Those tiny frogs are adorable, but I am oddly freaked out buy the idea of pitcher plants that eat leaves. That seems stranger than carnivorous plants, almost cannibalistic.

I am oddly freaked out buy the idea of pitcher plants that eat leaves. That seems stranger than carnivorous plants, almost cannibalistic.

Well, they don't attack other plants and take their leaves, do they? In the end, aren't most plants carrion-eater analogues?

So, what do I want for my birthday (a week from Monday)? My mother called to ask, and I kind of couldn't think of anything. Sad, right? (Or rather, I could only think of things in the over-$500 range, which is also sad.)

That's true. I was thinking they were, like, trapping the leaves the way other plants trap flies, but the leaves must have already fallen for that to happen. Wiggens averted.

Stay Puft Caffeinated Gourmet Marshmallows

From ThinkGeek, of course.

That last minute 5-7 drinks invite with co-workers on a Friday? DNW. Except it's a farewell to a co-worker I like. Damn you! I need to go home ASAP.

This Dan Savage quote (on Sullivan's blog) amused me:

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I have no beef with evangelical Christians who support full civil equality for gays and lesbians despite believing that gay sex is a sin. Heck, I'll personally mow the lawns of evangelical Christians who are willing to refrain from actively persecuting gays and lesbians. I've said that it's a mistake to get into arguments about theology with people, and that people have a right to their own beliefs. I don't care if someone thinks I'm going to hell when I die and I'm not going to argue with him for the same reason I'm not going to argue with someone who believes that I'm going to the lost continent of Atlantis when I go on vacation.

All gays and lesbians want from evangelical Christians is the same deal the Jews and the yoga and instructors and the atheists and the divorced and the adulterers and the rich all get: full civil equality despite the going-to-hell business. (And isn't hell punishment enough? Do we have to be persecuted here on earth too? It's almost as if they don't trust God to persecute us after we die. Have a little faith, people!)

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That last minute 5-7 drinks invite with co-workers on a Friday? DNW. Except it's a farewell to a co-worker I like. Damn you! I need to go home ASAP.

You could go to the no-pants party I'm going to tonight!

You could go to the no-pants party I'm going to tonight!

British pants, or will everyone be be-skirted?

Someone somewhere else asked "who did you like before their big break" and I was IMDBing to check my cites, and I realised I crushed on Christian Kane in his first TV role. I feel quite dirty, because it was really a crap show (Fame LA).

American pants, and apparently no skirts either. I dunno. The host is a hippie friend. I think I am going in sarong. I think Bob is going like Risky Business.