This picture. I just... what. the. hell?

ETA: Her name is Leshia Evans. She has a 5-year-old son. She may or may not still be in jail, I'm seeing conflicting reports on Twitter as of 9 PM PDT.

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Basically the world sucks and I just want to sit at home with a dog in my lap and eat ice cream. Sigh.

Well, this is encouraging. Sigh.

I enjoyed this review of The Expendables 3, though. The movie borrows so liberally from other action films that it starts to feel at times a bit like a BuzzFeed listicle.

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I just had a completely helpful customer support chat -- with Godaddy.

::checks to see if dogs and cats are, in fact, living together::

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Stay safe, everyone in Boston & Texas! (And Iraq, and Somalia, and everywhere else, for that matter.)

Nanda has a love-letter to the Boston Marathon and I think you should all read it.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

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Never park a rental car under a giant fig tree in August.

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I love vacation, I really do. What with the eating and the mountains and the dogs and the toddlers and the parties and the climbing and all, it's most marvelous ( Read more... )

Okay, I am caught up on the PBS airing, and... seriously? Seriously?

This is kind of ludicrous. I'm so glad I adjusted my expectations.

(Also, I love this icon: Iroh is giving those crazy Crawleys the side-eye.)

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Ana Mardoll has a useful post today on ePub tools.

The Mary Sue has a short bit on the design of Smaug as a character. Ooooh, cool.

HiLoBrow lists the best spam names of the last year.

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Photos of Lunar New YearThe Compressor Route was a climb up the southeast ridge of Cerro Torre in Patagonia, and it was originally set in 1970 by an Italian ( Read more... )

My niece got a package in the mail, and opened it to proudly show us her new necklace: a little lion on a chain, with a metal tag that said, "I am woman, hear me roar."

... she'd never heard of Helen Reddy.

Can it be ironic if you've never even heard of the thing you're being ironic about? I don't think so...

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So if you write femslash or slash, especially of the RPF type, you may want to check out this writer's work, because she made the stupendously wise decision to plagiarize destina. Ahem. (That's sarcasm there.)

More entertainingly, her userinfo says if you're planning on linking/using one of my works/writing something in response to one of my pieces, ( Read more... )