temporary, corkscrewing moonlet

» The green, sticky spawn of the stars has been demoted.

Cthulhu came in at #26 on the Telegraph’s 50 Greatest Villains In Literature, somewhere behind Mrs. Danvers and Cruella de Vil.

CENTURIES OF RECORD KEEPING

Long ago, in the ancient world, people did not write as we do now, but they drew pictures to show what they wer talking about. An owl’s haed meant “m”. That is how we got our letter “m”. When they wanted to show thirst they would draw a icture of a calf running toward a stream of water. If something was sad they would draw an eye with tears. When the were happy they would draw a smiling face. The Chinese, who discovered paper making, outh to be thanked for showing us how to do it.

from A Book of Short Stories, written by fifth-graders, 1931.

gchatting with Sarah Palin

me: hey sarah
what’s up

Sarah Palin: Oh, not much - I’ve got the kids all babysitting each other again.
What about you?

me: oh I just slept until I woke up again and I had this really messed up dream
I’m going to make some coffee and play super nes in my sweatpants

Sent at 11:07am

Sarah Palin: Wow, cool!
Yeah, sorry I was gone for a little bit, I had to talk on the phone with my mom.
You know what totally sucks?

me: what

Sarah Palin: The newspapers figured out that I am totally crazy.

(Jennifer Starkey)

xkcd does House of Leaves. It needs more sex.

The Periodic Table of the Europeans

(glyphobet)

Nutjob + Underqualified =

(rstevens)

(via shorpy)

(via nudawn). Yes.

(via synecdoche)