First of all: Go here. Scroll down to #4. Watch the video ( Read more... )

Haha, they added bells to the themesong for the Christmas episode of Corner Gas!

...Oh, shut up. After FOUR. FREAKING. HOURS. of reading Puritan nonsense, I'm finding just about everything funny right now.

However, this is just disturbing.

*sends quick-power-restoration thoughts to Texans*

I was browsing the Pleistocene Megafauna article at Wikipedia (because after all, that's what you should always do as a reward for finishing the SOP), and was linked in turn to the article on Phorusrhacos.

Check out the picture. I'll wait.

Done? Yeah. Notice that the bird has just killed a goat. It could easily pick up the goat with its footI ( Read more... )

Number one on the list of "Things I'm really glad I didn't know about that one time I waded out into the ocean."

Those black things? Sharks. Schooling sharks. Off the coast of Florida (Deerfield Beach, I think this is). Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah ( Read more... )

( 'The Hand of Fear' and some general Sarah Jane ramblings )

Note to self: Reading vampire books late at night? Not a good idea. Not a good idea at all.

I'm 150 pages into Elizabeth Kostova's The Historian, which is a bit like The Da Vinci Code would be if it had well-written prose and interesting characters who are more than just ciphers to move the plot along, were about Dracula and the history thereof ( Read more... )

So there was a bird outside my window this morning as I was waking up whose call very definitely sounded like the overly-loud ticking of a clock. Or possibly of an evil clockwork robot. It freaked me the hell out.

I think I might watch too much TV.

As I suspected, I'm wearing what we fondly refer to as "The Pink Monster" for the trustees dinner. Hey, they asked for us to wear our big poofy Standard dresses.

( Cut to save your eyes from bleeding )

Remind me to never browse through the profiles of people from high school who've friended me on Facebook ever again. I just found out that three of the people I graduated with are ENGAGED, OMG. Two of them to each other. I met them both in THIRD GRADE.

*buries head in sand*

Fox to premiere "Skating with Celebrities" Jan. 18th.Utterly horrifying, and yet strangely amusing at the same time. Pairs skating in six weeks? Ouch. They have a very flexible definition of "celebrity," I must say. An LA weather forecaster? Meh? The only two of them I'd heard of were Kristy Swanson and Debbie Gibson (which...DUDE ( Read more... )