Step 1: Watch this.
Step 2: Follow along the below conversation, kind of like a sing-along with the ball bouncing along the words on the TV screen.
Step 3: Wait patiently, the orderlies will be here with a syringe very soon.
( Play along at home! )

...is irony, it would seem. I have just heard a contest announced over the airwaves, in which one can win a trip to,

wait for it,

Cleveland.

Mom just forwarded me this link. what.

syringavulgaris: I have been New Facebook Interfaced.
syringavulgaris: Do not want.
elibalin: See? S'horrible.
syringavulgaris: How the sodding fuck do we change settings for our "new" "home page"?
elibalin: I have no idea. As far as I can tell, we don't get to.
elibalin: I'd like to make the whole right-hand column go away.
syringavulgaris: "Since News Feed is now a filtered stream showing real-time posts from your friends, the ( Read more... )

syringavulgaris: "SpaHa", forsooth.
syringavulgaris: I really want to start smacking people.
elibalin: Er? Where's that supposed to be?
elibalin: Really. I'm not sussing it out.
syringavulgaris: Spanish Harlem.
elibalin: Oh for gosh sakes.
elibalin: I would like to exile these people to the glamorous archipelago of StatIs.

So, coming to Chez Nous, one ordinarily takes the Dover train. However, my usual train home is not the 5:47 Dover train, but rather the 5:50 Gladstone train. I know this perfectly well, and yet, tonight, managed to have a brain fart and got on the Dover train. (Which I should not have been able to, as it was at that point 5:49.) I noticed this ( Read more... )

nedlnthred and I went down to Nicole's for a stitch-and-bitch today, where briony530 and murieldechimay and others were already assembled; and by the end of the night, after I had been plied with hot 16th C. programming[1] and wine and food, I sobered up to find I'd agreed to teach two classes[2] at Hrim Schola.

whatBecause, you know, I wasn't already reaching critical anxiety ( Read more... )

So, I've registered for a class, which means I now have a bill. It's free for me, as an employee of a particular flavor, but until the papers are pushed the bill does indeed show my tuition. It also shows my application fee (they don't actually charge it until you're accepted and actually taking courses, which is unusually kind of them), and... ( Read more... )

It's a Sherlock Holmes film...

...directed by Guy Ritchie...

...starring Robert Downey Jr as Holmes, and Jude Law as Watson...

...currently filming in Williamsburg...

...with the antagonist being a Satanist peer.

what.

For some reason, "Court of the Crimson King" is showing up in iTunes as being by Steve Hackett. Which, yes, I hear tell he covered it, but this is unquestionably the original version.