I have all my windows open because the weather has gone cooler; it's that glorious time of year when I need neither heat nor air conditioning, and the air smells wonderful. However, at night there's some kind of tree frog or creature that makes this low, guttural, throat-rattle sort of croaking that sounds exactly like the noise you hear in horror ( Read more... )

I hate leaving my computer alone, because I'm afraid I'm going to slip and fall in the shower or something, and my loved ones will find what I was looking at before I died and conclude I was another one of those crazy cannibal psychos in the making ( Read more... )

So Steven Stamkos ruined my evening again because that is what Steven Stamkos does-- he ruins lives and he has a stupid weenie face and I have already wished many sexually transmitted diseases in his direction this evening. (Nothing terrible because I'm not that mean. Preferably something itchy and embarrassing that he'll have to, like, buy a ( Read more... )

Gumby on the Google page is kind of freaking me out, but I've always been inexplicably afraid of him. I think it's because he seems sort of indestructible.

You know what topic breaks the ice at any cocktail party or social gathering? Hillbilly Handfishin'. Everyone in the goddamn world has an opinion on that show, and if they haven't heard of it, ( Read more... )

Hey, hockey is back, and it's Alex Ovechkin's 26th birthday. Awesome. In honor of that, I'm cleaning out a bunch of g-chat discussions I have had with flidgetjerome about the team and the dude, and some soccer thrown in. There's also a bunk of non-hockey links at the end for anyone who just wants to skip there ( Read more... )

Watching the World Cup final right now. I kept saying I was going to say something about it, and now I find myself at the end of the series, so honestly? Just go read the past month and a half worth of entries or so on flidgetjerome's journal, and you'll be much better off. Or do the same thing with Warren Ellis' twitter. (You can read some collected examples ( Read more... )