I'm doing a give-me-topics meme, and I have several days left, so feel free to ask away!

February 3: chelletoo asked, What was your first fandom and how involved are you still in it?There are a few answers to this ( Read more... )

A meme, swiped from
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(Although, apropos of my icon, I have also started catching up on season 5 of Criminal Minds.)

Okay, a) this was possibly my favorite episode ever and b) ( possibly a spoiler, depending on your perspective. )

There is something so viscerally unpleasant--so nearly physically painful--about the title ( no, don't look under the tag, really )

All week, recording today's date, October 4, on various things at work, it's been niggling at me. October 4, there's something significant about October 4. Something important happened on October 4. There was this iconic glow around the date in my head, faded and unidentified but not unlike the one surrounding December 25 or October 19. October ( Read more... )

I officially have con_txt Friday off of work! w0000t!

Now I just have to persuade them to let me have a week for the Midwest Travelstravaganza that will be iuliamentis's wedding shower followed by vividcon with maybe a quick jaunt to Canada to say hello to my country next door and pick up those work visa application forms.

I received a comment on my very first due ( Read more... )

On the one hand, clearly I should not be allowed to wander around unsupervised: I went grocery shopping and came home with Mountain Dew, bananas, and four kinds of chocolate candy including an Almond Joy from the checkout lane (but NOT the Enquirer about Angelina's sonogram OR the InStyle about Brad and Angelina's wedding, GO ME ( Read more... )

Callum Keith Rennie was offered the role of Alex Krycek.

(Scroll down to the end of the second article.)

My worldview is officially shaken. Although - man, I can picture it. That very first handshake and golden boy grin...

And for helaaspindakaas, That article about placebo effects.

The smallness of it, that is. Everyone's talking about their first fandoms, and their subsequent ones, and here I am on, like, number three. Four, maybe ( Read more... )