"Assistant Attorney General John Grossman called the light boards 'bomblike' devices and said that if they had been explosive they could have damaged infrastructure and transportation in the city ( Read more... )

There are no fantasists like the Latin American fantasists: Borges, Márquez, Paz, among others. This one is a very pretty allegory of the tides of love, and (hey, I didn't write it) the fickleness of women. Yeah, it's long (for an LJ post, you ADHD-riddled, MTV-addicted crack monkey), but how often do you get to read a new translation of gorgeous ( Read more... )

Around two years ago, I received a lengthy confession, explanation, divestment, whatever you want to call it, from the most passionate, most intimidatingly intelligent, most estrellada girl I never loved ( Read more... )

So last night Jason had a chili cook-off. He made the mistake of saying he'd give out prizes for the best chili, most unique, hottest, etc. I make a pretty good chili, but I wasn't sure I could pull off "Best Chili", so I decided I'd take home the prize for hottest instead, because you can't just go to this sort of thing. You have to throw down. ( Read more... )

K: [financial gibberish]
A: They say engineers overanalyze their finances.
N: You remember that experiment where they compared the performance of a group of stockbrokers with that of a monkey throwing darts at the New York Times stocks page? They bought whatever stocks the monkey hit. At the end of the year, the monkey won.
L: So where do I get a

Death Valley this weekend was pretty excellent and involved ( Read more... )

A couple of floaty bits, just to get them off my mind ( Read more... )

Three words, one unholy marriage:

American Idol Gladiators

Run with it.

Dave walks up to Justin and I:
Dave: Hey, you guys have a manometer?
Justin and I (singing): Doot doo, do doo do. Doot doo, do doo do...
Dave: ...
Gabriel: Uh, what?
Justin and I (singing): Doot doo, do doo do...

First, a triptych of images from my weekend. They aren't mine; I just searched Flickr for "Tesla Claus":


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