Writers are always told to start with action — get things moving. Via Making Light, we have one of the ultimate story starters.

Hey, my alma mater is kinda cool.

Via the Smart Bitches, here is a music video of “It’s Raining Men” using scenes from… well, you figure it out. I actually had to turn it off because I was giggling too hard and Darin was wondering WTF was going on.

Or: why a writer reality show will never work.

Someone snuck into my house and filmed something not unlike one of my days, except a)at 7 I’m making lunches and b)at midnight I’m asleep. Possibly I don’t drink this much coffee either. Possibly.

(Via Elizabeth Bear.)

From Otto, we get What I Did Over Christmas Vacation. With gummi bears and tootsie pop rolls.

Via La Soeur de Shakespeare, we have this page of quotes from Christian Fundamentalists. Here is a mere sampling:

“I can sum it all up in three words: Evolution is a lie”

“There are a lot of things I have concluded to be wrong, without studying them in-depth. Evolution is one of them. The fact that I don’t know that much about it does not bother me in the least.”

“[Replying to 'as for not seeing evolution it takes several million years... incase you missed that memo...']
several million years for a monkey to turn into a man. oh wait thats right. monkeys dont live several million years.”

“I appreciate your recommendation, and it is intriguing, but as a pro-lifer, I cannot support an organization that is opposed to the death penalty.”

Now, I am sure that some of these are trolls, and some are put-ons. But alas, I am quite sure that many of them are not.