One day I was walking home with a tote bag of groceries and cursed the foolish designers who made the straps just long enough for the bag to drag on the ground ( Read more... )

For someone who believes that tarot cards are a source of random input to provoke thought, I seem to get a lot of uncannily incisive readings ( Read more... )

I'm years late on this, I know, but I just finished playing Braid. I even got all 8 stars ( Read more... )

Is anyone else reading Homestuck? If so, I'd love it if you'd post here and see if we can figure out what the devil is going on. euziere and I made some diagrams and figured out ( ... click for spoilers ... )

minerva42 mentioned that she had Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs on DVD, and it reminded me... My mom used to read me that book when I was a little kid. I remember thinking the ending was conceptually kind of off, and being confused about whether it was intentional. Saying that the people in the new world got their food from supermarkets didn't seem to ( Read more... )

Folks who have seen WatchmenIs the movie as brutally, graphically, overwhelmingly violent as people on the internet are bragging and / or complaining it is? I want to see it, but I really don't want to subject myself to that (I'm actually more averse to brutality than graphicness ( Read more... )

I have a number of friends with personally iconic tattoos, and all of them (that I can think of) have at least one on their backs. That interests me because it's not a decision I would make. When I decided to get my slime tattoo, I knew right away that I wanted it to be someplace I'd see it every day (and after that it was easy to decide it went on ( Read more... )

Well, it took me a long time to write this up and the moment is almost past... but here's part one of my November 4th 2008 story ( Read more... )

Today's episode: The plot thickens. It was already thick. It's so damn thick now that I can't suck it down anymore; my straw keeps collapsing in on itself. I'm going to need one of those big 'ol straws like you get with bubble tea. Well played, Mr. Siddell ( Read more... )

Spoilerly comment on Wednesday's Gunnerkrigg Court. Admission: This is cross-posted from the GC discussion board.

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