News comes on the heels of Saturday's Hash Bash in Ann Arbor, a fun gathering that is perpetually darkened by the specter of grim-faced police officers and the somewhat desperate tone to the developments in marijuana legislation. While activists manage to get decriminalization through one town at a time, we learn that a key marijuana farm was ( Read more... )

In a fit of not wanting to do my homework (which by coincidence is also happening right now), I went ahead and created my new domain of literary horrors. I feel astonished that no one took the username, enamoured as I was with it at the time:
infinite_llamasThe idea being that they spit upon an infinite number of keyboards, as outlined in the user info. ( Read more... )

I like the Year in Review idea, but copying a lemming causes me horrible, icky pain. So, I'm doing a llama, which is taking a lemming and making it more to my tastes. Here, I present the Year in Awesome, or one of the most important sentences of each month for the children to learn. Perhaps for comparison, I also use the first of each month to show ( Read more... )

Look at me, I'm back in Maine again for a couple of weeks, and I'm completely tired. Maybe it's the past 3am thing, after a flight that landed at 11pm followed by the drive back. It was fun, sort of, but now I sleep the sleep of a thousand bears.
Oh, and for the one person who may have been counting, the hair was, like, the first thing mentioned ( Read more... )

I don't know why this happened in Augusta, Maine. I just have a link that says it happened.

Model BehaviorI love how there had to be exactly one quote from the puritanical Mainer who thinks it's immoral and the overcompensating Mainer who thinks it's cosmopolitan. No really, we do have both these types in that state, I swear I've seen it before ( Read more... )

The pattern doesn't look right anymore, and I'm thinking I should have gone with a different updating schedule. I suppose it's not too late to backdate, and make up some filler content about um, ten otters going on a vision quest in the desert as a metaphor for being really thirsty earlier today. That's more work than I want to put into making ( Read more... )

It would appear as if mild sleep deprivation and the right amount of pressure can cause vague hallucinations and distortions of reality, especially when I am on the border between sleeping and wakefulness. Today I was convinced for a moment that my facial movements were more exaggerated than they probably were, which felt like a flashback to a time ( Read more... )

Also, for those of you who happen to be bored (if any), you may have noticed a schools list that was added lately. You may have further noticed that some people list Hogwarts as a school (under United Kingdom, Scotland-Highland, Hogsmeade) despite its lack of existence, and despite the fact that most of these people would flunk out of Hogwarts due ( Read more... )

It just entered into my awareness that I have no more than seven days (counting the day in question and today) to think of a costume, assemble it, and wear it. I don't know that I'll even have time for the thinking part, except where completely impossible costumes are concerned. At one point, I thought a monster from Metroid would be cool, like a ( Read more... )

I almost saw a heron on the Huron but this was just a tributary.
I also did see Serenity and, um, wow. The debates have already begun in the apartment over the choices Whedon made in the movie. Even if you end up not liking it, I swear it's one of the most unforgettable movies I've seen. Of course, I'm biased, since the movie just about prostitutes ( Read more... )