Why do I have to make my stories so complicated? Why do there have to be these layers and things I'm trying to get across without being all obvious and shit? Why do I spend more time grappling with John "I'm not actually gay" Watson, and how I can work around that in a way that feels true to me, than I do worrying about whether or not anyone will ( Read more... )

Quite possibly the best book I've read in ages.  It's not just that I adore books about books, though I do.
It's that Brooks took a true story about a rare ancient manuscript that should never have survived all it has, and created a story around it as compelling as the book itself.  I was going to write a whole post about why illuminated manuscripts ( Read more... )

What the fucking FUCK is wrong with you?

Throwing hissy fits during town hall meetings and shouting down the President while he is addressing you makes you look like a bunch of petulant children who didn't get their pony for Christmas.

Also, stop being so fucking racist. You make me sick.

I love you like Jesus tells me to (against my better judgment),
D.

I don't care what you say. It doesn't even have to be nice. Just take one fact you know about me and elaborate. Have fun. I have forgotten how. How Bobby Goren of me.

I hope everyone had a fine weekend. I was able to move beyond the anxiety and stress of having OMG Strangers! in my house by ogling men in kilts yesterday at the Austin Celtic Festival, which was okay. I mean, I had my share of that festival staple - funnel cake (and who thought of that, because as delicious as it is there isn't a less convenient ( Read more... )

...and it just leave little bits of potato stuck in your light fixture.

If anyone has an idea of out to get the broken off piece of teensy-weensy light bulb out of my fluted lampshade, I'm all ears.

...but did you have to pay me back by forcing me to see how I'm not actually smart at all without you ( Read more... )

Save me from purple prose!

If someone can please tell me why my fucking cuts (which look like they're working, get the gray box and all, what the fuck) aren't working, I'd really appreciate it.  Instead I have what looks like a cut with the entire fucking post following without the cut.

Otherwise, ya'll are going to have to deal with 10 long-ass uncut posts clogging up your ( Read more... )