Three months ago I announced my plans to become a Goa'uld System Lord and thus learn the secrets of unagi. As I outlined in that post, I have most of the qualifications. However, I foolishly said that the voice would be easy. You can listen to my practice, if you want.I've actually been doing some research on the Goa'uld voice. Why do the Goa'uld ( Read more... )

If you are like me, you have no doubt noticed a disturbing similarity between this image, taken from the front page of www.unagi.co.jp

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Miss Kitty went in to the doctor last Thursday. Her white blood cell count was too low for chemo, but they couldn't feel the lump in her abdomen and the chest x-ray didn't show much of the cancer around her lungs. We're going to take her back Thursday. She's back up to 7 lbs ( Read more... )

Today is my birthday. Thank you to everyone who has wished me a good one. I'll give you a general rundown on how it has been ( Read more... )

Last night (this morning, actually), I started having trouble breathing. I tried to get assaultdoor to give me a squirt of that asthma spray that he pops like it's going out of style, but he wouldn't. Instead, everyone bundled me up in a blanket, stuffed me in a car, and drove me at like 320kph to the local vet hospital. They put me in some kind of plastic ( Read more... )

So for those of you who are cats or know people who are cats, I have an important public service announcement. Unagi, while mighty tasty, is hard to come by. Purina's Whisker Lickin's, chicken & liver flavors, is pretty freakin' tasty. Man alive, that's tasty stuff, and it's more than an acceptable substitute for unagi.

I've been watching old episodes of Stargate SG-1 and I am intrigued. Sometimes it's serious. Sometimes it's funny. It's always entertaining, though. I was just watching the episode in which ( SPOILERS )

I'm thinking of hiring a gentleman's gentleman. In less sexist and racist language, I'm thinking of hiring a gallinaceous butler. However, what with butlers being all feudal, I thought it would be kind of absurd for me to describe it in any way but the old-fashioned one. Anyhow, I was looking through back copies of the newspaper and found the ( Read more... )