I re-read Less Than Zero yesterday ( Read more... )

I found this on Google Books the other day. I'm a history geek, so reading this made me want to exclaim "Poetry narrated by a fictional Winston Churchill! Where have you been all my life!" I hope you enjoy it, too. And since it was Remembrance Day yesterday, I thought I'd post it. From this book.

Edward Wood, Lord Halifax, Pauses with Winston ( Read more... )

Sonnet ( Read more... )

there’s no other way ( Read more... )

The guy behind xkcd, my favourite webcomic for any number of reasons, is also in charge of limerickdb, a database of limericks. I found this one today when I glanced at the top 150:

A preoccupied vegan named Hugh
picked up the wrong sandwich to chew.
He took a big bite
before spitting, in fright,
"OMG, WTF, BBQ!" There are a lot of great limericks ( Read more... )

This article pretty much epitomises everything cracked.com is good at: a cheerfully irreverent pisstake of history, sex and the internet, which still manages to be informative in a nudge-nudge, yuk-yuk, dodgy Photoshop sort of a way. God bless 'em.

Before Einstein finally settled on his cousin Elsa, he apparently almost married her 22-year-old ( Read more... )

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?

Seriously guys, do not read that Wikipedia article if you are squeamish. I am not exactly sickened, but rather am simply dumbstruck that ANYONE could ever think making a movie about this could be a good idea. Why? WHY? OH GOD WHYYYYYY THE HORROR MY EYES MY EYES THE GOGGLES THEY DO NUSSINK.

Here is Roger Ebert's review, ( Read more... )

The Literary World

I

'Finally, after five months of my life during which I could write nothing that would have satisfied me, and for which no power will compensate me . . .'

My dear Kafka,
When you've had five years of it, not five months,
Five years of an irresistible force meeting an
immovable object right in your belly,
Then you'll know about ( Read more... )

The evening advances, then withdraws again ( Read more... )

♦ Pick 10 of your favorite books or series.
♦→ Post the first two to three sentences of each book.
♦ Let everyone try to guess the titles and authors of your books.

1.It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, ( Read more... )