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Someday, I will learn the balance between "posting every day" and "falling off the face of the earth."
Life has been insanely sort of busy, and I'm very sorry if I've missed your birthday or something significant you've posted. Feel free to link anything of urgency or magnittude in the comments. I'm trying to decide how to handle a bunch of job issues, so I'll leave the full recap for another day and just dump a bunch of links I've had given to me or I've bookmarked for whatever reason or another this past month.
Snake discovered with a leg. A woman in China has found a snake with a single leg and a clawed foot crawling across her bedroom wall. EVOLUTION AT ITS BEST.
4 women in lover's gluing must stand trial. A man whose penis was glued to his stomach testified Tuesday that a motel tryst with a girlfriend involving a bondage fantasy turned painful and humiliating after his wife, a second girlfriend and another woman burst into the room and harassed him because of his cheating ways. To keep track of all the people involved in this thing, you need a Venn diagram.
Your AAA WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT Moment For Today. A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast. Between this and the snake, I may never sleep again.
Stephen King's "The Cannibals." The first sixty pages or so of an old Stephen King manuscript. He has a new novel coming out in November, in which there's an invisible dome over some town in Maine, that's a rewrite of this old manuscript. (I'm kind of disappointed-- he was doing so well, with not writing books centered in Maine and peppered with folksy expressions, and I was really proud of him. But I suppose you have to let the man do what he loves, and he'd have fallen off the wagon agains shortly anyway.)
Tekken 6 comic by Penny Arcade. I have many fond memories of hours spent playing Tekken 3 with my brothers, and all the resultant hollering and shit-talking and breaking furniture. The comic addresses a good question: why the @%$# use kangaroos as fighters?
Librarian's response to the challenging of children's book "Uncle Bobby's Wedding". A librarian offers a wonderfully calm and reasoned response to a patron challenging a library for carrying a children's book that positiviely endorses gay marriage. Thank God for awesome librarians.
One Nation Under God. There are some things words are simply not adequate enough to describe. This is. Just, it's kinda. Uh. Damn, man. If ever an ebodiment of WTF there was...
John Paul, Tell Me About Your Job. A comic from previously linked Hark, a Vagrant! One of my favorite pope comics.
Get Rich Slowly. Blog of personal finance tips.
Robot pillow. The “Funktionide” is an autarkic amorph object whose intention is to provide the user with a atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness. What they leave out is that it looks like a giant, pulsating maggot. Or a brain slug. Or, as Twig horrifyingly pointed out, the creepy bag from Audition.
Eli Roth is reading your kinky Inglorious Basterds slash and telling his friends about it as well. People reading RPF about themselves is always kind of an embarrassment squick, but at least he took it in stride.
Disney beefcake shots. This circulated around a while agpo, but this was the first time I saw some of the other characters included in it, like Kuzco, Peter Pan, John Henry, and... uh, Troy from High School Musical. Oh God, I can hear Chris Hansen kicking my door down now.
Bookworm. The stupidly addictive online game I managed to forget for several years, but have recently fallen back into its terrible clutches.
'Ora' concept watch is the latest creation by Greek designer Alexandros Stasinopoulos. Twig and I agreed that this is the watch M.C. Escher or Salvador Dali would wear.
Rammstein plans to release limited edition version of new album. Yes, that's all well and good, but the point of interest is that the limited edition will include six sex toys (numerically corresponding to the number of band members), handcuffs, and lubricant. Good times. Pics included.
Walk On The Wild Side - Episode Three Preview - BBC One. Animals doing silly things, overlaid with famous British voices. What else could you want?
Let Teddy Win. Okay, this one might require backing up a bit. You see, here in Washington DC, we are famous for crappy athletic teams, with the notable exception of the Caps hockey team, but even they're a bit shaky lately, Alex Ovechkin's scruffy Russian talent aside. In fact, our football team is currently a national joke (we lost to the goddamn LIONS), and our basketball team is also subpar. And our baseball team… well, here we come to the explanation.
