Month: January 2015

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zephindles:

And New York is into the New Year! Now that my spirits are lifted, I’m feeling a little better. :)

Happy 2015, my dears!

Happy 2015!

#also some guy just took his shirt off on abc

Looks like we were watching the same program. Apparently he promised David Letterman he would? Or something? It was weird. Like, I appreciate being a man of your word (though not that way, I’m ace), but it’s too damn cold to be taking your shirt off.

I was glad to see he’d put a coat on by the time we turned the TV off a couple minutes later.

Relatedly, my first Googling of the year was “Tony Bennett”, to check how old the old guy doing the concert with Lady Gaga was. He’s 88, which is almost a decade older than Mom had guessed. I’d never heard of him before–he’s before my time, I suppose–but my parents were impressed by how well he’s holding up.

(Yes, we get the Times Square feed in Canada, at least in the Eastern time zone. It’s just that there’s also another low-number channel showing the Niagara Falls feed. Some years the Niagara Falls feed even has a split-screen so you can see both ball drops at once.)

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#New Years #reply via reblog

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Well, while the chocolate orange was good as always (we buy one almost every Boxing Day), the mint truffles were gritty. (And no, it wasn’t the cocoa powder. It was gritty on the inside, which is not normal for truffles.) Might have just been a bad batch, but as it stands I don’t recommend buying Cemoi truffles.

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#oh look an original post #New Years #oh look an update #posts that I enjoy when *other* people make them #so why shouldn’t I? #food

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iandsharman:

Dear Australians,

Please remember to be considerate and not post 2015 spoilers.

If there are jet packs and flying cars then the rest of us would like to enjoy the surprise for ourselves.

However, if we’re facing thermonuclear annihilation then a heads up would actually be appreciated.

Cheers!

To be fair, we already have jet packs and flying cars here in 2014. They just haven’t made it to the general-consumption level.

(Daily Planet has featured multiple examples of each, but Daily Planet clips are hard to track down and cite, so I just searched Google News for “jet pack” and “flying car” and picked the first articles that had the right idea.)

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#New Years #proud citizen of The Future

Reblog if u spending New Year’s Eve sittin at home

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{{OP by soul-dwellings}}

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#New Years #yeah but my family’s pretty decent #not exactly a hardship spending it with them #(which reminds me it’s dessert time in ten minutes) #(we don’t normally eat dessert as a family but we have special New Year’s treats) #(there were Boxing Day sales on mint truffles and chocolate oranges) #(so they were actually reasonably priced for once) #(ought to be good)

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villainfr:

Plaguebringer: I’m probably the most hardcore. I created mirrors with TWO sets of eyes, so. Pretty badass.

Shadowbinder: Oh yeah? Well I live in an impenetrable mist. IMPENETRABLE. If that’s not super dark, I don’t know what is.

Plaguebringer: My skin oozes with contagion and disease. I am become plague.

Shadowbinder: What’s that in the corner of your eye? SPOILER, it’s me, being shadowy. Hard. Freaking. Core.

Lightweaver: I created a species that when they die they fuse together with their dead brethren to become a hideous zombie nightmare dragon of terror, mindless and terrible.

Shadowbinder:

Plaguebringer:

Shadowbinder: What the fuck is wrong with you.

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#Flight Rising #death tw #illness tw #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog