All brine and piss and vinegar

This is a goddamn scream.

"Lost" will run through spring of 2010. Fine, the island isn't purgatory. If it was, Kevin Tighe would not have said what he did to Sawyer last week.
But if this ends up being a big complicated government thing, I'll be disappointed. I like the supernatural aspect of them all being dead.
They should have Bob Newhart wake up in bed, claiming the whole thing was a dream. Nobody probably gets that reference...

Here's a great way to just sit and stare at your computer. I'm hooked.
Click "view the clock"

581 c!!

You can be stupid, and for that I love you.

Stuart was fabulous in the opera. I'm going to let the following photos speak for themselves.

"Mom, I have to talk to you about something."
"Yeah? What is it?"
"Would you rather be stuck by jello or by rope?"
"Umm....jello."
"Yup."
"Was that the right answer?"
"Yes."

Stuart has some Polly Pocket dolls that came with McD's happy meals. He loves them. Last night we were playing with them, my two were named Betty and Veronica, his were named JC and Josie. They had the following conversation.


Betty: Can you make us some sandwiches?
JC: Sure.
*pause*
Veronica: Where are the sandwiches?
JC: We're cooking them! Here they are.
Veronica: What kind are they?
Josie: Jelly. And peanut butter.
Betty: I don't like that kind. Can I have a potato chip sandwich?
Josie: We only made that kind...ok you can have a potato chip sandwich.
Betty: Thank you. What kind of bread are they on?
*pause*
Josie:...rainbow

Parasites are brilliant. Well, it depends on your definition of brilliance. Some may not agree that taking the most roundabout way to accomplish your purpose shows intelligence, but I think it's crafty. My favorite examples:
~Scientists recently discovered a tiny parasite in a rat's brain that makes the rat think "oh how nice" when it smells a cat. The parasite wants the rat to be caught by the cat because it needs to be in the cat's stomach to reproduce.
~The Dicrocoelium dendriticum is a parasite that lays its eggs in sheep poo. It ultimately wants to get back into the sheep to breed, but since sheep don't eat each other's poo, how will it do that? It relies on snails to eat the poo, whereupon the snails eat the eggs that then hatch in the snail. The snail then leaves infected slimeballs behind, which ants find particularly delicious. Ants eat the slimeballs, and the parasite goes to the ant's brain and causes it to climb to the tallest part of a blade of grass. This puts it into the perfect position to be eaten by a sheep.
~The cymothoa exigua is the creepiest - a bug that gets into a fish's mouth and slowly eats away at its tongue. Then it takes up residence in the fish's mouth, acting as its tongue. Which is a pretty friendly relationship for a parasite. But if you look in the fish's mouth, you get two little eyes peering out.

Reading: "Transmetropolitan"
Listening to: Magnetic Fields "69 Love Songs" & Arcade Fire "Neon Bible"
Fascinated with: Parasites. They are crazy.
Latest outing: Yo La Tengo concert! Got pics of Chris w/Ira.
Opera: over. Stuart stood up when the curtain went up on the closing night during Act I and waved to the audience. Oh my god.
Today I: played soccer at the park in the sun with Stuboy, then came home and did my taxes and my stomach dropped. See below.
Feeling: sick. Caught the crud that was infecting the entire opera cast. Rattly lungs and a hacking cough.
Needing: sleep, time to myself, Decemberists tickets, more sex, $ to pay off the $640 I just found out tonight that I owe the government.