Life's no fun without a good scare

My two favorite holiday themed children's books this year:

Frankenstein makes a sandwich
Manga Claus: The Blade of Kringle

Both spotted at the airport bookstore.

Speaking of work. I am reminded that I need to allow people some familiarity to adjust for my personal sense of humor.
One of the United employees whose desk adjoins mine was trying to stir up enough 'volunteers' to do a FOD walk.**
I, over at my desk, said "Oh! You get to go outside for a walk? You're so lucky."
She looked up and asked me if I wanted to go.
I sighed and said "My stepmother says I have to stay here and pick the lentils out of the ashes."
She crossed her eyes and took half a step back.
"I have to monitor this radio frequency. I can't go anywhere."
"Oh. Okay."

EDIT: If this weren't so expensive it would be pretty damned cool. But five bucks for a composition book seems like a lot of scratch. Hee. Pearl Station.
** FOD is Foreign Object Debris, stuff sitting on the runway which might get sucked into a jet engine and cause bad things. A FOD walk is roaming the tarmac picking up trash.

Those cats were fast as lightning

The latest news from filmmaker Uwe Boll made me laugh a lot.
...he started beating the crap out of my head. I think he's a jerk. This might be PR, but I don't want to keep getting punched in the head.
....
I think I got him once in the face for 'Alone in the Dark' and I got maybe one or two for 'BloodRayne'.

And we will all the pleasures prove

So I'm reading this serious historical research. Like with facts and everything.
On 10 November, 1573, the Prince's maternal uncle, Anthony Wydville, Earl Rivers, then aged thirty-one, was appointed his Governor, a post which made him effectively ruler of Wales.
And all I can picture is Robert Downey Junior in an 'indian feather bonnet' reading a book surrounded by electric train tracks, contentedly puffing away on a pipe.