Six questions about popes you never expected the answer to be “yes” to:

A summary of Something Awful’s “Six Most Awful Popes.” http://www.somethingawful.com/d/most-awful/popes-cadaver-synod.php?page=3.

1. Was the Vatican ever totally ( Read more... )

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So, being the open minded and environmentally aware person I am, I decided to have an adventure with my girly bits this month. You are all girls, so what follows, while perhaps not relevant to your interests, is certainly relevant to your personages. Nevertheless, I have cut it, for those of you who may not be ( Read more... )

The fact is that I will spend three years in jail. The fact is that that’s very small. The fact is that you and I live in the midst of a society which does much more that send people to jail.

We live in a society that has become synonymous, not simply with sending people to jail, and not simply with starving people all around the world; not ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, I, Carolyn Jayne Dallimore the Only, was a spoiled brat. I think I should say upfront that there is a very good reason for this: immigration. My mother came to Canada from England with her mother, father, and brother in the Groovy Years; my Welsh father wandered over here on his own much later on. At some point, my mother had a ( Read more... )

So, since I've been ridiculously tired as of late, my doctor sent me to get bloodwork (which I haven't had since I was eight). Now, I've always been squeamish - so much so that I had difficulty getting through the "circulation" unit in Bio 20 - but I didn't expect it to be too much of a problem. Boy, was I wrong! Not long after they started taking ( Read more... )

You know, I really resent the term "bohemian chic". I'm not entirely sure why, but I have this sneaking suspicion that it's because it's a goddamn oxymoron. Bohemian has nothing to do with being in fashion (actually, it has everything to do with rejecting fashion), and apart from that - how bohemian is it to spend hundreds of dollars on one item of ( Read more... )

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Hey, since I forgot on thursday - guess where I'm going in April/May? Greece and Italy. Because I'm cool like that. (Guess what I'm going to sing in Pompeii? At least three of you should know this.) Anyway, that's where I'll be at the end of april and until mid may if any of you RL people are trying to find me.

Meanwhile: yesterday it was -47C ( ( Read more... )

Guess which famous actor's funeral is to be picketed by the lovely folks at Westboro Baptist Church? (Hint: it's because he was in Brokeback Mountain, and is therefore obviously evil...don't worry about questioning their logic, there isn't any.)

Silly people. Anyway, more interesting updates to come when I am not buried in schoolwork.

-Awesome stereo system + my family's old subwoofer.
-A shiny, bullet-proof (wtf, I know) red suitcase that hopes to visit many exciting places.
-A grand old pile of about 10 books. Highlights include The Naked Lunch, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and The World Without Us. Oh, and a book about Syd Barrett
-A grand old pile of about 20 CDS. ( Read more... )