The password is afro and sergeant

[gogmagog]

Well, I've spent quite a bit of the past few days working in the yard. We have a virulently robust weed vine growing in both our front and back yards that we think is probably euonymous. My stepdad has suggested we call it "eu-ominous," because that's what it is. Seriously, we've pulled up wrist-thick vines and roots - the kind that Tarzan could have swung from - and still haven't gotten to the source of it. I never understood the way Southerners talked about kudzu, but now I DO. I'm constantly expecting to pull up a tuft of it and find a bleaching, skeletal corpse of an unaware mailman or UPS driver that got sucked in and swallowed by the vine. It's EVIL. x_x

Also, I got a haircut, because my hair was getting to mini-'fro length. And unlike Sergeant Keroro, I DON'T like afros. XD

And speaking of the good sergeant...while I don't like the new Keroro Gunsou opening and ending songs as much as the old ones, I like the opening animation more. And the ending animation? IS <3 <3 <3. Gigantic golden Afro Keroro stomping around Tokyo! And the booty-shaking dance! :D

Let's Positive Linking!
- Apparently Pom Poko is finally going to get a U.S. release, by Disney no less. It'll be interesting to see how they handle that, given the amazing shapeshifting tanuki testicles that play an integral part in the movie. O_o

Also, I'm already saving up for the Amano art books.

- Oh my God, an Uryuu Ishida sewing set. I'm not sure I'm emotastic enough to carry one, but I'm certainly wussy enough to. <3

- Conservative magazine Human Events lists its "ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries. (Link from shinkun.) Of course, there's the expected OMG RED MENACE books like The Communist Manifesto and Quotations from Chairman Mao, and OMG SCIENCE MENACE books like The Kinsey Report, and OMG THINKY MENACE books like John Dewey's Democracy and Education ("it encouraged the teaching of thinking 'skills'" - GASP) and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. A couple of Darwin's books get honorable mentions, as does John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (that pinko commie) but some that surprised even me, like Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed or Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. After all, grabbing all the power in the world won't do you much good if your national bird is dead from DDT-thinned eggshells and you're dying of lung cancer caused by environmental pollution.

And a meme I've been tagged for by gedrean:

List five songs that you are currently digging...it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words or even if they're any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artist, and the song in your blog along with your five songs. Then tag five other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Ryan Cabrera, "On the Way Down" (STFU)
2. Donna Lewis and Richard Marx, "At the Beginning"
3. David Hasselhoff, "Pingu Dance" (it's all jantalaimon's fault)
4. Joy Gruttmann, "Schnappi, das kleine Krokodil" and various remixes/spinoffs (ditto for the fiendish surlykitty)
5. Party Ben - Green Day vs. Oasis vs. Travis vs. Eminem & Aerosmith, "Boulevard of Broken Songs"

Umm, let's see, to tag...rathershady, courters28, anchan218, ahebert and ryuusama, assuming none of you have been tagged already.

...I think that's it for this entry...I have a feeling I'm forgetting something, but it's very late and I have to get up early to take out the trash, so que sera sera. If it was important, it'll come back to me.

Comments

[shinkun.livejournal.com]

>>1. Ryan Cabrera, "On the Way Down" (STFU)

Totally not a metaphor for oral sex. DOWN DOWN DOWN~

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

See, I always thought he was talking to his other personality, because of the "have you always been inside waiting to breathe" line. x_x

[gregly.livejournal.com]

t'll be interesting to see how they handle that, given the amazing shapeshifting tanuki testicles that play an integral part in the movie.

Those aren't testicles! Those are, um, magic pom-poms that just always happen to be attached to their bodies via Super Action Straps^TM. Yeah.

[gedrean.livejournal.com]

Dude, in the most dangerous books, they blame FDR for our current 8 tril debt.

At the end of the Clinton administration, we had an overall surplus.

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

OMG, your dad rules. XDXDXDXDXD

we had a "virulently robust" weed of our own growing in the backyard last year. i'd never grown broccoli before, so i kept optimistically hoping it would turn into the broccoli i'd planted. it never did, but my was it healthy, tall, and gorgeous before we finally decided once and for all it was a weed, and executed it. XD

have you guys used bokashi before? it's my new thing i'm trying, and so far it's working out well---the fermentation/decomposition part, anyway. i haven't integrated any into my soil yet. XD i hear the worms go crazy for it, though, so i'm looking forward to enriching my soil. XDXD

we have a five-gallon airtight bokashi box in the kitchen right now. Joe keeps calling it the bukkake box. XD me, i think of Bakashi. XD and then i think of Bakashi and bukkake together, and...XDXDXDXDXD

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't tried bokashi yet...I'd like to, and it sounds amazing, but I've just never got around to trying it. (Also, I think you have to mail-order it, right? I've never seen it at the garden stores in my area.) I just find it cool that apparently you can use meat and fish as well - in normal composting you can't, unless you want 8 million dogs and cats hanging around your compost pile. XD

AND OMG BIRDKAKE XD

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

makes you want to draw a birdwank icon, doesn't it? >D

yep, you do have to order it online...at least, for the moment. i haven't found it in stores anywhere around here, either. i got mine from here: Arbico Organics (http://www.arbico-organics.com/). you can make your own bokashi mix yourself, if you have a couple of five-gallon buckets and the time, patience, and energy to do it. or else you can buy more of the mix from people like Arbico. XD

i really like that you can do it year-round, AND that it doesn't attract pests (and dogs and cats) the way traditional composting does. plus, it's supposed to break down a lot faster. once i've put some in my garden and seen the results, i'll probably write an actual post about it. XD i haven't done that yet since i only started it a couple weeks ago. XDXD

[jantalaimon.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, and the meat and dairy thing is pretty sweet, too. i've put a bit of both in the mix, and so far, it's breaking down fine and smells just like the bokashi mix does in the bag, before you mix it with any food waste. maybe a bit moister. but not bad by any means! XD

[angrybabble.livejournal.com]

I own the Anastasia OST. >_> AND I have that Ryan Cabrera song on my playlist. >_> But I don't admit it to people!

[yoshitsune.livejournal.com]

See, I have no shame. XD