http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie  It's funny, you can read it.

Apparently Eric has some kind of lease paranoia, which makes it extremely fucking difficult to find an apartment.  God and Craigslist only know how he did it the first two times; everybody I find wants a year-long lease.  (Even on Craigslist!)

Xerxes the Great ( Read more... )

So I've decided to start writing journal entries on paper, in case I get another chance to access the LJ site again.  At this rate, it could easily be midsummer before I get an Internet account of my own, and I'm just not willing to wait that long.

So what's happened?

The library worked out the bugs in its blocking software at about the same time as ( Read more... )

> Despite revisionist claims, it seems persuasive to me that a non-A-bombed
> Japan would have fought on for months, in Japan and in China and elsewhere,
> would have killed the several hundred thousand imprisoned and interned allied
> populations, would have inflicted -- and themselves suffered -- millions of civilian
> casualties, even before ' ( Read more... )

Facts you should be aware of:

- They are taking the hobbits to Isengard.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGL2GlfKxg (This reminds me of my first strip club experience.  Funny story, really.)

- My snow machine has two chimneys.  http://www.scarygoround.com/?date=20061011

- There is something to be said for Communism.  http://newgrounds.com/portal/view ( Read more... )

OK, I need you to read this: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20482984-29677,00.html

Not necessarily because he's comparing the USA to people who never invented iron or the wheel, and considered it a sacred duty to stick stingray spines through their genitals.  But for the photograph of our Mel, courtesy Reuters.

Seriously.  What is