Why, hello there ( Read more... )

Well, Iowa is done standing in the corner for their delegates, and my parents in New Hampshire are busy determining who will be left for the rest of America to vote for, so I guess it's time for me to make my sort-of-annual plea for political participation ( Read more... )

As a long time reader and admirer of Jane Austen’s works, do you know what causes me to lose sleep at night? Why, the thought that she may not have been a total hottie, of course.

You know who else I worry about? This guy. Man, just look at that forehead. Freaktacular. Okay, maybe that’s not a fair picture. No one looks good in an engraving ( Read more... )

In my inbox today, I received a message with the following subject line: “vampire may provide better pain relief.”

And I thought, “No, dude! That’s what they want you to think ( Read more... )

Givens ( Read more... )

This morning, on my way in to work via the Metro, I sat down next to a 50-something lady with her laptop open. I, being the nosy busybody that I am, glanced over at what she was reading.

It was Buffy fanfic porn. Spike/Xander, no less.

I'm trying to think of something witty to add to this, but I think it just speaks for itself.

We are supposed to be living in a musical.

Hear me out.

Okay, you know how you always have a song stuck in your head? Sometimes you just can't rid of it no matter what you do or who you try to pawn it off on, adn sometimes you think you've gotten rid of it, but you haven't really because it's just sitting in the back of your mind just waiting ( Read more... )

I did see X3 on Friday (and on Saturday), but since everything I could say about it is already on your friends list or in professional reviews, I decided to do something different.

On our way to see the movie, sadalice and I saw people protesting The Da Vinci Code. We wondered if it would help if we told them we were seeing the X-Men movie, but decided ( Read more... )

Just some funny things I have to share that seem to center around the Metro:

1) There is this guy I see at the Metro everyday with a terrible painting of Omega Red (bad guy from X-Men) on the back of his jean jacket. This picture to be exact. I cannot imagine why, as Omega Red a) is not exactly on the Magneto scale of public knowledge, and b) ( Read more... )

What does one do when someone stubbornly and persistently gets one’s name wrong ( Read more... )