You're not making me jealous with this double xp weekend thing. Nosiree. The Sulverwing Sentinels are having Warson Gulch's anniversary weekend with bonus honor, just when I need 80 marks for some snazzy new blue stuff. ;-)

I'm cleansing myself and not coming to LJ, so if there's something you think I need to know, it's best to write me an email about it.

Thanks to semagic for letting me post without actually looking at LJ.  Whee!

Okay everyone.  The Winter Olymics start tomorrow.  Everyone who cares, please come over here and jump into this thimble.

I'm in a ranting fucking mood this morning.  All of Western Civilization is due for some of my wrath right now.  And given how unreasonable most of the rest of the world is, I think I could throw some snide comments their way as well.

I am not at peace.  I do not approve.  I don't like your institutions of the status quo, I don't like your corrupt and ineffective systems of government, I don't like your rules of behavior, and I don't particularly like *you* right now.

And I'm getting less and less concerned about the opinions of those who would judge me for being me.  I'm not as willing to put on a happy face and pretend I'm okay with it all.

So keep fighting your idiotic wars, keep thinking that your way of having sex is the ONLY way everyone else should always have sex, keep destroying, keep going to your narrow minded church, and please, keep killing yourself with that hamburger, cause you know what?  That part's kinda funny.

From the altfriday5:

1. Rain: hate it? Love it? Indifferent?
I react differently to the rain at different times.  Sometimes I love it, and sometimes I don't.  Sometimes I appreciate the natural state of the rain season, and other times I just can't wait till it's over, you know?

2. Relate an interesting story from your life involving rain (e.g. a big storm, a romantic walk in the rain, etc.).
this answer has been sensored for issues of National Security.

3. How much does it usually rain where you live? Is that too much for you? Not enough? Just right?
It rains alot where i live, and ideally, it would rain fairly close to the norm throughout the year.  Too much or too little rain can both be harmful to the natural order of things.  My occasional discomfort with the rain is of far lessor consequence than what Nature decides she wants, needs, or maybe even feel a girl-like whim toward.  It's her right to extract as much or as little as she says.  Then there's the whole problem with man's arrogant interference with Her Natural order of things.

4. Is it raining right now where you are? If yes, what kind of rain is it?
It's rained today and it will again.  I'm not sure what we're going to get.

5. Tell us your favourite song lyric with "rain" in it (or any lyric that comes to mind, if you can't pick a "favourite").
That sysipisian arachnid from out nursury rymes
The Itsy bitsy spider
crawled up the water spout.
Down came the rain
and washed the spider out

Out came the Sun
and dried up all the rain
and the itsy bitsy spider
crawled up the spout again

stolen blatently from jenhowell.

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You scored as Draco Malfoy. If you went to Hogwarts Draco Malfoy would be doing you...not the other way around. He's mean, rich, and dark. But those aren't the only parts parts of him you love. He had you on your back the second he threw you down and had his way with you. And you loved every minute of it. The two of you have fucked just about on every surface of Hogwarts...including that rediculus Harry Potter's bed. Go head girl go head get down. </td> Draco Malfoy 80% Cedric Diggory 70% Fred and George Weasley 60% Harry Potter 50% Ron Weasley 45% Victor Krum 30% No one, your a prude 20% Percy Weasley 15% WHO ARE YOU SCREWING AT HOGWARTS?? created with QuizFarm.com

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The funniest thing is that it got Percy Weasley exactly right. Not even if you were the only boy in the bar, Percy.

Today's This Modern World is worth the time to click through the ad. (Salon)

This icon is the winner.

and it belongs to someone neamed little_octagon who says it's courtesy of a mr_z

What firefox theme do you use?  Bonus points for why.

was that just an earthquake?

eta:
La said it lasted five or six seconds upstairs, but I only felt it for a second or two downstairs. It was odd, I coulda sworn someone pushed me.

From the altfriday5:

1. 'What size do you want to be?'
That changes frequently.  Please give me the reagents to become whatever size my whim desires.

2. 'And how do you know that you're mad?'
Because we're all mad here.

3. 'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?'
Stop asking stupid riddles and pass the freaking tea.

4. 'Can YOU keep from crying by considering things?'
No.

5. 'Now, Kitty, let's consider who it was that dreamed it all. This is a serious question, my dear, and you should NOT go on licking your paw like that--as if Dinah hadn't washed you this morning! You see, Kitty, it MUST have been either me or the Red King. He was part of my dream, of course--but then I was part of his dream, too! WAS it the Red King, Kitty? You were his wife, my dear, so you ought to know -- Oh, Kitty, DO help to settle it! I'm sure your paw can wait!' But the provoking kitten only began on the other paw, and pretended it hadn't heard the question.

Which do YOU think it was?
licks paw, rubs on face, looks up... "Mrrwak?"

In case any of you were interested in the discussion topic posed by the Dan Savage column I linked to two weeks ago, he's followed that column up with several letters and commentary, much of which I think is extremely telling.
the original column
the follow-up section

of particular interest to me:
"DAN HERE: I find it interesting that so much mail poured in with advice for WILLIE, all of it predicated on the assumption that he was doing something terribly, terribly wrong. I got so much mail from people who wanted to tell WILLIE that the fault was his, that he obviously needed to be more loving.

Oddly enough, no one wrote in to blame FS for her problem. Her husband won't put out, and—guess what?—most people who wrote in seemed to think that was her husband's fault, not hers. FS' husband must be gay or already cheating on her. Hmm. I find it odd that no long letters arrived laying out what FS was doing wrong.

Is it always the man's fault, I wonder? If something is going wrong in a couple's sex life, the man must be to blame?"

The following link goes to a wheden-verse eye candy store.  It appears to serve no other function then to make me short of breath.
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for instance:

Jerome Bettis just qualified for his first Super Bowl in his remarkable 13 year career.  Jerome lived a few doors down from me my first two years at Notre Dame in Alumni Hall, and is genuinely as nice and decent a guy as everyone says he is.  The Steelers made little secret of the fact that they were playing this postseason to get Jerome into the Super Bowl, and they played their asses off over the last three weeks to do it.

I'm thrilled for him, and I hope to hell the Steelers get him his ring before he retires.

gods DAMN I want to get out of the house.

I'm going to follow jenhowell's lead and discuss my favorite television shows. ( courtesy cut )

Okay, someone out there has to have this, right?  I want a copy of Heart's "Magic Man," cause I just watched The Virgin Suicides, and I cant get that song out of my head.  It needs to be exorcised by listening, and it needs to get stuck into my itunes library for future occurances when this happens with this song.

So someone please email that to me?