shorter Ciela

(repetitive exposition).

are you really stuck?

i mean, really stuck? are you sure??

have you recently been given any new tools, a shovel or a hammer, perhaps? sure you know how to use it?

are there any pots filled with arrows? if yes, are there any giant single eyeballs carved into the wall? this may be a subtle hint!

do any tiles on the floor appear different? maybe a little bit lighter, or darker, or they have a design? use bombs generously!

and you might not think a little puff of air could hold up a solid metal sphere, or that an arrow launched at a string would bounce off and do a 180, but you'd be suprised!

other than that, i have only one question for you: are you sure that that sequence of numbers represents the order of things, or the order in which you should do something to the things?

george strait

i have discovered that i have an amazing skill: i can tell you the name of any George Strait song if i only hear one line of the chorus!

laundry detergent

i have noticed that purveyors of liquid laundry detergent are making their products more concentrated, sometimes advertised as therefore requiring less packaging and thus saving the planet.

i propose a liquid laundry detergent that is sooo concentrated, it precipitates out of solution! then i propose selling just the precipitate. clever, no? ;-)

phantom hourglass

rolling is hard!!!

hey NHL (and NHLPA)

ain't it kinda silly to have killed a whole season (ntm your standing as a "big four" sport) to achieve "cost certainty", then crow about your revenues going up, when the major contributor to your revenues is raising ticket prices?? as far as I can tell right now, you're in a upward spiral. gotta raise ticket prices to keep up with the rising cap, which means the cap rises some more... keep your golden-egg-laying geese alive!

Sun O))) & Boris

was listening to Altar on the bus, the wave of sound came to an abrupt stop right as somebody pulled the stop cord. very confusing - could everybody on the bus hear that until it stopped?, my brain asked.

bad media fatigue

I know damn well that if Hillary's cousin's manicurist had once had lunch with James R. Bath, it'd be on faux news 24/7 (and probably on 60 minutes etc. to boot). Scandal fatigue, outrage fatigue, sucky reporting fatigue, fear-of-getting-shouted-at-by-Rush fatigue...?

serena maneesh

...the first half sounds like (sigh) loveless, the second turns into some more straightforward rock'n'roll.