Dear LJ Genie, I need to have two boxes, one 19 pounds and the other 23 pounds, shipped from Portland to Belgium. Each box is 24" x 24" x 24". Apparently the sizes of the boxes put them into some horrible no-man's-land whereby costs are computed by...

Warren Ellis, in Planetary #7, January 2000: Jack always said it was difficult for us Americans to understand what it was really like in the darkest parts of the eighties. We had a doddery old president who talked about the end of the world a little...

Not often does an observation made about a zeitgeist at the time of its occurrence turn out to be true, but this one certainly has:The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of...

maradydd: hrm. the website i use to order food from various places around town has a "tweet what you just ordered" feature now maradydd: this strikes me as a bit creepy anonymizedtoprotecttheguilty: this is not a concept i want applied to retail in...

Well, I just had my first dream (partially) in Flemish. That I can remember, anyway. It even sort of made sense, though I'm pretty sure at least part of it was my brain screwing with me. I was going to lunch at a little outdoor cafe with enochsmiles'...