...but I have no holiday icons. So. You get Spencer Smith sticking out his tongue instead. That's just as smile-inducing as an approaching holiday/vacation, right? Esp. if you were there when that photo was taken. :D ( Read more... )

Nonplussed does not mean the same thing as nonchalant. Using it in a place where you're describing someone or something as cool, collected, or casual makes no sense whatsoever, since it means perplexed, confused, or puzzled.

Check a dictionary if you're using a word in a fic that you've never used in actual conversation, please?

This entry was ( Read more... )

♥ For ppl in the US, happy Independence Day! Go forth, re-read Master Jefferson's opus, and then commemorate!

Me, I started the day watching tennis. ( Last Rafa picture post here for a while, since he's taking time off before the US Open )

+ I sort of love that Nathan Fillion is a zombie book reader. I enjoyed World War Z, and would love to see a movie version of it. With Nathan Fillion in it. As the narrator, preferably.

+ I get why_me_why_not and snarkyrainbow and shutyourface and vic_ramsey and The Used (plus Drive A and The Almost) tonight! It will be worth dragging myself out of bed at the ass-crack of dawn to get all my work ( Read more... )

The best thing about Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was the score. Yay for Green Day and Linkin Park.

Reading bigbang fics. Two things. First? "You and I" is actually NOT always grammatically correct. Second? Per say is not a word or phrase. I think you're looking for "per se".

SPN bigbang rec: Apocalyptic Love Songs. Dean/Castiel, spoilers ( Read more... )

I FORGOT! I meant to post this the other day, but I got sidetracked.

I've been reading Persian Fire: The First World Empire And The Battle For The West, and in one of the chapters detailing Spartan life, there's a discussion of the training of boy-children, agoge.

Each youth is supervised by a paidonomos, which means herder of boys. Literally ( Read more... )

1. Go, Red! (I love college football season.)

2. Fueled By Ramen webstore, you totally suck. YOU HELD MY COPY OF FAST TIMES AND SHIPPED IT WITH THE QUILT? SRSLY, W.T.F ( Read more... )

I received a notice last night/this morning from Perfect Imagination about beta certification.

Anyone else see anything amusing in this sentence, given the grammar/canon/punctuation-nazi status of the issuer? Perfect Imagination has now begun it’s expansion into new fandom areas [...]

Inappropriate apostrophe use, yo.

NICE.

That shriek you just heard? That was me, realizing that Chris Cornell and The Bravery would be sharing the stage with Linkin Park on this summer's Projekt Revolution.

Didn't Santi just come out in 2007? According to RS, TAI's going to release another album this summer? What? Quick work ( Read more... )

• Callus ≠ callous. One is a noun, the other an adjective. They are not interchangeable, no matter what people seem to think ( Read more... )