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*imagine, if you will, the otter singing ABBA's 'Dancing Queen' loudly and slightly off-key in Hindi (available for your listening pleasure here [youtube]) and doing fakey Bollywood hand-gestures and mugging for a non-existent webcamera*

tum ek bar ( Read more... )

surfing-otter: I like pie
otterlot: What kind of pah do you laik?
SO: pumpkin is my favorite
me: Mmm... with whipped topping?
SO: Doesn't hurt
me: Hehe
me: Negmut or no nugmet?
me: GHAH
me: I SPELLED IT WRONG TWICESO: you sure did ( Read more... )

So I woke up feeling, if not refreshed, at least active despite the lack of daylight, and set about doing bits and pieces I had been putting off: sorting clothes, putting books away on shelves, thinking about a new Autumnal playlist (perhaps with some extended Krautrock-type pieces, with bands like Deathcab for Cutie, The Flaming Lips, Sea Wolf, ( Read more... )

Why it is good that Milo wasn't a rabbit:

The Mathemagician: What's the largest number you can think of?
Hazel (proudly): Five!
The Mathemagician: Now add one to it.
Hazel (thinking hard for a few minutes): ...Five ( Read more... )

So... I was listening to my playlist onna computer, with speakers rather than headphones...

My mom likes Basement Jaxx and The Chemical Brothers.

She's dancing wildly in the livingroom, enjoying herself.

She started freaking with my dad.

I told them to stop.

AUGH. MY EYES. THEY BUUUURN.

My family is very silly.

Our post-prandial conversation wended about from:

Lauren Bacall in the dub of Howl's Moving Castle = pretty good. My mom said her voice is deepening and getting huskier, like Tallulah Bankhead.

Tallulah Bankhead didn't like to wear underwear. Alfred Hitchcock said of her, in Life Boat... "I don't know if this is a job ( Read more... )