possibly NSFW - contains BEER and DISMEMBERMENT and METAL. Also dorky content.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Vcoq-QRo4
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Quote: "I did it all to help you. To make you confident and strong. ... you were the first and only human I ever cared about."

...

"We can both be safe together, and that's all that matters."

...

"How can you be so foolish? Shinji, I love you, but I don't have time to argue with you. These two are going to die, now or later, it doesn't
matter. -You- don't have to. That's all I'm offering you. Now come over here and stop being such an idiot."

...

Ichi frowned thoughtfully at the slowly spreading scarlet stain on the front of her smock, and then looked at Shinji. The corners of her mouth cocked upward
in a smile.

"Well, I will be God-damned," she said slowly and distinctly. "Shinji. You were actually -listening-. I'm... I'm proud of you."

Then her eyes rolled up in her head and she crumpled to the floor.

- - (Neon Exodus Evangelion, volume 3, chapter 8, Benjamin Hutchins et al)

"Oyuri!" Grandmother Kozue called. "Oyuri!" She winced as a pang welled up in her old bones. Winter had struggled mightily against spring
this year, and remnants of the battle lingered in the shade of the woods near the edge of the fields her family worked. "Where is that girl?" They only had a month to prepare the fields for the year's rice crop, and they would need every hand that
could be spared for the task.

Sometimes Grandmother despaired of Oyuri ever amounting to anything. The empty-headed little thing had the fool notion in her head of being some daimyo's
wife, despite her fondness for the wild places at the edge of the Forest of Bloody Snow. Kozue's own grandmother had told her the tale of a great fight
among the cherry trees between two daimyo's armies which had so soaked the ground of the forest with blood that the blossoms would forever more be red. It
must be true, the trees that marked the border between farmland and the Forest were beginnig to bloom, and the blooms were red like they had been as long as
Kozue remembered.

A thread of worry began to gnaw at Grandmother Kozue. Had Oyuri gone farther into the woods than the shrine to O-Inari? There were rumors of Tanuki, Kappa, and
a two-tailed fox had even been spotted by one of the woodcutters over the winter. She returned to her cooking fire, to make sure that today's meal had not
burned, when she heard a tired "Tadaima" on the genkan.

"Oyuri!" Kozue scolded, while enfolding the dear child in her arms. "I was so worried when you didn't come right away. Are you all
right?"

Oyuri hesitantly returned the hug. "This one is fine, Grandmother. In fact, this one is better than she has ever been."

Kozue smiled slightly. "Well, dear child, where did you learn to talk like a courtier? You might catch yourself a lordling yet!"

"This one met a Lady near O-Inari-sama's shrine, and she talked like this," Oyuri said, her eyes closed in a playful smile. "She taught me
how while we viewed the cherry blossoms."

Kozue was so glad to see her granddaughter was all right, she never noticed when the sun came out from behind some clouds. She also never noticed the fox ears
and tails added to Oyuri's shadow.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Can someone Cliff's Notes this movie for me? What on earth did I just watch?

Help?

Tamerlane? Body switching? Mosquitoes? People as juice boxes?

My head!

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs

So, I suddenly had a plot bunny for Death Note that wouldn't leave me alone.

What if Light retained all his genius and planning skills... but instead of trying to create a "perfect world" with himself as god prefered to create
a "perfect hell" with himself as the equivalent of Satan?

So instead of targeting criminals, Light starts to target police officers, charity workers and other famous do-gooders and altruists. Sort of like "what
if Light saw the world the same way as Heath Ledger's joker did?" That is, his goal is to basically break the world, not destory it but to eliminate
"lies" like compassion and justice from the world?

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Epsilon

John Updike has
died at age 76.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

Just finished doing my taxes, and all I can say is: God DAMN! I love H&R Block! Got a bigger refund than I was expecting, and so I've set aside
$1200 for a new computer. After looking around, iBuyPower seems to give me the best bang for my buck as far as basic boxes go... Anyone dealt with them
before? Know anybody better? All my periphrials are good, just need the basic box. This one's being held together by add-ons and hope, and it's time
for something new. All comments/thoughts welcome

-WFalling out of aeroplanes and hiding out in holes

Waiting for the sunset to come, people going home

Jump out from behind them and shoot them in the head

Now everybody dancing the dance of the dead

So after reading Do Not Meddle In The Affair Of Wizards by Corwalch last night, thanks to Bob's update (thanks, by
the way), I remembered another Revenge!Harry fic that I had read some time ago. My Google-fu has failed me and my other search areas haven't panned out.
The gist of it was that Harry is imprisoned in Azakaban, acquires ungodly amounts of power, and goes on to wreak revenge on anyone who wronged him. The power
Harry acquired in this fic was decidely dark and his revenge far more physical. I do remember with some clarity one scene where when he visited the Dursleys
he turned them all into pigs and then set the house on fire with a remark about bacon. And maybe something involving a totally horrified Hagrid.

Any help would be appreciated and totally sweet. Cheers.

So my playtime has been, at best, messy - many chunks of AFK time, strange hours, and generally not focused on the game.

There's a good reason for that, actually. I just finished moving back in with my father, and Monday, jan 26th, he had his shoulder reconstruction surgery.

Things are going great on that front - he's healing as to be expected, and the drug effects are precisely as the doctor projected. Which means that
he's lucid, but not cool to drive (as if he could one-armed). Things will be improving again thursday when the nerve block comes out, and he's going to
be capable of showering.

the upshot of this is, even when I'm in-game, I've audio fairly low - 'cause any sort of disturbance from the rest of the house merits immediate
attention. So bear with me, and i'll try not to hold up the wheels of progress too terribly bad.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Hello all

I'm thinking of running a Citadel TF with Marcus, lv 30 WS on Saturday afternoon, around 4pm EST. We need 6 minimum above lv 25 and it seems to be all
council, all the time. Not a bad thing in my opinion. I like fighting Council.

The roster so far looks like this:

Marcus - confirmed

One of Rev's toons, unconfirmed, but I thought I'd save him a spot anyway.

One of Acyl's Toons - interested, unconfirmed

One of Shrike's Toons - interested, unconfirmed

Anyone else?