Scene: the Lynxcub has lifted one of my laundry baskets up onto the bed and put a pillow inside it, and then crawled inside, announcing that he is a baby bunny and that it's his burrow (he frequently likes to play games where he's a baby animal of some kind and I'm his mama bunny/bat/butterly/etc. It's very sweet, particularly since he tends to use ( Read more... )

( In which everything is better under the sea )

Tonight saw a follow-up to this conversation, as follows ( Read more... )

These are all from today:

1. ( Fishing for sushi )

From necronomiphiles:

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That reminds me that I really, really, really want to get this for Aidan. Well, theoretically for Aidan. Undoubtedly at least partly for me. But some of the reviewers say their kids liked it too, and it would have been great for the junior Cthulhu cultist costume I briefly considered dressing him in this past Halloween.

So I have now twice biked to a client's place near Pape & Gerrard, which is the longest distance I've done in a single stretch, apart from (I think) that one time I biked from foxesdaughter's place to Union Station along the waterfront trail late at night. And I've actually found it a pretty decent and enjoyable trek both times ( Read more... )

I really, really want this T-shirt:

http://www.blackphoenixtradingpost.com/le-miskyule09.html

(I also really wish people would stop using the absurd term "baby doll" for T-shirts that are cut to accommodate people who happen to have breasts. How about ( Read more... )

Today, I:

1. Survived a one-shot Call of Cthulhu game with no ill effects except temporary insanity, scars from a shotgun blast to the face, and a deep desire never to see the inside of a cave again under any circumstances (which would probably be less problematic were my character not a professional caving guide). Ironically, I think it was the ( Read more... )

This looks like a ton of fun: An Open Challenge: Build Your Own Lovecraftian Ending

Were I not tired and brain dead at the moment, and it not late at night, I would immediately take up the challenge. Perhaps on the morrow.

In the meantime, I leave you with this, which amused me even more: The Thing in the Crib, or, Cthulhu Cthild Cthare

From Deep Sea News:
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