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Hahhahahahahhaha I love Teen Witch.

Wee little child singing “I’m Yours” = best video EVERRRR

I found this on [pageslap]. Here’s Nicole Stamp’s commentary:

“OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. WATCH THIS IMMEDIATELY.”

I couldn’t agree more!

If all cats did this, I’d LOVE them!

Please, how could you not?

Happy Adam-Lambert’s-CD-Release-Day!

Top 5 Ways to Celebrate This Holiday:

5. Choreograph a dance.

4. Wear glitter. Lots of it.

3. Smile.

2. Copycat his eyeliner. (Actually this looks really neat..I want some!)

1. Snag yourself a copy, of course!

The awesomest thing I’ve done in quite a long time

The other day I was listening to the radio and I reached across the desk to grab a pair of scissors, and all of a sudden, the radio went completely to static. I thought it was weird when it didn’t bounce back. So I flipped the little dial button up and down, and every. single. station. was all static. I tested the entire length of the spectrum about three times and basically gave up in despair.

I was just coming to the conclusion that a zombie attack must be underway when I noticed I’d accidentally bumped the AM/FM button. Hahaha.

“Poe properly buried, 160 years later”

On October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found near death in a public house in Baltimore and several days later succumbed to “congestion of the brain.” There is no definitive record of his movements in the several days before he died, and there are many theories as to the cause of his death. Some say it was alcohol poisoning, some say it was some other illness or heart disease that killed him. Because it was election day in Baltimore and he was not wearing his own clothes when he died, others suspect that he was a victim of “cooping,” having been taken prisoner by a political gang, beaten and forced to vote repeatedly. He was attended by Dr. John Joseph Moran at Washington College Hospital, where he was kept a virtual prisoner and allowed no visitors, for several days slipping between consciousness and delirium. Moran reported that his final words were “Lord, help my poor soul!,” just before he expired on October 7.

Poe’s funeral was the next day, a hasty 3-minute ceremony in the damp chill, so sparsely attended that the minister declined to give a sermon. He was buried without a headstone, because the monument his cousin had ordered was accidentally destroyed by a derailed train. He was exhumed and reburied, with a new tomb monument, in 1875, at a ceremony to which several leading poets were invited, but only Walt Whitman attended.

Now, 160 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe has been given a proper send-off in Baltimore—a “viewing” of his recreated dead body in the casket, a funeral procession accompanied by bagpipes, and a memorial service with eulogies delivered by actors in the roles of his contemporaries and colleagues, attended by more than 700 admirers and mourners. The “master of the macabre” has at last been laid properly to rest.

from The Baltimore Sun:
“A Proper Reburial,” by Robert Little (with video of the viewing and funeral)
“Edgar A. Poe, local author and poet of much renown, was laid to rest at Westminster Hall yesterday inside a simple redwood coffin, after a grand theatrical and oratorical send-off to usher him, as he once wrote, ‘into the region of shadows.’ Of course the true Poe remained buried beneath the monument on the northwest corner of the church grounds in Southwest Baltimore, near where his body was placed hastily in a family plot soon after his death on October 7, 1849. But yesterday the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe’s death was revived, so that the great poet could receive the eulogy that eluded him in the days following his demise.”

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I was absolutely captivated for four and a half minutes by this singing 3-year-old.

Observe.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(By the way..I’m working on collecting enough versions of this song for a volume two of my infamous Puff the Magic Dragon mix cd. If you happen to have any, I’d love to receive them, haha. They make excellent–and free–all-occasion gifts..I’m especially looking for Seal, Bing Crosby, John Denver, Tom Chapin, the Kingston Trio, and Tori Amos, but I’m also happy to include *talented* lesser-knowns.) :]