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Comics professor:

"Comics are completely underrated in society. I mean, they're just filed under comics, or gardening. Really, we can talk about this later, but Barnes and Noble has no idea what the hell to do with their comics."

"You are required to go see Watchmen the opening weekend. Seriously, I will look out for you. Don't you laugh, you're ( Read more... )

A great Neil Gaiman quote for you all:

“So a hasty late night post, being typed around an asleep-on-my-keyboard medium-sized tabby kitten who rejoices in the name of Captain Morgan. He looks a little like Buddy-who-vanished, being sort of brown and sort of stripy, and was found by Lorraine hanging hungrily and miserably around the house a month or ( Read more... )

Line that made me giggle in Sharpe's Trafalgar so far:

(p 154; US paperback)

It took three hours, but eventually a sergeant found the grenades in a box that had the word "biscuit" stenciled on its lid.

I don't know why that made me laugh.

Linked to me from quigonejinn (who lovingly provides me with shit to do at our shitty school computers!): "The Duke of ( Read more... )

quigonejinn I need to get Wellington.
flameofdeath I WANT Wellington.
flameofdeath 'Cept... he's dead.
flameofdeath Sorta puts a dampner on things, actually.
quigonejinn And had a nose the size of a microwave.
flameofdeath (IT'S SEVERUS SNAPE. *COUGHS*)
quigonejinn dlkfj;algihe;lifjwoiejf;lksjda;fliwaher;lwakjef HAHAHA
flameofdeath We talked about microwaves in physics today.
flameofdeath (am I the ONLY person who initially thought that?! XD)
flameofdeath We were ( Read more... )

I actually feel sorta bad now. Just..sort of. I was a major bitch in Government class today like OH EM GEE. Just yelling at my group (sans Tina, who was not in school) because they were getting shit done. I mean, I feel bad about acting like such a bitch but seriously, the whole fucking class finished their presentations and we're not even HALF- ( Read more... )

I have to finish reading The Metamorphosis tonight. Only about 20 or so pages to go, actually, so I'm not that worried---and there's no irritating literature checklist to fill out so it should only take an hour or so. I'll start around 8:30-ish.

Progressing on with Sharpe's Triumph and I just recently picked up a Wellington: A Personal History ( Read more... )

I will not lie, I wanted to watch this series for Ioan Gruffudd. (Hence my uh, not finishing the book first) And though it's evident that Ioan's character is important but certainly not primary, there were other attributes of this show that grabbed me.

1. Very Victorian. ( Cut for Images from Movie )

"Tents!" Sharpe spat the word out. "God-damned, bloody tents ( Read more... )

Anb1032: got your permit?
VioletEyedVampyr: I don't want it.
Anb1032: u dont wanna drive?
VioletEyedVampyr: I'd prefer not to be in charge of a ton of moving steel.

VioletEyedVampyr: do tell Neil he makes a remarkable newspaper.We ought to oust the New York Times and make it "Out of Neil's Mouth" -- though I wouldn't particularly want to go near ( Read more... )