Now that hopefully this "birther" nonsense has been laid to rest, I'd like to consider some of the aesthetic reasons that, IMO, it's a FAIL as historical legends go. It's batshit insane, of course, especially as one goes further and further down the rabbit hole trying to explain why there was already an international conspiracy surrounding the ( Read more... )

In which writers who cheerfully admit they CANNOT DRAW auction themselves off to be artistically commissioned to draw ridiculous porn.

It has all the appeal of bad-art sporking, porn-to-order, and a little bit of the humiliation factor of the dunking tank.

This whole post and its comment thread at Fandom_Wank has me shrieking with laughter harder than anything else in fandom has in MONTHS, and right now I desperately needed a good laugh like you would not believe ( Read more... )

So I decided things were kind of out of hand and went on a rearranging binge. It was going pretty well...until I tried to do something with the Closet of Doom. Then my precariously-balanced super-cheap super-fake Yule-tree-in-a-box fell out and hit me in the face.

I have a black eye. A real one. A shiner ( Read more... )

My state's ex-governor's wife ate a tarantula on a reality show yesterday.

I came home from the Robyn Hitchcock concert and found a pair of red satin panties in the cat food dish.

One of our patrons at my fundraising job told one of our callers that she was giving all her donations this year to the "food suppository."

I immediately grossed out everybody by blurting, "It's like eating in reverse!"

There is hot water in the toilet.

Hot water. In the toilet.

Just when I thought my sick'n'wrong-o-meter couldn't be calibrated any further....