For the record! While Dragon*Con was fabulous, I didn't so much catch con crud as contract some form of creeping death that set up shop in my lungs and sprayed them down with battery acid. There was some debate about whether I could travel today, and I won, but then life punished me with airline shenanigans. SO. I am home, and somewhat vertical ( Read more... )

In case you haven't seen it before, there are some excellent reasons to be suspicious of the new "academic" fanfic survey that's going around, starting with the fact that it doesn't meet any of the ethical or methodological standards I'm familiar with for social research and ending with the fact that it's designed to support a book called Rule 34: ( Read more... )

( Saturday-Stargate, DS9, BSG )

First of all, belated happy birthday sdwolfpup! You are one of the brightest spots on these Internets, and I hope the coming year brings you much happiness in your home, your friends, and your family.

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I had a wonderful time this year at Dragon*Con. I'm still trying to make my brain work, and to catch up on LJ, but it made me really happy. ( Overall impressions and a rant )

... you're making plans to stand in line with people. *facepalm*

I think it's time for me to tackle that mountain of pre-vacation laundry, or I might be looking at some extreme ironing.

Also, ABC has picked up Nathan Fillion's show Castle, which hopefully (a) does not suck and (b) will get more than two episodes. He solves crime! (I'm also ( Read more... )

( Sunday morning Claudia Black's magic hair cured my hangover )

( Claudia Black panel )

I'm still unable to get online unless directly hooked into my mother's modem. Argh. Anyway, here's part 1 of the con report, with more coming soon. I'm rather disappointed with how my pictures came out; perhaps next time I'll try practicing with the new camera before taking pictures I really want to have.

( Thursday night, aka there's already a line for registration?!? )

HI ( Read more... )

My house is no longer a fiery death trap! Or, at least, we are aware of no further fiery death trap problems at this time, though I have every confidence, based on past experience, that my next seemingly-benign home improvement project will uncover some new and exciting problem. And the rest of the work, including re-plastering the giant hole in ( Read more... )