Random subject line is random: three of us went for a drive in the convertible, to get ice cream at Sully's in Chelmsford, and we passed by a swampy area with a lot of frogs ribbeting and making all kinds of weird froggy noises. Said Mom, "It sounds like a jungle." Said I, "The Jungle Frogs? That could be a good name for a band. Like one of those ( Read more... )

I love Black Butler to the moon and back, but oh, fandom, you make me shake my head ( Read more... )

Okay, vague sci-fi novel title reference is vague. I've had a long and rather tiring but good day, so this may not be the most coherent entry ( Read more... )

There's an upside to LJ being scothery: it keeps the anonymous comment spammers away. Just got this in my inbox:

"backlink services ( Read more... )

...Till you have heard it through earbuds. Just got my first pair of them -- cheapies bought at the local dollar store; I've been using headphones on the laptop almost since I got it -- and I am blown away by them. I've been testing them using different pieces by different artists (Debussy, Dave Brubeck, Celtic Thunder, Hans Zimmer, Rammstein, Daft ( Read more... )

I've been on a bit of a hiatus from this journal, mostly because I've been busy, partly because I've been trying to let the dust settle after a kerfuffle earlier this week ( Read more... )

I had had no plans for the day: just needed a down day after all the emotionally drained feelings I've been dealing with: however, my dad took part of the day off since a roofer was coming to give us an estimate on how much it will cost. Afterward, we went to the Used Book Superstore in Burlington (we had a coupon come in the mail): picked up the ( Read more... )

As promised for the carpe_ho_ras crowd and anyone else who's amused with my blitherings about fictitious people who use my brain cells as hitching posts. I'd watched the first two hours of the mini-series version of 'Gormenghast' Sunday night, with some of the headspace dwellers -- specifically Muraki and Tsuzuki, whom I have been RPing, with a guest ( Read more... )

( Cut for craziness and naughtiness )

The thought crossed my mind: what does one call a group of death gods? I used the phrase "bevy of shinigami" in an earlier entry, and it started to bug me what the proper term would be? (Yes, I obsess over things like this: it's more interesting than obsessing over bills or my alleged lack of a "love life", which I actually have, it's just not a ( Read more... )