The Usual Big Random Post

Random Foo! Segues begone, you have no power here!

First, I guess, new icon. This was the one I mentioned working on, probably amusing only to me and maybe two others at most on my flist, but hey, I had fun with it.

Mini-dream foo. Last night (among a bunch of mini dreams I can't remember), I dreamt that I decided that on one of my days off, on a lark I should try to go on a tour of Marvel comics, since I live right in New York and it's kind of silly for me not to. It was only a minute or two after I woke up that I realized the big flaw in my plan: I don't actually live in New York.

I recently discovered a 'webcomic' 'A softer world'

It's like crazy, odd, occasionally funny and occasionally disturbing haiku written by a crazy person (and not following haiku's syllable scheme, at least most of the time). Also hold your mouse over the picture for a hidden 'extra text' related to it.

I've been thinking lately about 'group loyalty'. Y'know, nationalism, or culturalism, etc, all the way up to species loyalty. I don't really feel it in myself. (Yes, this is one of those long, rambling, not-terribly-well-edited, pseudophilosophical and probably uninteresting to anyone but me, mainly stream-of-thought type digressions, cut for your skipping pleasure)
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Book Foo!
Finished: Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card (reread)
Started: Children of the Mind, by Orson Scott Card (reread)

Thought, trying to be non-spoilery, and my selected quote-from-the-book, behind the cut.

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Taste of the Danforth this weekend. Woo! Most Toronto streets I wouldn't care to taste, but the Danforth, mmmmmm. Yummy! Gyros!

I think that's about it for this one.