Given the perfectly reasonable, rational, and non-hysterical-flailing response to yesterday's announcement, I'd like to add a few notes on the Outfit of the Day (OOTD) post guideline change. For those who missed it: the long-standing size-14-and-up-only OOTD post rule has been adjusted to US women's (i.e., not juniors) size 16 -- or the men's equivalent -- and up. This does not apply to any other...
... book is *bad*. It’s rigid, overlong, and about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face. Her characterizations of women are problematic and inconsistent and the whole thing reads like an astonishingly long self-absorbed personal fantasy. If you’re interested in what Rand proposed, save your time and just read Anthem, which is the objectivist version of Pilgrim’s Progress, all stripped down without...
...aggressive gets us no brownie points, it just makes us look like knuckledragging goons. We don’t actually consider that prestigious. Please stop telling us we do, we’re not that stupid and it’s an astonishingly broad and offensive generalisation to make about an entire gender. As a side note, just because I find a woman beautiful doesn’t mean that my only or even primary thought is to use her as a...
I dreamt that House was a teacher in an elementary school. Dr. Gregory House in charge of kids! The very idea is both appalling and appealing! And yes, I did just literally alliterate and astonishingly assonance your ass. And then I did it again! +10 points for me.
... DVD set. Which is fucking awesome, in case that squealing above didn't tip you off to how I feel about it. What helps me to be excited, beyond the fact that Iron Man was pretty much astonishingly perfect for an action/comic book movie, is that everything about it screams quality. Okay, maybe not the poster they went with for the theatrical release . That was crap. But there is so much love ...
... the dog was the best thing in it, especially when he said "I have just met you! I love you!", which is absolutely what dogs say (and what I say right back to them). On Saturday, astonishingly, it didn't rain. This was astonishing not only because it broke the pattern for the last fortnight (though it started up again in the evening) but because we were off to the Christmas Fair in Portsmouth and...
... Ask For For Xmas: 1) The first I will share first, because it is something others of you will enjoy. I downloaded a Christmas playlist last year or the year before, and it had an astonishingly beautiful a capella selection by a group called Chanticleer. So I looked them up last night and oh my goodness-- their website has a little "radio" section where you can listen to selections from their ...
...?" "Yes, sir." Wages, like everything else, had got behind, and the backlog had doubled when His Lordship decided to award small bonuses to everyone who'd held off civil collapse by staying on the job. Astonishingly, that was almost three-quarters of the city's payroll and the entirety of the Watch. "Good. It's a necessary expense, but at this rate I might have to start asking the guilds to pay ...
... often better to share with others. Somehow it never occurred to me that this is why I have so little to show for my time and talent. It's not that I haven't produced value, it's that I don't usually keep it for myself. I have been astonishingly lucky in my life and it seems only right to have shared that with others. I feel far less discouraged, and far better about the choices I've made.
Holy wall of text, Batman! Will insert the pictures from the other post as appropriate once I've had some actual sleep. In the meantime; :). Hi LJ! I ummed and ahhed for a whole five minutes before deciding the best way to keep a record of COLLECTORMANIA LONDON 2009 OMG would be to keep a written diary. A written, illustrated diary, probably copied word for word from the little book in ...
