I'm going out of town this long weekend, so you probably won't hear from me for awhile.  While I'm gone, you can ponder some bizarreness which I have gathered.  Enjoy!

I am the terror that hacks hairballs in the night.  Four-eared cat is listening to everything.  Everywhere.

Things like this make me certain that there is a god and He's fucking with ( Read more... )

I have declared war on the rodents in and around my house.  For the squirrels who uproot my surprisingly flourishing outdoor plants I purchased a container of Critter Ridder.  Essentially it's distilled pepper in tiny balls.  If the strong smell doesn't repel them, the burning sensation from any part of their bodies which come into contact with the ( Read more... )

Take one over here, now with answers.

50 songs at Random Meme

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold/Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

01.  This was ( Read more... )

Thanks to Frank Miller, a good number of people know that the Spartans were the ground force in the ancient world, for a few hundred years anyway.  What Miller neglected to mention* is the real reason that the Spartans were so good at war.  It's because they had the free time to do nothing but train soldiers.  That's because they invaded their ( Read more... )

-Buy a praying mantis for the apartment.

-Buy John Rogers (aka, the Blue Beetle guy) a beer.

As I've mentioned before, I'm voting for anyone who's Not-McCain in November. The Senator's foreign policies are abysmal, his domestic financial policies are muddled, and his social policies have tacked hard right in his pursuit of the Republican nomination. ( Read more... )

Parts 18 and 19 of a fortold tale

The internet.  Where else could I find a calendar made of people and guys with Miss Piggy fetishes for free?

Nature.  Particularly the bits that make you wonder if there is a god and if so, what type of drugs it takes.  The community
( Read more... )