The Southern Lights

Okay, apparently I'm not done.

I've refrained from commenting on Fifty Shades of Grey because a) I have no ground to stand on, having flipped fic for profit; b) I haven't read it or any of the Twilight books and don't care to; and c) who gives a shit what I think anyway?  But this article is hilarious.  If I have ever made one of my characters actually say "Argh," I wholeheartedly apologize (even though I actually say "argh" all the time in real life)(but, uh, not under the circumstances detailed in the book).

I stole that link off somebody's Twitter, and now I can't be arsed to go back and determine whose.  If you'd like credit, sorry about that.  Ganked from leopardchic79.  All crinkling of fallopian tubes should be directed at her.

Also, Bill Corbett of MST3K fame wrote in his Tumblr "I think our Rifftrax for Titanic desecrates the movie more thoroughly, but the video above is much more efficient and ruthless."  And I will never let an opportunity to desecrate that movie slip by, because I am a heartless bitch who will never understand why Kate couldn't maybe have scooted over and made room on the damned door for Leo?  Uh, spoiler alert?

I KNOW I AM NEITHER AS FUNNY NOR SPARKLY AND TRANSGRESSIVE AS I THINK I AM.  I am, however, up past my bedtime.  Naughty me.

This week in That Annoying Guy I Work With News:

We discover that That Annoying Guy is not only a member of the Music Appreciation Society... he's the president.  Co-worker Longshoreman (so named because of his truly impressive facial hair) and I decide to needle him about this.  That Annoying Guy explains that they all go to concerts together and such, and their meetings have a different theme every week, but they usually get to listen to good music -- "Unless someone brings in Lady Gaga," he says with a visible shudder.

Longshoreman then launches into an impassioned defense of Lady Gaga, invoking the storied history of performance art as well as Guy Debord's seminal text Society of the Spectacle along the way, until That Annoying Guy starts to look really uncomfortable, says "Well, okay," then gets up and leaves.

At which point Longshoreman looks at me, shakes his head, and says "Nah."

Also, some funny things:
~Gatsby comics
~"Hit it, Gandalf"
~Homage Week at How to Write Badly Well

I couldn't even get through the one paragraph of faux-Joyce.  I CANNAE DO IT, CAP'N!

Student Quote of the Day: "My paper doesn't really have a due date; I just have to get it to my teacher by Thursday."

In case anybody actually reads this, I'll be traveling the continent for the next, oh, month. So nothing new until at least March 9, but here's a Dinosaur Comic as your reward for reading this:
Last year is now officially non-canon!