Fortuna's Favor Rites

 

My brand new coffee maker is no longer beeping out when it's finished brewing. I thought I was just distracted and didn't notice it, but... every day?

Alas, this may be a presage to another failed coffeemaker adventure. I swear I'll go all decaff on that machine if it quits on me...

See previous adventures here: Coffee? Thank you, no, I've given it up.

My character has been playing "zombie" for a week or so, but today the "zombie" made a bit of a transformation. I think I've truly found myself, don't you?

When is a knock knock opening line not funny?

In a world where it's Zombies vs. Trolls, the Zombies will win every time.

Things are not always what they seem... sometimes it's more judicious to actually get the facts first. Oh wait! That would involve real reporting...

Check out the hysterical headlines and sloppy reporting in Fortuna's Favor.

10" Heels

Gorgeous Fabrics

Thin is thin

... I would have been born a camel.

That's what was going through my head this morning as I was looking at the still shots of the 10" heels featured by designer Alexander McQueen at his spring/summer fashion show, called "Plato's Atlantis."

The fabrics are gorgeous, the models anorexic, the shoes absurd. Some of the dresses are actually cute, and the show itself something of a weird, fascinating mixture of Russian radiation sickened waifs, and undulating blue Cardassian (note the bony protuberances) sea urchins.

Watch it for yourself, and tell me if you didn't spend the entire show wondering which leg would snap first...

A Real Head Spinner - Obama wins Nobel Prize, and heads turn. All the way around...

This is one of those overheard Twitter comments that just begged to be turned into a Bitstrip. Full credit for the quote to geektastic. (Whom I do not know.)

The best part of the Emmys? The appearance by Dr. Horrible of Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog.

(Imagine a mad doctor who's applied to the Evil League (or some such) singing his way through awkward encounters with the girl of his dreams while trying to fight his nemesis Captain Hammer, and simultaneously steal the Wonderflonium for his freeze ray - which will get him admitted to the league. A Joss Whedon production.)

Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog

The first Post 9/11 Bone Head Award of course, goes to the Air Force One Flyover Flap (see 7844.1) from last spring.

Today's Post 9/11 Bone Head Award goes jointly to CNN & the U.S. Coast Guard for bad reporting and even worse timing. The Coast Guard held one of their supposed 4 times weekly training exercises on the Potomac at a time when the President would be travelling in that direction, and CNN did some really poor reporting when they thought the  verbal "bang, bang, bang" heard over a radio was the sound of real guns.