Always Be Yourself, Unless You Suck.

Blog
* The world would be so much better if more people followed this simple rule. Title is from Joss Whedon.

* THE BLOG IS BEING UPDATED. THE FOURTH HORSEMAN IS SHOWING UP (actually, if you watch Supernatural, he already showed up, with pizza!). I will be explaining the long absence, but a lot of it is Super Sekrit At The Moment, so just pretend I have been busy knitting and touring the world and living a fabulous life of decadence. Or something.

Want
* Warren Ellis wants us to declare war on the moon:

If Stephen Hawking endorses this course of action, I'm ready to engage in battle. Provided I get a big shiny weapon.

Crafts
* I will be the first to admit I am bad at math. Unless it is algebra, which I am scary good at, numbers confuse and frighten me, and I think you should just figure out the bill, OK?
But even I, with my questionable grasp of simple arithmetic, see a problem here:

[Found at Regretsy]
So... it's $10.00 in money, prettily folded. But you're charging $20.00 PLUS shipping and handling? It's like a riddle. WHERE DOES THE EXTRA $10.00 go? Is this just a test? To see if someone would pay money FOR MONEY OF A LESSER AMOUNT?
I'm not even dealing with the fact that it's shaped like a cross. There's only so much I can handle.

Politics
* So, remember that politician Dave Vitter? And how he got off on wearing diapers around prostitutes?

[Found at Wonkette]
Nothing's going on with him. I just like to remind people that America has a United States Senator who enjoys wearing diapers for sexytimes. That's all. Carry on.

Ad!Fail
* In the following ad, a cucumber is hiding in the shower while a nakedish lady panics because her boyfriend/husband is going to walk in and find her fornicating with the salad:

[Found at LikeCool]
A few notes, dear readers:
A) OUCH.
B) EW.
C) All I can think is, does the cucumber have a penis, or is the woman pleasuring herself with anthropomorphic vegetables? Because the paramedics should be on call.
D) I have no interest in purchasing any product that assumes I want to get naked around fruits or vegetables. And now I'm afraid of salads. Well done.

Scary
* OH GOD IT'S COMING TO GET ME IT WON'T STOP NOTHING WILL STOP IT:

I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW TERRIFYING OVERLORDS THAT CANNOT BE TIPPED OVER.
The longer you watch this video, the more upsetting it gets.

Social Networking
* Still, doesn't one get points for honesty?

[Found at Very Demotivational]
Not a lot of points.... but points.... I'm trying to be more positive, and YOU ARE NOT HELPING, INTERNET.

Daily Hot Guy

[Steve Carell, from the not-very-good movie Dan in Real Life, but he's wearing a sweater and plays guitar, and I quite possibly cried when he sang 'Let My Love Open The Door,' because I am an utter sap deep down, and now that I've admitted that I need to go think about violence and explosions and zombies for a while.]

Daily Icon

[Patti Smith, who is cooler than all of us could ever hope to be, COMBINED, with Robert Mapplethorpe, ALSO cooler than anyone could ever dare to hope to be. Man, this is the New York City I wanted to live in. The rest of you can live in Sex & The City. I'll be over here with the amazing people.]

Apocalypse How?
* Some people are working on technology that allows you to steer your car with your eyes. Can you imagine trying to apply mascara with this going on? Or checking out a hot guy? You could meet the hot guy AS YOU CRUSH HIM BELOW THE WHEELS OF YOUR VEHICLE.

And while the article is quick to point out this doesn't seem to be consumer-aimed, THINK ABOUT IT. 'Oh look, a puppy. It's so cute-OH DEAR GOD I CAN'T LOOK AWAY FROM ITS ADORABLE-' CRUNCH. Then you go to hell. The end.

Tattoo Of Win
* I'm not going to lie: I have no idea what's going on here.

[Found at Ugliest Tattoos]
I think it's better that way. Please don't explain it to me. Ignorance is bliss.

Nostalgia!Win
Let's end this on a happy note, shall we?

The Muppets make everything better. That is fact. Anyone found arguing with this fact will be shunned hideously by everyone they know and love.

