Per aspera

During the Oscars tonight, did you see the commercials for this new show Miracle Workers?
What the fuck kind of country do I live in, where people have to go on television and parade their illnesses for my entertainment, so that they can recieve medical treatment?

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Props back.
1. “Midnight Marauders Tour Guide,” A Tribe Called Quest
2. “Shocking,” Catherine Wheel
3. “(She Was A) Hotel Detective,” They Might Be Giants
4. “Jackson (With June Carter),” Johnny Cash
5. “Rory Rides Me Raw,” Vaselines
6. “Casiotone Nation,” Soul Coughing
7. “Strange Eyes,” Outhouse
8. “Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber,” Wu-Tang Clan
9. “Grunge Couple,” that dog
10. “Pet Sounds,” The Beach Boys
Bonus Track: […]

“Gay cowboys are the thing you say?
“Get me my ice skates.
“I’ll show you a motherfucking gay cowboy.”
(via Making Light’s Particles)

Fin Fang Foom put you in his pants.
So if I got off reading this kind of stuff, would I be a herpetomacrophiliac, or a macroherpetophiliac?  The former seems more musical, so that’s what I’d go with, if I were in charge of naming the support group.
(Via, natch, Ellis, where you’ll get a little - but […]

For Cute Overload!
Y’all have seen this, right?

I only listen to one podcast, and that’s Escape Pod. Haven’t come across anything else that makes me want to listen to it (which says more about how hard I’ve looked than what’s available, I’m obligated to add). So, since we, and be “we” I mean “I,” love the short SF on our […]