To make up for the fact our baseball team kind of, well, sucks, we do try to keep it entertaining at Nationals' home games. To this end, we have the Presidents' Race. Which is much less a political affair than it is "four dudes dressed as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt show up and race down the baseline while wearing fucking great terrifying foam caricature heads."
This is what we do for fun in the nation's capital, folks. That's how we roll.
"Let Teddy Win" refers to the ongoing gag that though he was one of our most robust and athletic presidents, the Teddy Roosevelt racer has never officially won a race, because of tripping, getting confused, stopping to talk to fans, showing up at the wrong stadium, or being tackled by costumed bananas, panthers, and mascots from other teams, including but not limited to two sausages from the Miller Park Sausage Race, Potato Pete, and "The Bird" from the Orioles team. (Apparently he and The Bird have an intense and ongoing rivalry, perhaps not surprising when considering Teddy Roosevelt was also one of our most violence-happy, ass-kicking presidents.)
He has also been disqualified for using a golf cart, emerging from the visitors' dugout instead of running the length of the first base line, zip-lining into the infield from the top of the stadium, being pulled in a bicycle rickshaw, using a motor-scooter, being carried by the Secret Service on a throne, and hiring The Bird to tackle the other Presidents.
The LTW blog contains video of the races, pictures, the current win standings, and other miscellaneous info. You might also be interested to know that in 2009, a new food concession was opened at the Nationals Park called Teddy's Barbeque, featuring images of Theodore Roosevelt and a signature food item-a 13-inch beef short rib called the "Rough Rider."
The next entry will either be on books, my unseemly delight with SpikeTV's "Deadliest Warriors", illegal things I did with fish in California, the other stuff I did in California, eighteen pages of swimfic, further adventures with Brokeback AU's, Generation Kill stories I'd like to write, Supernatural, or a bunch of FFVII drabbles. IT IS A MYSTERY.
Or, since I'm spending Halloween with Louise, it may be a plea for bail. Whatever happens, y'know?
Life has been insanely sort of busy, and I'm very sorry if I've missed your birthday or something significant you've posted. Feel free to link anything of urgency or magnittude in the comments. I'm trying to decide how to handle a bunch of job issues, so I'll leave the full recap for another day and just dump a bunch of links I've had given to me or I've bookmarked for whatever reason or another this past month.
Snake discovered with a leg. A woman in China has found a snake with a single leg and a clawed foot crawling across her bedroom wall. EVOLUTION AT ITS BEST.
4 women in lover's gluing must stand trial. A man whose penis was glued to his stomach testified Tuesday that a motel tryst with a girlfriend involving a bondage fantasy turned painful and humiliating after his wife, a second girlfriend and another woman burst into the room and harassed him because of his cheating ways. To keep track of all the people involved in this thing, you need a Venn diagram.
Your AAA WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT Moment For Today. A rare parasite which burrows into host fish before eating and replacing their tongues with itself has been found off the Jersey coast. Between this and the snake, I may never sleep again.
Stephen King's "The Cannibals." The first sixty pages or so of an old Stephen King manuscript. He has a new novel coming out in November, in which there's an invisible dome over some town in Maine, that's a rewrite of this old manuscript. (I'm kind of disappointed-- he was doing so well, with not writing books centered in Maine and peppered with folksy expressions, and I was really proud of him. But I suppose you have to let the man do what he loves, and he'd have fallen off the wagon agains shortly anyway.)
Tekken 6 comic by Penny Arcade. I have many fond memories of hours spent playing Tekken 3 with my brothers, and all the resultant hollering and shit-talking and breaking furniture. The comic addresses a good question: why the @%$# use kangaroos as fighters?
Librarian's response to the challenging of children's book "Uncle Bobby's Wedding". A librarian offers a wonderfully calm and reasoned response to a patron challenging a library for carrying a children's book that positiviely endorses gay marriage. Thank God for awesome librarians.
One Nation Under God. There are some things words are simply not adequate enough to describe. This is. Just, it's kinda. Uh. Damn, man. If ever an ebodiment of WTF there was...
