Addendum to previous post: Frankie-pants I hate you so very much.

You know ONTD? Sometimes, it's really hard for me to defend reading you. Really hard. Would it be too evil of me to sic ( Read more... )

What a pathetic little show the Apprentice has turned into. And what a pathetic little man the Donald.

Sure, sixteen-odd self-righteous yuppies with bad grammar (apparently Ivy league universities don't teach one how not to use past form of an irregular verb with the perfect tenses) politely licking the ass of a successful egomaniac whose head ( Read more... )

That previous post? I take it back.

Via ONTD:

1. Joss Whedon, writer of my much mourned Firefly and of Roseanne will write an  episode of "The Office".
2. Alan Rickman is signed up for the "Sweeney Todd" movie.

Maybe something good can happen in the world.

Also, about "Heroes" which I got recently and watched through today while home sick - I cannot ( Read more... )

My Buckeyes lost to Florida yesterday, my Real Madrid lost to La Coruna and I am home sick.

Is the universe trying to tell me something?

Since coming back here, I've discovered a few curious things about this country. Let me illustrate:

An ad. A young woman is sitting on a railroad bridge, looking down. A train approaches to the left and she jumps off face down... only to be stopped from crashing by a bungee cord. A voice explains the benefits of an OTC "morning after" pill.

An ad. A ( Read more... )

I was sitting quietly today, taking the programming language quiz on BBspot (I'm Perl, by the way - hard to understand but always able to help) and I saw the new Weird Al video:


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One of the many things in Bulgaria I find hard to get used to are the "modernized" occult ads a la Miss Cleo (minus the Jamaican accent). "Send an SMS with your name to this number and we'll tell you which Hollywood star you're like", "Send an SMS with the word 'LOVE' and we'll tell you when you'll get it next", "Send an SMS with your dress size ( Read more... )