Ugh. I hate this. This not getting comment notifications nonsense.

Because I don't keep track of where and when I comment to other peoples' posts, I just wander around LJ dropping comments like bombs, word to your moms here and there at random. So I have no idea if people are replying and thus can't answer back ( Read more... )

I'm certain someone's already mentioned this, but one minor response to EBear's latest fatuous post:

Jonathan Swift once made a remarkable "modest proposal" which recommended that the Irish eat their own children (or sell the tastier ones as food). As a result, the phrase has been forevermore associated with high satire and indeed any proposal ( Read more... )

One of my best friends is forcing me to go to the premiere of the Twilight movie with her. She has only secured my grudging agreement by holding her recently-discovered knowledge of my participation in SPN fandom over my head. (She doesn't know about LJ or slash, but she's one of four people who knows I blog. About my twenty-something, demon- ( Read more... )

I just tuned to the local "classic rock" station and they were playing Simple Minds' "Don't You Forget About Me ( Read more... )

I was standing around chatting with two other moms at the pool today while the kids played and we were discussing summer movies. The one mom declares that her boys (7 and 10) are not going to The Simpsons movie because it's inappropriate. I'm nodding in partial agreement (my kids don't typically get to see PG13 films either, even though they've ( Read more... )