Last night, we went to see my cousin in the MTS production of The Thirteenth Chair. It's not a bad story -- a locked room mystery where the man holding a seance to find out who murdered his friend gets murdered himself while the lights are out, and the medium has to figure out whodunnit to clear her daughter -- but the execution was TERRIBLE. (Err ( Read more... )

Ray Winstone to Play William Blake

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Sure, why not?

( I've got an idea for a movie, too! )

Sitting in a Starbucks reading Crime and Punishment.

Daily Pretentiousness Quotient: Achieved.

Thanks to a chance remark from mea soror, we went on an impromptu web quest to decipher THE SAGA OF PERCY SHELLEY'S HEART. Somehow, I am not surprised that of all the literary movements, it's the Romantics who end up playing Hot Potato with dead people's organs.

Time Magazine, 1933:Romantic to the end was the heart of Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, ( Read more... )

Supreme Court Justice nominee Elena Kagan:


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Today's Dinosaur Comic is UNFORTUNATELY RELEVANT to my life.

Dude, why would you replace the coolest license plates ever? Heh.

ETA: I also love the extreme paranoia of "20 internet acronyms all parents should know". My favorite is NIFOC, because my first thought was "Dude, you wouldn't have to read your teenager's IM conversations to figure that one out!"

After much thought, I have concluded that the only thing that can make Torchwood as awesome as it should be is lots and lots of alcohol. Thus, I have created... THE TORCHWOOD DRINKING GAME DUN DUN DUN!!!!!

Torchwood: the show that requires beer goggles.

( This is for Kirstin, to help her through her period of affliction )

Well, ASE is over. Surprisingly enough, all my belongings still fit into one suitcase, one duffel, and one backpack, currently stored at the YMCA which actually has a pretty decent hostel. Yesterday, I spent the afternoon with Katie and her mom, watching the FA cup at a pub (and PS: Man U's passing game SUCKS OUT LOUD. They totally deserved to lose ( Read more... )