So recently I read an article in the Washington Post about Harper Lee's new book - something previously unpublished that had just, you know, been lying around - like one of the most beloved American authors ever had been withholding it from us, the eager public, just 'cause ( Read more... )

It's been forever.

I'm driving myself crazy. I may gnaw off a leg. It's about the way I'm trapped, and the way this feeling is unreasonable. It's about wanting to be more than what I am, and do more than what I'm doing, and how it's crazy it's this way, because what I am and where I am and everything about me should be good enough for anyone ( Read more... )

So, I read "Game of Thrones." Just the first book, which is actually just called that. The series is called something about fire and ice, but the television series is named after the first book, which is confusing. I started to read the second book, and then stopped ( Read more... )

(You sing that to the tune of PUSA's "Peaches ( Read more... )

Remember the night kids ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night I was living in this small town, and there was this weird thing going on. Children were being poisoned by pink goo, and all the peanut butter in town was contaminated by raisins. The list of suspects was four people long, including this weird, quiet middle aged man who always wore a red and black flannel shirt, and a fur ( Read more... )

A premise to your summer, in the wake of a cool, gray day ( Read more... )

"They said they'd give me everything and here's the part that made me laugh: they didn't give me anything, and then they took half of that. Oh, sharpen your teeth and lay flat." ~ Ugly Casanova, "Pacifico ( Read more... )

Why do I want to know certain things? How is a working knowledge of Zoroastrianism going to help me with anything in life? Study of any sort of engages and exercises the mind, but I could be just as entertained by quantum physics, couldn't I? Actually, quantum physics isn't all that applicable to anyone in my situation either.