This Little Piggy Went Back To Work

So I do not, in fact, have the swine flu.

Thanks to everybody who expressed their concern, here and elsewhere.
Apparently there are a couple of viruses doing the rounds which present with roughly the same symptoms, which I’m sure makes things inconvenient for those in the medical profession.
So I picked up the test results in writing [...]

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Weekend Round-up

Just a few bits regarding some of my favorite posting topics:

Dollhouse: The season finale of Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse last night was amazing, astounding, astonishing, and quite possibly a lot of other words beginning with A.
For those of you who are interested in the show, but haven’t yet caught last week’s episode or last night’s, I’m [...]

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A vampire?! Let me check my notes…

This was a relatively recent bookstore find:

While it may be a handy-dandy resource when researching Eastern European folklore, or perhaps offer some insights into the deeper meanings of Twilight or Buffy… this title seems a little misleading.
Here is my revised Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vampires:
If you see one coming toward you, run like hell. You [...]

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Everybody wants prosthetic foreskins on their…

Some of the products out there just baffle me.
It seems that one can now buy reusable latex foreskins for a different experience. (Thanks to Andrew over on Facebook for the link.)
All together now: “please be gentile with me”…

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8 Ways We Traumatize Our Offspring

While it is no surprise to me that the lyrics to many kiddie songs are both insipid and inane, I had not given a great deal of thought to very much of the content. Some of the sentiments and concepts expressed are extremely odd, and some are just plain scary to contemplate.
As such, I present [...]

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