Tonight is the Supernatural season finale. I'm very nervous. I will be discussing this via blog later. Be prepared.
- LV

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Hey, I Couldn't Help But Notice How Much You Look Like Everybody Else!

Blog
* Nothing attracts men more than being nondescript! Title is from Mystery Science Theater 3000.

* I blogged every day this month. I deserve a damn reward of some sort. REWARD ME.

Awesome
* This dude duct-taped his plane together to fly home:

[Found at Unique Daily]
THEN HE FLEW IT HOME. He flew home via the power of duct tape and his own mad genius. That is awesome, so long as I do not have to be IN the duct tape plane. I don't think I'd handle that well. I dislike regular planes. WIthout duct tape.

Fandom
* Russell T. Davies and Joss Whedon, the two men who most consistently break my heart via television, are merged into a glorious collaboration of credits:

AND NO ONE DIES, SIRS. YOU SEE HOW NICE IT IS WHEN YOU DON'T DESTROY EVERYTHING GOOD AND PURE? ....I'm sorry. I watched the series finale of Dollhouse. And I just purchased Torchwood: Children of the Earth. These men are NOT on my good side.

Food!Fail
* I love junk food. I do. I think White Castle is the height of fast food, and if it's unhealthy, I will probably be first in line to eat it.
Hand over the french fries, and most of you will live.

But I do not delude myself into thinking fast food is healthy. Of course it's not healthy. That's the POINT. It's like when I went to a baseball game and they listed the calories for every food item. NO ONE on the planet thinks that a deep fried cheese-filled pretzel is good for you. But it is delicious.

Which brings me to Taco Bell. Taco Bell is good, NOT good for you. Taco Bell is delicious and delightful, and I would NEVER in a million years imagine it as being healthful. SO DO NOT TRY, OK?

WHAT? NO. LET MY FAST FOOD BE UNHEALTHY. IF I WANT HEALTHY, I'LL GO ORDER A FREAKING BAKED POTATO AT WENDY'S.
Click here to see a longer commercial, with full-commentary by the ISS. I'm going to go deep fry some butter.

Technology
* I have a slogan for the good folks at iPad: "For that heavy flow.... of information, use an iPad!" (Please don't send Steve Jobs to turn off my computer, I need it).
And the mockery continues, indefinitely:

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

How can you NOT? Here's a name: iTab, It makes me think of the soda, but at least I don't immediately think of women's feminine products.

Politics
* I really, really like Jenny Sandford, soon-to-be-ex-wife of Mark 'I Cry When I Get Caught Being A Complete Shithead' Sandford. His wife is a smart, classy woman. She did not stand beside her husband while he spouted a torrential flow of bullshit, and CRIED (I'm sorry, but it cracks me up. You are lying to EVERYONE, and leaving your state, which needs you due to economic FREE-FALL, and you go off to bang your girlfriend, you get caught, and you cry? Dude. At least have the balls to man up.). Jenny Sandford focused instead on her sons', and her own well-being, and refused to be party to her husband's pity parade.

I do not agree with her on many issues (or any, I think), but she is a very smart lady with morals and ethics and a sense of self, and I would be delighted if more women like her joined the political arena. At this point, with the parties so divided and everyone freaking out at the opposite side, I think it would be a nice change to really respect the person you're debating.

PS Her husband is the Nite Owl of American politics. He cries naked in his Basement of Shame.

Daily Hot Guy

[Tom Felton from the Harry Potter series, looking every bit the smug, condescending bastard from high school that you hated so much you totally wanted to make out with him... or was that just me? Smug, condescending bastards are sexy, in an angry way. Admit it.]

Dollhouse
* Look, I'm upset about Dollhouse getting cancelled, too, but this is hardly the time to- Oh, forget it:

[Found at Emails From Crazy People]
Priorities? Anyone? No?

Daily Icon

[Patti Smith, punk rock poet, lover of Robert Mapplethorpe, singer supreme, writer, political activist, and one of my biggest heroes. If Ms. Smith saw what had become of CBGBs, she'd rain down eternal hellfire and damnation on everyone involved. Plus she totally covered a Bruce Springsteen song, and lived in Jersey for a time. SO JERSEY WINS HA.]

Nostalgia!Win
* Remember My So-Called Life? Back before I hated Claire Danes, and back when everyone wanted to lose their virginity to Jordan Catalano? Great show. Anyway, then Claire Danes made me hate her through excessive suck, and Jared Leto stopped bathing, which is something only CERTAIN people can pull off. But lo, a change has come:

[Found at World of Wonder]
His hair may have distinct hints of Twilight sparkle!fail, but you know what? His outfit reminds me of David Bowie, so I am going to pretend Jared Leto is going to play David Bowie in a movie. That's right, I'm starting an internet rumor. Spread the word.

Movie!Fail
* Dear Matt Dillion:

NO.
Love, LV
PS You rocked in To Die For!

Want
* SHELVES FROM THE FUTURE:

[Found at Like Cool]
Well, not from the future, but techno-cool, yes? I'd like them. I shall line them with books by Stephen Hawking (who is, in fact, god). TRUTH.

OK, it's Sunday, it's cold.... yeah. I got nothing.
- LV

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Are You Humming Metallica?

Blog
* Dear Dean: Never change. Also, I hate flying too. We can hum in unison! Love, LV. Title is from Supernatural.

Moment of Win

see more Epic Fails
I am aware my male readers are not staring at the UPSIDE DOWN BOOK.

Words of Win

[Found at Friggin Random]

Food!Win
* Sometimes you need to overlook the calories, and just enjoy the colors of your food:

[Found at CakeSpy]
They're Rice Krispie Treats made with Trix cereal. THEY ARE PRETTY. Like acid. Then they put icing on them, and LIFE HAS MEANING.

Nostalgia!Win
* I owned every single Where's Waldo book, because I loved them and they were fun as hell. And maybe I was an innocent, naive child, but I failed to notice all the human sacrifices, or topless women, or the bestiality rape. I WAS BUSY LOOKING FOR WALDO, DAMMIT. I had my priorities in order.

I do remember this, and recall being very, very upset by it:

[Found at Topless Robot]
Muscles do not explode. That is wrong.

Daily Hot Guy(s)
* I am attracted to Dwight, AKA Rainn Wilson, from The Office. I am aware this is strange, and images like this do not help my case:


So for the rest of you, here's Zack Snyder, director of Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, and 300.

He's probably a tool, but he's very good looking, and if I am nice to him he could maybe introduce me to many other attractive men.


I met Dweezil Zappa lat night (and the rest of the band, who are all totally badass and lovely). I'm still not ready to talk about it. I may have said 'great' repeatedly.

OK, time to go hang out with Miss Banshee, who RUNS NEW JERSEY WITH HER BADASSERY.
- LV

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Who Dares To Soil My Normal Boy Head With This PORK COW?!

Blog
* Pork cow sounds AWESOME. Title is from Invader Zim.

Movie!Fail
* Blake Lively is going to be Carol Ferris in the Green Lantern movie. I like Blake Lively, but seriously. MISCAST? She looks nothing like Carol Ferris. NOTHING AT ALL. And she seems way too young. I know she's not really in high school, but come on! She's still too young. This is like when Kate Bosworth was cast as Lois Lane. You can't be a reporter when you're still in middle school.
This is Carol Ferris:

[Found at Slash Film]
MISCAST. I STAND BY IT.

Comics
* Here are the ten comic books you should be following in 2010, according to Newsarama. I'm especially looking forward to new work by Alan Moore and Alan Moore's beard, the conclusion of Ex Machina, and Choker with art by Ben Templesmith.

Words Of Win
* I love this guy, and would like to buy him a drink:

On Tuesday, a 19-year-old man was arrested for running through Stateline Casino naked, claiming he is a Terminator who had traveled back in time from the future.

Then he went into the children's arcade.

Moment Of Win

see more Epic Fails

Daily Hot Guy

[Alan Tudyk, AKA Alpha Wash, AKA Stop Killing Him, You Bastards, holding a lightsaber and wearing a floppy white hat. Yeah, I have no idea what's going on here. I'm going to pretend it's a still from the Arrested Development movie.

