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Nightmare of Gastronomic Proportions
I was trying to finish Susanna Clarke's 'Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell' when I came upon the disturbing bit about probing people's nightmares ( Read more... ) -
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Had a most diverting time reading the New York Times' Freakonomics blog on Pirates. I shall reproduce parts that were mirthful and mind-boggling:
The pirates voted on how many shares of treasure each pirate would get. The captain got five or six shares to the common pirate’s one; the master’s mate got two; the cabin boy one-half. Skilled tradesmen ( Read more... ) -
most most amused
Sometimes, the truth is stranger than fiction ( Read more... ) -
fire-breathing chibis
Introduced Tales of the Abyss to The Niece, who had the same reaction to Mieu, the magical fire-breathing cheagel, as I did: That is so like Paul (The Now-One-Year-Old Nephew who STILL Drools Copiously)... miew, miew, miew ( Read more... ) -
300 half-naked men to die for
I think I have been reading too much on reviews of 300... what with the 'It's raining 300 men' parody making its rounds on YouTube. But I thought the following review was pithy enough to describe what every human being with the double X chromosome already knew about the movie:
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More myths about Reproduction
heh... More inspired Shungiku Nakamura moments ( Read more... ) -
A Brand New World
The Reproductive System...according to Shungiku Nakamura ( Read more... )