Am combining my love of a) scary things and b) being several years late to the punchline by reading creepypasta.

The Slender Man, for instance, is a BRILLIANT idea when you already have a bad habit of seeing non-existent things in your peripheral vision. Woo!

Quite like the Oh Internet definition: "A piece of awesome creepypasta is like an ( Read more... )

Who's been in Waterstones recently? It's bloody horrible! It used to be this nice quiet soothing place I went to because I could commune with the books and ignore people. But now the staff pounce on you the moment you get in the door. "Have you found what you're looking for?" Well, no, because I wasn't looking for the doorframe or the welcome mat. ( Read more... )

Damn it, Dick King-Smith's dead.

When I was a kid, I liked books and I liked animals. I was painfully shy, so I didn't like people. Dick King-Smith wrote a huge number of kids' books about animals. You see how he might've been a massive part of my childhood.

I read The Sheep-Pig and Saddlebottom and The Hodgeheg and King Max the Last and Pets ( Read more... )

Same rules as last year. ( Read more... )

THESE are expletive-ridden:

Tim Minchin expresses opinions on the Pope - NSFW, abuse triggers.

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On a lighter note, a tribute to Ray Bradbury - NSFW.

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(Sorry, jekesta: it's a post about how I like Neil Gaiman.)

There's bitching and whining about Neil Gaiman's Instructions among the librarians I used to work with. The objections are that he may have won the Carnegie medal but they don't see what the fuss is about, and that it's "not nice ( Read more... )

Felt an urge to re-read Allen Ginsberg's 'America'. Ah...

I can't stand my own mind.
America when will we end the human war?
Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb.
I don't feel good don't bother me.
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Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke?
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I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for ( Read more... )

Went shopping for a summer dress that was non-fugly and work-safe.

Bought Temple Grandin's Making Animals Happy: How to create the best life for pets and other animals.

So about three years behind everybody else, I started reading The Order of the Stick. (Mr Stiffly! Monster-san!) Since I never actually played D&D, it's given me an urge to take up NetHack again. I hadn't even got it installed on this computer, that's how long it's been since I played it. Ah, Valerie the Valkyrie. It's good to see you. And your ( Read more... )

So I saw some Conservative Party posters today. One said "people have the power", which made me laugh, coming from the party that destroyed trades unions and local government and gave us the Criminal Justice Act. The other said, in faux-cross-stitch, "strong families strong society", which could have been more honestly rendered as "we hate queers ( Read more... )