Random gibble.

[xifeng]

1.) From the "Funny Because It's True" files: Lazy Muncie. It's a response to both the SNL original, Lazy Sunday, and the West Coast response, Lazy Monday. This would be for the edification of the three of you who haven't already seen it.

2.) I seem to have dropped $40 on magazines today, the vast majority of them news and political magazines. (Though in my defense I did pick up Archaeology, in the hopes of luring the missing back issues out of hiding, and MHQ, which I remember fondly from my childhood.) Sometimes I frighten me badly.

3.) Tomorrow, I get to teach my n00b how to use Deed Plotter. Whee.

4.) I tried and failed miserably to make grouper and couscous for dinner tonight. The couscous actually worked out quite well, and the grouper would have too if it hadn't tasted funny. I doubt this applies to any of you, but for the love of God, DON'T SHOP AT THE NEWBURGH SCHNUCKS. Kthx. At least we had Dove Bars (tm) for dessert. ♥

Comments

[dethorats]

Mmm Dove Bars! And are magazines how people survive without a properly politcially oriented newspaper like the Washington Post readily available?

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Mmm, yes! Too bad they don't last very long. Then again, in order for them to last a long time, they'd have to taste like poo, and that would be bad.

That's my experience, yeah. But then, I think the Post more or less spoiled me for other newspapers.

(Which reminds me, I didn't pick up a National Review. It's a far-right rag, of course, but at least it gives me some insight into a perspective I wouldn't necessarily have otherwise.)

[duokinneas.livejournal.com]

I'm familiar with couscous, but what in the world is grouper? I'm not culturally adept, Lee, you'll have to explain it to me, and why yours wasn't perfect.

Forty dollars? On magazines, but not any money on books? For shame! **coughs**

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Grouper is a kind of fish, silly flufflet. It was not perfect because it tasted rather soapy and chemical-y, not unlike someone had washed it but didn't rinse thoroughly. Needless to say, as I was looking forward to the fish portion of dinner, I was crushed.

1.) See last weekend's post, wherein I spent more than twice that on books.
2.) I make the money; therefore, I decide how it will be spent*.

[momo.livejournal.com]

Check your e-mail. :D

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Yes, Ashley. :D

[tara]

It could be much worse. The last time I spent anywhere near that amount on American magazines, it was on such titles as: J14, Twist, Popstar, Teen People, Tigerbeat, etc etc etc.

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

There is nothing wrong with teen girl mags. Where would I be without my monthly Allure fix?

I was surprised at the faint fluttering of interest in current affairs, struggling to issue forth from the chitinous covering of indifference that enrobes my brain. :D

[tara]

I'm ashamed to say that I've never read Allure. SHOCK!

Current affairs just end up pissing me off after a while, so I doubt I could read things like Time and Newsweek and so forth :/

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

OMG HEATHEN!!!111 Sam was all, "OMG a chink in j00r manliness!" Talyn was also shocked and horrified to learn that I like Allure.

Yeah, same here. This is why I read Foreign Affairs and The Economist and International Socialist Front.

I only look at that last for the pictures.

[tara]

Well, in my defence, we don't actually get it, so it would involve me travelling to the States to read it *g*

You're the only person I know who sneaks International Socialist Front into a paper bag, then rushes home to devour it in a locked bathroom ;)

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

If I weren't so attached to them beyond all reason, I'd ship you all my old ones. Then you could learn what was hot 7 months ago ;)

Oh, you! Must you tell teh Intarwebz my shameful secrets? ;)

[tara]

*lol* I already know that through my Twist subscription, which generally takes two months to make it over here :)

Yes, I must!

[shake-the-stars.livejournal.com]

Yay! The elderly stacks of Allure are safe! And thereby liberated to continue making my house a fire hazard. *g*

OH NOES! Well, I suppose there's no sense in trying to hide them from you, then...