quote for the day

"What I found, to my great surprise, is that whatever happens in the world - whatever is discovered or created or bitterly fought over - eventually ends up, in one way or another, in your house. Wars, famines, the Industrial Revolution, the Enlightenment - they are all there in your sofas and chests of drawers, tucked into the folds of your curtains, in the downy softness of your pillows, in the paint on your walls and the water in your pipes. Sotheby's history of household life isn't just a history of beds and sofas and kitchen stoves, as I had vaguely supposed it would be, but of scurvy and guano and the Eiffel Tower and bed-bugs and body-snatching and just about everything that has ever happened. Houses aren't refuges from history. They are where history ends up."

Bill Bryson in "At Home"

oh fuck no

Seriously. No. Fucking. Way. Ever.

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Addendum:

Just showed this to my daughter. She says, doesnt that look like fun? I say, did you not read the text around the video.

No. No no no no no no no no no no no no. No*.



* FUCK NO!

starwars humor for the leap year

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question

What the hell did Blogger do to the comment page? It looks like hell.

fun fair fanfare

Click on the image, then click on the players to make them play. Any number, any order.

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my god, it's full of stars!

the sky that is. I mean, seriously, look at that!

sunday funny

saturday matinee

Actually, this is kind of horrible. It ought to be amusing, but it's a really uncomfortably close to truth amusing.

quote for the day

It would be so awesome if they actually did this.

quote for the day

"Some people think that you can’t let same-sex couples get married without changing the definition of the word “marriage.” When we let openly gay people join the army, did we have to change the definition of the word “Army”? Did Rosa Parks make us change the definition of the word “bus”?

It’s one thing to blame the Bible for your bigotry, but don’t blame the dictionary."

California attorney and semi-professional cynic Bill Smith on today’s Ninth Circuit decision regarding Proposition 8. Read the full decision.

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