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The Big Announcement
So, hey all, in case I didn't reach you through Facebook or email or Twitter or any of those... my new blog will be over at
gunghoingangnam.blogspot.com
Start checking for pics, video and existential blathering on my year in South Korea when I head off to Seoul at the end of June.
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Warning, epiphany on the loose!
Okay, you know that episode in Buffy where she has to decide between her real life with all its problems and confusion and people she's lost and massive responsibility and the asylum world where her parents are still alive and back together and everything is easy? And she chooses her real life, because she likes it better, warts and all ( Read more... ) -
True Blood Episode 8 Review Part I: Fourth Man in the Fire (Guess who it's not?)
Oh, wow. We open with incredibly glorpy vampire remains, basically a sludge of bubbling blood inside a coffin. Sookie stupidly runs up to count the coffins (since clearly, she can't count from where she's standing or believe any of the coroners or police who have repeated endlessly that there are FOUR coffins) sees the glorpiness and runs back home ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: A.A. Milne
Eeyore, hands down. They didn't even have to ask. And I would furthermore spend all my time in said elevator cuddling him tightly to my chest and reattaching his tail with my terrible sewing skills. Of course, this is because ever since I was 4 or 5 years old and went to DisneyWorld for the first time and was overwhelmed in the souvenir gift shop ( Read more... ) -
Class Recap, and the end of Wicked Game
So, first day of class has ended and thus far, despite my crazy Jamaican professor's assertion that she wanted creativity in Earth System Science, I highly doubt that the answer she was looking for when she asked "how does the cryosphere affect the exosphere by way of the anthroposphere" was... "Walt Disney's frozen head launched in space." But ( Read more... ) -
Wicked Game Review, Part Deux
Wicked Game, the update! Since we last encountered Ciara, she was bleeding from the thighs after being mauled by a vampire who mistook her for a midnight snack.
She gets stitched up by the guy who hired her from the station because he has EMT training. I guess this happens a lot at the station and he’s used to cleaning up the DJ messes. He also ( Read more... ) -
Crap Book Reviews, just add vampires!
So, my bookshelf has been breeding again (and, in possibly the most niche genre I’ve ever heard of- humorous Regency paranormal romance- more on this in later entries) and in the spirit of doing crap book reviews, this one is called Wicked Game, by Jeri Smith-Ready. It’s about a vampire radio station. Yes. Our novel opens with hapless heroine, a ( Read more... ) -
the joys of live television
First things first. My virtual fortune cookies have left me very conflicted today. Val, you'll appreciate this. For the rest of you, instead of "in bed', I've decided to spice things up and add "with vampires" to all my fortune cookie fortunes. The results are as follows ( Read more... ) -
Something From the Nightside
I've just read an absolutely awful book called Something from the Nightside by Simon R Green, and I must share my assessment of it with you. Mr. Green is under the mistaken impression that he is Neil Gaiman writing Neverwhere, but with far less subtlety. In fact, Mr Green has the subtlety of a brick. He also seems to deal in oxymorons, such as ( Read more... ) -
Life and other Hazardous Materials
So, I watched Santa and Mrs. Claus get married this weekend... by which I mean my 70 year old grandfather remarry, and his new wife is only 58. She's a very nice lady, but the whole situation was rather strange since my grandmother only died a year and a half ago and some of the family hadn't fully adjusted to him dating yet, and he has a full ( Read more... )