In the Skin of the Lion is my current read. Having a little trouble limping through it… some great writing, just not getting into it. I liked The English Patient a good deal more… the characters cross from both books… An interesting thing.

A quote from a description of a girl rolling over: – “Clara turned slowly like something on the floor of the ocean.” I like that. 🙂

Much preferring old classics…I’m sidebar rereading my collected Mark Twain, and it rocks. That may be what’s pulling me away from In the Skin of the Lion.

Talked with the girl I love about buying domains recently… then I found this.

I thought buymystinkygymsocks.com was bad… there’s a bunch of wackies… thelintfrommybellybutton.com

and you can get stickers!

Definition of “truncate” from dictonary.com:
Appearing to terminate abruptly, as a leaf of a tulip tree or a coiled gastropod shell that lacks a spire.

or better,

How cool is that?

AP Photo by Chuck Kimmerle, Grand Forks Herald

I don’t know, I’m hitting all the coolest web today.

Hope nobody feels Scotto-spammed.

Callipygean–Having a well-shaped buttocks.

Thank you, oh thank you, dictionary.com

*snerk

*snort

Ok, I can’t help it. I know what would happen if a kid was named this in an American School.

Bozo Matic – No, it’s not a toy, or appliance, or a poorly thought out website, it’s a real given name – and yes, he’s a real person. It just so happens he’s Croatian, and is now the new chairman of Bosnia’s government.

Courtesy of metafilter.

it’s official.

Please, I beg the gods of the ‘Net to stop sending me ‘All Your Base Are Belong to Us.

I have officially hit the 50 e-mail mark. (many of which attached the whole movie file, not just a link to it. a faux pas x 2)

Gadzooks. Fill up my free e-mailbox, why don’t ya?

The second definition of “ineffable” is lovely: “Not to be spoken because of its sacredness, unutterable.”

Favorite Twists…

“…it’s a cookbook! it’s a cookbook!”

“It’s made of people! peeeeeople!”

Chiming organ – “Dun Dun DUNNNNNNN”

“Hitler’s brain in a jar, *STILL ALIVE*”

flashing back on more old TV. Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, Monsters, Tales from the Darkside, Night Gallery.

Why do I like such drivel? I dunno. I can’t say as I was ever scared from an episode… but there was certainly some weirdness. Rod Serling is especially cool… I could see him and Jack Webb fighting oddities, transdimensional space nazis, whathaveyou, Men in Black Style.

no gore needed, just a case of the “WHA??!?” works fine.

Current shows, (and I bet I get smacked around for this) like Buffy, just doesn’t cut it, in my opinion. The New TZ was ok, and the New outer Limits was not too bad, either.

public boolean whore(String x) { if (x = “Your Mom”) { return true; } else { return false; }

Nerd programmer insults.

Oddity – Giant German Swastika to Be Removed From Forest

Now I want to plant a big smiley face somewhere.

http://user.tninet.se/~prv247p/hatt/hatten.swf

suddenly wants to call folks ‘Hat-baby’

Is this an ad? a Joke?

Lalalalalaala… aAaaAAaa.. hatt-baby!

partial translation…

La la la lalala….
Win kinky fun
Win kinky fun
The hat is yours, the hat is yours, the hat is yours, hat baby
The hat lives so happily
The hat lives so happily
The hat is yours, hat baby.

This here is damned
We think we are gay
That’s always fun
The hat is yours, hat baby

Cool guy with a drink in his hand, yeah, we’d like something sweet
Cool guy with a drink in his hand, yeah, we’d like something sweet
Dunk the hat in Bert’s cola & milk
And then later we’ll see you, hat baby

Hello Kitty waffle maker.

found here:

Proposed Indian Names for Certain White People

Buys Plants For Companionship, Comments On How Wonderful Bread Is, Considers Soup Selects Salad, Examines Skin For Moles, Fixes Paper Jams, Insists Pizza And Beer’s On Me, Invents New Persona, Proffers Swiss Army Knife When Inappropriate, Prunes Roses, Raises Voice In Anger Then Gets Sheepish, Reconsiders Skydiving As Possible Hobby, Recycles Same Joke With Different Friends, Searches Flea Market For Treasure, Thinks Of Self As Buddhist, Wants To Hang Out, Wears Matching Bra And Panties.

I like that. A lot.

Monkeys taking over government buildings in India

Angry monkeys stop traffic

Indian monkeys on a rampage against smokers

I am checking these events against those described in the Book of Revelations and will continue to monitor the Art Bell show regularly. Any pertinent information will be passed along as soon as possible.”