In novels, that is, not in pick-up bars.

“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.”
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“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

Did you know, o brethren and … sistren in the [...]

Apparently it pokes the cats and gets them to meow. Heh.
Calm down, it was built back in 1650, so it’s not around anymore. Well, until I build a new one.
More at Gizmodo.

Jeezus…this is crazy stuff. In fact, it’s so crazy I actually marvel at this guy’s attention to detail. Oh…you’ll see.
From The Smoking Gun:
This country, as you know, is filled with the deranged. And then there’s Travis Frey, a 33-year-old Iowa man who is facing charges that he tried to kidnap his own wife (not to [...]

The whole “digital short” thing is really working out for Saturday Night Live. This week’s show has an opening with Steve Martin that was probably one of the funniest I’ve seen in a long time.
Thank you Andy Samberg and crew…even though I don’t really know if you shot the opening. Because if not, I think [...]

Anna Bliss Huelke
7Lb 13oz = 3.5kg
20.5″ = 52cm
1Pm CST = 19:00GMT
My uncle Ed and his wife Helena had their first child yesterday.
Well done Helena! Well done Ed! Well done Anna!

I have the solution.
Well, at least I have a link…
What we do at night affects everything we do during the day — our ability to learn, our skills, our memory, stamina, health and safety. Most of all, it affects our mood: Chronic sleep disruption appears to be the single biggest trigger for [...]

If you haven’t visited Chuck Norris Facts, you have to. Right now. Seriously. There are things on there that are so funny, I can’t begin to describe them.
And today I found a link over at BoingBoing where Tony Danza reads His Chuckness some of these “facts.” The audio is a little out of sync, but [...]

In case you haven’t see it yet, somebody has ripped off the original Million Dollar Homepage to bag on Bush. Basically, buy advertising one pixel at a time to cover up Bush’s picture. Each pixel costs $1. Oh, and the site’s tagline? “Cover the lies and advertise.” Jeezus…
But upon visiting the site, what I immediately [...]

A guy started with one red paper clip and he’s traded up from there. Now somebody is offering him a big cube van that could hold half a house’s worth of stuff. Amazing.
Curious how he did it? Check out the website.
(h/t: The Glittering Eye)

They’re probably on cup 30 right now. They stop on Tuesday at 5:30 PST.
Headline from tomorrow: “Men Die From Acute Caffeine Overdose. World Laughs.”
More here.

Baltimore?
I guess they got over their heroin problem…

A real tale of friendship…and touching story…
Bereaved by the forces of nature and discovered by wildlife rangers near certain death in the Indian Ocean off Malindi, the one-year-old male hippo calf dubbed Owen was on 27 December 2004 placed in Haller Park, a wildlife sanctuary in the coastal city of Mombassa, Kenya.
As soon as [...]

Oh my…
And so on Wednesday afternoon, the thrilled bride, wearing a white dress, walked down the dock before hundreds of astounded visitors and kneeled down before her groom, who was waiting in the water.
Cindy, escorted by his fellow best-men dolphins, swam over to Tendler and she hugged him, whispered sweet nothings in his ear, and [...]

Yeah, it sounds completely ridiculous, but it’s real. Amazing stuff and something I would never think about doing…ever.
In any event, Behold the one-wheeled warriors!

I love Stanley Kubrick films, and one of my favorites is The Shining. I know many think it’s one of Kubrick’s weakest, but there’s just something about it that makes me want to watch it at least once or twice a year.
Well, now somebody recut a trailer for the movie to make it seem like [...]

I turned 29 this year. One more revolution of this Earth and I reach that dreadful milestone of “the 30s.” And believe me…I look like hell…
Now it seems like those is their 20s are more and more concerned with their youth….
CHICAGO - Forget “40 is the new 30.” Now even twentysomethings are joining the [...]

Or Merry Christmas…you know…whatever…
I love you all.
:-D

He said that liberals and atheists and kittens were declaring a war on Christmas and now we have this news:
WASHINGTON, DC�In a sudden and unexpected blow to the Americans working to protect the holiday, liberal U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Stephen Reinhardt ruled the private celebration of Christmas unconstitutional Monday.
“In accordance with my [...]

The odds weren’t good.
A second-class citizen in communist Vietnam, the daughter of a man who’d fought on the losing side of the Vietnam War, Xuan-Trang Ho was the youngest of a 10-member family that farmed to stay alive.
No electricity, no plumbing, half-days of school.
The family arrived in Lincoln [Nebraska] on a snowy December day almost [...]

Jen(nifer) posts her three choices for all-time worst Christmas song.
I don’t have a three worst songs. I have one song that I’d nominate for all three position. “Happy Holidays/It’s the Holiday Season,” sung (and written?) by Andy Williams, the robotic ’60s easy listening singer with the eyes of a James Bond villain. He’s a passable [...]