I Am Completely Serious

Posting stuff I wrote while the internet was down. Spoilers below the cut:

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Me: We need to take the cat to the shelter fast. Dad’s named it.

Mom: Oh, no. What did he name it?

Me: Corbin.

Mom: (sighs)

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*later*

Dad, in a sad little voice: We’re keeping him.

Mom: You are incorrect.

Dad: He has a name, his name is Corbin -

Mom: No -

Dad: - he’s very fuzzy and he likes to have his belly rubbed. Here, listen (attempts to push cat on Mom) - listen to his motor, he’s purring really loud -

Mom: We can have that cat if you get rid of two of the others.

Dad: … (to the cat) The Wicked Witch of the West! She’s the Witch, isn’t she, isn’t she, Corbin.

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People dump animals near our house a lot. Possibly it’s because they know about Dad.

Sometimes, people get to my website by way of search engine queries which it is ill-equipped to answer. Today I will help those people.

Continue reading “I’m helping.”

More non-live-liveblogging. Spoiler-cut:

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(Basically liveblogging, except, uh, I didn’t post it live?)

Cut for spoilers:

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Cut for vague, incoherent muttering.

Continue reading “Piff on your newfangled crowdsourcing.”

A woman warned my mom and her colleagues that she had “written to Governor Sarah Palin” about her situation, so they’d better be on their best behavior with her. Inspired by this story, today I wrote a letter to Black and Decker.

I lost the cord to my rice cooker, see. I emailed them once before about buying a new one, and they responded saying it wasn’t “user replaceable.” (It’s a cord.) So today I wrote a vaguely threatening letter about how rice cookers were not easily recyclable, and President-Elect Obama was totally going to get on companies who behaved in such an environmentally-irresponsible manner, so they’d better sell me a friggin’ cord.

(This approach has actually worked for me in the past. In college I wrote a snippy email to Terra Chips about how there weren’t enough chips in the bag (there still aren’t), and they sent me, without comment, something like $10 or $15 worth of coupons.)

As I was leaving the Waffle House where I had dinner, I heard one guy saying to another, in a tone of faint astonishment, “She was polite, wasn’t she? Really polite.”

I will be so disappointed if Conrad never turns evil. He needs to get brainwashed into betraying Yuuri, so that the power of Yuuri’s love can bring him back to himself! Gwendal and Wolfram can yell at him, exhorting him to recall his joyful baseball-related memories! Maybe Wolfram could even yell, “Oniisan, stop!”

I’m pretty sure he will have to stab Gwendal - in the shoulder, of course - and then disdain to kill the fallen Wolfram (who will have no visible wounds, but will be on the floor making little painful sounds nonetheless), because he has no time waste on weaklings. And then he can snap out of it at the last second before killing Yuuri and go, “Your majesty… I’m sorry… I was delayed…” and pass out in Yuuri’s arms.

No, people. I have seen enough anime to be convinced that Conrad was designed specifically for this purpose.

Episode 17

Cheri is my favorite ever. I would absolutely read a whole shoujo romantic comedy manga about (spoilers) her psychotic attempts to get Raven to marry her, while her sons plot against him, and he wanders dazedly about having traumatic flashbacks. Well, a shoujo manga of up to four volumes, anyway. Five might be stretching it.

(She’s not very good at proposing. How did she manage all those previous marriages? Did she just, like, issue orders?)

Episode 18

This show is basically Gay Avatar. No, it is! Crazy combination-animals and elemental magic! If I google for it I will find fanart of Gwendal wearing Toph’s clothes. I will not google for it.

In case anyone was unclear on this, Gwendal’s phrase “neko-chan”? That is, indeed, an extremely cutesy thing to say.

Oh, Mito Koumon send-ups. Even having never seen a single episode of the actual show, I have learned to pick you out within seconds.

Oh, anime, can you possibly be any more exploitative? (Please no one answer that question.) Yuuri has cuddled with every single male cast member at least once now, I think. I appreciate the three doujinka fangirls.

I was watching this with Jenan (I’m at Jenan’s house, by the way, it smells very PITTSBURGH-Y outside), and it took us both several seconds to absorb the full implications of Conrad’s conversation about Ryan And The Panda.

Her: Wait, what? WHAT DID THAT MEAN

Me: Oh my GOD

(Fake Spoilers: Apparently, Ryan eloped with the panda. (Who the hell is Ryan? Do we know that? Does Conrad just say made-up bullshit sometimes to see if his brothers are paying attention to him?))

Wolfram’s concerns are probably quite valid, when he puts it that way: Yuuri is pretty promiscuous, and Gwendal does like cute things.

I’ve been tearing up at little things all day, and I cried through his whole speech. I wasn’t sure I’d see this in my lifetime. I feel like an idiot now, and I’m okay with that.

Mom and I have voted. We are in rural eastern Kentucky, so there are no lines. One of the women working the polls said, “We’ve had 279 people in already! That’s more than we usually get at all!”

A small dog who looked old about enough to vote sat in front of a machine that wasn’t being used, with the look of one who is considering his decision with great care.

How I can tell I have played the game too long: I tried to click on the dog to see if he was aggro.

Couldn’t figure out why the mouse wouldn’t go over to him.

(I’m pretty sure this particular dog is Hostile To All Factions. The St. Bernard is Friendly To All Factions, including Dognappers In Trucks, as has been demonstrated twice.)

I have no really specific reason for wanting to kill Regthar Deathgate. It just seems like he might find it a welcome change of pace.

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