This makes it funny

[sovay]

So the news today has been almost exhaustively upsetting and I've been amply warned it's going to get worse tomorrow. This is a terrible progression. Here is a handful of things that did not upset me:

1. Clockwork Phoenix 5 made the Locus Recommended Reading List.

2. Alan Turing is no longer alone in his posthumous pardon.

3. This is true (barring use of the word "dating," which I have never used outside of those rare times in my life when I was on an actual date) and also I like the layout:



4. derspatchel and I managed to get out of the house on a grocery run and came back with bags of produce such as have been missing from our kitchen for ages and cooked Not Even Faintly Authentic Beef Stroganoff, which involved steak and shallots and bratwurst and mushrooms and sour cream and dill and egg noodles and not enough caraway and we might have hurt ourselves splitting it between us, but we have agreed to reget nothing. Autolycus eyed me with jealousy as I licked my plate clean.

5. No cat of our household has vomited today!

I don't feel like I can think anymore. It's bad. I need my brain for all sorts of reasons. The fascists can't have it.

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[rydra_wong]

5. No cat of our household has vomited today!

Hooray! \o/

[sovay]

Hooray!

Thank you! I was going to write something about taking my victories where I can find them, but honestly, no vomiting cats is a serious improvement for everyone, especially the cats.

[umadoshi]

5. No cat of our household has vomited today!

Excellent news! ^_^

[sovay]

Excellent news!

Nor today! We are delighted.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

That would make a splendid t-shirt!

Oh, the news. And people wonder why I don't read horror.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

That's a nice non-binary butt :)

[sovay]

That's a nice non-binary butt

Huh. I thought it was the back of a person wearing a sweatshirt. I like the dapper vest of the non-dating bi person, which I am pretty sure I'm parsing correctly.

[sovay]

That would make a splendid t-shirt!

True!

Oh, the news. And people wonder why I don't read horror.

I do read horror, but I don't read horror for the purpose of being upset; I read it because it's a mode often used for examining a bunch of things that really interest me. The news is not actually enlightening me at this time, it just sucks rocks. I knew people could do these things. I wanted them not to.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

now I have "Stand Bi Me" rattling around in my brain...

and I make the more boring German version of stroganoff, but, now I think I will be putting more spices in it... but I will go with fennel.

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

Here is something I think will not upset you (apart from not being able to get to Winston-Salem): http://yesweekly.com/riverrun-salutes-the-screen-legacy-of-barbara-stanwyck/

Just downloaded the Stanwyck biography.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Huh back. On a closer look, you appear to be correct. And yet my brain insists on parsing the pink bit above the B in BI as someone sitting naked on cloth, seen from behind. I wonder what it is?

[sovay]

now I have "Stand Bi Me" rattling around in my brain...

Oh, God.

and I make the more boring German version of stroganoff, but, now I think I will be putting more spices in it... but I will go with fennel.

What is the German version of stroganoff like?

(I am always in favor of fennel. I roasted a chicken with it the other night and it came out great.)

[sovay]

And yet my brain insists on parsing the pink bit above the B in BI as someone sitting naked on cloth, seen from behind. I wonder what it is?

All I can think of is this quiz.

[sovay]

Here is something I think will not upset you (apart from not being able to get to Winston-Salem)

That is not upsetting! Let me know how the biography is.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

salt and pepper are about it in the German way I was taught...

I love fennel... it spices up stuff.. and I dont use dill enough.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Heh.

On third look, it might be the chin of the person with the thick glove who is hugging?

[ethelmay.livejournal.com]

I am now something over a quarter of the way through, and regretting reading it on Kobo, because my lord is this book repetitive, and I am better at skimming on paper. Some of it honestly reads as if they printed the crossed-out bits in the draft alongside the rewritten ones. I've been told at least twelve times that Stanwyck favored Hoover over Roosevelt. Maddening, because it's got a lot of really interesting stuff in it.

[sovay]

Some of it honestly reads as if they printed the crossed-out bits in the draft alongside the rewritten ones. I've been told at least twelve times that Stanwyck favored Hoover over Roosevelt. Maddening, because it's got a lot of really interesting stuff in it.

I'm so sorry! You'd think a book with an editor wouldn't suffer from this problem. [edit] What is some of the interesting stuff?