Anybody know a good Polish deli in Essex county? I'm looking for this one brand of mustard, Cracovia, it's in a tall cylindrical jar with a white label and blue lettering, haven't been able to find it yet. If you know for sure someplace has it, and it's anywhere within like an hour of Montclair, I'll go get it, because the alternative is this one place in Bumblenowhere, CT.
An open letter to the women of Japan Dear women of Japan, walking around the streets of your delightful capital, Tokyo, and catching your eye on trains, on escalators, on the street and in stores, I can't help noticing your perplexed reactions to me, Momo. "What the fuck is that?" you seem to be saying to yourselves. "Is it a clown? Will it produce some balls and start juggling? Or is it just an old, ugly, ridiculously-dressed gaijin who thinks he'll score points with us by trying to look 'interesting' in a totally weird way?"
I, Momo, have seen these thoughts passing all-too-obviously through your head, and been slightly saddened, I must confess. Yes, I'm old, and foreign, and a bit eccentric. Sure, I could pass for Momo the Clown, or some kind of walking black flower. But there's something you should know. I am, more or less, Nino.
Nino. Ninomiya from boy band Arashi. He's your favourite current man, isn't he? He's everywhere, with his child-monkey charm and delicate, intelligent, feminine features. Look, there, in the Wii SuperMario Brothers poster! And here in the au by KDDI commercial!
What a fun boyfriend Nino would be! What good children he'd make, and how well he'd help you raise them! You dream of Arashi, you keep them under your pillow and take them out at night, and when anyone asks your favourite you say "Nino!" If you saw him on the street you'd scream. But if you saw Momo on the street... well, you'd scream!
And that's what I'm writing to tell you today. There's actually a lot less difference than you think between Momo and Nino! We both make you scream, that's a start! But it goes so much deeper than that! Let me prove to you that Momo equals Nino, more or less!
Up to 60% of the human body is water, which means that me and Nino are already 60% the same thing. Water! It's not like Nino's water is sexy and Momo's is weird. No, that 60% majority component of Nino and Momo is identical. Water!
It doesn't stop there, either. Nino and Momo both have two eyes, a nose, a mouth on the front of our heads. Okay, Momo has one eye that's shriveled like a grape, so let's give him 75% eyes compared with Nino's 100% eyes, but, you know, 75% ain't bad, girls! Momo has less hair than Nino, but, you know, it's hair!
And look at their jobs! Momo and Nino are both singers! Okay, Arashi might perform at the Yokohama Arena while Momo just sings karaoke over an iPod at a Tokyo art gallery, but what's an audience gap of tens of thousands when the profession is the same?
There are some other striking similarities. Momo's middle name is John, and Nino is managed by Johnny's Entertainment. Nino is hot, Momo is not, but there's only one letter difference between those words, which makes them 66% the same. Nino's sperm is young and healthy, whereas Momo produces slightly damaged old man sperm, but even old man sperm can make a perfectly good baby, if you don't mind the fact that it wouldn't be racially 100% pure (it would, though, be racially 50% pure, which is good enough for anyone except sticklers).
I want to conclude this open letter to you, dear Women of Japan, by saying, in your delightful language, yoroshiku; be nice to me. Next time you see me on the street, say to yourself "There -- but for a few insignificant details and my own blind Darwinian prejudices -- walks Nino from Arashi!" And allow yourself a small scream. A nice, excited scream, not the terrified one you normally do.
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It was excellent. I made a double-batch pretty much by accident, by discovering that I had too much of X and adding more Y to compensate, but it was great.
Strong suggestion: Pick a pasta sauce that does not contain ingredients that you are allergic to. Oi. But it was amazing!
I took these in October when I was dog sitting for Kimi who is a clumber spaniel and a sap for dog treats! They are just random shots using my phone -but they're of the hills and stuff round here which are a big reason that I didn't like living in London and came home again.
the first pic with the car just struck me as funny that the guy had a vintage car the same colour as his wheely bin!!
Yes, I'm going a little slow. Sorry about that--I was trying to deal with opening my water bottle and, you know, not driving off the road. Raising your hand in exasperation multiple times in a thirty second period? Totally fine (though a little douchey, I think). Even though I was only going a couple mph under the speed limit, whatever.
But you know what's not cool? PANTOMIMING SHOOTING ME.
The Monster appeared quite a few times in my journal comic a few years ago. I've tagged most of those and if for some misbegotten reason you should be interested, they are there to look at.
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Is there a blog that highlights the stupidest Wikipedia events? I subscribe to the RSS feed of the Lamest edit wars article, but I find that insufficient.
Tags:doomed, furries, wiki, www Listening to: The Juan MacLean -- Human Disaster
I don't remember who specifically recommended 'em, but I saw the first three books on sale as a boxed set and picked 'em up on spec.
I liked those so much I went to two different bookstores to get the rest. It would have been just one and a second trip next month or something, but the only book missing from the first store was *book 4*, and I wanted to read that one next.