Books
* The book is always different from the movie. Always. Not necessarily better (OK, it usually is, but I can think up several examples where I preferred the movie. Just saying), but invariably different. Everyone knows that. Even Mad Magazine:

[Found at Boing Boing]
I want to see the werewolf romantic comedy!

Food!Win
* OMG IT IS MONDAY AND I WANT CHOCOLATE BUTTERSCOTCH BROWNIES RIGHT NOW. THIS SECOND:

[Found at CakeSpy]
No, really, I think I need these in order to be a functioning human being. LOOK, I'll make it easy: You get the ingredients, I'LL make them. You get none of them, but you can smell them as they cook. BUTTERSCOTCH BROWNIES.
Is it really Monday? Where's the caffeine drip?

Nostalgia!Win
* CRAYONS YOU CAN EAT. They are made out of fruits and vegetables, and you can eat them:

[Found at Incredible Things]
Now they need to make an edible glue stick. Because the Glue Stick Eating Kid in my preschool always looked sad as he surreptitiously NOMMed on his stolen glue sticks. I always felt bad for him. Until he went to MIT. At 15.

Want
* OH MY GOD VLAD THE IMPALER ACTION FIGURE? YES. CRAZY AND WEIRD AND RANDOM, BUT EPIC WANT:

[Found at Nerd Approved]
It's $300.00, which is a lot of money, but it doesn't come out until August. A lot could happen by then. I could win the lottery! Or rob a bank. Or.... um... get nice presents from my friends?

Whut?
* Yeah, I can't pretend to understand why anyone would do this to a baby:

[Found at Unique Daily]
Where do you find a suit for babies? DO THEY MAKE THOSE NOW?

If anyone says, 'a case of the Mondays,' I am legally allowed to hit them with a stapler.

- LV

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Dance With Us, GIR! Dance With Us Into Oblivion!

Blog
* I see no way this could end badly. Title is from Invader Zim.

Movie!Fail
* Behold a list of the 25 worst horror movies of the decade. A definitive list, I might say, because the Nicolase Cage remake of Wicker Man is the most hideous hunk of cinematic excrement ever shat out of the system. IT IS WORSE THAN TRANSFORMERS 2. IT IS THE LAST THING YOU SEE BEFORE YOU DIE. AND WTF WITH THE BEES? AND THE PLOT? YOU CAN'T JUST TAKE ONE OF THE BEST HORROR MOVIES EVER, AND TURN THIS

[Yes, that IS Christopher Lee, and he IS going to destroy you with the power of his voice]
INTO THIS:

[WHERE DID THE BEES COME FROM? DID I MISS THE BEES IN THE ORIGINAL?]

In conclusion, Nicolas Cage ruins everything, and I sincerely hope Ron Perlman EATS him in the movie they're doing together.

Comics
* Comics speak nothing but truth. So if they say knowledge hurts my tiny, girly brain, IT IS TRUE. Also low self esteem, being just-friends, and CLOWNS.

Knowledge
* All this input, and we're still a goddamn stupid society:

[Found at World's Best Ever]
I'd rather kill zombies than LEARN THINGS. What?

Words of Win
* I AM NEVER GOING IN A PUBLIC POOL AGAIN:

According to a survey taken by the Water Quality and Health Council, 17% of Americans—that's roughly 1 in 6— admit that they've peed in a public pool.

Daily Hot Guy

[Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who I liked before all of you (I liked him in Angels In the Outfield, WHAT WHAT), so therefore I get him. That's how the universe works. I just decided. Shut up.]

Epic!Win
* OMG. THE BIG LEBOWSKI GOT ALL SHAKESPEARED UP:

BLANCHE: Now thou seest what happens, Lebowski, when the agreements of honourable business stand compromised. If thou wouldst treat money as water, flowing as the gentle rain from heaven, why, then thou knowest water begets water; it will be a watery grave your rug, drowned in the weeping brook. Pray remember, Lebowski.

