that's a lot of Mountain Dew.

We had our first slush storm yesterday. I had to dig out my winter boots and gloves this morning. Only I had forgotten that the pull tab on the zipper of one of my boots had broken last winter and I had been using a paper clip to pull the zipper up. It's not like I didn't have 7 months to get those fixed.

Ugh. I read the first Twilight out of curiosity, thought it was okay, read the second one and saw that it was going in the whole Anita Blake/Sookie Stackhouse trap, where in the later novels there is whole lot of feuding supernatural critters and sex/sexual tension. Couldn't deal with another series like that.

All those noble but tortured vampires, can't they just do for once a vampire that is still human? Human as in still has human emotional strengths and weaknesses? It's like in anime, where every hero has at least three girls chasing after him, a sexpot, a happy go lucky one and one who is shy/angry. The angry one is the most interesting one, the sexpot is the most forward one, but the hero always ends up happy go lucky one. Just for once it would be nice to see the teenage hero to fall into temptation and try to juggle all three of them w/out each of them finding out. It would fail, but it would be a teenage thing to do.

Vampires are complicated enough, why do they always need to add in werewolves, et. al.

The Mountain Dew tree works. The novel models are brilliant!

Why didn't I drive up for this launch? They are always awesome, but the full moon too. Shiny! [link]

Yeah, I'm thinking I gotta make it to at least one shuttle launch before thee shuttles are retired....

I think this is the king of all night launches, though: [link]

Sullivan posted a quote from a Salon article with this heading: Poseur Alert

Then he quotes this:

This is all funny stuff. But I submit that the true genius of lolcats lies in their tragedy.

In one classic example, one cat is crying, and another is hugging it and saying, "Don't crai. We'll get cheezburger someday." It's sweet and poignant and wistful all at the same time. Life can be hard, it says, and we don't always get what we want, but even as we long for things we may never have, we draw succor from the reassurances of those we love. Sure, it's ridiculous that what the cat is yearning for is a cheeseburger. But the cheeseburger is not really a cheeseburger -- it's a symbol.

Is that poseurific? Maybe. But I still like it. I think it'd be even better translated into LOLCat.

Here's another: A brown and black calico looks out the window of his apartment only to notice a beautiful white female on the balcony across the way. His heart quickens, in the scenario I imagine, then he swallows hard and quickly looks away, unable to muster the courage to speak to her. The caption: "Evry dayz, 3 o'clockz ... Mebe one day I sez meow to her." Who among us hasn't felt that longing and regret? Who among us hasn't passed an attractive stranger in the supermarket or on the street, only to kick ourselves afterward for letting the opportunity slip between our fingers?

The Salon piece: I can has cheezburger ... and pathos?

So, who's your vampire lover? [link]

Not surprisingly, I got the unconventional vamp.

You love a man who’s quirky and likes to keep people guessing. That’s why your perfect vampire match is James Marsters as Spike in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” Nicolas Cage as Peter Loew in “Vampire’s Kiss,” David Bowie as John in “The Hunger” or Stephen Moyer as Bill Compton in “True Blood” (pictured from left to right). He’s the type of vampire lover who’s unpredictable, and he wears his uniqueness like a badge of honor. Just remember that being with an eccentric can have its drawbacks and can bite you in the end if things are taken to the extreme.

can bite you in the end

Heh.

Wolf Boy Pruthviraj Patil: 11-Year-Old Suffers From Rare Disorder (PHOTOS)

Pruthviraj Patil, 11, suffers from a rare genetic disorder known as hypertrichosis - or "werewolf syndrome" - which causes a thick coat of hair to grow over every inch of his body except his palms and feet.

When he was born in a village near Mumbai, his mother was told she had given birth to a god, but in school, there have been more bullies than believers.

Assuming they can't cure him, I wonder what his dating life will be like? Would he be a hit at a furry convention?

Also, in one picture he appears to have much more hair on his face than in the other photos. I wonder if the hair was growing back from a shave in the other pictures.

Sounds like an awesome day Allyson.

Bad boy vampire. Which - ok. yes. but? Lestat and not spike? Come ON.