In high school I knew a guy who had a pair of psychiatrists for parents. When he was a kid, he'd come home and his parents would inquire about his mental state by showing him a poster with different yellow smiley-style faces showing different emotions ( Read more... )

Okay, so I got a big kickstart after reading Nathan Bransford's blog. He's an agent who provides tons of advice. http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/Read more... )

I feel a bit . . . lost. Apparently, unless you were in my apartment at the time it aired, you thought the season finale of Lost was amazing. If you _were_ in my apartment, you thought it was so bad you laughed at it.

So the government is spending tons of money. This apparently is a good thing, because it will fix the economy ( Read more... )

For those not in the know, Gabriela's mother used her frequent flyer miles to get me a free ticket to Brazil, so I'm leaving in, oh, 40 minutes. The extra cool thing is that because they have only so many seats available for frequent flyers, and because all the seats in Coach were out, for the low low price of $500, I got my international trip ( Read more... )

Vote or die, motherfuckers.

List of cool things Ryan learned reading Wikipedia while researching for his Stone Age-era D&D game ( Read more... )

In 2006 I rushed to finish my novel by an arbitrary deadline, and managed to make it (as far as the Pacific Time Zone would have been concerned). But my novel suffered, and soon thereafter I set it aside, wanting to revise it rather than try to publish it right away ( Read more... )

I'm sleepy, but feeling good ( Read more... )

From Mel.

1. Pick 15 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

( Oy. )