I don't know how much I buy into it all, but I was reading this NYT article about a Harvard study on "unconscious" preferences, and took two of the tests ( Read more... )

I agree with Neil Bartlett that, in general, we (people) tend to think that our situation is new -- that's why "Christ is always coming" around the corner (I know that there are Scripture reasons why people say this -- but I think that's lost on 90% of people that believe it. Just hope you don't end up like those disappointed Millerites), our new ( Read more... )

is Rachel Austin:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=60023848

It's just sad and beautiful enough to make me sit around listening to her Myspace playlist over and over.

O I will tell him to love you carefully ( Read more... )

Totally stolen from Aya1081Abject apologies! I just had a cup of tea and realised I have not updated this since petrol was cheaper than a bottle of Grange!... You would not believe how terribly tardy the Victorian internet can be. I prostrate myself in sorrow and beg thy forgiveness ( Read more... )

Michael and I were watching the RNC last night (to be fair, I was watching it and she was sputtering/mumbling/shrieking on the couch next to me). Anyway, we kept noticing some very Obviously Gay Women in the audience cheering their butts off -- as a lifelong conservative moderate, I can understand the sentiment...but still, you'd think that a good ( Read more... )

This may not be big news to anyone else, but I FINALLY have a new favorite Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor! I've been eating Half Baked for years, now, and I've always been disappointed in everything else I've tried (with the notable exception of the "Neapolitan Dynamite" flavor). But now ( Read more... )

I was idly looking through sixchairs' new blog (hey, leaving LJ happens to the best of people) and found a link to an article about Social Poaching. I didn't know there was a flat out name for this, but I TOTALLY know a good number of "poachers" that I'm "friends" with -- it's like you don't want to blame someone for making friends, but there's a line that ( Read more... )

( Because you asked if I could, and I somehow found it inside me )

I was doing my morning "paper" routine and found an absolutely fabulous David Brooks opinion piece (I like it when he writes about anything EXCEPT politics).

Anyway, if you're sick of blank stares while you spout off your genius at social events, this one is for you:

( Lord of the Memes )