The Book of Merle

12:00pm: sugar peas
Mmm.. fresh sugar peas from the farmers market. They're like peas, only with sugar.

Okay, they taste nothing like that. But their texture is fun.

1:00pm: i fought the internet, and the internet won
Because eggs can have egg pants, I had to wonder: once the sweet pea hatches from its pod, are there sweet pea pants for them? So I googled.

Windsurfing. Tennis. Football!

I'm going offline for a bit now and try not to even think about the matches I found.

In other news, while trying to find a sport that started with 'w', one of the first matches was wheelchair rugby, which inadvertently caused me to understand a previously read reference to something called "murderball". Rugby, in armoured wheelchairs. Wow.

6:00pm: movies keep getting better and better
Tonight the SciFi channel is showing "Aztec Rex". Doesn't just the name of it make you want to run away screaming? The plot, as you might surmise, revolves around some conquistadors trying to take over some Aztecs. And there's a huge carnivorous dinosaur! Or maybe two!

I'm just waiting for "Tarzan and Mothra Versus Jurassic Park", which clearly involves Tarzan stumbling across a Nazi dimensional distorter, zapping himself over to Japan, confronting Mothra with a bevy of scientists, and accidentally sending themselves back in time. There the distorter will be stolen by a pterodactyl ("ooh, shiny!") and they will have to trek across a jungle and up cliffs to retrieve it while fighting off carnivorous dinosaurs. Tarzan would, of course, hit it off with one of the twin Mothra girls. And then undead Hitler would...

*sigh*