"The runners are lithe and young. None are older than sixteen. Nothing about their hair or clothing dangles in excess, though they ornament themselves in other ways: hair cut in patterns like ornamental lawns, tint cascading through the patterns like advertising. Tattoos adorn them like jewelry or ripple across their bodies like silk scarves, wet and shining in the omnipresent April rain. " Srsly...

Couch Snoozy Monkey Originally uploaded by Spiritualmonkey . Happy HNT everyone! Previously in O,DIKTO? : - The monkey's Half-Nekkid Thursday archive - The Male Physique: Options

I bartended at then NCLR 30th anniversary where Navratilova was the GoH. Lexica & I just celebrated out 11th wedding anniversary. We've attended gay marriage rallies and wholly support the idea of marriage. I wear a white knot on my backpack. This shit is hard work, and I support those who sign up "For better or worse". But Navratalova's cynical towards marriage and commitment is ashes is...

If I still had a TV, this series of ad bumps for the newly-renamed SyFy Channel would make me not want to EVER turn to that channel again. http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml Whomever dreamed this up... you suck. Via grewgirlbeast

Michael Jackson never had a snowball's chance in Hell of living a normal life And, like most of us, he didn't beat the odds. Though he did give us Thriller Rest in peace. That is all.

Not Catholic (mom's family is), but I am (510). And as a resident of this city, from the outside the Cathedral of Christ the Light looks like the worlds biggest industrial vagina made of glass & steel. clipped from arturovasquez.wordpress.com A monument to 21st century civilization, millenial optimism, and petit-bourgeois good taste it may be, but a church it is not. Apparently...

Ever wonder who gets credit for the "Strongest Beer in the World? : December 6 is the Feast day of St. Nicholas, one of several Patron Saints of Brewing... Inspired by this feast day, is Samichlaus Bier . Samichlaus is an 14% ABV doppelbock that at one time was billed as the world's strongest beer. The name means "Santa Claus" in the Swiss-German dialect of Zürich. Brewed only on December 6...

I mentioned earlier the problem of side characters leaping up and saying "Me, WRITE MORE ABOUT ME! NOW!!!" I had expected this to come later in the sequence. But it's just about done, and it actually fits, stoywise up next. SO... Up next, The Long Yuletide War , Part 4: "Song of the Murderous Saint"

For the due South episode "Mountie on the Bounty", Paul Gross had wanted to use the Gordon Lightfoot song " The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald " as the seed of a storyline about bad guys using the memory of the sinking for nefarious purposes. Gordon Lightfoot gave the go-ahead, as long as the family members of the 29 crew who died aboard her also agreed. Rather than put the families through...

And it's a heave-ho, hi-ho, comin' down the plains Stealin' wheat and barley and all the other grains It's a ho-hey, hi-hey farmers bar yer doors When ya see the Jolly Roger on Regina's mighty shores -Arrogant Worms, "Last Saskatchewan Pirate" Previously in O,DITKO? : - Pirates - Western Canada Feels Wrath of the Tentacles - Canada militarizes the arctic, threatens violent retaliation...