I just found out (by reading the History department newsletter) that the issue of Historical Perspectives (the History Department student publication) that I co-edited won second prize in a national competition. I'm torn between "hey, cool!" and "thanks for letting me know, you nitwits." (I call them nitwits with great fondness.) See, the 2011 ( Read more... )

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Today Jake and I went and Bought Furniture. Yes, it deserves the capitals. We purchased, in total, eight chairs and three bookshelves, of which six chairs and all the bookshelves were transported home in the Civic. That was exciting - but I am getting ahead of myself ( Read more... )

So yeah. It's that time of the month... when I go from baking extra-chocolaty macadamia nut cookies to being positively gleeful over finding the IMFDB: Internet Movie Firearms Database. GAH. And then watching youtube clips of people firing guns with suppressors.

( cut to save you from rampant blathering. You Have Been Warned. )

Yesterday, in the midst of complaining about how much I hate phones and calling people, I had a brilliant idea. Allright, so maybe it wasn't so much brilliant as just completely silly, but whatever. One takes what one can get. So: Victorian Twitter. With telegrams ( Read more... )

Really, why don't men wear waistcoats and proper evening dress anymore? I suppose it's for the same reasons that women don't wear corsets and girdles and ten thousand layers of petticoats, but - waistcoats! Fetching hats of various descriptions! Wing-tip collars! Properly tailored suits! *heaves a deep and mournful sigh and flops glumly onto nearby ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamed that I was sorting through my great-grandfather's negatives and picked up a roll that looked too big to be 35mm. "Oh," I thought, "it must be 120! How exciting!" Only then I removed it from its cannister and it turned out to be 4x5 sheet negatives. I was a bit confused ( Read more... )

READ THIS COMIC!

DO IT.

It's AMAZING and had me giggling madly on multiple occasions.

Vampires! The French Revolution! Mouseover text! EVIL CHICKENS!

When I first doodled the little sketch that turned into the beginnings of Daisy Chains, I was stuck in one of my horrendously boring classes, either Women's Spirituality or History of the Jesuits. The faceless dude in my notes looked kind of like a Nazi, at least as far as his uniform went, and I slowly started giving him a backstory. At first I ( Read more... )

In Samurai High School the titular samurai keeps referring to himself as kanbutsu, which appears to mostly mean dried fish/vegetables or groceries, nowadays. Yeah, the samurai isn't saying that he's food, the show isn't that weird. Turns out 乾物 means dried whatsits, and 姦物 means a cunning man or a crook ( Read more... )