When I was a kid, my grandparents fed me an indiscriminate diet of cartoons. One particularly memorable nugget of madness was The Elm-Chanted Forest, a charming Yugoslavian tale of a boy with a magical paintbrush and a destiny to save a motley crew of singing animals from an evil cactus. At one point, the protagonist is captured by mushrooms who ( Read more... )

Bleary and mildly feverish, I misread a campaign sign earlier this week exhorting me to vote for Marjean Someone-or-other and came away with the impression that we had a magician running for office. Disillusionment has not dampened my enthusiasm. Imagine the debates ( Read more... )

*clears throat, taps microphone*

I really, really, trulymadlydeeply love Quantum Leap crossovers, especially even if they're bad. I mean, it's the series that crosses over with everything! Restrictions? What restrictions ( Read more... )

Well, ya learn something new every day. Today, I learned about the seedy underbelly of almond-related crime.

Screw this whole grad school funding problem. I'm moving to sunny California and putting together my own cutthroat band of nut thieves.

I dreamt last night that I was in an old mansion possessed by the malevolent spirit of Nicolas Cage. Every wall I looked at disorted as if an enormous, vaguely demonic version of his face were pressing against it from the other side. In the basement, there were people with crows' wings who were locked in cages ( Read more... )

I have often said to myself, "Self, wouldn't it great if someone gathered the crazy diamonds of the Internet and organized them by subject matter and level of brilliance so that I did not have to dig through mounds of the dully stupid before hitting the bling-bling?"

JackpotIf anyone needs me, I'll be learning about how humanity evolved from the ( Read more... )

My mother has A Perfect Murder on the idiot box as we play Scrabble, and, during a lull, I glanced up to see what looked very much like Lost's Sawyer snarking at Michael Douglas. One double-take later, I recognized Viggo Mortensen, but the moment that elasped in the meantime was a very weird one ( Read more... )

Wow, I'm full. We had a five-course Italian meal1, which included perhaps the oddest pasta dish I've ever encountered: skinny spaghetti noodles covered with olive oil and peaches. As in, peaches the fruit. With olive oil. It wasn't bad, exactly, but it wasn't something I would ever order again. At least it provided some good conversation fodder ( Read more... )

Third post down. Trust me-- you can't miss it ( Read more... )

Why is a round-trip ticket $700 less than a one-way? asdkl;jfjkld ( Read more... )