A prayer goes out for the brave men and women of the spaceship Columbia.

Lindsay's back in Michigan for her grandmother's funeral. The reason I'm not a monster: I'm not happy to see her, not at such a cost, not under these circumstances.

Talking on the phone with Skeeter earlier, I told her my favorite crusade is the Fourth Crusade. She said I'm the only person she knows with a favorite crusade. (Why the Fourth Crusade? Because those fucks didn't even fight Muslims. In God's name, they sacked Christian Constantinople. That's beautiful, man.) The First Crusade finishes a close second, since it gave us such treasures as the Holy Spear of Antioch, the Crusader States, and the seige of Jerusalem!