It’s my last night at UC.  I think things are ready but other things have gone wrong.

Evil stepdaughter got in trouble at school, Devilboy had an accident and I had to bring him a change of clothes, my bank account is screwed again (with inaccessible money), and I’ve felt like vomiting since I woke up.

There’s always tomorrow.

I finished class tonight and won’t have another until 10:00 on Monday. I think the last time I had four days off was in June.

When I first saw this story on the Museum of Hoaxes’ forum, I didn’t believe it: man finds his biological father is Charles Manson.

It doesn’t say in the link’s story but in other sources, Roberts tries to point out how different he is from his father in that he is a vegetarian and loves animals.

I don’t know what the prison serves Charlie but he was a vegetarian back at the ranch and once almost killed Tex Watson when he accidently drove over a spider.

Neil Gaiman wrote a short story about this (sort of–it was a short story about a screen play about kids who discover Charlie is their father) but I’ve always had a closer connection.

When I was a kid, people always asked me if I spelled my name with an “e.” I never understood it until I realized Cincinnati’s favorite son has “Milles” for a middle name, after his alleged father, Thomas Milles.

I had an uncle of the same name without the “e” of the same age in the area so I always wondered if Charlie’s mom slipped in the extra letter by mistake (after all she did once sell him for a pitcher of beer). Turns out it was a different Thomas, just an odd coincidence.

At least Charlie did go to my old high school.

The root of all evil? Men sitting to urinate. Let the good preacher fill you in.

While I’m grading papers, the hissing cockroaches party. They eat all they want, sleep all they want, and have sex all they want. Their lives are everything mine is not.

Roach Party

Video of giant worms. Test your level of geekdom. If you didn’t immediately think of a bad spice joke, your level can be no more than seven. If you don’t get the spice reference, your level can be no more than three.

They might take our jobs and overpower our economy but can India deal with zombies? (Of course, most movies depict zombies hitting the U.S. pretty hard as well.)

On November 9, I had only visited one branch of the Clermont Library system. Today I went to my third, the Amelia branch. It actually has a number of books that I haven’t read. I was starting to think that I’ll have to get involved in gardening or auto repair so I’ll have books to check out.

Does anyone have any good nonfiction books to recommend? By chance, all four books that I had requested came in at once at the Anderson library and now I have a bunch of graphic novels and videos on my hold list. I need some real books so the anti-library tax nuts won’t make an example of me.

On a somewhat, slightly related note:  Poetry Legends Revealed. Back in the day, Jack Cole and Shel Silverstein were Playboy’s staff cartoonists and were probably the best team any magazine has ever had (and I’m including you, New Yorker).

I’ve been looking and reading but I still can’t tell what the hell my millipedes are. I found a photo guide but so many of them are the same length and color.

The good news is that all the new pets are doing well, especially the roaches and planaria. The millipedes sleep a lot but I see them eating at night. The centipedes haven’t eaten the crickets I put in their cage but they have ripped apart meal worms. We’re lucky that, unlike giant moths, mantids, and spiders, there are no giant centipedes (except the ones from the arcade game).

I used to link through Bill Hinzman or Bob Elkins but The Oracle of Bacon goes through Debbie Rochon. Both actors came across as fine gentlemen but Debbie is superhumanly cute.

(Normally I wouldn’t use “superhumanly” but I just learned that “contradictive” is an accepted word so anything goes.)

What’s the least healthy state in the country? No surprise there–Mississippi.

Ohio is only 33 (although 45 in obesity). Thank God for the south or the Buckeye State would look grim.