May 27, 2008
Reason #3,539,284 I Love The Internet
My work day today involved a six! hour! meeting! and until I came home, read Metafilter and found TIME FOR SOME STORIES, my day sucked. However, everything has been transformed. I now share it with you. Warning - link is NSFW, not for the usual reasons but because if you start reading it, you will get no work done until there are no stories left to read and you have finished drying your tears of laughter and explained to your co-workers that your silent convulsions are not, in fact, epilepsy.
Oh, and here's an extra because (a) I love all of you and (b) Wordpress is still kicking my ass so I need to continue co-opting other people's quality content instead of providing any of my own: an old favourite of mine in the same vein, My mother's incredibly stupid ex-husband.
May 13, 2008
Behold The Cursed Cupcakes Of Cerberus
Work has been hell, but at least that provides me with a convenient segue into the rather amusing Black Oven (via Boing Boing). I'm not into baked stuff, but those Frostbitten Molasses Cookies Entombed with Ginger sure look tempting. "Packed full of grim and evil spices, they will leave you feeling despondent and isolated within their stronghold of flavor."
If you are still in the mood for dark delights, you are satanically commanded to read the Black Metal Dialogues and I swear upon Ragnarok which advances upon us as surely as rigor mortis inhabits a corpse that you will spew the apocalyptic laughter of the true spawn of Loki.
March 20, 2008
Ch...ch...chaaaaange
Birthday update and pics of the simultaneously best and worst present ever are forthcoming. But in the meantime, I rather enjoyed this at the Onion and wanted to share. Excerpt:
Black Guy Asks Nation For Change:
According to witnesses, a loud black man approached a crowd of some 4,000 strangers in downtown Chicago Tuesday and made repeated demands for change.
"The time for change is now," said the black guy, yelling at everyone within earshot for 20 straight minutes, practically begging America for change. "The need for change is stronger and more urgent than ever before. And only you—the people standing here today, and indeed all the people of this great nation—only you can deliver this change."
The black guy is oddly comfortable demanding change from people he's never even met. It is estimated that, to date, the black man has asked every single person in the United States for change.
There's also Do We Really Want Another Black President After The Events Of Deep Impact?, but unfortunately the article isn't as great as its title promises it could be.
December 15, 2007
One-Liners
I love the one sentence article summaries in the Guardian's RSS feed. Some examples from the last couple of days:
- Teacake mistake could cost Treasury: Confusion over status of dome of marshmallow on a biscuit swathed in milk chocolate could cost £3.5m
- Bush writes to Kim Jong Il: US president writes to Kim Jong il, who he once dismissed as a "pygmy"
- Wallinger takes Turner Prize: Judges praise "visceral intensity" of artist who once dressed as bear
