Happy New Year! Kimiko, in America the big firework holiday is 4th of July / Independence Day. That's the time of year that most people buy and use their own fireworks. As noodles said, it's a city-by-city type of thing. I grew up living outside the city limits, so we could use all fireworks all the...

That is so dorky and awesome.

@drugs Just to play devil's advocate; Maxine, you've mentioned that your mom (or dad?) is a smoker. Thus, they are a drug addict. They are physically addicted to a drug. You have a drug addict for a parent. It just happens that drug is legal and regulated. Imagine if nicotine was made illegal tomorr...

I bought some books to read on the plane; Scarlet and the White Wolf books 2 and 3 to be precise. You may or may not recall that I wrote about reading the first book in the series, which really feels like it should just be one book, not least of all because they're only around 200 pages each. Oh, an...

I like Sampson's version a lot better than the original, in which the man simply is rich, because it fills me with such rage whenever I see it. This one, however, makes me chuckle. Also are the lesbian couples there with their children, noodles, or by themselves? Also there needs to be Gay!Disneylan...

Some of you got quite a pile of loot... I've only had half my Christmas; my brother had to work yesterday, so we're delaying family Christmas until Monday. But so far: Mr Kino - I gave him a Rorschach collector's figurine. He gave me an antique cameo pin that was his grandmother's; no idea when or h...

I love you all ;_; Day 2 of the Grand Oklahoma tour! Hanging out with my father-in-law in Tulsa. I think we're going to see a dollar movie later. Apparently it's blizzarding back in Virginia; my boss texted me to see if I'd made it out okay (which is nice of her) Funny story; we got up at 3am, drov...

In case you've been curious; lost internet in the move, been super fucking busy (yay overtime + moving + snow storm + christmas shopping) etc etc Settled into my new apartment; still gotta unpack everything Leaving for Oklahoma here in about 7 hours. Won't be bringing my laptop on the plane, so prob...

MERRY CHRISTMAS

[hide]see you next year[/hide]

My nieces and nephew are being told that Santa Claus is just a game that some people like to play. My sister-in-law believes that the idea of Santa just spoils kids, because if they don't get just what they want they feel entitled to be bitches about it.

Fair enough.

Somewhere in my parent's house I have a huge stack of Oh, My Goddess! monthly comics, back when Dark Horse and other early manga publishers were trying to emulate the US comic distribution method. Dark Horse has always done a phenomenal job with that series. I think I also have a stack of Sailor Mo...