Allegra Rivett Sloman's blog

This is mesmerically bizarre.

There is a Wikipedia tradition of stampeding for the bio of anybody who just croaked so you can mess with it.  I checked Evel Knievel’s bio, and then I hit this clanger and just about whizzed myself laughing. It’s NOT TRUE.  It will be gone the next time you look.  But it’s pretty funny, in [...]

I gots electricity inside o’ me!

Sweden plans a simply enormöus mööse. Link courtesy of Cousin Gerald.

I am going to Conflikt in January, and and and… I have set myself the task of writing three songs before the con.  The first one is substantially complete.  It’s a filk based on that Dutch children’s song I posted here recently, and it’s about that ever loving bastard Nicholas Van Rijn.  Next up; an [...]

Tea and cookies and porn this evening… Lusty Neighbors and Pimp Primer -  those were the titles of the flicks we watched at the November meeting of the Royal Vancouver Pornographic Society.  They were grindhouse.  Words cannot describe how execrable they were; they were about as erotic as a panhandler, as aesthetic as an airport [...]

An interview with Irene Pepperberg.

  Now I do….    

Researcher refers to it as ‘the Moses Effect’.

and he left a really cool picture from Lower Antelope Canyon in Arizona.

Dis be so cute.

the Christmas Moose.

US Middle Class officially boned. Pedophiles are wired wrong. Why does my screen have nose prints on it?? Smaller, cheaper, higher frequency receivers. Antibiotic resistance continues. Bring back phages!  

Judge jails entire courtroom when nobody fesses up to having a ringing cell phone. I would be willing to bet my best socks that the judge is under fifty.

When I first moved to BC, I thought, hey, wtf?  Where’s the bagged milk??  Turns out it doesn’t exist in BC, it’s an eastern Canada thing. Daughter Katie and I worked on school application stuff for about half an hour last night.  The rest of the time we watched Deadwood. Another convert, yeah!  Then I [...]