I think she meant he’d threatened, in public, to kill her.

Disturbing story from the UK about a guy who met another guy online as part of a fetish chat group, they became friends, then guy 1 tried to get guy 2 to kill guy 1’s parents.
The story details about how both men would talk online about their extreme sexual fantasies. At one point, the story says:
Mr [...]

Phenomenal Cosmic Powers, Itty-Bitty Living Space.

If you haven’t heard the story, there was a bit of a brouhaha recently when Kindle owners switched on their reading devices to find that the copies of George Orwell’s 1984 they’d purchased had been deleted remotely by Amazon.  Apparently, Amazon was not authorized to sell these versions so they were forced to wipe them [...]

Kick up a rumpus but don’t lose the compass

If I have ANY say in the plans for our wedding ceremony, the processional will look something like this:

That was five kinds of awesome. I can’t believe we’re going to have to work hard to be cooler than a straight wedding.
(via John Green)
UPDATE: Holy freakin’ crap!! The pressure’s really on now. [...]

I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it any further.

When the publisher of Dick Cheney’s memoir insisted that all media questions regarding the forthcoming book from those journalists who may not be pro-Cheney be pre-submitted for consideration, Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten offered up his questions in the form of a column.  My faves:
3. May I presume that Mr. Cheney will be remunerated in his customary way: [...]

A little bit of this, a little bit of that… A pot, a pan, a broom, a hat.

Few random updates on this and that.
1) I loved TORCHWOOD: CHILDREN OF EARTH.  I’ve made no bones about the fact that season one was pants, devoted to tons of sex and gore.  Yet I ventured into season two and found it improved, if still a little uneven. Tearjerker of a finale that made me interested [...]

That the epilogue was crap, ’cause we all know it was crap

To celebrate the new  Harry Potter movie, I give you three songs that should be in every HP fan’s musical vocabulary:

(For those who don’t know, this song came out the week before the release of DEATHLY HALLOWS and, in an oddly prescient manner, predicted the death of Hedwig.)
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Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm.

I’m just going to show you a few of these Star Wars-tinged classic works of art and then I’ll send you to the page where Worth1000.com has the rest listed.  I find these brilliant, hilarious, and often very, very disturbing.

That last one? You can go ahead and say it.  “My eyes!! My EYES!!!”
More here.

I love you madly, madly, Madam Librarian

A few thoughts on returning from the American Library Association conference in Chicago:
1) Librarians LOVE to text. I don’t think I can overemphasize that enough. Let me try. LIBRARIANS LOVE TO TEXT. Not exaggerating: I’m seated on the shuttle bus. The person seated next to me, the two people in the seats before and behind, [...]

The bird, bird, bird, well the bird is the word

I’m leaving for the ALA conference in Chicago shortly, returning middle of next week. Do not attempt to break into my house in my absence. It is safely guarded by a fierce MyGuyTM and our rabid attack cat, Mr. Syphillupagus.
Before I go, I leave you with this thought:
Why is there no single word meaning “to [...]

Attention must be paid

Look, everyone. It’s simple.
From Dictionary.com:

nov⋅el
/ˈnɒvəl/  [nov-uhl]

–noun
1.a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually presenting a sequential organization of action and scenes.

By definition, a novel is a work of fiction.  When you say something is a “fictional novel,”  you betray a gap in your rudimentary knowledge of English.  It’s [...]