I'm a horrible, horrible person, but I can't help thinking about Deathwing when I hear about all these major earthquakes ( Read more... )

Mom always says celebrities die in threes, and the last week has borne that out.

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson all passed away in the last few days.

Ed was cool, I didn't really know anything much about Farrah as she was before my time, and Michael was...very, very, very weird. So, yeah.

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When I made this icon four years ago, "January 20th, 2009" seemed soooo far away, but we're finally preparing for Shrub removal from Washington. Hooray!

I'll have more to say about Obama's inauguration next week, but for now I'll link to an awesome video on YouTube that's been making the rounds lately. It's a four-minute sequence morphing ( Read more... )

YES WE CAN!

YES...WE DID!

Announced at 10 PM Central time on this fourth day of November, two thousand and eight...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the forty-fourth President of the United States of America...

BARACK

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Four years ago I volunteered with the local Democratic campaign and spent many hours working to win votes for John Kerry. Despite victories in my city, county and state, Sen. Kerry lost the election, and I was devastated. Due to changes in my work schedule I wasn't able to volunteer this time around. I've been almost afraid to get my hopes up ( Read more... )

I updated my bare bones Warcraft webpage today. I updated a few webcomic links but the two main features are a profile page for Skarlette, and one new illustration for my fanfic "Nothing Without You", in part three.Meanwhile, Obsydia had a very good night in Karazhan last week, having picked up the Robe of Elder Scribes from Nightbane and the Ring ( Read more... )

I just learned that Arthur C. Clarke has passed away at the age of 90.

One of my favorite writers, a brilliant man in a number of fields, and a true visionary. I've passed many a good hour with my nose buried in Rendezvous with Rama and its sequels, 2001: A Space Odyssey and its sequels, Childhood's End, Hammer of God, Richter 10, and countless ( Read more... )

(Warcraft geekery ahead...ignore if you're not a WoW player ( Read more... )

Steve Irwin of "Crocodile Hunter" fame was killed today by a stingray in the Great Barrier Reef. He was only 44 years old and leaves his wife and two small children ( Read more... )

Schroeder posted with a link to a PDF of a new study on violence and other questionable content in today's cartoons. Link to his post here.

The following started out as a reply to his entry but I ended up ranting at some length so rather than inflict him with it, I'm posting it here. ;)

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