random awesomeness
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Good morrow, my nicely toasted crumpets! How goes it with this thing we call life? I’m currently camped out in the eye of a personal tornado of ADVANCEMENTS, UPHEAVALS, and GENERAL STURM UND DRANG. Mum’s the word for the moment, moppets, but I will tantalize you with a riddle hinting at things to come: Where…
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Happy maybe-Birthday, Shakespeare! Yes, today is the day we traditionally celebrate the birth of the greatest English writer, William Shakespeare – the Bard of Avon, “not of an age, but for all time.” Happy 451st, Will! Do you have a favourite play, or a favourite quotation? I love “Boldness be my friend! / Arm me,…
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Ugh, guys. I am in such a rut. Not my usual sort of rut (creative, romantic, professional, existential, homicidal, etc etc) but the absolute WORST kind of rut known to man… the loathed and dreaded reading rut. I’m blaming stupid, seeming-to-move-backward Mercury, which is retrograde right now. Stupid tiny, fast, extreme-weather-having, heavily-cratered planet. So the…
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С Рождеством! Join me in stuffing my gob with pierogis, cabbage rolls, and borscht while I ogle this fine, silver-foxy Dane playing a Russian gangster: Yum. Double yum. So wise. And so sexy. Jealous of a cigarette, dammit. So Russia. Much sexy. Smoking is bad for you AND SO AM I, BABY. Hngh. WHY IS…
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Well… I tried. See you next year. (Pinky swear.)
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I’ll be back. Soon. Soon…
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Emergency post!!! I hope all of you subscribe to PBS’s Idea Channel on YouTube, because not only is it awesome and insightful and brain-embiggening… but this week it featured Book cat in a Russian Hat!!! Yay! Yet another victory in Titus’s ongoing campaign to rule the world! Pause at 1:04 to witness the momentous occurrence. AHHHHH! Kermit arm flail!…
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Jerry: [crying] What is this salty discharge? Elaine: Oh, my God. You’re crying. Jerry: This is horrible! I care! (Seriously though, doesn’t watching this make the cold chunk of igneous rock that’s lodged in your chest start to feel things again? Damn. Watch it on Vimeo here) (FYI, igneous because it is the best kind of rock,…
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GREAT ODIN’S RAVEN!!! Book Cat is famous! The Fluffington Post has joined the ranks of those who are powerless to resist the alarmingly potent cuteness and general fluffy awesomeness of 96eustonroad’s resident feline bibliophile, Titus, a.k.a. Book Cat. When shown the website profiling his handsome expression of disdain (and uber-cool reading tastes) and asked to comment, Titus responded thusly: …
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It’s American Thanksgiving today. I think I prefer the American date; Canadian Thanksgiving is too early in the season. It’s not even really fall yet. Today was definitely an autumn day. Plus, American Thanksgiving is like a shot fired from a starting pistol, signalling the beginning of the most wonderful time of the year, Christmas. (Oh,…
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