THIRTY is almost ready. Another week. I’m trying to get geared up for The Next Big Thing. I don’t know what it is. I’ve tried writing a few things, but nothing really excites me. Then, I stumbled across this little poem. And I felt it. The little thing in your belly that twitches. My eyes…
If you want to be interviewed, just ask for it. In turn, I will ask you five questions and you’ll post your answers in your blog and offer to interview other people. 1. Which Sesame Street or Muppet Show character would you most like to be?The Champion of the Queen of Cookies, of course! Cookie…
We need another “R.” Reading, Writing, Artithmatic… … and Reason. Damn, we need that fourth R. Back in 1996, a physicist wrote an entire paper full of meaningless phrases — and it was published in an academic journal. Now, three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have replicated that exposé of academic writing. Their…
If You Ruled the World: by oomarilynmonroe Username national religion Jane BuddhistMuslimCatholicJewishProtestantAtheistAgnostic“yourname”ism!SexismAdult SwimismWiccaPaganismTarantinoism Type of Government CommunismDemocracyFacismAnarchy(I know this doesn’t exactly make sense)RawlsismFuedal SystemMonarchy How you take over You are voted into powerYou lead a millitary uprisingYou lead a slave uprisingYou string together a post apocalyptic societyYour father was king You would name it You…
A Southern Baptist preacher addressing South Carolina’s Congress about the Gay Marriage Amandment. In a nutshell: “IT’S JUST PLAIN NOT RIGHT TO TREAT FOLKS LIKE THEY DON’T COUNT—LIKE THEY’RE NOT REAL PEOPLE.” “You see, the religious experts of his time called him a drunk and a glutton because he went to parties with them, and…
Hi there. Recently, the old “John Wick never wrote anything, he just took credit for other people’s work” thread popped up on an RPG website again. You could help me out here. If you’ve heard this rumor, e-mail me at “john@wicked-dead.com” and tell me exactly who told you that rumor. I’m gonna track down this…
(from the IMDB) Rooney Grumbles Through Testimony at N.Y. Trial Andy Rooney brought his curmudgeonly presence to a courtroom in White Plains, NY Monday as one of several celebrity witnesses due to testify in a fraud trial against Alan Walker, president of the Program Corporation of America, a speakers bureau. As reported by the Associated…