This likely isn't any good, and anyway, it is meant to be funnier when all is said and done. Well, darkly comedic. Point being, I am reading The Handmaid's Tale for the continuing education course I am taking via Queen's online distance education program, but this will not be at all like that book or a dystopic vision of any sort, though I can ( Read more... )

One of the original Saved by The Bell episodes was on at the gym today. It was the episode where Jessie and Zack are rehearsing for the school play (a "rap" version of Snow White & the Seven Dwarves, OMG), and their practice kiss turns into a real kiss. I love that episode! I always kind of secretly hoped that Jessie and Zack would get together ( Read more... )

I made apple crumble tonight. I substituted store bought oatmeal cookies for plain old rolled oats, and, oh my God, it was all I could do to not just grab a spoon and attack the entire pan ( Read more... )

I often read a lot of negative comments about Tyce Diorio's choreography for So You Think You Can Dance, but I really loved this:

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For me it was a perfect combination of music, lighting, costumes, and dancing - even though, if I understand correctly, Tyce translated the song more literally into dance than the lyrics are actually meant to be taken. ( Read more... )

Mr. Darcy approached them soon afterwards. Elizabeth turned to him and said, "Did you not think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton ( Read more... )

I've been having a lot of bad dreams lately, all so real that they inevitably affect my mood and ability to get a good night's sleep. In the latest, Abi was diagnosed with a degenerative disease that would eventually severely impair her fine and gross motor skills, as well as drastically reduce her lifespan. I was sobbing in the dream, but I ( Read more... )

A Facebook friend posted a link to this video of Greg Gutfeld and his fellow Red Eye correspondents picking on the Canadian military in the most unfunny, vomitous editorial "news" segment I have seen in a long while. Here. Maybe it is supposed to be a joke or parody of some sort? If anyone knows, please feel free to enlighten me ( Read more... )

"'Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.'"
(p. 125, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise)

I've developed an addiction to Facebook "Word Challenge". My highest score is somewhere in the 8000s. Supposedly I have the vocabulary of a ringmaster or some such thing. Bah.

I watched The Laramie Project the other night. It is ( Read more... )

Were I a groundhog, I imagine I would make a particularly poor incarnation of Wiarton Willie. Sunshine or no, I would scurry back into my warm little hole, quite possibly taking with me a chunk of the SOB who dared to interrupt my peaceful winter slumber.

1. ( Veronica Mars, shipper bitching )