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    Thursday, January 28th, 2010
    12:09 pm - Liver Feels Left Out
    It's been a while since we had a good old-fashioned organ theft. New York delivers! Man stabs woman, steals heart and lungs (yet to be recovered). Compare with Andre Thomas, who got Internet-famous for eating his last remaining eyeball, but went to prison for killing three people and cutting their hearts out--although as this disturbingly thorough court statement notes, when he went for the third heart, he missed and got part of a lung instead.

    Interesting.

    A follow-up Google revealed that the guy who invented the heart-lung machine in 1951 was named J. Andre-Thomas. At one time I would have called that "a fun quirk!" but now I'm beginning to think the universe is somehow mocking me.

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    Thursday, January 21st, 2010
    8:39 pm - I Did a Thing
    An art thing, specifically. I guess that sometimes happens?

    Sketch under cut. )

    The chick on the left is leaning on my to-do list, which I smudged so that she has something to lean on but so nobody needs to see what I was supposed to do tonight and didn't.

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    3:50 pm - Impressed
    I like to read the things my spam filter catches. I know, I'm moronic. But today I ran across one so interesting and relatively subtle that I don't regret it for a second. It has a plot! Reproduced here:

    Re: Re: happy new year )

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    Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
    10:00 pm - ONE More!
    It's a red-letter day: we also have spontaneous cannibalism in Michigan.

    Relatedly, MSNBC apparently has a whole category for "criminal weirdness". Whatever brings in the clicks, guys.

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    4:37 pm - More!
    Okay, apparently weird news is back in style. There was today's haunted hotel, yesterday's severed head, and now:

    - Chupacabra sighting in Texas
    - "Alleged mutated body" washing up in New York

    That last one is worth noting because of its shared speculative link to Plum Island with the Montauk monster. On the other hand, the reporter sounds like an idiot.

    OH HEY:

    - Temple to Bast unearthed

    I swear this isn't because I just got interested in this stuff again, I really have hardly seen anything worth posting since October.

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    9:05 am - Knicks Knackered
    New York Knicks blame loss on haunted hotel. Oh, come on, guys, that's like the plot of Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters.

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    Monday, January 18th, 2010
    10:14 am - Just Heading Out
    Mexican drug cartels, realizing it's been far too long since we had a "meat laying around" story, leave a human head and a red flower on their drug lord's grave. The flower was "in one ear" which I hope means "behind one ear" although what I really hope is that they stuck it between its teeth, because if you're going to do something that horrible, at least make it funny.

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    Sunday, January 17th, 2010
    4:44 pm - Writer's Block: R/evolutionary war

    If humanity were to become extinct, do you think another animal species would evolve to take our place? What lessons do you think they'd learn from our successes and failures?

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    That's not within my eschatology, but even if it happened, I cannot imagine that anything would arise quickly enough for there to be anything left of us for them to learn from.

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    Friday, January 15th, 2010
    9:43 am - To Break Your Brain
    An increasingly farcical Real Life will see your ancient Roman bust of Elvis and raise you an ancient Egyptian bust of Michael Jackson. I don't know, it's like the script for the universe is now being written by the team from Lost.

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    Thursday, January 14th, 2010
    9:09 am - Post
    This is sort of a post for the sake of posting, since I have nothing specific to talk about and haven't for weeks. Sorry, guys.

    Here, have a news article about arson with a delicious headline. I'm going with supervillain myself.

    My parents got a Wii, which makes me wish I lived closer to them, because they both have hilarious bowling techniques.

    Oh, and hey, they're moving the hands on the Doomsday Clock in an hour or so, so if you have a chance, you can watch it live. On YouTube, I think? If I was going to nuke the world, I'd attend in person and then detonate it just before they could make the change, for maximum drama. It would be a short-lived joy, probably, but you only get a chance like that once, so you'd better make it count.

    I'm a little tired right now. You might be able to tell.

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    Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
    9:52 pm - Writer's Block: What do you want to do before you die?

    What do you want to do before you die?

    Sponsored by MTV’s "The Buried Life". Premieres January 18 at 10PM PT/ET.


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    Live.

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    Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
    4:46 pm - 2009 Media-In-Review
    Last year I kept a list of the media I consumed over the course of the year, and it was awesome. This year not only did I not keep a list, I went long stretches without reading or watching anything, and not much of what I did catch was memorable. Still, if I flip through my bookshelf and blogs I can probably figure out some of what I read and watched for the first time in 2009, so here's a partial list anyway. Let's chat.

    ** Loved it
    * Liked it

    2009 Media Consumed (Incomplete) )

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    Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
    11:34 pm - What I Did Tonight
    * Baked raisin-filled cookies
    * Hung pictures
    * Changed the calendar
    * Decorated a tree
    * Hung some dang stockings, I kid you not
    * Fed the turtles
    * Cleaned the toilet

    And all to the sound of reruns of Glee.

    Oh--and I discovered that while there's no standard "types of episodes" index, there is Something Completely Different, which lists lunatic-type episodes, which is almost as good.

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    Monday, December 21st, 2009
    4:08 pm - Schmuck Bait
    I apologize in advance--really!--and I hope this isn't just a snipe hunt, but is there an index on TV Tropes that lists "episode types": Sick Episode, New Job Episode, Very Special Episode, etc.? A quick search isn't turning up anything for me, just disconnected pages.

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    Saturday, December 19th, 2009
    10:44 pm - Writer's Block: The Best Action Adventure Epic Ever

    What’s the best action adventure epic ever made?

    Sponsored by AVATAR. In theaters December 18. Buy tickets now.


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    PURE. ABSOLUTE. SHAMELESSNESS.

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    Friday, December 18th, 2009
    8:45 pm - Writer's Block: James Cameron’s AVATAR

    James Cameron’s AVATAR is in theaters today. What about this movie interests you the most?

    Sponsored by AVATAR. In theaters December 18. Buy tickets now.


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    The pure absolute shamelessness of its LiveJournal ad campaign.

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    Thursday, December 17th, 2009
    4:35 pm - Not Quite Short Enough For Twitter
    You can't hide behind
    A Hidebehind
    'Cause it's always hiding too,
    And the favorite thing
    For a Hidebehind
    To hide behind
    Is you.

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    Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
    4:03 pm - Lifetime Goal
    I'm told that the house I live in is going on the market soon. They say I won't have to leave before my lease is up, but I figure I won't be able to renew either. My immediate train of thought: "Ooh, if I'm going to make creepy things to hide in the walls, I'd better get on that." Time is short.

    Yes, "perpetrate a hoax" is on my bucket list. And I'll never again be in a position where I have such a huge canvas to work with but so little actual stake in it.

    Suggestions encouraged. :)

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    Tuesday, December 15th, 2009
    11:39 am - Holy Moly
    From [info]scottish_like, a new entry in Our Terrifying Future: octopi are now using tools. More alarmingly: they are specifically capable of manipulating coconut shells, which allows them to access a dizzying array of human technology. What I'm saying is, we need to get the dolphins back on our side now.

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