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Via Ecstatic Days, a formula for creating your literary name:

(1) Use the first name of your favorite writer as your first name.
(2) Use the name of your first pet as your middle name or for your middle initial (if your pet had a separate last name…you’re a freak).
(3) Use the first or last name of your favorite character in fiction–your choice–as your last name.

I guess that would make me:

David Felicity Case

Or something along those lines…

Via afoundobject.

In the spirit of thriving ambulothanatophobia:

55%

Via bEeZERs.

currently playing: Junior Boys “More Than Real (live)”

Tagged by Pete through the Honor’s System, here’s my contribution to the meme-licious “Five Things You (Presumably) Didn’t Know About Me”:

1. I played lacrosse in high school. But only in high school. Those four years and not much more than a tossed ball before or afterward.
2. I took three and a half years of Russian in high school, was a member of Слава (the Russian Honor’s Society), and was a TA for one semester. Whether this comes before or after the advent of my Cold War Nostalgia is (however) debatable.
3. My first attempt at writing a novel was around age nine when I attempted to construct a narrative line for G.I. Joe that didn’t suck (like the deeply unsatisfying movie from the previous year). If I remember correctly, I got about 30 or 40 pages written before abandoning the project. Which I suppose is pretty good for a nine year old.
4. I am self-taught with just about everything technical (i.e., code-writing & programming, systems admin-ish tasks, graphics and design, etc.) that I use at my job and at home. But you knew that. What you probably didn’t know is that (a) I don’t brag about this anymore because it seems like everyone else is self-taught as well and (b) the one time that I attempted formal training in this field, I found it to be a miserable failure.
5. My favorite snack of all time is Pepperidge Farm Goldfish (the cheddar flavor). I often buy them by the gallon (you know the one I’m talking about?) and just pour them right into my mouth. It sounds gluttonous but really it’s just to keep my hands from getting encrusted with a light layer of salt and orange crumbs.

And let’s see… I’ll tag Wick, Tim, and Creighton.

Via afoundobject:

IF YOUR LIFE WERE A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE? So, here’s how it works:

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie.

Opening Credits: Mark Farina “Midnight Calling (Fly Amanita remix)”

Birth: Bob Marley & The Wailers “One Foundation”

First Day At School: Prefuse 73 “Mantra Two”

Falling in Love: Broadcast “Poem of Dead Song”

Fight Song: Jeffee “Down Like This”

Breaking Up: Red Hot Chili Peppers “The Power of Equality”

Prom: BT “Movement in Still Life”

Life: H-Foundation “Release”

Mental Breakdown: Circulation “Magenta”

Driving: Breeder “Beetlejuice”

Flashback: Ministry “Stigmata”

Wedding: Ella Fitzgerald “Because of Rain”

Birth Of Child: Equinox “Contact”

Final Battle: Pink Floyd “Careful With That Axe, Eugene”

Death Scene: Faith No More “Underwater Love”

Funeral: Badly Drawn Boy “Stone On The Water”

Ending Credits: Nightmares On Wax “Rise (reprise)”

Via Beezers:

‘What will your obituary say?’ at QuizGalaxy.com

Via dystopianethic, the 10 Word Meme: Write ten words beginning with that letter, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why. F_D has “V”:

1. Vermont. Firstly because it’s my home. Secondly because it’s home to outstanding outdoor activities in all seasons. The Green Mountain State.
2. Veneer. Encountered in so many contexts now. A way to make something look nice. Whether you’re making something good look great or else something that looks like a piece of shit less so. Typically the latter.
3. Vixen. When I was a little kid I first encountered this word in the title sequence of Disney’s animated version of Robin Hood. At the time it didn’t make much sense. Robin Hood was a fox. Maid Marion was clearly a female fox. Their copy editors no doubt fucked this up. It wasn’t until several years later that I put it all together after encountering the word in another, much more metaphorical context.
4. Vanquish. Though analogous, it’s not to be confused with “victory” (see below). Think “winning” but in a fantasy role playing scenario.
5. V-2. The Nazi rocket-powered bombs. The proto-ballistic missle. Arguably the sperm that fertilized the Cold War love child.
6. Videodrome. Cronenberg’s films haunt me in ways that are difficult to describe. “Long live the new flesh.”
7. Vasectomy. Every man should get one as a 40th birthday present to himself.
8. V-neck sweater. An essential article of clothing for every female but I have yet to see a man who can pull this off without looking totally silly. Unless there’s an argyle print hugely spreading across the abdomen. That’s acceptable.
9. Vox populi. It’s like democracy without the checks and balances.
10. Victory. Because no one likes to lose and everyone loves: “VICTORY FOR THE FORCES OF DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM!”

currently playing: fleep… “Black Magic”

Via A. & S.:

The Concerned Idealist

In A’s words: “creepy how accurate this personality test was….”

currently playing: Delerium “Amnesia”