I went to the doctor today, and he confirmed that, yes indeed, it is a mutant hand ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday Gretchen

Here's hoping that your actual birth day comes and goes without a fuss soon enough.

Last month huskyteer posted about a book reading by William Gibson, in which he was asked " who would win in a fight, you or Neil Gaiman?" Well, it seems likely Gibson's answer of 'him' is a fair one, if slightly grovelly, but just to extend the ( Read more... )

It turns out I'm a steampunk heroine.Who knew? (apart from all of you.)

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So, it seems a few of you are wandering off to Atlanta this weekend. I don't know why you'd want to, it's not like I'm going to be there or anything. BUT. I do request that you at least swing by the art show and catch the gorgeous work of Isabelle Davis ( Read more... )

Gods damn, but metro_weird is on the ball today.

Poll The best of Metro Weird, Wednesday edition

On second thoughts, I think that perhaps not having any curatorial experience might make applying for a fairly senior curatorial role a bit silly. And I was stressing out too much trying to apply. Let's focus on my PhD, shall we?

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Not in my journal. There's not a lot worth journalling about my PhD right now, except that finally it's going my ( Read more... )

Apparently some people still rely on me, snapesbabe and tyrell to tell them when metro_weird is being awesome. The fools.

So, today's articles so far:

Nude couple flee sex blaze

It's your first time having sex. You put some candles around the room to enhance the mood. What could possibly go wrong?
Confirming what we all knew - there's no such thing as a good first time. And ( Read more... )

Megas XLR has a lot going for it as a cartoon, but the most compelling one has to be the theme tune:

I dig giant robots
You dig giant robots
Chicks dig giant robots
Nice!

And judging by my reaction to this amazing short linked to by both matgb and tyrell, it is in fact true:

A Gentleman's Duel by Blur

Though I do feel I shouldn't have hadto link you ( Read more... )

You see, people? This is why I just don't do fandom.*

But the refusal of a bunch of LJ-community mods to take responsibility for their use of loaded terminology is not the most racist thing I've seen today.

Nor is this story of racism in a Louisiana small town

This is.

That's right, ladies, and gents, Far East Asians** are like Downs Sufferers. ( Read more... )

Yesterday
Die Schwester came into Nodnol and I escorted her to a number of shopping places: Bravissimo because she's built far more like Bing than me in that department, then Harrods and Paperchase looking for photo albums for her wedding pics. Me, I just got shampoo and Buffy from Lush. Oh! And a four-person Pirates game reduced to £10 from £40 ( Read more... )

I have this need sometimes for - well, not necessarily human contact, but interaction for mental stimulation. Human preferred. You know, like IM, LJ comments, emails, RP, &s. If I'm on my own, lacking this interaction, I stand drifting into the 'bad being' as the therapist and I are calling it, playing flash games; reading fanfic that I wish I'd ( Read more... )