Reading: "Lint". Me. Web.

What's been missing here on HuSi for a while? PUPPY PICS! That's right, MNS: pay attention.

Attention TTers: this is not yet for general distribution.

Metalocalypse Season 2: Black Fire Upon Us - released. Actually stocked in major stores. The Metalocalypse has begun.

Two separate items.

Several weeks since my last diary so here's an update

So, with the business environment being the way it is, should I retrain as insurance against the worst ?

Update [2008-12-2 4:48:8 by Phage]:Now with poll !

are about to throw out their entire government two months after voting them in.

Inspired by a viewing of the direct-to-DVD sequal to Lost Boys (the sequel being so bad, I refuse to link to it) I spent the morning banging out 1500 words (give or take)  on the theology that underlies being a victim of a vampire.

I really ought to have been writing my term paper instead.

Blather follows.

We called her Teeny (or Teenie depending on who was spelling it) because her name was Ernestine and because she was small. She was one of my grandmother's seven sisters.

Yesterday afternoon on her way home, she died.

At the same moment, my nephew continued to be missing; he'd disappeared the previous evening.

Extinction events fascinate me. Not because of future possibilities, but because I like the combination of wild theory, hair-brained idiocy, and dry non-emotional texts describing what essentially boils down to mass destruction and death. Things that should, by rights, be filled with horror, panic, and poetic questions of why are instead filled with dry, librarian quality boringness. The kind of librarian that stands there with her hair up in a bun, big thick glasses on, reading from an old musty tome, but you know whips her hair down, tosses the glasses in a corner and parties like a college coed on the weekends.