Today, I noticed so many stupid little things going on that I decided to tell the Heretic that today must be Idiot's Day. I dunno if it's the time change that causes people to lose their minds, or what, but today was definitely Idiot's Day ( Read more... )

Imagine my surprise, when I heard this on the radio (of course--not the live version, obviously).

Can you blame me if I'm beginning to lose respect for them? What is this? If there was any band I loved that should NOT group with Amy Lee, it was Korn, for chrissake. And to let her do the best part of the song (the craziness before "Go!") is simply ( Read more... )

I've often thought that, if our fucked-up society really wants to correct whatever's causing 50% (or more) of marriages to end in divorce, relationship classes should be provided to young people, before stuff like marriage counselors are needed.

Since that sort of thing doesn't really exist... for my own benefit, I read the relationship stuff in ( Read more... )

Taken from Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding, published in 1742.

"... at the Age of seven or something earlier, Miss is instructed by her Mother, that Master is a very monstrous kind of Animal, who will, if she suffers him to come too near to her, infallibly eat her up, and grind her to pieces. ... She must not admit him to kiss or toy with her. And ( Read more... )

Why the fuck couldn't 17th and 18th century writers use periods?!?!?! They liked these gi-normous paragraphs that each were just one looooooooooooooooong-ass run-on sentence.

This is complicated by the fact that it's a 17th century Spanish piece that I'm studying. Where's the independent clause, huh?

It's crazy how relationships can change and melt over time. At some point in each of our lives, I think each we all get that feeling that "no one cares." Perhaps that's why those of us who hook up to these networks find them so irresistible when we're feeling "cut off" from the rest of humanity. We feel like no one cares, and we want to disprove ( Read more... )