So, we have the Heartbleed bug, an outbreak of Ebola, and a blood moon all in the same week. Coincidence...or evil omen??

I have received the most excellent present ever. I knew it was coming, as it was a promised Christmas gift and I'd had a very small sneak preview, but the Real Deal arrived today and it's even more Lucius -- er, LUSCIOUS -- than I expected.

Behold, the rich and sensual artwork of the talented stellamoon, as gifted to me by the kind and generous nursedarry:


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Latest leisure reading / nuclear apocalypse: The Pallid Giant. Set during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, it concerns a diplomat who, discouraged by the bickering and pettiness he witnesses, learns from a scientist friend that homo sapiens may not be the first intelligent species to rise -- and fall -- on Earth. Rather eerie in its prescience; ( Read more... )

In the past three months I've only posted on a Tuesday three times, and not a single Tuesday this month. I do not know the reason for this. Tuesdays are, by and large, no more or less busy than any other day. Friday would seem the least likely day for posting, what with going out to dinner or a few drinks etc. However, I feel the need to break ( Read more... )

Laurie King's Holmes/Russell books are among my all-time favorites (the banter is world-class, Gaudy Night Wimsey/Vane-style repartee) but I can't get into her contemporary detective mysteries with Kate Martinelli, so I figured there was a 50-50 chance I'd like Touchstone, set in England of 1926.  Happily it turned out to be pretty good, although ( Read more... )

My LJ theme looks like I shop at Borgin & Burkes LOL!!