We Shine Like Stars

[shanmonster]

My birthday is on Sunday. Once again, I turn twenty-three. My Mom claims to be twenty-four, so it would be unseemly to be older than her.

Dear Birthday Claus:

I've been a very good girl (most of the time), and would like something other than a lump of coal in my stocking this year.

How about kung fu or Krav Maga classes?
Or how about getting the student loan people off my back?
How about a job at something I'm good at and enjoy doing?
And I sure as fuck would like a pony.

And now it's time for a good, old-fashioned link dump.

Backs to the Future: "Contrary to what had been thought a cognitive universal among humans – a spatial metaphor for chronology, based partly on our bodies' orientation and locomotion, that places the future ahead of oneself and the past behind – the Amerindian group locates this imaginary abstraction the other way around: with the past ahead and the future behind." Time is like a bullet from behind (thanks, superbrad).

Hara Kiri Covers: NSFW. Defunct French satirical magazines' bizarre cover art (thanks, balthcat).

Electrical substations disguised as houses: Sometimes a house is not a house.

Tv in Jappone (e in Italia?): NSFW. In no way, shape, or form safe for work.

Comments

[vulcan-rc.livejournal.com]

You want to do what to a pony?

(Waitaminit... let me re-read that...)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I like ponies a lot, but not that much.

[vulcan-rc.livejournal.com]

Not even when the landlord comes poking around..?

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

That's what the chinchillas are for.

[vulcan-rc.livejournal.com]

Shan -- you've obviously stolen my sense of humor. I'd be horribly hurt if you and Dave ever made it down our way without giving me a chance to take it back from you.

Over a beer.

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

You paying? ;-)

[vulcan-rc.livejournal.com]

For the beer. Not for the trip to Birmingham.

I've already got a friend in Kitchener who owes me lunch...

[f00dave.livejournal.com]

Heh, awesome! -laughing- ;-D

[vulcan-rc.livejournal.com]

(I think I have a new definition for "a pig in a poke.")

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

For some reason, that sounds like a kind of milkshake. A horrible type of milkshake.

[(Anonymous)]

So where does the Birthday Claus SEND the pressies?


Fred Lemming

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Until mid-August, my snail mail address is:

The ShanMonster
box 20201
Fredericton, NB
E3B 7A2
Canada

Although I'd love a pony, I'm afraid the Pony Express no longer runs, and ponies don't package up too well.

[uber-wench.livejournal.com]

Also, when you keep them in your bathtub, it's hard to get them to move so you can take a shower.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

True.

Maybe I can get a set of house hippos. They're really cute.

[uber-wench.livejournal.com]

Yes! And small.

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

You know, whenever you post a link connected to Japan...

Oh, never mind. >_<

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

All links are connected to Japan. Somehow....

[idiolekt.livejournal.com]

I think Japan in Italian is spelled Giappon or something like that.

Also, if my gf's parents ask, I'm still 19.