Diana Wynne Jones claims that her stories have a tendency to come true. I've never known how that felt, until now.

This morning, on the first page of Metro, I read: "Don't know why I'm in Sweden." English-speaking man with no memory found at UMAS. (UMAS is the hospital in Malmö.)

OMG you guys, I wrote that!

Okay, so it's not exactly the same, as ( Read more... )

So, Obama's speech in Cairo knocked my socks off, and I sent it over to my dad, and it knocked his socks off (and it should be noted that my dad is quite the pessimist), and he passed it on to my brother and it knocked his socks off too.

Here be the links if you haven't already seen them (and thank you
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New Inkheart icon. W. at work is teaching me Arabic, and since fire (naar) and heart (qalb) were among the words, I got the idea to make this icon. I fully admit to cheating with Dustfinger's name - it's just the words for "dust" and "finger" and I'm sure it makes no grammatic sense whatsoever. But I wanted to make the icon today and not have to ( Read more... )

I just finished watching the latest Sarah Jane Adventures ep. Oh, show, how I love you. How I love everything about you. ( Cut for spoilers. )

FAIL:

Two days ago, there was an article in Swedish Metro about an electrician in Lindome who wasn't allowed to order spare parts for his pressure cooker online until he removed his first name from the order - his first name was Ahmad, see, and that was on the bank's warning list of potential terrorists.

Yesterday, there was a follow-up article ( Read more... )

Trust unfunnybusiness to always introduce me to new levels of stupidity: The entire Spanish basketball team posed with "Chinese" slanted eyes for a photo and apparently found nothing wrong with that whatsoever. The comments over here also provide heaps of stupidity ranging from (paraphrased) A: "We learned to do slanted eyes in kindergarten and ( Read more... )

( Harry Potter Husband test )

I just found my brother's latest picture on MySpace, and God, I love him so much. That he's not afraid to show himself in such a hideous vest, that he learned to play the bandoneon, and that he always gets so into it when he plays music ( Read more... )

Okay, sorry to sound flippant (it's how I deal with serious subjects), but we all know Hollywood is full of talentless hacks who make big bucks using their pretty faces.

So why oh why do the good ones, the promising ones, the ones that could have looked back on 50-60 years of top class performances have to die young?

First Brad Renfro. Now Heath ( Read more... )

I uploaded the Underwear Man clip from Reaper, AKA the reason I'm in love with Tyler Labine, to show roseveare. Might as well show you too:
Underwear Man! (MegaUpload, 4mb ( Read more... )