OK, so I keep reading the comments about President Bush deliberately putting his father and Bill Clinton in situations which in slashfic are cliched set-ups for confessions of love or rampant sex, and I'm trying to identify them all for my own satisfaction. The one I have so far:On Thursday night in Houston, Mr. Bush boarded an official blue-and- ( Read more... )

Rufus (occasionally -- very occasionally -- known as hankat) gets linked by Gary Farber, shrinking my online world just a smidge. He makes light of the skill of the transcriber (who is not actually Rufus -- though, having seen Mr. Rufus, I can see why Mr. Punctuation might keep his distance), though I don't see Farber trying to take dictation for 42 ( Read more... )

I have had little to say about fandom_scruples, largely because under Niemöllerian principles, you can wake me up when they come for the Communists. I don't leave links to NC-17 fanfic lying around where children can get them, so I don't meet their standards of anathema. This despite the fact that I haven't used my "adult" filter since I decided that the battle ( Read more... )

And 50:45 in the Acrostic. I hate the Acrostic.

Keep an eye on dripperquills.

American Movie Classics, having long ago ceded the title of the cineaste's cable channel to Turner Movie Classics, and not even pretending anymore to live up to its name, showed Army of Darkness Friday night. I caught it about 40 minutes before the end (because AMC now shows ( Read more... )

ajhalluk has proposed a round-robin based on the idea that after the end of the series, Neville and Draco are at loose ends in Walthamstow. In need of cash, Draco writes a spec script of Buffy.

I couldn't resist. Probably should have, but couldn't.

I don't care as much about fandom as I do about fans. ( Therefore: the ATPoBtVS 'shipping meme! )

Ahhh, the joy of the Friends' Friends list. I have discovered Homicide/Harry Potter crossover fic!! It makes me happy. Thanks, hwmitzy!!

Over at ATPo, there's a discussion about a possible season 5 scenario wherein Connor retains the powers he has as the product of a mystical union between two vampires, but not his memories of his time in LA, and then returns to AI seeking his true identity. Vash the Stampeder and Masq have independently arrived at the same basic plot (I'm claiming ( Read more... )