I don't care what Roger Ebert says in his unfairly bad review of the film (the review which basically said 'it wasn't gay enough'), I freaking love the original 1986 version of The Hitcher.

( The Hitcher (1986 original) )

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You guys have heard about this at length from me, including how I was writing a piece of software to automate the process. But these guys have got it sewn up. Oh my GOD, if I could kiss a piece of software, I would kiss this. It even has options on the side for getting rid of smart quotes and non-ascii characters. This is clean and beautiful and ( Read more... )

God, but National Geographic has some great pieces. I think we could learn a lot studying how they write, because they are phenomenal.


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Since I wasn't able to finish my particular ghost story for Christmas Eve ( The Cornish Manuscripts, part of Tales of an Antiquary), here's a bit of background into the forgotten custom (at least here in America as far as I could tell) of telling ghost stories at Christmas Eve by the fireside with a glass of mulled wine.

From "Scary Ghost Stories for ( Read more... )

So, I don't like yaoi (we mean in anime/manga and are differentiating this from BL/shonen-ai, by the way). I think most of it is just ridiculous graphic fanservice, and doesn't have much of a plot. (Yama nashi, Ochi nashi, Imi nashi, right?) I don't sympathise with the characters, they're usually really stereotypical and flat.

But oh MAN, I LOVE ( Read more... )

These kurogoma biscuits with matcha icing look delicious, and this whole site, which is called Just Hungry, looks like a really good introduction to Japanese cooking. I learned to wash my soba noodles in cold water, haha. This is apparently the site I referenced for my tamagoyaki recipe from a long time back. Interesting that I ran into it again. ( Read more... )

Oh man, people- oh MAN. I randomly found this a long time ago and did my damnest to find it again. It's a deviantART webcomic with young versions of Conan O'Brian and Stephen Colbert being awkward and batting zombies! It's so randomly hodgepodge yet strangely alluring, and the art's great!

Bad Timing. Described as "if you in fact do believe that one ( Read more... )

Okay, so today we bought a Cupcake 2009 Sauvignon Blanc, a Black Swan 2008 Shiraz, and a Sutter Home 2008 Cabernet Sauvignon. I was super excited.
We got this fantastic Bellavitano cheese that's a mixture of aged cheddar and Parmesan. It's just, hnng, mmm, so GOOD. It's sweet, but it's a complex kind of sweet, not the young simple sweetness from ( Read more... )

So many of you know I've been taking a class on the history of wine in Virginia (which quickly became a history of wine throughout the world from the first clay pot of fermented grape juice to the genetic engineering of the future that might make the foxiness of the Vitis labrusca disappear from its DNA)

I didn't know this till someone in my ( Read more... )