Katze mit Wut

Jemand names Charlotte Roche hat eine Erzählung geschrieben, wo die eine Hälfte "dramatisch überhöht" ist und die andere, was ohnehin jede tut. Das ist ein bißchen so wie, Alle kacken, aber nur Charlotte schreibt ein Buch drüber. Oder auch, Alle kacken, aber nur Charlotte hält sich deshalb für eine Feministin.

"I learnt a lot about sex! I don't look good in a helmet … cabbages are yummie … and Russian women punch much harder than their husbands!"
I blame Tristan for this link!

This is even more retarded than I thought. Not Kalend'r class retarded (seriously, can you read about a character named Kommand'r — or Koriand'r, for that matter — without feeling more stupid for having learned their name? Can you think of Nightwing as anything other than forever tainted for having touched the latter? Yuck! It's like they're trying to stupid their opponents into submission using their dumbass names, or something — there is a reason you get extra-points in the Mary Sue test for unnecessary apostrophes and dumbass spelling, boys and girls! And boy does Koriand'r ever go off scale on that test — not that you wouldn't get a ton of points for pretty much anyone from superhero comics, but Kori melts the meter. If you don't know her — count your blessings! — she's pretty F league; unlike Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman etc., her group is not known outside comic fandom. Consider this: Green Arrow started off as bearded rip-off of Batman, a non-powered millionaire vigilante, if with an arrow-shtick. He used to have an Arrowplane and an Arrowcave, for Pete's sake! Now Batcave, that makes sense, but you'd expect an arrow person to — ah, nevermind. Oh, and didn't Ollie used to have a yellow submarine? Anyway, he was a bit derivative at first, but personable and good-looking, and the arrow bit introduced some difference. But then you get Arsenal, who is to Green Arrow what Nightwing is to Batman, the ex side-kick, and Connor Hawke, Green Arrow 2, the son of the original. That's like a derivative of a derivative! It's a second derivative! It's like bloody maths class all over again! : ) And that's the kind of people who let Kori play on their team — sometimes. When she's not backstabbing them.)) but pretty bad nonetheless. So Aqualad translated to German is ... Aquaboy?? What the --? Doesn't sound very German to me. So, Dinah's Blitzschwalbe, Lightning Swallow, we knew that. And I'm so not going to go there. : ) But what's up with Falkgirl and Blitz Kid? And the Wunders? "Falkgirl" is particularly bad, that's like, uh, Ladyfalk with Rutger Hauer. (Joan D. Vinge by the way is the ex-wife of Vernon Vinge, case you didn't know.) Wassermann on the other hand is kinda amusing, Waterman (not of Stock/Aitken/… fame, fortunately), because he re-translates to Aquarius. And I'm not even going to go into what confusion making Wonder Woman Wundergirl might have caused later on. <shakes her head at the silly krautness> Now, the Femme-chatte, or l'Empoisonneuse … : )

Oh. My. G-d. Well, I guess sith happens. And then, it's the season for weird crosses, non?
And then of course, George started it, didn't he? No, not the mog ("I'm a mog: half man, half dog. I'm my own best friend!") — I'm talking about Grievous, this "cross between Zorak and Robocop."

This is one of my new kitchen towels. So what's up with the green cat, anyway? Maybe, they're Kinky Kittins™, one for each kink. This one's Spankerella. Eat your heart out, Smurfs!

Once again, a lot of odds and ends that added up over the weeks and that didn't warrant their own entries.

So you think you're a goth? Well, do you have black bog rolls? (More weirdness at Gothic Martha Stewart)

Today's webradio is WombatRadio. Classic Rock, no commercials, no news, no talking. Just music. And wombats.

There's this guy who rates all kinds of shite. Like Green Arrow's arrows. (Check out the Smokescreen Arrow or the Sonic Arrow, it's hilarious!) Wombats got an A in the Great Marsupial Rating, by the way.

Kellogg's may have been around forever, but they're still hip! Apparently with the zombie genre revived, with zombie-walks all over the place, Kellog's have decided to cater to a new demographic: the undead.

The front-page of a serendipity-powered blog offers you a link to the next page at its bottom. But is it, really? Because arguably, it's the previous page. Wordpress seems to think so. So instead of the ever-confusing previous and next (chronologically? counting from the cover-page? or what?), could we just have older and more recent entries instead? Older and newer, maybe? Please? : )

Ivy says: Eat your heart out, Catwoman!

The Project Management Institute offers to certify you as a PMP.
You just know how people will pronounce it.
Guess you'll just have to find a business suit to go with it.
via CertCities

Honestly, who wouldn't want to see this movie?

• Dominic Monaghan - as the healthy media personality whose species has odd reproductive habits.
• Jadzia Dax (DS9) - as the tireless computer technician.
• Schmendrick (The Last Unicorn) - as the tough, outgoing fisherman.
• The Player (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead) - as the biased, bloodthirsty pharmacist.

More madness! Worse plots!

« Oh my God, I've been kidnapped and taken to France! What am I going to do? Got to say something, or they'll attack me with loaves of bread shaped like phalluses, and drag me to the guillotine! » Yes, I'm reading e2 again. « U Mary bila malenkaya ovtza. » Everything is funnier in Scottish, you know.
« We are still good friends. I'm reading everything. »
Are cat-allergies soon to be a thing of the past? Are Wikipedians INT-mutants? And could I be bloody azundris bloody com? While we're trying to work it out, Dresden is conducting shite tests. What can I say? We need some stuff, we know some stuff: Comics used to be pretty damn weird in the olden days. And the chicken came before the cathedral. No, honestly.

Did you know that Hedy Lamarr (of Ecstasy fame) invented WiFi?
Me neither.

... will you send back a letter from America?

The preferred language in my web-browser is set to French, and it's always a surprise to see who has translations, who doesn't, and who... means well. : )