Recent content by ObliviousGenius

Besides many of the aforementioned - which I liked at the age when I was target market and then, like growing older faster than the Harry Potter series could keep pace with, all of it suddenly became a little banal - I'd like to add Itazura na Kiss. Strike one, it's a shoujo. Even as a girl, it...

The same, only I say, "stethsocope." Spent a whole evening driving myself crazy getting it out while my friend peed herself laughing. And usually I'm so articulate, too. (Famous last words, those are.) But I thought that the Lit major would like to know that cinnamon and synonyms aren't...

I'm going to be honest. I didn't know you were a Buddhist. And it wasn't that he'd eaten too much pork after fasting - he'd just eaten too much pork (this particular bit I learned from a book written in the '70s, so it may be completely wrong; feel free to scoff at it jovially and dismiss it if...

If you want to fast a week, be my guest. You will be able to survive it, but at the point you are now, your body (considering you are not overweight) has run out of caloric energy and will start breaking down amino acids in things you might want to keep, such as your muscles and eyes. But losing...

Faith can move mountains: of that I am sure. That's from "Get Me Through December" by Alison Krauss. I'm not religious, so I don't think of it as a "the Lord as my Shepherd" thing. I think of it more as that motivation and optimism which I so utterly lack. When I hear it, it makes me aware of...

I looked so terrible that I scared myself with my own reflection.

Just flown in from Kansai airport and, during my overlay in San Francisco, had a ROTC recruit in full fatigues tell me that Michael Jackson had died. Point is, forty-two hours later without any sleep, I looked in the bathroom mirror while getting some ibuprofen and scared myself so hard I...

What if Kaiser Wilhelm had not been pulled from his mother's uterus with a pair of forceps by the arm, damaging it? What if he didn't have the withered arm?

How to ride a bicycle, how to whistle (that one I can attribute to learning the flute before trying to whistle; the embouchure messed that right up), and how to say stethoscope out loud properly (I always say stethsocope.)

Two dogs, both schipperkes. Molly and Leopold, as in the Leopold reference from Looney Tunes.

Oh, I'd be Kim Jong Il, without a doubt. I'd like to know what it's like to be driven mad by power, if only to be comforted in that I will never be. But you know, if nothing I did actually happened, then all I did was daydream. I can do that without all the grief of inhabiting someone's body or...

I have three favourite plays: Hamlet, Midsummer's Night Dream, and the Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged. As for musicals, however, I am completely tied between 1776 (stated Modest-Lee, God help help us) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

For Planetes, I give you my firstborn.

And here's our misguided white knight, here to save the maiden who isn't even in my castle to begin with. You are *somehow* coming to the conclusion that I think all women think that way. I don't. I think there's a mindset that a probably large group of women subscribe to that follows that...

Men who think women think marriage is a woman's right and a man's privilege are just plain closeted. The whoring comes from desperation.