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Last week I somehow got roped into attending a midnight showing of The Avengers (i.e., I had nothing better to do after getting out of work at 11:15 pm), despite the fact that I only know who half these people are because of fanfiction.

This morning I saw the movie with cadragongirl a second time.

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Am beginning to suspect that Nick Fury is my spirit

LOL, it's midnight and the Celtics vs Lakers drunken viewing party across the alley is singing “The Fields of Athenry”.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

They’re pretty good, actually. XD

Another Saturday night, another poetry weekend gone by. I spent most of eight hours today doodling foxfish and walrus eagles and gilled werethingies. Had I been in other company, I would have spent at least some of that time arguing that at least half the songs in Oliver! are about prostitution. (What? They totally are ( Read more... )

Have you read The Tough Guide to Fantasyland? You should read The Tough Guide to Fantasyland. It is hysterical and generally accurate about a number of fantasy cliches, and also by Dianna Wynne Jones, which should sell you on it even if you somehow passed up “hysterical” and “generally accurate ( Read more... )

At the airport! In the ghetto terminal, but at least there’s free wireless. Ryo's uchiwa is safely in my bookbag; hopefully he won’t get squashed ( Read more... )

At the risk of sounding like T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics: Dudes! I WAS IN JAPAN. I went to see Japan and snowqueenofhoth, who was the most amazing hostess ever and let me crash on her floor and arranged everything and is basically the Most Awesome Person Ever, is what I'm saying. (Except for the part where she got me addicted to Wieder-in energy jelly, but that ( Read more... )

Gorgeous day. Walked down by BU to catch the Head of the Charles for a while before doing some light reading. (Shut up. Structuralism is totally light reading. It makes sense!) I also watched the first episode of Scrap Teacher. No subtitles yet, but... it really doesn’t need them. My impressions condensed and writ below ( Read more... )

Oh my sweet laughing Democritus.

In the Latin edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone, page 99, Blaise Zabini IS A GIRL.

HEE!!!!

Only I could fall on my head and have my first worry be not “Do I have a concussion?!” but “Did my nose just break?! Please don’t let my nose be broken ( Read more... )