All I want...

...is for everything to be perfect and nothing to ever change.

Is that so much to ask?

I find this woman somewhat unsettling.

Whenever I surf past "Korea Today" at 2 in the morning, I am captivated, but slightly creeped-out, by the co-anchor. She's beautiful, but odd-looking.

She's probably the strongest evidence I've seen of human-alien interbreeding.

Picture via. Gif made from screencaps of "Korea Today" by [lrf]. Both presumed fair use.

Everybody's got something to hide...

...except for me and my monkey.

Image via.

The lobby of the...

...Chesterfield County Courts Building is unbelievably (maybe appropriately) bleak and gloomy. It's like a chunk was cut out of a February afternoon in 1890 and incarcerated in this piece of indifferent modern architecture.

It's not quite "abandon all hope ye who enter here," though. Maybe more like "Why bother? You're screwed."

I love the fact that the Code of Virginia...

...specifically exempts the President and Vice President of the United States from jury duty. I guess it's the whole "Mother of Presidents" thing.

Perspective

Courtesy of Macy's.

Seems like...

...I'm paying more attention to politics even as politics is becoming more and more dysfunctional. I'm realizing how much of a difference it makes even as it becomes less and less possible to change anything.

It's Only Art if She's Naked

But, seriously, simply an amazing painting.

The artist

Song of the Month

And if you spend your whole life
Rolling horses into Troy
You will not go to heaven
You'll go to Champaign, Illinois

I'm a pretty rational person...

...for the most part. Skeptical, cynical, etc. But I still believe in luck. Assuming that there is such a thing as randomness in the Universe--that it's not all predetermined by God or some mechanistic chain of causation--then it must be possible that sometimes good things will happen to you and sometimes bad things will happen. And whether these things are truly random or the causes are simply concealed from view, you have no conscious way of influencing them. But you never know. Maybe it does matter what color shirt you wear or what side of the bed you get out on. You might as well try to influence the indifferent chaos of the Universe.

Of course, sometimes it's hard to distinguish superstition from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and I've got that, too.