My six-year-old nephew has taken to using that phrase all the time (meaning, "see, here's the thing", not "SPN spoilers". Heh.) He'll say it three times in the space of a fiften minute conversation. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why until I realized that my sister (his mother) has been using that phrase for, oh, about the last twenty ( Read more... )

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This started out as a simple comment reply to the post referenced below, but it kept growing until it felt tangential enough to warrant a post on my own journal, rather than monopolizing someone else's.  If anyone's a lover of irony, it should be noted that the last time I posted was back on June 3, which was to rec a story with the pairing (which ( Read more... )

This line came to me tonight from nowhere:

Buffyverse character [Xander? Oz? Buffy?] upon meeting Bobby at his house and seeing all the books and maps and such:

"Wow.  He's like Giles.  Only, less tweed."

I am not writing a crossover.  I've only ever written one crossover (be warned if you follow the link, it was my first fic, and has many of the ( Read more... )

And I told ‘em about equality, and it’s true either you’re wrong or you’re right.  [.....] It don’t matter if you’re black or white. -Michael Jackson, from Black or White

At one a.m. last night I found myself multi-tasking with LJ on the small screen while the DVR’d American Idol replayed in HD on my television.  In a weirdly apt confluence, I ( Read more... )

( Cut for the unwashed or unspoiled )

la_folle_allure will think this post is because of our earlier talk about the art of Salvador Dali who is famous for (amongst other works) these ( Read more... )