It's fluff, it really is. Standard-grade entertainingly-written modern-magic stuff, but there's one thing that really makes Harry Dresden stand out from the rest of the good-modern-fantasy set[1]:
Harry's competent. He knows what he can do, he does it, and he's not afraid of it. He isn't terrified of pulling out his Big Guns in case he loses control the way most modern-fantasy protagonists are. He's not delusional about how his powers work or about what he can or cannot do. He's sometimes overconfident or simply *wrong* about something, but there's none of the whole "we mostly don't form Megazord immediately every time because we like to give our enemies hope" shit that is depressingly common in the depths of the mire that is the subgenre.
Plus, really, Dresden's a jerk. It's a selling point.
[1]: This set does not include Buffy The Vampire Shagger or any of her dozen identical clones.
In case you hadn't noticed, Joule is back. Thanks to everyone who sent encouraging messages when we were down, and everyone who offered to help.
We have switched to advertising using Project Wonderful, which is a rolling auction. You can bid if you like; currently it'll cost you a US penny to have your ad up for one day.
I may bring in a thing where in exchange for a donation of a certain size it will turn the ads off for your account.
Dreamwidth support is coming before the end of the month.
So here’s what we’re gonna do. We’re gonna take the first verses of three different song and then we’ll translate each into French, Italian and Japanese with Google Translate. So It will go: English –> French –> Italian –> Japanese –> English. Then we’ll see what we end up with. It might improve the songs in question.
Original
I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can’t deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung
After translation hell
I like big butts and I lie
There is no denying the other brothers can not
Walk with the size of the cobble that time hooters girl
And what round your face
Spring also get
Original
Stop collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
After translation hell
Stop listening to cooperate
Ice is my brand new invention
How do I get a tight hold
Flows, grains every day, like the night
Original
Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world
She took the midnight train going anywhere
Just a city boy, born and raised in south Detroit
He took the midnight train going anywhere
After translation hell
Only one of two small town girl, living in the world solo
She was midnight train anywhere
Just city boy, born and raised in south Detroit
She was midnight train anywhere
Well Journey comes out the closest to what it started as. I don’t know what that says about Don’t Stop Believin’ but it must say something, right?
Dinosaur Comics stuff ordered today isn't guaranteed to make it in time for Christmas, unless you're shipping to the States and you choose USPS DOMESTIC EXPRESS shipping. You can still order to non-US addresses however, and some of it still might get there in time! CHRISTMAS IS A TIME OF MIRACLES. (NO PROMISES ON THE MIRACLES THOUGH)
The Project Wonderful ad to the right is currently showing this image which links here, and I've got to say that I find this entirely charming and I love all my readers, but ESPECIALLY the ones who do stuff like this.
Has anyone successfully used the undocumented addcomment XMLRPC method?
It seems to take journal, ditemid, parenttalkid, poster, body, subject and props.
ditemid is self-explanatory, but I'm not sure what parenttalkid is. Every time I've tried to call the method, I get an error of 'No such entry. at /home/lj/cgi-bin/ljprotocol.pl line 250'. Looking at the code, this is right after the journal specified by the journal argument is pulled from the table. Any ideas?
oh, my friend danny took this picture a while ago, and now i'm 'mr august' in the rational animals 'musicians with animals' calendar. you can buy the calendar here. it's nice, and the money goes to a good charity:
You can't really tell from the photo, but the topiary is not hanging from the building where the Historic Tomato once reclined: it's a tree on the curb side of the sidewalk.
Center for Population Research in LGBT Health Seeking Applicants
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Ookay so.... yeah. My vacation started on Monday. I guess I did forget to mention it.
Scheduled return of CRFH will be, most surely, on January 12th.
But I'm going to be posting comics. Well, not new. I'm going to be posting outtakes. You know, rescripts that are out of canon but nonetheless amusing.
Depending on the response I get this might be a new permanent feature of CRFH.net.
Also, before this weeks ends, I'm going to be posting the 4th chapter of MIA. So keep checking!
While we were doing boring errands, Jon asked if we should get a tree while we were out. This put me in a bad mood. Running boring errands always makes me a little grouchy, but suddenly the idea of going to the tree-store, picking out a tree, paying for it, trying to locate the tree-stand we bought two years ago, then properly securing the tree in said tree stand all seemed overwhelmingly unfun and made me even grouchier than usual.
Yet I didn't want to be a total grinch, an "Oh, I don't celebrate Christmas because it's too commercial and it's just a meaningless excuse to force people to buy presents." kind of person. That's just zero fun. Of course we needed a tree.
So I made a tree that took up very little space and didn't require an extension of the "boring errands" portion of the day.
Then we decorated it with all our standard tree ornaments and crooned "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" when we were done.
Look at all the presents! Now it looks great- and when we're done we can just flip it back to the big mural of various gods of the world that's on the other side.
This is a much nicer post than the one I wrote in my head today about the tail-ectomy at work that didn't end up actually happening. Maybe more on that tomorrow but tonight I just want to look at 2D Christmas trees and 3D presents. Happy things.
A creative leap of imagination is needed to picture Covent Garden, now given over to flower markets and Body Shops, as the city's most sordid red light district, where, in the seedy Shakespeare's Head, waiter-pimps would set gentlemen up with ladies like Oyster Moll, who would "open the wicket of love's bear garden to any bold sportsman who has a venturesome mind to give a run to his puppy."
Tags:perversions Listening to: Puscifer -- Sour Grapes
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