Nightmares. D:

One that my brother and mom died in a helicopter crash and no one told me she died until a day after because she got taken to the hospital first. I was screaming and crying and basically a complete wreck. And then something happened and me and some guy were captured by... I don't even know, some roving nomad tribe or something, evil gypsies, I'm not sure... and they were going to kill him in front of me.

I guess I should be grateful that Butcher woke me up, but he did it by batting my glasses around, so... not so much.

D: D: D: I call a do-over on this morning. Hot chocolate, toast, crossword puzzle, back to bed.

seriously there is nothing so scary as the thought of my mother being gone

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LINK: Trying to Communicate
It is a Torchwood-meets-a-LOLcat story and it is POSSIBLY THE BEST THING EVER.

I went back to sleep. And Butcher woke me up again. By tearing up my collage. Again. I don't know what the hell to do to stop him besides completely lock him out every night and listen to him meow for an hour.

Okay, now this is a links post because I have 45 tabs open and that is just SILLY.


Anonymous Exposed is Scientology's attempt to demonize Scientology the same way they demonize anyone who says anything bad about them. But hey, the power of Anonymous is that it is legion, and they are pissed now. Wouldn't you be pissed if a Scientologist crashed your peaceful protest with a gun? Anons immediately responded to the flashed piece by following the guy around with a sign saying "THIS MAN HAS A GUN" until the cops pulled him out of the crowd.

Joss Whedon. Nathan Fillion. Neil Patrick Harris. The only word that can complete the list: MUSICAL. \o/!!!!!

Canadians are smarter than US Border Patrol, god bless their dope-growing souls. st_raoul, you have no idea how I envy you sometimes.... :P

An interview with the man who makes new drugs. Employed by the DEA, he doesn't just study what we have, he tests new compounds of his own creation. He and his wife are the most drugged people ever. Oh, and he's mostly responsible for ecstasy as we know it.

Commonly overused words. If I was ambitious, I would try to cut my use of some of these words in writing. As it stands, I'm going to make a half-serious attempt to remember some of them. >>

Six-word reviews of 763 SXSW mp3s. I snagged most of the 4 and 5-circles, and I haven't been disappointed yet!

I can has Shelfari! Readers, get one of these and start posting your bookshelf contents. I'm doing it very slowly...

Also check out BookLamp, which bills itself as Pandora for books. :O I haven't tried it out yet, but it looks awesome.

de-noted: money as art. It's a surprisingly versatile medium, sometimes! My favorite is "money is illogical, Captain."

The only thing that could make a drunk-driving checkpoint slower: police stop drivers to let a hedgehog across the road safely. xD He presumably reached Redwall safely, though he was not subjected to a breathalyzer test.

The American sex drive isn't just people-powered: it's a cyborg! Technology is now deeply intertwined with what we do to get off... and I'm not surprised. xD

Did you know that the peace sign was originally a British symbol calling for nuclear disarmament? And it's 50 years old today. Happy birthday, you iconic old sign, you.

Mission accomplished? Is Iraq still really a country? More to the point, is there any way to reverse the isolationism that has grown between small communities as a response to this drawn-out and unwanted war? Is it too optimistic to hope that this will find some sort of peaceful resolution within my lifetime? I hope it isn't...

Why you should always make sure your sex toys are securely hidden if you have kids... because otherwise, your kid might think it's a statue and then chew on it.

This is your brain on God: stimulating the brain with certain EM pulses to understand what causes the feeling of presences, past lives... and yes, even God. It's quite interesting, really.

Gay recruiting at a sweets shop? This person made bride-and-groom chocolate-dipped strawberries and sold both the brides... and people got offended when both the grooms were on one plate. What the hell, people. CHOCOLATE-DIPPED STRAWBERRIES WILL NOT TURN YOUR KIDS GAY. (Although, it's too late for that second lady's son...)

When girls will be boys: FtM students enrolled in women's colleges, and the debate surrounding where they belong. This is really remarkable, and if you only read one link from this post, make it this one, okay?

Sally Kern claimed that gays were worse than terrorists. A kid who lost his mother in the Oklahoma City bombing disagrees.

What would you call this color? Having people put names to the same shades and finding out how colors are dubbed through different perceptions.


....and I'm spent. This only took me 3 hours to compile... though, to be fair, I'm also reading a fairly epic Ianto story right now. >>

I just spent the entire day reading epic, epic Ianto-centric Torchwood fic. The whole day. From 11 am to 10pm. Pretty much doing nothing else.

And the ending made me want to spit. All that and in the end the author threw a dagger into my chest. ;_;

Anyway. Yes. I love Ianto Jones is the point here. And if I weren't freezing and drowsy, I would watch some Torchwood, but I'm thinking that curling up in bed with my crossword book is the best idea now.

My strongest association with rice and pasta side dishes (the ones that come in paper packets, you know) is of Dennis and George coming home stoned and making three of them at a time. xD That's what I had for dinner, a (not very good) chicken pasta side, and I couldn't help feeling all nostalgic for home, the red kitchen and the big back porch, the big comfy couch and the dusty den and my sisters yelling and my mother playing with her worm box and my dad watching TV, the trampoline out back that was perfect for George to show off on, and then everyone to lay on and smoke a blunt and stargaze, the mess of a garage and the big bathtub and reading by candlelight while soaking for hours.

I wish more than anything that my parents would be allowed to come back to Plattsburgh. Because being in Auburn seems to be wrecking everything. And I miss them.

Wow, that turned maudlin. Time for some nice emotion-neutral crosswords now.

While I'm on my Ianto kick... this song (which has been on my heavy rotation list this week) reminds me of him.

Vienna Teng - Whatever You Want
he's a company man, your right hand
13 years and counting
no detectable ambitions, a model of efficiency,
far as you can see
he knows every loophole, the art of fine print
massaging the numbers 'til they fit
and every time you ask him for another vanishing act
he half-smiles as if to say
whatever you want,
whatever you want,
whatever you want is fine by me
...
i am the last one you'd ever suspect
of setting the fire, of setting the fire
but as you switch on your TV tomorrow morning,
you'll hear me saying quietly
whatever you want,
whatever you want,
whatever you want is fine by me
oh whatever you say,
whatever you say,
i'll do what you ask me


...also, I think I like the alternate cuts from Pretty. Odd. more than I like the produced versions... definitely of Behind the Sea, at least. I still have most of the album to listen to, though.