Category: Livejournal


  • My 9/11 memory starts with someone knocking on the bedroom door and the words more Americans heard than any other that morning. “Turn on the TV.”  Together, Jennifer and I watched it. The clock ticked by. “You’re going to be late for work,” she told me. “I’m not going,” I said. An argument began. A…

  • Attention Ladies

    Ladies, this is the new definition of FAT.  And by that, I mean, this is the new standard. If you look like this (or, Heaven help you, if you look worse), then you are FAT. Ignore all that bullshit we say about how Hollywood starlets and rockstars look like skeletons. IGNORE IT! This is the…

  • “The only thing greater than my hatred of war is my admiration of soldiers.”— Eric Bogle

  • Fuck yeah.

  • mnight  introduced me to the band. Their first album is called Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, although I’m a bigger fan of their second album, The Black Parade. A video from each. Boisterous, dramatic, funny, grim, and geeky. And fucking loud. Yeah, I’ve discovered My Chemical Romance.

  • I don’t like rap. I don’t like the bravado, I don’t like the violence, I don’t like calling women hos and bitches, and I don’t like… well, I just don’t like it. But damn, I like this. I like it’s honesty, I like its nakedness. I like it. Damn.

  • The Goblin Game

    Tonight, I play GURPS. It’ll be the first time I really get to play the game for real. I’ve dabbled in Grampa Grumpy’s game, but I’ve never really played it. We’ll see how that goes. My character is a goblin trader. He’s got eighteen kids. Yeah, I’ve got the kids with me. Also got a gobbo “wife”…

  • For Momontomoree

    They say it’s your birthday but ask us who cares! Yo ho, it’s your birthday! We tie up your feet and throw you down the stairs! Yo ho, it’s your birthday! A cake with the candles all over the place! Yo ho, it’s your birthday!  When you blow them out they blow up in your face!…

  • Oh, I think you’re gonna like this one.

  • Silent Seizures

    Alzheimer’s Patients May Suffer ‘Silent’ Seizures WEDNESDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) — Scientists say mice genetically altered to develop an Alzheimer’s-like illness undergo “silent” brain seizures. According to researchers at the Baylor College of Medicine, the seizures may explain why some people with advanced Alzheimer’s have “spells” of increased confusion. The seizures observed in the…