Topic: hell

Imagine a unicorn appearing at your door, in the flesh, and asking to hang around a while. That would be pretty weird, because you always thought unicorns were mythical creatures like succubi or centaurs. But it would be a hell of a lot weirder if your new one-horned lodger turned out to be mild-mannered, always helpful, impressively strong when the occasion demanded, and a total natural with...

UPDATE: From Dover Bitch at Hullabaloo: "McCain got what he wanted and needed the most: Nobody is talking about the magnificent speech Barack Obama gave last night." That's very much true. However, I wonder if the whole "there's no such thing as bad publicity" trope is going to hold true on this. Cody (via email): Whaaa? Cody 2: "The producers of SNL must be scrambling to call Tina Fey,...like a sitcom than reality. I'm reading feministing right now... trying to understand what the hell is happening :) Atrios: "Proof th...

Indiana University is as beautiful as all get-out, and I'm as stoked as hell to be here. This morning I meandered through a campus shrouded in fog, weaving between beautiful limestone buildings and cool, soothing forests. Tiny streams flow across campus, cutting through the soft soil and spilling over the hard layers of native limestone in small waterfalls. There are arching stone bridges and...

Ok, so when I moved in to my house, I noticed these white tuber-like things growing just below the surface of some areas of my back yard, areas under some trees. I thought, huh?, at the time, and really thought nothing else of it. Until this summer, that is, when I was cleaning out an area of rocks that line my driveway. I found quite a few of these little whitish orbs under the earth. They...

I'm sure most everyone has seen this by now but what the hell, if you missed it here you go. “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that’s a storybook, man.”...

This cracks me up. This is a passage (unfortunately without citation or evidence...what the hell??) from the book I'm reading VERY SLOWLY (a history of Ethiopia): The West explained Ethiopia's victory through sophistry. Since racism did not permit Westerners to acknowledge that black men could vanquish whites, Europeans suddenly discovered that Ethiopians were Caucasians darkened by...

Yesterday afternoon I was in the lobby of the Oregon delegation's hotel with my laptop (waiting for Housekeeping to finish fumigating my room or whatever the hell they were doing that was taking awfully long for a hotel that doesn't change your sheets every day unless you call the front desk and ask). There are a couple of flat screen TVs mounted on the wall outside the little coffee shop and...

My final grade in the MTH20 class was a B. Thursday it was cold in hell.

Hello from Austin in August ... though you wouldn't know it from the temperature of the rooms. Who the hell would have thought I'd need to pack a pashmina? Certainly not I, which explains my chillblains. Otherwise, this is a rockin' little con. Lots of great people, but small enough that you actually get to TALK to them and hang out. I've gotten to spend a lot of time getting to know Steven...