[ audio post ]When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. Not to even begin to note that this should have been a complete damn no-brainer, to combat this belatedly realized problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and what would in the current year I am from be twelve ( Read more... )

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[The tail of a cat waves in front of the camera for a bare second, followed by a playful, batting paw and the chainsaw noise of a purr. Robin Goodfellow stands in the kitchen of Niko Leandros' apartment, head bowed over slumped shoulders, muscles over his jaw taught above the wrinkled green silk robe over his shoulders. The ( Read more... )

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[the camera shows the leaves of a bush rustling pretty violently-- if a person wasn't informed, they'd assume the camera was being held backward by someone leaving them. but no. robin's pointing it at his face, which would appear very irritated, if it...appeared.]

I took it off. Why isn't it working? Why isn't it stopping?

This isn' ( Read more... )

This is the very first time in my entire life that I have been completely without appetite for food, drink or spirits. The very first time. The only thing that brings any joy in eating are the stupid flowers growing damn everywhere. And I'm tired of it. It's a form of ridiculousness which needs to end immediatelyWhatever manner of dull, epicene ( Read more... )

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The best part about the spring is the fact that all of you gender dimorphic types are gearing up to sow your wild oats. All of you. No matter how much you may avoid the very topic, you're just as much a part of nature as all of the horny rabbits and birds and bees and whatever around you. You can try to deny it, but in the end all any of you are is ( Read more... )

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I haven't had a bad trip like that since before 1868. Come to think of it, it's been hard to have a good trip since 1868. Drug dealers charge a fucking arm and a leg these days. They act like such primadonnas. 'Do you know how hard this job is?' Tell it to Mother fucking Teresa, do you honestly think anybody cares about your welfare ( Read more... )

First very important order of business: I hear there is some sort of combat competition going on in some month's time or whatever here? I also hear that there are some form of decorative awards being offered to the winners of those combat competitions? If anyone could provide me with more information on said event and, if possible, the contestants ( Read more... )

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I should like to clear something up before any of you rabble go to see A Midsummer Night's Dream. I don't do housework, so don't get any funny ideas ( Read more... )

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Promise, I fully expect your daughter to reimburse me for damages incurred, along with punitive damages for my emotional trauma and suffering. Intense trauma and suffering. I just bought that. Five hundred dollars for what is supposed to be--

[ there is a long, irritated, thoroughly underwhelmed pause. ]

Promise?

Niko?

Cal--

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