TRULY WE LIVE IN BLESSED TIMES.

Food!Win
* It is very, very cold, so I demand someone make me this:

[Found at Cooking On The Side]
It's honey-oatmeal bread. Make it for me. BUT NO RAISINS. GOD HELP YOU IF I FIND A SINGLE RAISIN BESMIRCHING THE DELICIOUS HONOR OF MY BREAD.

Nostalgia!Win
* When I was a kid, we didn't have Peter Jackson with his amazing movies and sexy actors acting out The Lord of the Rings trilogy. We didn't have Christopher Lee as Sauruman. WE HAD CARTOONS. Yes, kids, gather round Granny Elle. We had cartoons. But not cute little cartoons. No, we had the most twisted, FUCKED UP cartoons ever created by the hand of man.

LOOK AT THE HOBBIT:

[Found at Cover Shut]
HOLY SHIT. And now the Lord of the Rings cartoon trilogy is coming out on DVD, and it will traumatize a whole new generation of kids. NOW GET OFF MY LAWN, AND FETCH GRANNY ELLE A GIN AND TONIC.

Want
* If I have to explain why I want a Mario question block coin candy box THING, you have not been paying attention to this blog:

[Found at Neatorama]
Plus, if someone annoyed you, you could bash them over the head with the box, and then cheer when candy flies out. But if the person doesn't get up, have an alibi. Common sense.

Interwebz
* WIN.

[Found at Neatorama]
ROFLMFAO EPIC WIN.

Whut?

An Erie woman set a chair on fire and twice stabbed a door during an argument in her West 18th Street apartment early Thursday, police said.

That's show.... the other chairs.... and doors... in her apartment....

Girly!Want
* OMIGOD I NEED THESE SHOES IN MY CLOSET:

[Found at ShoeLust]
And they're 30% off! What a steal! So they're only....$609.00. Oh. If you need me, I'll be crying in the corner.

Life Lessons
* I do love winter, but it's FREEZING ALL THE TIME:

[Found at Indexed]

OK, kiddos. Happy Friday.
- LV

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NOD! Nod At What I Am Saying Or I Will Shoot!

Blog
* See, this is why I can't go to court. Because this seems a good way to convince the jury. Title is from Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law.

* If you want to know about books, you read Irish's blog. She writes thoughtful reviews, tells you about fun contests, and knows her SHIT. She's also scary smart and funny, but that almost goes without saying.

I remember when I had time to read, before the internet and work and friends and my attention span shrank to the size of a dime. Good times, good times.

Daily Buy
* I already wrote, in my other blog, about how unfair it is that being a girl seems to negate your ability to receive action figures for Christmas, and how I do indeed want designer clothes and makeup, and yarn, and Doctor Who DVDs, and action figures, and a goat.
So let me just say that I desperately need this Hot Toys' Joker:

[Found at Amazon]
It costs $134.59, and belongs in my life. Thank you.

Holiday!Fail
* There is so much wrong with this picture. So, so much.....

[Found at Santa, No!]
I can't even... his face.... the candle.... what sort of music is ON this CD?

Politics
* Is this happening today? Or was it last week? I have no sense of time anymore. I always assume there is an extra week in December, and there ISN'T, which wreaks havoc on my schedule. Anyway, it seems that teabaggers were/are going to go into Senate offices and pretend to fall down dead, to prove a point of massive importance. I don't know why. Because healthcare is bad? Oh, because government healthcare is bad. OK. Well. Um. I somehow suspect that pretending to fall down dead in a Senator's office will not increase the validity of the teabagger movement. Just a thought.

* Because a lot of people give a shit about Tiger Woods and his harem of women-sex-pals and the whole debacle, even though I am not among them and would rather stop hearing about it, but what I want doesn't matter to the media, because there would be a WHOLE CHANNEL devoted exclusively to Arrested Development, Firefly, and all the other shows I love that got cancelled prematurely. What were we talking about? Oh, yes, well, the International Society of Supervillians looks at the CNN coverage of Tiger Woods, and journalistic integrity is already dead, so let's just enjoy the drama of the man who hits tiny balls with a stick!

