So part of my re-writing of my story 'Long Live the Black Parade' is I'm doing far too much research about everything, for I am very very fond of research and it feels enough like productivity, even if it's not actually productive research at all, that I don't feel guilty for enjoying it so much.

Anyway, today I went out in search of the meaning behind the medal that Mikeyway has pinned to his Black Parade jacket. You know, this one.

It's an Order of the Holy Spirit Cross, and when not being pinned to Mikeyway it looks like this or this. The Wikipedia page about the Order is here, or an alternate source of information -- and where I got the second of the photos of the cross -- is this page, which I'm including because the domain name is a fairly wonderful domain name as these things go.

I have no idea whatsoever what I will do with this information yet, apart from noting that the random theme of archaic French nationalism running through the imagery of the Black Parade is, well, random.

Audrey, Erinna and I are watching Godzilla: Final Wars and it is AMAZING. It has every single thing a movie should have, ever. I have been ruined for all other films.

Thursday, this shirt is the most truest representation of your inner souls which could ever exist. THE PINK UNICORN'S MACHINE GUN IS SHOOTING LOVE AND THE UNICORN IS SHITTING LIGHTNING. You can claim it's ironic all you like, Thursday, but I know for absolutely certain that this is the shirt which best represents your band.