John Paul, Tell Me About Your Job. A comic from previously linked Hark, a Vagrant! One of my favorite pope comics.
Get Rich Slowly. Blog of personal finance tips.
Robot pillow. The “Funktionide” is an autarkic amorph object whose intention is to provide the user with a atmosphere of presence thus counteracting the feeling of loneliness. What they leave out is that it looks like a giant, pulsating maggot. Or a brain slug. Or, as Twig horrifyingly pointed out, the creepy bag from Audition.
Eli Roth is reading your kinky Inglorious Basterds slash and telling his friends about it as well. People reading RPF about themselves is always kind of an embarrassment squick, but at least he took it in stride.
Disney beefcake shots. This circulated around a while agpo, but this was the first time I saw some of the other characters included in it, like Kuzco, Peter Pan, John Henry, and... uh, Troy from High School Musical. Oh God, I can hear Chris Hansen kicking my door down now.
Bookworm. The stupidly addictive online game I managed to forget for several years, but have recently fallen back into its terrible clutches.
'Ora' concept watch is the latest creation by Greek designer Alexandros Stasinopoulos. Twig and I agreed that this is the watch M.C. Escher or Salvador Dali would wear.
Rammstein plans to release limited edition version of new album. Yes, that's all well and good, but the point of interest is that the limited edition will include six sex toys (numerically corresponding to the number of band members), handcuffs, and lubricant. Good times. Pics included.
Walk On The Wild Side - Episode Three Preview - BBC One. Animals doing silly things, overlaid with famous British voices. What else could you want?
Let Teddy Win. Okay, this one might require backing up a bit. You see, here in Washington DC, we are famous for crappy athletic teams, with the notable exception of the Caps hockey team, but even they're a bit shaky lately, Alex Ovechkin's scruffy Russian talent aside. In fact, our football team is currently a national joke (we lost to the goddamn LIONS), and our basketball team is also subpar. And our baseball team… well, here we come to the explanation.
To make up for the fact our baseball team kind of, well, sucks, we do try to keep it entertaining at Nationals' home games. To this end, we have the Presidents' Race. Which is much less a political affair than it is "four dudes dressed as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt show up and race down the baseline while wearing fucking great terrifying foam caricature heads."
This is what we do for fun in the nation's capital, folks. That's how we roll.
"Let Teddy Win" refers to the ongoing gag that though he was one of our most robust and athletic presidents, the Teddy Roosevelt racer has never officially won a race, because of tripping, getting confused, stopping to talk to fans, showing up at the wrong stadium, or being tackled by costumed bananas, panthers, and mascots from other teams, including but not limited to two sausages from the Miller Park Sausage Race, Potato Pete, and "The Bird" from the Orioles team. (Apparently he and The Bird have an intense and ongoing rivalry, perhaps not surprising when considering Teddy Roosevelt was also one of our most violence-happy, ass-kicking presidents.)
He has also been disqualified for using a golf cart, emerging from the visitors' dugout instead of running the length of the first base line, zip-lining into the infield from the top of the stadium, being pulled in a bicycle rickshaw, using a motor-scooter, being carried by the Secret Service on a throne, and hiring The Bird to tackle the other Presidents.
The LTW blog contains video of the races, pictures, the current win standings, and other miscellaneous info. You might also be interested to know that in 2009, a new food concession was opened at the Nationals Park called Teddy's Barbeque, featuring images of Theodore Roosevelt and a signature food item-a 13-inch beef short rib called the "Rough Rider."
The next entry will either be on books, my unseemly delight with SpikeTV's "Deadliest Warriors", illegal things I did with fish in California, the other stuff I did in California, eighteen pages of swimfic, further adventures with Brokeback AU's, Generation Kill stories I'd like to write, Supernatural, or a bunch of FFVII drabbles. IT IS A MYSTERY.
Or, since I'm spending Halloween with Louise, it may be a plea for bail. Whatever happens, y'know?