I went home to find the place flooded. In the front yard was a particularly lake-ish puddle, in which floundered a....beluga whale! Weird, right? I was terrified! I ran straight to the garage faster than it could shuffle (because naturally the whale left the water and followed the intruder...) and locked the door. My two friends and I were freaking ( Read more... )

They don't really make us strong. They make us bitter. They fill us with scar tissue--something like reality but not; it's tougher, stringier, chewier. Maybe scar tissue is more resistant to everyday wear-and-tear, but it is less resilient once it has fallen victim ( Read more... )

Sometimes Amelia forgets that she's running. She's got a lot on her plate these days, and somewhere in the middle of processing everything she gets lost. She always ends up on her front porch, panting, sweating, flushed, but the past hour and a half are a mystery to her. She could have been mugging people, for all she knows. She could have been ( Read more... )

I always thought it was kind of dumb when people made mixtapes for fandoms and all the songs remind them of characters within. It always just seemed like a stretch to me.

Until today, driving home from work looking forward to getting back to reading Sacrifices, and Sea of Love by Cat Power (Juno OST of course) comes on.

Do you remember ( Read more... )

I had a dream that Jim Halpert was making fun of my Jim Halpert face.

Oh, if only...

It's times like these when I really wish I could draw comics. I can't get the following out of my head ( Read more... )

So, how many takes do you think it took Rainn Wilson to say "Don't think it's yours just because you marked it with your urine" without sounding like Dwight?

I say three: one accident, one joke, and one to get it right.

So in "Branch Closing," Michael goes down to the warehouse and talks to Darryl about everyone losing their jobs, and Darryl says that Bob Vance bought out the warehouse. Well, what happens with that when they close Stamford instead? Does Bob Vance sell it back, or did the writers just never address that issue ( Read more... )

Entertainment Weekly actually said "...ladies who heart Alan Rickman..." without any sort of satirical tone.

Before you know it, our grandparents will be saying "I heart Wheel of Fortune" or something.

BTW, aforementioned quote is from an article on Sweeney Todd, which is wonderful; I am currently obsessing over the music.

Mmmmmmcannibalism...

Dear diary ( Read more... )