Have you seen my ghost?*

[bending_sickle]

Reading Blueprint For a Sutainable Economy by DPearce & EBBarbier (2000) and once again, a pet peeve gets petted. "Latin America and the Carribean". I hate it when people use "Latin America" to mean "Counties in the Americas not Canada or USA" or "Countries of Central and South America". I'd like to point out that North America has 43 countries, not 2. South America has 14 countries. Also, not all of these countries are ex-colonies of Spain and Portugal, or whatever it is that people consider makes a country "Latin". What the hell does that mean, anyway? Latin is a way old and dead language that forms one of the roots of a large group of languages. But you'd never call a Frenchman "Latin". (If you do, then I just plain give up on the whole thing. Let's just create a Latin Europe while we're at it.)

In today's emotional topography, I was skirting the great Marsh of Suck** and could see, far in the distance, the Pit of Blah. Luckily, whilst striding through the Woods of Worry, I failed to attract the attention of a flock of Dodos of Doom - though there were near enough to be heard, cooing softly, "Dooooom. Doo-wooom. Doomanu, doomanu. Doooom."***

So what did I do? I was rebellious and irresponsible and acted in direct opposition to my Mother's desires. Meaning, I bought shit.


Stick-thing is an inscence holder.







Well, most of these purchases are from yesterday. However, I did have dinner at the cafeteria, and bought an ice cream to boot - despite having had one last week Tuesday. And I bought glow-in-the-dark stars. Because.

I may as well jump into the Pit with a shovel, the way I'm going.


Links of the Day:
Magazine SFX’s Top 100 Authors - Top Three: Pratchett, Tolkein, Gaiman. \o/
bobinwales's Transcripted Interview: Welsh Big Issue 16-22 June 2008 and Stephen Moffat, upcoming head writer for Doctor Who
dune_drd's Compiled List of Fob-watched Time Lords in other Fandoms
lordshiva's Crossover Fanfic: The Life Cylce of the Cracking Mosh Toad (Fragor beelzebufo), by A.C.E. Jenkins. - BtVS/Doctor Who, Doctor&Anya
Aibhinn's Crossover Fanfic: A Spoonful of Sugar - Doctor Who and Mary Poppins, Time Lady
rude_not_ginger's Crossover Fanfic: Old Aquaintances - Doctor Who and Mary Poppins, Time Lady
hotelmontana's Fanfic: Most Likely to Kill You in the Morning - Doctor Who: Doctor, Rose, Mickey, A/N: “Girl in the Fireplace”: now with added AU flavor!
wtf_nature: Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol - If by "find" you mean "geneticaly engineered", and by "bugs" you mean "bacteria".
dietennant - Doctor Who: Nine vs. Ten Macros
ursulav shares about Cancer patient recovers after injection of immune cells - Is this it?
cityscapes's sabatoa's Photos: New York - Like a toy city!
MSN: 5 years since entering U.S., he gets into 7 Ivy Leagues: Polish émigré couldn’t speak English; now he’s admitted to 17 top schools - I don't know whether to pat him on the back, curse him or search him for a fob-watch.
angeliksmall's Scans: Human Traffic era John Simm, aka Baby!Simm - Guh.


* "Weighty Ghost", Wintersleep (Music Video)
** Alliteration fails me. Quicksand of Suck? Sea of Suck? But it wouldn't suck then, just...drown.
*** The Dodos of Doom are really just the dodos in Ice Age, flocking around the hero's chanting, "Doom on you!" They seemed like an apt emotional!metaphor.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

nice stuff! i like the hoodie.

and that last pic of you is SMOKING HOT.

xxx
kit-kat

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

I just had to have the hoodie. Rockets, robots and planets? What's not to love, I ask?!?

And a little "horray" at the compliment. I can't see the smoking hotness, just the bedraggled hair. But yays anyway!

[phantmgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

Horray for new stuff!
Also, I would go with the Quicksand of Suck. Its the sort of thing that, once trapped in it and starting to sink, one can't help but chuckle at the irony of words.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Quicksand sounds better than Marsh...

You know, when people say buying stuff makes 'em happy - I can see why. Le squee XD