Two weird things that you may or may not have already seen on the internet:

1. A sexy goldfish Halloween costume. I don't know if this is the weirdest Sexy Thing that you can be for Halloween but it seems like it should be up there.

2. A training video for veterinary technicians on how to handle a fractious cat who is trying to scratch and bite ( Read more... )

I don't usually use the Apple predictive keyboard on my phone because I am usually using Swype, but the other day I was attempting to type "I'm very happy." I got as far as "I'm very h" and the autocomplete did not offer me "happy." It offered me "I'm very high" and "I'm very hard ( Read more... )

So I was randomly reading a non-fiction academic book about sexuality in America, you know, like you do -- D'Emilio & Freedman's Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America -- and I am still at the beginning, about the Puritans ( Read more... )

Yesterday Lysimache told me that during the Middle Ages there was apparently a very popular folktale of Aristotle engaging in pony play with Alexander the Great's wife. (Latin/English text at link.)

Like, super popular. Artistic depictions everywhere.

I just... what. What. I mean, I know, humans are gonna human, but I guess I'd never really thought ( Read more... )

Okay, so last night, the Final Jeopardy question was "Adding "p" to a word for a chronic back condition gets you this synonym for graphite, or pencil lead ( Read more... )

17776 has concluded as of today, and you should all read it. I had seen people talking about it over the past few days and I thought, "Meh, why would I want to read a story about football?" (I do have occasional positive feelings about football but not enough to sustain an entire story.) It's... not so much about football as it is about why humans ( Read more... )

So the other day my RSS feeds brought me a link to this article about frisson, the pleasant chills you get sometimes when you're listening to particular music, or sometimes when someone touches you, that kind of thing. Except apparently not everyone gets this? The article says it's 2/3rds of the population, and when I asked
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In case anyone doesn't follow me on Tumblr and desperately wants pictures of my weird umbrella collection, I feel I should inform you that I posted some.

So there.

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So I just posted an Avengers story where Mojoworld made them do it, right?

I just got a bookmark from someone who was unfamiliar with Mojo as portrayed in Marvel Comics and appears to have replaced him with Mojo Jojo from the Powerpuff Girls:

MOJO JOJO WANT TONY AMD STEVE TO BONE IN FRONT OF MAGNIFICENT CAMERA THING. MOJO JOJO'S EVIL PLAN GOING ( Read more... )

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