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Would anyone from the Rose's crowd be interested in ordering a Rose's Turn jacket patch? I'm waiting for Rainie to get back to me with the cost.

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Via interactiveleaf: Marine gets Palin tattoo on left butt cheek, saying she’s the ‘hottest cougar in the Republican Party’. (NSFW, sanity)

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US scientists have found further evidence that huge seas existed long ago on Mars.

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Today’s reading recommendation, via the online autobiography of actor Rick Jason: Orson Welles and Feet of Clay, about working with Orson Welles on the TV film Fountain of Youth.

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londonbard today provided an example of the sort of terrible writing idea that can be surprisingly difficult to resist- or at least, to ignore:

“Your challenge is to write crossover fanfiction combining Godzilla and 1984.
The story should use murder as a plot device!

“Generated by the Terrible Crossover Fanfiction Idea Generator”

Oh, what the hell: one dystopian allegorical future is as good as another...

Jack struggled with Ralph for the conch shell; Ralph pushed him away, and blew into the shell. Even as its tone cut through the air, Jack was advancing on Ralph, knife drawn... until the conch shell’s note was answered by another, louder sound. A roar, a howl, the sound of God itself, it echoed through the air as Jack fell numbly to his knees, all struggle gone. Even as the others fled in terror, a shadow occluded the sun; the seas boiled as the monstrous form drew nearer. In his last moment of coherent thought, Jack’s lips moved:

“The Beast...”