L. Marcus

Hermit lit the grail-shaped beacon.

TKD once managed to conquer the world while ruling Ryukyu. Best game of Europa Universalis he ever played.

Nyckelharpa -- truly the queen among instruments.

Glue traps are just cruel.  I like the nonlethals, you just have to take the critter over to someone you don't like and release it there.

Why would anyone want to watch something so execrable?

Tackles are allowed and encouraged.

Three band-tailed pigeons in the tops of a couple of Douglas firs a block down from my house when I got home yesterday. They're native birds, though I see them only occasionally, and I hadn't seen more than one at a time before. A casual observer might not tell them from the common (introduced) rock doves, except by their habit of perching in large evergreen trees (which I have never seen a rock dove do); then hauling out the binoculars and the field guide you can tell that's what they are.

"So, basically, we can divide the universe into three categories: matter, energy, and stuff we don't understand real well yet."

Abisko Autumn, photo by one Calle Höglund, found on DeviantArt. It's from up in the mountains, to the west of here.
 

At the bottom of your closet?

Takei

We have a schedule? Why does no-one tell me these things?!

A bear there was, a bear, a bear?  All black and brown and covered with hair?

Is that a talking tamale!?

They have summer now.

They have summer now.

Pariah has appeared in on e episode of QI. The tape of said episode was ritually burned by the producers, and just mentioning P. has been known to reduce Stephen Fry to tears of incoherent rage.

What's with the Welsh all of a sudden?

En garde! Riposte! Chandelier Swing! Hahaa!

^ raindeer?

And girls I've dated.