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The one bad thing about a long holiday weekend, is going back to work. Four times today, all three phone lines rang all at the same time. I've lost count of how many times I've had to do the Hello/Please Hold thing today. Multiple phone lines should never ring all at once.

*sigh*

Did the family thing part of the weekend. Went... okay. I ended up having to take a Xanax, but no one burst into tears, so, yay.

Managed to get two books read from the ever growing stack beside my bed.

A House Divided by Deborah Leblanc. Ha! Yes! Finally a ghost story with actual ghosts! You'd think that those would be the norm, but oh, no. I can't begin to count the number of supposed ghost stories I've read over the years, where at the end the author cops out and reveals that the 'spirits' are really just part of some ancient force from another dimension. o.O Okay, if I wanted to read something Lovecraftian, I'd read Lovecraft. Yeesh. All in all, A House Divided is not a great book, IMO, but it is better than average, and better than average ghost stories are hard to find.

The Loch by Steve Alten. I've been waiting to read this for almost a year now. I've loved Nessie ever since I was a kid. My first Big Book of Monsters was pretty much always open to her entry. My mom even made me a huge, stuffed Nessie for Christmas one year. It still makes quite an awesome body pillow. Er... anyway... since I'm such a huger sucker for The Loch Ness Monster, I was pretty positive I was going to like this book. The fact that it's from the author of the Meg giant shark series was just icing. Steve Alten writes a good monster. Now, if he could just lay off trying to write interpersonal relationship type stuff, and female characters you want to personally feed to the deep sea beastie of the moment. Oy.

Putting aside all that, I did like the story. It was different, and interesting, though, with all the bisected bodies, I'm pretty sure Alten must have watched Quagmire more than once. *g*


In other news, it's 93 degrees here. *points to icon* Argh. :P

*kicks bunny*

As soon as I saw this, I had a nice, little Supernatural bunny nipping at my heels...

From the Charleston Daily Mail
POINT PLEASANT -- Village Pizza Inn carries perhaps the scariest pizza you've ever seen.

Dubbed the "Mothman Pizza," this round 19-inch pie features the winged, crimson-eyed creature atop its crisp, crunchy dough.

Here's what Mr. Mothman looks like in edible pizza form: His eyes are two round red cherry peppers with tiny green olives as the pupils. His eyeballs are encircled by green peppers. His torso consists of delicious pepperoni. Sliced mushrooms serve as his wings, and green peppers make up his feet.

I'm not the only one who thinks Dean would drag Sam there and insist on ordering that? Right?

"No."

"Come on!"

"No."

"Sam, why're you being such a little bitch about this. It's just a pizza."

"It's not just a pizza. It's a pizza topped with an effigy of a still unknown, possibily prophetic cryptid that terrorized this whole community, and may or may not have brought down an entire bridge filled with people."

"Yeah... and?" Dean's eyes were lit with an almost unholy glee as he craned his neck to get a better view. "It's body is made out of pepperoni. Dude, pepperoni! And it's wings are mushrooms! Tell me the thought of that isn't making your mouth water."

"I hate you."