quiz: which Edgar Allan Poe poem are you?

Not a whole lot to choose from in this quiz, but what the hell…it’s Shebeen Club day, I’ve got two job applications and a report do to before I go to bed, and I’m running around like a raven with my tiny birdie teeth ripped out. That’s a doubly-obscure reference, for those of you who think Poe is a waiflike Nineties singer.

You scored as Annabel Lee. Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe was dubbed as Lenore, Annabel Lee, and others in her husbands poems. She was his child bride who died when Poe was 38. He died two years later. this poem shows that love has an extreme importance to you, and even if that love stops, it never dies.

Annabel Lee
94%
The Sleeper
69%
The Raven
56%

Which Edgar Allan Poe poem are you?
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quiz: which Lord of the Rings/Alice in Wonderland character are you?

Yeah, I’m reaching a bit with this one. It’s not tremendously recherche, and the chances are that every fanboy and Figwit-lover has already posted it on their Livejournal, but still, there is a compelling reason for posting this.

It makes me look totally cool.

You scored as Frodo Baggins.

Frodo Baggins
90%
Gimli
90%
Eowyn of Rohan
87%
Peregrin Took (Pippin)
80%
Gandalf the Grey
73%
Meriadoc Brandybuck (Merry)
73%
Aragorn
73%
Saruman the White
70%
Legolas
67%
Galadriel
57%
Arwen of Rivendell
53%
Gollum
53%
Samwise Gamgee
47%
Boromir
33%

Which Lord of the Rings character are you most like?
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Whereas this does not:

You scored as Tweedle Dee & Dum. Yes, you’re both – because they’re exactly the same. You’re quite dumb, and blatantly oblivious to most things going on around you. You love to tell stories and screw around. You’re loveable, but sometimes extremely annoying.

Tweedle Dee & Dum
81%
Alice
75%
The Mad Hatter
69%
White Rabbit
56%
Cheshire Cat
56%
Queen of Hearts
50%
Caterpillar
50%

Which Alice in Wonderland Character are YOU?
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all this useless beauty

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Is it better to have been loved and lost, than never to have been loved at all? These sites, galleries of photographs of an abandoned Japanese amusement resort (click on the pictures for more) raise some intriguing questions about the nature of beauty and loss.

roller coaster in fog

If we’re being honest it seems pretty clear that, had we seen this place when it was going strong, we would probably (as the jaded grownups we have become) consider this to be a pretty tacky amusement park, which is a bit like calling something a pretty water-resistant duck. Amusement parks are amusing, but they are rarely sophisticated or ironic. And they are rarely beautiful.

But now look.

roller coaster

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pic o’ the day: a mystery picture!

Can you guess what it is? Click to find out.

click to solve the mysterious mystery

Cthulhu versus the World: a YouTube Masterpiece

In which the Great Cthulhu discovers the joys of pure evil,
and puts paid to a panda over pounding punk. 

“Wha? Batman? This doesn’t even make sense!

Like that’s bad.