a wolf angel is not a good angel

Matilda’s thoughts: an exercise in anthropomorphising.

You got me inside. What else do you want from me?

or, Careless mistakes run in the family.
The three things that differentiate plants from other living things:

Plants tend to be green.
Plants do not depend on other living things for nutrients.
Plants do usually walk or move around.

Tomorrow the Opera de Montreal is giving a free perfomance of Aida — sort of. They are having their normal performance, and then showing it (live) on a screen outside for free, and during intermission, we get to see whatever is happening backstage. (Last year — I think it was Carmen, and I didn’t know […]

I bought strawberry plants and a raspberry plant too. Right now they are sitting in pots on my patio, hoping I won’t end up succeeding in killing them. Poor plants, to be stuck with me taking care of them. Good intentions do not actually mean death-avoiding.
But I don’t want to kill them — they’re perennials […]

This actually is not about the show so much anymore, but about the reactions of people who watch the show. I keep complaining about fake-nice-guy-Jack, though they’re pushing the nice a lot less. I also complain about the lack of agency of the female characters. My cousin, who I brought up in the last post […]

I had a long chat with my cousin (who is 18) last week, about Lost. Now, I really liked Lost at first, and I haven’t entirely given up on it — I was close, at points this season, but the finale worked for me, and I am intrigued again. Spoilers for the entire season 2 […]

I just woke up from a nap. The disturbing thing is that I have absolutely no idea when I went to take the nap, and so I do not know how much time I lost from my day. I also don’t know when this means I should try to go to sleep, or how much […]

Yesterday, I heard part of a radio show. The question was “Are you man enough to drive a chick car?” As far as I know, they didn’t specifically define chick cars. Apparently it’s very annoying, because now guys are worried about things like fuel efficiency and value for money, and girls buy sports cars. The […]

At the market I also saw these pansies.

Black pansies! Or very dark violet, really, but doesn’t black just sound cooler? From a distance they look plain black.
I did not buy them.

Madame Cat debated coming into my house, but in the end decided against it.

I claim she’s a really beautiful cat, but she doesn’t photograph well.