The old saying goes that the sincerest form of flattery is imitation. I've been known to do some of that in a couple forms ( Read more... )

I have ridden Icarus and seen his rise and fall ( Read more... )

This was inspired by skylanth and commentary by takhys, so all honor to those worthies.

What makes a problem a 'first world problem'? I submit, as takhys put it in Skylanth's repost, that at the core, a problem is a problem, no matter where it happens. Using that term 'first world' just sets up these mental/conceptual barriers between us. My last LJ Idol post - ( Read more... )

I have been, in my day, in the middle of a brouhaha. You can find about it if you click the 'inadvertant shitstorm' link in my tags ( Read more... )

"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it." - Pierre Beaumarchais (1732 - 1799)

“Choose a track. It doesn’t matter what it is - just that it matters to you. Stick it on, and turn it up. Close your eyes and listen hard. Fogus. Just feel the song. Let it sweep over you. Breathe it in. Let it possess you. And when you can feel it filling every ( Read more... )

"That's just paranoia. Everyone has that." - Slartibartfast, as written by Douglas Adams ( Read more... )

Sometimes we use the term to describe something which exists, and sometimes... something that doesn't exist ( Read more... )

This one strikes near and dear to my heart. Because I am a Star Wars fan from a long long time ago... and also I have run the Star Wars RPG since it came out.

( Some RPG fu shows up here. )

Deconstruction can happen one of two ways: the unplanned and the the deliberate.

( The unplanned. )

There are dragons in the world, and some of them are in the places you don't expect to find them.

( And some of those places are even less obvious. )