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I was feeling bad about how long it's been since I posted a Humpday poll - this might be the first in 2013 - but then I discovered the LJ poll creator is barely functional anymore. Grr.

Also, it's really weird reading my notes from 2011 or earlier.

I was so disappointed with Michael Lewis' Panic, I barely noted when his Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World was released. Panic is a compilation of articles he'd written during the most recent financial crisis: I'd had enough of journalists on that topic. Boomerang is also a compilation, but it's of his Vanity Fair articles on specific ( Read more... )

Poll This poll is obviously just an excuse to link some awfully funny posts
Edit: The random period on Q5 should be ignored. The poll didn't post this morning, so I was trying all sorts of different things. LJ needs better error-checking is all I'm saying.

Edit2: btw, the link on Q5 is so made of awesome, you really need to check it out (if you know your Disney or even just have small children).

Poll This has been a #dieinafire production

The title of this post originally had the word threatening in it. For the record, Q3 came from JDate, not FetLife. Also, all the examples from the last question are alas, true.

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Did anyone save a link to James Nicoll's post about 1120yo vampires who hang out at high schools? Went through 400 old posts but couldn't find it :(

I was late for work on Friday, but I was also feeling pretty gooey, so I hit NYSC for a Russ workout. I don't wear my glasses when working out, so I was peering at a guy who looked like a trainer, but wasn't wearing the shirt. I did my back exercises and my leg presses and was on the multi-hip when I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was the guy ( Read more... )

Alegria was disappointing. There was too much of the bits that feel like filler; this may be bc I don't like clowns, although the Alegria clowns were very good and I enjoyed one of their acts very much. ( Read more... )

I have a lot of whiny things to say about aerial that I never got around to writing last week, but instead I'll tell you a funny (to me) story ( Read more... )

Last night, as I was telling my sister the itinerary of the Montana roadtrip I'd like to do someday, I mentioned driving to Bozeman to go to the dinosaur museum, and she commented, "You know you have one of those in your neighborhood, right?" Just for that, maybe I'll take my fave sailor to the sea monster movie instead :-0