From time-traveling cannibal mermaids, to... Surprisingly enough, I'm acctually a little frustrated that this mini-essay is so mini. There's so much I want to talk about that I don't have room for. It's like... Academic Twitter. But at least the word restraint let's me get away with not having to think out the organization much.

pgdudda commented: "I suppressed most of the 'grammar' I learned in school because it flatly contradicted what I instinctively knew about not only English, but also German. If you can't make it work in two languages (and you are fluent in both), there's something wrong, and it's probably not you." ysabetwordsmith commented: "I wonder what makes the difference between whether...

There was this book I read when I was little about a girl who was given or found this kit that you could make wings with. I distinctly remember the wings being made of feathers in primary colours, and the feathers went into little slots in the paper wing outlines. When the girl attached the wings, they became real, and she was able to fly. After time passes with her using the wings, she starts to become...

What happened when a NYC woman legally exposed her breasts in public... Thanks conuly !

conuly wrote an entry about pingbacks , on the occasion of the fact that now pingbacks are available to all LiveJournal users, not just paid and permanent users. She linked to a post of azurelunatic 's (which talked, among other things, about when you should or should not enable pingbacks, in her opinion) but disagreed with the main reason to enable pingbacks -- according to...

Okay, so apparently LJ has this pingback thing now, where if you set it up in your journal, a bot will come and let you know when someone's linked to your entry. I am testing it with this entry by specific request of the poster.

I picked up Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" for my bus and break-time reading, and that just got me all righteously riled up. I also read about how someone on the WikiBios website has taken the name and a picture of my friend pookhapixie 's infant daughter and created a full profile complete with fabricated interviews from her parents...

So, the reason for that last entry was that I recently ran across this entry about the book "Little Black Sambo." I hope that's reason enough for you to understand why I wanted to go on at great length about the dangers of discussing touchy topics. If you don't want to read the entry, the short and short of it is that there's been a lot of discussion over the appropriateness of "remaking" the...

Amberite kvetches about the trouble in bumping a new place for her kitty; aktiophi counsels that he Holds `` all will and war when innocence is used and abused `` and locomotes downhill from there... Aktiophi unveils that the lyrics to the `` Star Spangled Streamer '' are a Jewish conspiracy : `` The Star Spangled Streamer was rewritten, to a higher degree once; and in its last tipple...

Just to let everyone know that I recently deleted a post that I categorised both as spam and offensive - offensive is subjective, spam is not, as the user in question had recently joined dozens if not hundreds of fannish communities and posted same there. Since there was a general feeling in the comments of said post that the entry should be deleted, and since I waited what I feel was a reasonable...