You know I love you.

But.

I'm pretty sure that a guy who's been committed numerous times would not be able to legally buy a firearm in a regular gun store under Federal law, not to mention New Jersey's much more stringent firearms laws. You have to actually possess a state permit to purchase a long gun (or any kind of gun, for that matter) in NJ ( Read more... )

I looked up "hysterical paralysis" today.

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I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON. YES I AM.

In other news, I'd kind of like to write a short story casefic starring Ben and his boss-lady Pamela, in which Ben does not get his ass roundly kicked and refrains from being kidnapped even once. That'd be peachy ( Read more... )

Does anyone know how much cerebrospinal fluid you can lose before you die from it? Either my search terms are inadequate, or, more likely (me being me), I can't find it because dwelling on stuff like this for any extended length of time makes me woozy and faint, so I have to keep cutting away from the page before I can find what I'm looking for ( Read more... )

I found out today that the human body has less than 2/3 of a cup of cerebrospinal fluid. That doesn't seem like much.

The things we research for our writing.

Before the internet?

I just found out that the University of Texas at Austin, while it does not have a School of Medicine, does have a Center for Cellular and Molecular Toxicology, and an Institute for Neuroscience. This makes it a great setting for the science-y part of my Zombies! story ( Read more... )

I was poking around the interwebs, as I do, doing some desultory research. Plugged "exit wound 9mm" into the Google Image Search engine.

Oh, hey. That's me, right there on the very first page (Warning: There's some fairly horrific stuff there, click at your own risk, because I don't use SafeSearch, like, at all). Apparently my "wank" tag has ( Read more... )

and in the interests of what we loosely call "research" around here, I've looked up such diverse subjects tonight as "Stockholm Syndrome" and "shock collars ( Read more... )

In the not!kkbb/im novelthing, not!Perry morphed from being a woman played by Camryn Manheim to being a woman played by Queen Latifah and voiced by Wanda Sykes. (Yeah, I don't know either ( Read more... )

So, I was poking through previous entries, and the whole "should not!Harry be allowed to carry a gun because of the whole PTSD thing" issue continued to bug.

So, I looked again. And this time, Google was my Very Good Friend. Because it led me to this:

California Firearms Laws.

And, on page 30, I found what I was looking for. Specifically:
No ( Read more... )

In celebration of my last post, wherein you all were a bunch of Filthy Enablers, I bring you a Buffy/True Blood/Twilight crossover. Buffy, Sookie, and Bella go on a talk show and discuss their various boyfriends. And then, in the followup, we get Spike, Bill, and Edward ( Read more... )