Thanks, ita.

I've only heard samples of JM doing the audiobooks. . . but they sounded okay.

Also, Perkins, you must kick at your day until it bleeds.

Too late. First blood has already been drawn, and I am pretty sure it wasn't the day's.

In clothing news, my mother informs me that I need to bring pants to my grandfather's memorial get-together this weekend because it's going to be very casual.

I told her I'd bring casual dresses, and she said, "No! It's going to be too cold!"

I told her I'd bring warm, casual dresses (I went to college in upstate New York and wore pants maybe five times in four years, and I managed not to freeze to death). "But it's really casual! You can go to Ross and buy some pants!"

But, Mom, I HATE pants. HATE them. (The way they feel on me, not the way they look on me or anyone else. It's a thing.)

Whereupon she lapsed into gloomy silence. I love her dearly, but not quite enough to spend money I don't have on an article of clothing I hate to make her feel better this weekend.

Then you just have to kick at the day harder. Defend and counterattack simultaneously.

I just bought this. I am pleased. I need to find Flash, GL, WW and Robin insignias, and then I'm done.

JZ, you should meet my grandmother. She hates pants, too, but somehow has recently been convinced to buy and wear them sometimes. Of course she hates them while she wears them, and bitches non-stop. DUDE! NO ONE MADE YOU WEAR THEM! Especially not the second time!! (She mostly hates them for going to the bathroom, since she wears a crazy one-piece girdle/underwear/garter thing that snaps at the crotch)

Then you just have to kick at the day harder. Defend and counterattack simultaneously.

I thought it was "kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight." Leading me to think that kicking the daylight may be futile.

There is the Latin "seize the day," suggesting that the correct action may be to grab the day by the testicles and pulling. However, the day may be female, so this may not work.

Timelies all!

Tired, and my neck/back still hurts.(that's part of why I'm tired. Difficult to find a comfortable position to sleep in). If I didn't have to go pick up wedding albums/photos, I'd put Ben-Gay on my neck...

I do not think this phrase means what he think it means:

DEAN: Well, certainly the president can claim executive privilege. But in the this case, I think with a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, you can't play, you know, hide the salami, or whatever it's called. He's got to go out there and say something about this woman who's going to a 20 or 30-year appointment, a 20 or 30-year appointment to influence America. We deserve to know something about her.

Speaking of Batman, [link] Wayne Manor just burned down.

teta doh! Nope, firemen were cornfused. Wayne Manor was a couple blocks away, and unharmed. [link]

I do not think this phrase means what he think it means:

I just said that same thing, at the same time, on AIM.