What are you doing this summer? Aside from work & work/job hunting, I'm:

-Spending time with family and friends, always.

-Taking a film noir online course as part of TCM's Summer of Darkness. #NoirSummer Also watching as much TCM as I can. #TCMParty ( Read more... )

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If you don't "get" Twitter, check out this article in The Stranger that sums it up just right:
We're telling each other stories, 140 characters at a time, as they unfold. If you can't see the value in that, you're hopeless.

Fairy tale...metaphor...how many devices can I throw in one, short piece? Let's see...

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I love reading a book that makes me admire its language as it transports me to another place. Right now I'm in the midst of A Fine And Private Place by Peter S. Beagle (thanks madflowr), and I came across a couple of sentence gems:
The whistling of a ghost is like no other sound in a fistful of universes, because it us woven of all the whistles the ghost ( Read more... )

Well, I guess it's time to share with you all the thing that's been spinning around in my head for the last 6 months or so, and the decision I've made ( Read more... )

You know the drill: post the first line of your first entry of each month of 2008 ( Read more... )

Last night, courtesy of the ever-lovely strtmyorange, I took a break from politics and current events and stepped into Neil Gaiman's world for a little while. Believe me, it's a much more fun world to be in than our current one.

Mr. Gaiman read Chapter 3 of The Graveyard Book, showed us the trailer for Coraline, as well as never-before-seen scenes from it ( ( Read more... )