Spiders and Scorpions

This thing I have is beginning to remind me of something I had...a year ago? That thing where I thought maybe I had gall bladder problems, because every time I ate it was as though someone had pulled the key out of my back, and I'd just fall over? Fittingly, I don't remember exactly what I did to make that go away, only that it eventually went. And this sort of seems to be going too, though slowly...like every other fucking thing.

So instead, here's xkcd doing Japanese horror (amongst other stuff), here (http://xkcd.com/820/). Far right, one down. Enjoy.

Oh yeah, and courtesy of stillsostrange (Amanda Downum), the best review A Book of Tongues has ever received:

15. A Book of Tongues - Gemma Files

This book, on the other hand, has meat. And crunch. And blood. And just about any other viscera you care to name.

This book does not, as [Elizabeth Bear] might say, shit puppies and unicorns. Instead it lays eggs in your brain, and when the eggs hatch your skull splits open and a thousand shiny green scorpions and spiders swarm out of your eye sockets, and when they've eaten the last of your brains, a spider spins a web in the hollowed-out curve of your skull, and the web reads Some book. In Nahuatl.

Okay, so. Back to Book Two!