[ 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... )

Alright, kids. Robin needs a distraction before he finds himself throttling a parakeet and a leprechaun and possibly a few other items for the bestiary.

Things which are worth working up a disgusting sweat over: Go!

Putting a claim on something does not ensure that it is yours. If you really wish to own it you must put it physically under your control, and keep it there. Some may talk of morality, and others of religion, but give me a snug bit of property and I shall be happy enough.

filtered to Chuck Bass;

Hello, hello. Can we have a little talk? Are you

[audio post]The prostitute has to forsake a man who has no money, the subject a king that cannot defend him, the birds a tree that bears no fruit, and the intelligent guest a house after they have finished their meal ( Read more... )

I took an hour or two to myself today, to do some looking around for nice little shops and restaurants of report. I did find a lovely little Indian place, but more importantly, I found a beautiful piece on oil and canvas that I had to have.

( cut not ic. possibly not worksafe fine art. )

It seems as if a third of the damn population is ill this month. To the point that the two smallish words 'waiting room' now begin to fill me with dread, contempt, and an urge to curse fluently at anyone who aims them in my direction. Lucky for us all that the dire cases seem to be tapering off, and that medicine simply is what it is here. You can ( Read more... )

I hate hospitals with the cold passion of Hades itself ( Read more... )

I love children ( Read more... )

[ video recording ]

[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... )