Animaniacs
"Meatballs or Consequences"Wakko Warner wins a meatball-eating contest in Sweden, at the cost of his life. G.R. (again with a silly Swedish accent, voiced by Jess Harnell who also plays Wakko) slaps a "Kaput" sticker on his forehead and starts to drag him away, but Yakko & Dot refuse to be separated from their brother ( Read more... )

I'm on the laptop and having a smoke while the desktop computer attempts to send a nine-megabyte zipfile containing my latest completed editing project, just in time. Woo. What do I win? Oh, right: a fairly hefty check (eventually) and a set of melty, melty eyes. And a new project that is apparently some monstrous tome from whose gravitational ( Read more... )

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I figure if I clone myself and give up sleeping and working on newspaper-related stuff entirely, I can have this Sanskrit-laden cookbook edited by its Friday deadline. Barring power cuts and the like. And then I will edit the entire newspaper in, like, a day ( Read more... )

I think my mom wanted me to be a concert pianist, and she got me an electric organ when I was very young. I can play melodies on a keyboard, but I'm woefully ignorant of chord-shapes. Never had any lessons. (Her instrument is the Chinese bamboo flute, and occasional harmonica, plus she sang pretty much every day in Chinese. Ever tried writing a ( Read more... )

Please let Grandma know there is a photo of me wearing one of the tank tops she sent ( right here. )

This creepy exploration of childhood imaginary friends reminded me of Alana's miniature white buffalo in a box. And a whole host of others, like

the Creepers

Now I've gone and done it, looking up an old personal site on the Wayback Machine. Nothing really ever goes away, does it? Although this made me smile and realise that the current ( Read more... )

Situations In Which a Person Might Consume the Suggested Two-Tablespoon Serving of Yucatan Organic Guacamole ( Read more... )

Last night, zhuxiu63, kuru93 and I attended The Yalta Conference and Ronin Office Ladies, two plays performed by the Seinendan Japanese theatre troupe. I'd never seen live theatre with subtitles before. (Daddoo asked: "Are they still subtitles if they're above?") I especially enjoyed The Yalta Conference, which was really funny. The Japanese consul-general was ( Read more... )

1. I broke my favourite coffee cup not long ago (the bone china one with hedgehogs on it), and now I can no longer drink coffee. Ha ha, just joking! Luckily I can still drink coffee out of Edgar Allan Poe's skull ( Read more... )