I haven't seen either Sleepy Hollow or Agents of SHIELD (please don't spoil me!) because I'm desperately trying to finish my book club book before Thursday. This is what happens when you lose track of the date, and underestimate the length of the book. (Elmer Gantry, by Sinclair Lewis. Amusing but kind of repetitive, and rather long ( Read more... )

Man, it is hard to recall a day in which I did less than today. I folded a load of laundry, and started some potato-rosemary dinner rolls for Thanksgiving, and that's all. Ah, well: sometimes you just need a day to sit on the futon and rest your braincells.

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So, hey, this Doctor Who timeline is cool.

And this might be my new favorite tumblr. ( Read more... )

A little bit of sci-fi geekery: James Nicoll shows why throwing rocks at Earth from the Moon is less of a threat than you think.

For those who like this sort of thing, Domenika Marzione is writing Avengers gen. Second part here, since she doesn't have a tag for it.

XKCD, man. Getting kind of complicated...

I don't quite understand why Xena: ( Read more... )

I'm in a foul mood today, for a variety of reasons, most of them minor. But there's a new Where the Hell is Matt video, and if it doesn't make you cry, well, you're made of sterner stuff than I am.

Look over here! There's a a ridiculously cute amur leopard cub!

Book View Cafe has a recipe for a summer fruit pudding that looks kind of cool. Hmm ( Read more... )

I finally finished listening to the audiobooks of the Lymond Chronicles last weekend: it took me since February. Slower than reading them, but I do think I got more out of them that way, although on the down side I couldn't reference the maps or the character lists ( Read more... )

So I was going to write a whole essay on Joleta, but truth be told I don't really have the time, and I've moved on past that part of the series -- I started Ringed Castle last night. So this here is my abortive essay and some notes on Joleta.

( o the apricot hair )

Is there anything cuter than a fennec fox cub? Not much, I suspect.

Emily Nussbaum has come to her senses about Smash. I admit I have, too, but that just means it's backed up on my Tivo. At some point I'll kill the season pass, but I do still like the musical numbers, even if the plot and characters make no sense any more ( Read more... )

So Levon Helm is dying, and Charlie Pierce has a great tribute to him.

What if Darth Vader had been a good father? This is likely to make you go, "Awwwww."

Remarkable photographs from the isolated Tibetan kingdom of Lo.

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I suspect this has already made the rounds, but I've bookmarked it for those particularly stressful days: Calming Manatee ( Read more... )

I read Born to Run last summer--not any Springsteen-related thing, but the nonfiction book by Christopher McDougall about long-distance running. One of the key figures in the book is El Caballo Blanco, aka Micah True, a rangy expatriate American that McDougall discovered running legendary distances with the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon. It' ( Read more... )

My oven is busted, so no roast chicken today. Instead I cooked some bacon and boiled an egg and then made a salad with mixed greens, spinach, avocado, red pepper, and cucumber.

That was awesome.

In other news, I want to write a long post about Joleta Reid Mallett, and how the characterization of Will Scott of Kincurd changes from Game of Kings ( Read more... )