Epic!Fail
* So, once upon a time a woman, let's call her Leslie, attends her sister's surprise birthday party. Leslie's sister and her friends are in the theater watching New Moon, when all the friends start singing 'Happy Birthday,' thrilling Leslie's sister at their thoughtful gesture.

Unsurprisingly, Leslie wants to record this, and videotapes the event for posterity. It comes to about four minutes of footage.

This, however, is a bit shocking:

Meanwhile, 22-year-old Samantha Tumpach spent two nights in jail for recording her friends singing "Happy Birthday" at a movie theater, for capturing less than four minutes of a feature film. She is charged with a felony and if convicted, could lose the right to vote, to work with children, to hold office, and to partake in full civil life.

Really, universe? The girl caught four minutes of a movie on camera, and it's a FELONY? I mean, people are murdering and stealing and committing terrible, terrible crimes, and THIS is what we're freaking out about? TWO NIGHTS IN JAIL?

Have we as a nation become so demented that this seems like a LOGICAL RESPONSE?

Yes, yes, the charges have since been dropped, but the point is that THEY WERE MADE. THIS IS CRAZED. This girl wasn't some fan trying to get a bootleg copy of the movie. THE MOVIE WAS INCIDENTAL. WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?

Technology
* If you follow me on Twitter, you probably know that I love getting presents almost as much as I love giving them. And with Christmas but a few days away, my bitter little atheist heart is melted a bit by upcoming festivities, foods, family, and free stuff.

On the downside, I start to get into a mental state where I want everything I see online, all the while cheerfully admitting I have no clue as to what it is.

This is one such item:

[Found at The World's Best Ever]
It's a sidecar, thing, and it's red and it goes fast, and maybe if I learn to ride it without dying I can meet Tony Stark? Also it's French. I don't know. But I need one.

Books
* Sheepterror, who I defer to on all things Torchwood related, because she is a GENIUS, and just generally cool, shared this link of comic book artists illustrating their favorite science fiction authors. He's not a science fiction author, but this may be my favorite, for obvious reasons:

[Found at Wired]
I really do need to get a Hunter S. Thompson tattoo of some sort. Not this, but something. AND it's drawn by Ben Templesmith, which makes it even BETTER. This picture also made me very happy:

[Found at Wired]
I love Jorge Luis Borges. HARDCORE. I'd really recommend his short fiction if you've never read his work. You're missing out. Trippy as hell. Like a mix of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and H.P. Lovecraft, but uniquely its own work as well.

Daily Hot Guy

[Matt Damon. He is HOT. And wicked smart, and he's charming and funny and from BOSTON, which is currently my favorite city in America. AND he's going to be Jason Bourne again, and maybe it won't suck, no?]

Nostalgia!Win
* I am a child of the nineties (untrue, technically. I was born in the 80s, but since I had limited motor skills and don't remember jack shit, so I qualify myself as a nineties kid, since I can RECALL the nineties), but I remember most of these arcade games from the Jersey Shore arcade, and I think these totally fucked up games sum up my generation, and the one right before me, amazingly well. DOES ANYONE ELSE REMEMBER ANTEATER?


Torchwood
* Speaking of Torchwood, and Gareth David-Lloyd, Miss Laroux sent me this video, in which Mr. David-Lloyd discusses, um, fisting. No, really:

HE SAYS SWEARS AND THEY SOUND CLASSY, CUZ WELSH ACCENTS MAKE EVERYTHING DAMN CLASSY.

People I Love
* I love Leonard Cohen, even AFTER the Sex Scene of Uncomfortable Laughing And Sneezy-Looking 'O' Face And Please Tell Me It Was Supposed To Be Funny, Mr. Snyder that it played over in Watchmen. I clearly still have serious problems with that part of the film.

Moving on, Leonard Cohen invented a drink, called The Red Needle, and I think I should partake of it whilst listening to some of his music, which is lovely.

Movie!Fail
* I genuinely like many of Gus Van Sant's movies. I think My Own Private Idaho was beautiful, and Good Will Hunting and Drugstore Cowboy and Milk are all very well done and lovely. And To Die For is criminally underrated.

