Holy crap, John Isner is enormous!  No wonder they had to keep calling the match due to darkness - the guy blots out the sun. 

Blatantly stolen from a RL English friend:

"The World Cup has turned out like WW2. The French surrendered early, the USA arrive at the last minute to claim the prize and we are left to fight the fucking Germans."

I'm grading finals this weekend, so this might not be the last of these you see (or maybe I'll just update this post to avoid spamming) but I had to share some tasty bits.

Regarding the Shakers (18th and 19th century American religious movement that prohibited sex, even for procreation):  They believed that there was no reason why the human race ( Read more... )

My dearly beloved Roomie is not a participant in fandom, but she watches most of the same things that I do, reads a lot of the same things I do, and teases me for my fanfiction and internet addiction in general.  This leads to exchanges like this one from last night, when I finally watched Avatar on her parents' Home Theater System of Doom:

Me:  Eww ( Read more... )

Bought World War Z the other day ( Read more... )