Random things I am thinking about Star Wars: The Force Awakens:

( Stop holding my hand! )

This video is more than two years old, but it's pretty much the best thing I've seen all year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alxyVjbqQks

Crossposted from DW, where there are
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How is it possible that there have not been many many posts in my network/circle/flist of people squeeing over the complete awesomeness that is Salt?

Seriously.

It's like The Bourne Identity except with Aeryn Fucking Sun in Matt Damon's role. What's not to love ( Read more... )

So... the latest Dresden Files novel might be a bit disappointing of a shocker? I remember getting to the end of Scales of Gold by Dorothy Dunnett, and feeling like I'd been thrown out of a bus. There's HSQ and then there's utterly horrifying HSQ. I'm not so much a fan of the second.

Nick Mamatas provides a handy guide for pronouncing authors' ( Read more... )

Okay, maybe this is just me, but if you have people standing in the road waving at you wildly, maybe just maybe you should consider that this is a corner the bus you're driving should stop at. Holy shit, I'm pissed off. (And yes, I called to complain.)

Okay, zen. Let's be zen.

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In much better news, I CAN HAS PODFIC! On the Use of Weapons, ( Read more... )

Oh, why is today not OVER yet?

And why am I unable to read stories I want to read but which hurt me with their clunky prose?

Life is so unfair!

(Because it's read fic or write up my yearly performance evaluation, and seriously, there isn't enough alcohol in my system for that.)

Also, it's raining and cold and might as well be January. Boo.

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Since my birthday is over, I can now begin celebrating Christmas (it's a thing). So I happily share this, yet another example of the Muppets being cheerfully insane. Also, if you click on the Halloween video, and watch it to the end, you Farscape fans will flap your hands with glee ( Read more... )

Man, I do love The Discovery Channel

Boom de yada!

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I love this opinion piece. My soccer coach changed my life. Thank heaven for Title IX, folks.

( some thoughts inspired by that piece )