Woman in front of us in line at Dairy Queen: "I'd like a large Chocolate Xtreme Blizzard, but please don't make it TOO chocolatey. I don't like it when it's too chocolatey. Also, I'd like extra chocolate chunks in that."
 

Just some random notes on midpoints that I wanted to remember observing. No purpose behind them yet ( Read more... )

For my own personal reference.

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[comic] so many thoughts ran through my head / as I began to break down ( Read more... )

"I didn't want to throw Lesbian Mouse at those guys."

I've now had three pieces published in Thaumatrope ("the Twittering e-zine")! Read them here.

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Throw another essay subject on the pile (one day I will actually write some of these, I swear): how serial specfic (Buffy, Avatar, Shadow Unit) tends to use the first few episodes to establish the world and the types of stories they will be telling, ( Read more... )

"There is present in them that, how should I say, hollow isolationism that is so ubiquitous (and often so affected) in today’s portraiture" - Graeme Mitchell

Compare: Elsa Dorfman

"[In portrait photography] the key things are people, clothes, taste, ideas, light. Concentrate on these. Learn to understand how they work for you and how you work ( Read more... )

The church choir sang at a funeral this evening. I didn't personally know the man who had passed away. All the stories about him were so funny and sweet, and the Episcopal burial service is so beautiful. Plus, I have two people I care about a lot (not that I know closely, though) who are dying. All in all, I was pretty much a mess the whole way ( Read more... )

I was not impressed with my most recent purchase from Audible.

Ellie: [listening to her audiobook] Oh, shut up!
David: What?
Ellie: [fumbling with the mp3 player] For some reason, this thing keeps glitching and starting the book over. It starts out and there's this guitar going bwee-bwah-bwee-bwah, and the narrator says, "NO-ra RO-berts. ( Read more... )

Still sick. I'm so loopy. Forgot a coat; now I'm wandering around campus in 40 degree weather in a t-shirt, jeans, and flip-flops. I want to go home and nom on Maggie and go to bed. I stayed up on the computer until 5 am. Damn you, TV Tropes!

Today's Darths and Droids is fantastic. But you should really start at the beginning to appreciate ( Read more... )

I would have drunk-dialed you
but I don't have your number anymore