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Seafood Allergies a Punishment from Above. God Hates Shrimp. Because Leviticus 11:9-12 and Deuteronomy 14:9-10 can’t be wrong. Update: Oops! Via Randy.

Geoff Ryman’s Air. You know, I’d been bitching about not having read any good SF lately, and then I read this: “Mae thought: “I am trapped ina car with a madman who happens to tell the truth. I am trapped in a car with someone driven so crazy by a big opinion of himself that

Over a hundred years later, I get the joke. In Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol writes: “Then you should say what you mean.” the March Hare went on. “I do,” Alice hastily replied; “at least — at least I mean what I say — that’s the same thing, you know.” “Not the same thing a

Sex Ed. Scarleteen. Mostly teen girls. Funny at times. Sex, Etc. Mostly for teens. Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States All grown up and professional-sounding.

Bruce Willis and that other guy in Colorado Springs. This last Wednesday, I took Ray down to the cheap theatre to see Valiant. I had been planning to get a cup of coffee from the Bear Rock Cafe and wander around for an hour or so before the movie — but BRC was closed: Movie

Delight. “That was also the year I stopped because I realized I was a dork for still going…” My future sister-in-law, Erica, writes about Halloween.

Fortune cookie. “He that does not understand the bitter does not understand the sweet. Lucky numbers 2, 15, 21, 47.” –That one’s been sitting on my desk at work for a while. The weirdest fortune cookie I ever got said, “You like apples.” That was it, no lucky numbers, no LEARN TO SPEAK CHINESE on

Boink! What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em? I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Calvin : You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. Hobbes : What mood is that? Calvin

The Grandiloquent Dictionary. Some vocabulary words are interesting. Some are amusing. Some would make good villain names on City Of Villains when it comes out. deiparous – Giving birth to a god or a goddess deisidaimonia – The fear of supernatural powers dentiloquent – Pertaining to someone who talks through their teeth deoppilate – To

An example of how NOT to blog? I’m a bad, bad blogger. This article by Jakob Nielson details 10 guidelines for having a good blog. I, uh, don’t follow any of them. (Via boingboing.)