reading the mystery novels that my favorite ( Read more... )

Goddammit! I just saw that the second book of the final series in the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, my favorite fantasy series, by Stephan R. Donaldson, won't be available until October 2007. And as I've been collecting all the books in paperback, it'll pro'ly be another 9-12 months after that before the paperback version.

Dammit.

Yeah, like this. *sigh*

Vincent
By Don McClean

Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
How ( Read more... )

Name it and claim it: The movie and character who gave us this quote from the Big Eighties:
“That girl has entirely too much brains to have an ass like that.”

Go figure. Turns out that I am a Renaissance Man. Unfortunately, the Renaissance ended roughly 500 years ago.

*sigh*