One good thing I've discovered about having your story so thoroughly worked out in advance insofar as to the timeline: even when you're feeling completely out of it, creatively, you can still sit your ass on down and force yourself to push your way through it with the writing, because at the least you still know what's supposed to happen when and ( Read more... )

Note to self: there's a reason you don't visit the BPAL homepage that often. And telling yourself that you're just going to look really quick to see "what's new"? Isn't fooling anyone.So yeah, it's been a really long while since I ordered anything from this site, since my first set of Imps. Not that I didn't love them or anything (well, most of ( Read more... )

Today's BPAL perfume was Tenochtitlan, which sadly did not go over as well as the previous three have. It has a nice sweet, exotic nectar scent when wet, but once it dries on my skin it turns into something that reminds me more of flowery popourri or sterotypical grandmother perfume. Too sweet, too sticky, too airy; too bad. I guess I'll have to ( Read more... )

Saw Transformers with eliara today, which turned out to be just as badass and made of shiny CGI-flavored awesome as you would have been led to expect from the trailers and from a movie which is based upon a premise that is "cool cars turned into giant robots beating each other senseless and leaving much public property destruction in their wake amid many ( Read more... )

Happy Fourth of July, y'all! To those of you that celebrate it, that is. Hope you had a red white an' blue spangled day, complete with fireworks and all those other vestiges of classic Americana ( Read more... )

So after spending the last two days doing some very in-depth browsing of the BPAL website, I've decided that I'm going to buy myself a set of Imps' Ears ( Read more... )