Obviously, the lady was creating one of the very first blogs in prehistory. Naturally she used her preternatural charm to get the buffalo to hold still while she assaulted them with paint and a brush ( Read more... )

Something which came up in one of my comments on __verity__'s journal, but which was too funny not to post here. It's a new coinage: cosmosis. This reminds me of that very funny contest sponsored by some group or other whereby the readers are challenged to invent a new term by taking an already existing word and adding or subtracting a letter and giving a ( Read more... )

Let the joyous news be spread...The Wicked Old Witch at last is wed!
Someone dropped a spouse on her!
Ah! Shine, sweet freedom. The ex got herself hitched yesterday. Best wishes, Dear, and congratulations to the object of your affections. You've finally done the right thing.
Some might think that I wish my ex ill. Actually, nothing could be ( Read more... )

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes,
And heedless hearts,
Is lawful prize.
Ode to a Favorite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes
-- Thomas Gray
Sometime today, the scrumptious ingenuemuse, my wonderful Delusional Girlfriend™ (my delusion, not hers; ask morganaus for a definition of the term) for nigh on two years, is tying the knot. That's right guys, one of ( Read more... )

The Saturday before last, in another country, I was having dinner with emmabovary at a Chinese restaurant. At the end of the meal, of course we opened the fortune cookies. The one I had, which I kept, at the suggestion of my dinner companion, said, "You are soon going to change your present line of work." My friend and McGuffin compatriot, Robert G. often ( Read more... )

For anyone who reads this, in case they've been living under a rock and totally disconnected from all that is hip and happening, today is the birthday of one of my earliest and dearest LJ friends, the sweet, savvy, mildly snark-witted, foxy, comely, and internationally famous (okay, one day soon, you'll see) ingenuemuse!

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Turn it up loud, Captain!
Isn't it odd that when you have time to write it means that life is really not happening to you in any intensity? Life is happening to me, with furious intensity. I have about a billion things I want to put in here, and hardly any time at all to collect my thoughts. This week is so stressful. It's like all of the stress ( Read more... )

...and now for something completely different
The following tale is not for those whose constitutions or sensibilities preclude their enjoyment of things somewhat earthy and personal. I haven't written of anything like this before, and I may never again, but I am just feeling so damnably smug that I can't help myself. This is your only warning, ( Read more... )