Artist rec:
petit_madame is doing some amazing artwork in SPN. She has a wonderful painterly style, and some extremely clever ideas for her settings and compositions. The latest one, Bad Omen (G, safe for work) has beautiful lighting and very interesting perspective. Plus, I'm always a sucker for people rendering glass well. She also goes into details about ( Read more... )

Supernatural made me happy. But you know what made me much much happier? Watching videos of McCain and Obama at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial dinner. It was funny, and it obviously wasn't free of any political mocking, but man, I can take this kind of mutual criticism any day, it was sharp and it didn't make me feel like politics sometimes does, i.e ( Read more... )

I walked four miles for the heard-of-but-never-seen-before huge Asian supermarket and it was completely worth it. I have a huge green mango! And lots of squid! And cilantro that looks unlike any cilantro I have ever seen! Someday I will be adventurous enough to buy the rather awful looking sea cucumbers, and rich enough to buy the amazing looking ( Read more... )

The Good:
This video, Ghanan ghanan from the movie Lagaan. A shining example of Indian movie song and dance with beautiful music, lovely lyrics, nice dancing, an actual Indian setting and a sequence that fits perfectly into the narrative. Handy subtitles included.

The Bad (really bad):
This story about a couple who went through in vitro ( Read more... )

First of all, THANK YOU SO MUCH for the paid time! No fair being anonymous, how am I supposed to be grateful properly if you don't tell me who you are? Please let me know what you want by way of art and it'll be yours, with much gratitude from me ♥

Thank you to everyone who voted for me in the 2007 Stargate awards. Three of my art pieces won, and ( Read more... )