Partly Cloudy With A Chance of DOOOOOM

Today's forecast was partly cloudy, 0% chance of rain, as it normally is between mid-March and late October in Southern California.

I thought it was weird enough when I looked out the window around noon, and there was a freak rainstorm downtown with raindrops so large that I thought it was hailing.

But out in the Inland Empire (L.A.'s multitudinous eastern suburbs), it got a little hairier:

Photo by Michael Ritter of the AP

That's a fairly unusual sight for SoCal, and it seems a slightly ominous portent. I'm just hoping I don't look out tomorrow and see locusts.

This Can't Be Right

But I'll enjoy it while it lasts:


So confused...Orioles...winning? Bwah?

Inappropriate Historical Hilarity

I saw this in a comment thread on Fark today, and I couldn't stop laughing for about five minutes afterwards.


I don't know why I found this so goddamn funny, but it still makes me snicker when I look at it.

I Guess This Means I Should Buy A Hamburger Phone

I just had the fifth person I know tell me unsolicited that they watched Juno and she reminded them of me. I take it as a compliment, since I really liked the character.

However, this raises two related questions for me:

1. How much weirder does this trend make it that this movie made me have a huge crush on Ellen Page?

2. As a subquestion to the above, does that somehow make me a narcissist?