I used to be a big fan of Bret Easton Ellis, although now I suspect his books are better as movies, and that American Psycho is sort of rubbish in literary form, and that while the first half of Glamorama is a shockingly funny and entertaining look at celebrity, the second half is utterly tiresome shock-attempting bullshit.

But these two are making a movie together, and it is going to be, without a shadow of a doubt, the most pretentious piece of cinema ever to be forced upon a terrified public.

Today is the first day of Christmas vacation, and I have a lot of NOTHING to accomplish. I may be inordinately excited about this.
- LV

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What The Hell Kind Of Language Is That?

Blog
* Cultural sensitivity knows no boundaries. Title is from Cannibal! The Musical.

* Stina is one of the most talented writers I know, and her brain is actually sort of scary because she's so effing talented. I love her writing, and her horror is actually scary and intense, unlike mine, which gets distracted and makes fun of itself. Anyway, read her work.

PLUS, her blog is SNOWING. SERIOUSLY.

Daily Buy
* ZOMBIES.

[Found at Amazon]
Left For Dead 2: EVEN MORE ZOMBIES FOR ME TO KILL. I played L4D, but only at the homes of sympathetic friends, because I don't have an XBOX360, or a PC (STUPID MAC). But I need this, for so many obvious reasons, and I suppose that means I also need this:

[Found at Best Buy]
And a TV. And, you know, many cords to hook it up. But it's worth it. ZOMBIES, GUYS. ZOMBIES.


Holiday!Fail
* You know, I just think I should stop clicking on links sent by Warren Ellis:

[Found at Santa, NO!]
WHAT DID YOU DO TO PRANCER? OH THE HUMANITY!

Books
* I love how books smell. And that makes me a scientist, apparently, GO ME:

Matija Strlic and colleagues write in the ACS's Analytical Chemistry about "material degradomics," a techniques by which the odors emanating from old books are noninvasively analyzed to figure out which books are rotting and need preservation

So.... the smell is the smell of books DYING? That's horrible! It's the smell of DEAD LITERATURE? I need a hug. Books are supposed to live forever. So if you have a good nose, you should offer it up for smelling the health of books, so we can preserve them. It's your DUTY.

Nostalgia!Win
* Do you remember Lite Brite? Best toy ever, yeah? And I had this one:

[Found at Topless Robot]
No, you are NOT hallucinating: THAT IS TALESPIN LITE BRITE. I KNOW. And I had the My Little Pony set, and the Muppets set. And the Fraggle Rock set.
But I did not have the Mr. T set. I didn't even know it EXISTED. What else did my parents keep from me?
Here are the 10 Awesomest Lite Brite sets. I miss Lite Brite.

Doctor WHo
* I'm just pretending End of Time isn't happening. It's easier for me. So let's all look at this pretty Doctor Who picture that has NO IMPLICATIONS OR SPOILERS WHATSOEVER. Click to embiggen it:


Daily Hot Guy

[Taye Diggs. Dude's a geek, and a good husband and father. Um. And he can sing. Really well. Yeah, I need to stop typing now.]

People I Love
* There are spoilers in this video of Tim Roth, but it is worth being spoiled, because the video is SO epic:


Movie!Fail
* The Karate Kid remake continues to destroy my faith in humanity:

[Found at Collider]
I don't even care anymore. Will Smith's spawn is ruining my childhood memories.

TeeVee
* Who sent me this brilliant chart about Supernatural?

[Found at Cracked]
I need to reward you for your genius.

But Bela and Dean still have angry hate sex, right? RIGHT?

Awesome

1. awesomesistance
n. 1: the act of assisting, in the discovery of awesomeness/something awesome.

2: the act of assisting one to become more awesome.
I'm glad I could be of awesomesistance.

KAISHA INVENTED THIS WORD, AND I WAS THERE WHEN IT HAPPENED. SWEET.

Words Of Win

[Found at Autocomplete Me]
I think goats are my favorite animals.

I can go back to sleep now, yeah?
- LV

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