31 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
He asks me to walk in a straight line, so I do, then he asks me “You call that a straight line?”.
You know how you can never think of a clever comeback until weeks later? Well, I wish I had said, I wish I had said…. “yes”.
But I was nervous and the only [...]
30 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
Dear Miss Manners:
During a birthday party held at work, I began cutting into the cake. It had edible candy balloons on the icing and one of my co-workers asked if she “could have a balloon.”
This would require cutting into a section of the cake that was untouched, but we said all right go ahead, it’s [...]
29 January 2006 – 12:01 am +0800
It is now the Year of the Dog.
Arf!
28 January 2006 – 10:57 am +0800
As Craig tagged me for this…
Four jobs that you have had in your life:
Library Page (yes, really)
Secretary/Receptionist/Administrative Assistant/Office Manager/Gofer
Researcher
Freelance Copyeditor
Four movies that you could watch over and over:
(Ye gods, only four!?!?)
Seven Samurai
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Casablanca
Raising Arizona
Four places that you’ve lived:
Podunk, Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Shanghai, China
Four TV shows you love to watch:
The expected:
MST3K
Babylon 5
Battlestar Galactica (new)
Firefly
The [...]
27 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
I’m lost in a sweet dream
I’m living on chocolate ice cream
I’m blowing off my steam
Soon everything’s going to be fine
Hi, Hi!
I think I’ll learn how to fly….
— Dramarama, “Emerald City”
26 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
He felt as though he was swimming in the deep blue sky.
— Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
25 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
There are just two rules of governance in a free society:
Mind your own business.
Keep your hands to yourself.
— P.J. O’Rourke, Peace Kills: America’s Fun New Imperialism
25 January 2006 – 11:16 am +0800
Note to Google:
Abject surrender is not the way to foster cultural change for the better.
And don’t think for a moment that this will be regarded as a move of strength or integrity. The Chinese will not respect you for this. Read The Art of War. They won, and got you [...]
24 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch!
— W.C. Fields
23 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
JAYNE (faux-reading Simon’s journal)
Dear Diary, Today I was pompous and my sister was crazy. Then we were kidnapped by hill folk never to be seen again. It was the best day ever!
— Drew Z. Greenberg, Firefly, “Safe”
20 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
For as long as I’ve been involved in it, Western fiction has been under siege. In 1983, the historian laureate of New Mexico, Marc Simmons, addressed a convention of western novelists who were wrestling with literary rejection and deepening isolation from the social mainstream.
Dr. Simmons, one of this nation’s finest historians, described certain ideas that [...]
20 January 2006 – 10:42 am +0800
[Editor's note: This is more stream-of-consciousness than intended, but I had to put something up!]
While in high school and university I was an absolute nut for Mystery Science Theater 30001, I drifted away from it during the fifth season, after Michael J. Nelson (the head writer) took over the human role vacated by Joel [...]
19 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
ANYA
When I think that something could happen to you, it feels bad inside, like I might vomit.
XANDER
Welcome to the world of romance.
— Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Graduation Day”
18 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then [...]
17 January 2006 – 11:59 pm +0800
Fú wú chóng zhì, huò bú dān xíng.
(Fortune seldom repeats; troubles never occur alone.)
— Chinese proverb