i found the link to this at captainawkward.com. it's a disco version of the ballad of sweeney toddhttp://confessionsduringrehearsal.tumblr.com/post/69396841734/if-you-have-ever-wondered-what-sweeney-todd-would ( Read more... )

it always puzzles me when a commercial says that such and such can be had for less than a dollar a day. usually that means that it can be had for within five cents less than a dollar a day. $0.95 x 365 is $346.75. i almost never think that's a great bargain for whatever they're selling.

did any of you ever notice that it is very easy to slip from singing the "anvil chorus" into singing "come friends who plough the sea" from "pirates of penzance?"

...by an ad for a swiss army pocket knife-type of gadget that has a 32GB USB drive. plus a penknife, bottle opener, nail file, and small scissors.

...is that all day you are someone who woke up at 4:00 in the morning.

i was going to make this into a poll but i can't frame the questions ( Read more... )

1) the gas prices are doing insane things. they went up between monday and tuesday by 31 cents, then back down 25 cents and then back up 4 cents. i have no idea what would cause swings like this every day--usually a jump like that monday into tuesday one is a new gas tax, but apparently that wasn't it ( Read more... )

just got back from an outing to pick up indian food (i pretended i was also going to go to the library, but i'm in the midst of the second book of a trilogy which is a silly time to go to the library). on my way home, i saw a van--not an old van, a recent vintage, and it was covered with the kind of stickers i think of as flower power stickers (or ( Read more... )

every message in my gmail in-box has the word "no" in front of it (i believe where the opportunity to mark an e-mail with a star would go).

i guess i don't want any e-mail today?

for example, today i learned that i don't like twinings vanilla black tea.

in related news, i am desperate for caffeine.