There is no such thing as natural land un-touched by human hands. There was the last ice age and then there were people there as the habitats created themselves. I'm not saying that global warming won't suck for people and won't suck for a whole bunch of plants and animals. But Plants and Animals as whole groups will eventually turn out ok. Its ( Read more... )

oh boy, look at my new icon. It is amateur hour.

I received the following in an electronic mail message just now
woo.
"Leaguer,

Due to a number of A-Rundlers not returning for LL30, additional LL29
B-Rundlers just outside the promotion zone have been moved up to
Rundle A for LL30. You are one of those players, so you have been
slotted into Rundle A for the new season.

Yours,
Thorsten A. ( Read more... )

so A told me that she saw an interview with Mel Brooks where he said he was working on making a remake of Young Frankenstein. If you add this remake to this years The Producer's and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, remaking movies that starred Gene Wilder seems to be the hottest trend in Hollywood. Gene Wilder is still alive and I would ( Read more... )

more fun to use than alliteration, less common than the unreliable narrator, better named than onomatopoeia ... it is zuegma: everyone's favorite literary device. Zuegma (from the Greek for yoking) "in the most common present usage, it is applied to expressions in which a single word stands in the same grammatical relation to two or more other ( Read more... )

it is the lyrics to the beck song beercan which is on mellow gold and I think (if this is possible for a beck song) it is an underappreciated classic

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So, there is the bad tooth.The bad tooth has been bad for a long time ( Read more... )

I have said it before (I will probably say it again):  English kids (under 16) are horrible horrible nasty brats.  I don't exactly know why and apparently it is getting worse ( Read more... )

I readily believe that in the totality of things there are more invisible than visible natures. But who shall recount to us the family of all these things? and their degrees and relationships and distinctive signs and their individual functions? What do they do? What places do they inhabit? The human mind has always solicited knowledge of ( Read more... )

it is a little bit depressing when you get drunk and you don't even have anyone to call that you shouldn't be calling when you are drunk. I mean I love my wife, my family, the cats, and my [shout outs to littlelamb and lavendertattoo] I mean there should be someone in my life that I can inappropriately telephone drunkenly and cause irreperable ( Read more... )