Mother said, "Straight ahead;"
Not to delay or be misled.
I should have heeded her advice,
But he seemed so nice.
I Know Things Now from Into the Woods
by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
The analogy in Little Red Riding Hood is so universally well known that it's impossible to find a take on it that isn't loaded with the implications: Girl talks to ( Read more... )

Yes, I am still going with the blog challenge meme. And yes, I am still willing to take requests. wanderlustlover asked:What are you views on the loss/gain of changing medias? Ex. Book to play, play to movie, musicals on cd vs. musicals on stage, etcetera.
( I came up with a rule once )

It is, in USland, National Poetry Month. And while I'm not USian, it does mean that my friendspage is rather full of Pomes Wot People Like.And I'm nothing is not compliant to blog fashions.

Here is a sample from a book sumerianhaze gave me for my birthday, by Christopher Matthew. The book itself is called Now We Are Sixty, and if I need to tell you to whom ( Read more... )

I was just flicking through my lab notebooks, when I found this thing I wrote last year sometime.

I don't even know what state of mind I was in at the time, and buggered if I could polish it. So now I don't know what to do with it.

( Heart-Shaped Balloon )

OK, here we go. One character per letter of the alphabet job:

List some of your favourite fictional characters - one for each letter of the alphabet.

( In which I give away the ending of the alphabet )

( Red's version of events )

Oh. My. Gods. This time next week, that humour deficient slightly-chavy lightly-homophobic, bad-joke spewing porn-watching gardener will be my brother in law!
I am very fond of him and I hope they're very happy.
They've asked me to read O tell me the Truth About Love by W.H. Auden. Which is...
...well, it's nice. Maybe not very romantic, but um... ( Read more... )

If you had to put 25 things in a box to show someone who you are without telling them, not including your journal or anything like that, what would they be?

(I know SM had 23. I haven't read this discordia thing, and agree with verilon on the whole "lists of 23" thing ( Read more... )