2:30 AM. I was sound asleep. Heard a crash and woke up with a start. Jumped out of bed to a really odd sound -- water running? In my kitchen ( Read more... )

Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Rating: Liked (Hated-Disliked-Okay-Liked-Loved)
(Book received free for review from Random House.)


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Class today, another pre-bariatric surgery thing, this time held at the hospital. Two hours long. I'm surprised I'm not bald from pulling my hair out ( Read more... )

Seems like everything I've heard today has been really dark and disturbing. It started with the radio. I love love love This American Life. It's a show on NPR where they tell three stories all along the same theme. I listened between doing shopping and lunch, so I missed a few bits of it. The theme of the week was pets ( Read more... )

With as much as I post about it, one might think I like Duck Dynasty. Anything but. I'm just trying to help spread the word about how awful the head of the family featured on it is ( Read more... )

After Phil Robertson, star of Duck Dynasty, said awful things about homosexual people (saying they're the same as terrorists and other such hate-filled things, see my post about it here), A&E rightfully kicked him off the show.

But now they've changed their minds.They're going to let him back on the show because: “While Phil's comments made in ( Read more... )

Perhaps the show is more fittingly named than anyone knew. Duck DyNASTY.

GQ did an interview with Phil Robertson, star of the show. In it he compared being gay to bestiality and made other such comments.

“Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and ( Read more... )

So my soda making machine is gone. Amazon sent three packages to me that day, and only two were on my doorstep. Plus there was the whole "it was delivered 24 hours in the future" delivery notice thing ( Read more... )

Back when I got my new Prius, I traded in my old Saturn to the dealer for a couple hundred dollars off. That was the start of days of dealing with paperwork and the DMV in another city ( Read more... )

aberdeen pointed out that there has been an update in the Great Homophobic Pasta War of 2013: Gay-Friendly Bertolli Makes The Most Of Barilla's Homophobic PR Mess.

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