Tumblr. It's a minimal, visuals-based, upload and reblog-operated journal.

I am there.

I am sparklebiscuit.

It still isn't to my taste, not really. For one thing, I can't figure out how to reply to other users in the threaded fashion I see going around and therefore know is possible. But the dashboard can be mesmerizing ( Read more... )

There is a certain sort of modern poem that I just can't stand.

It's like they grab a nature symbol, a pop culture reference, and an abstraction, and butcher them in the plainest language they possibly can. All sort of straining toward one another like girders rusting inward in the rain. But nothing touches, nothing matches, nothing signifies ( Read more... )

Why exactly is everyone in the fandom but me so excited about Keith R. DeCandido?

He could kill Vulcans with his brain. (With his sentence structure alone. See: How the Borg Spent Their Summer Vacation as Exhibit A.)

Guy makes Kevin J. Anderson look like Proust. For fucksake. Or maybe Melville.Okay, okay, done proving I can read actual books. ( Read more... )

I got home two days ago. All I've done is sleep and flail at cleaning and sleep. I'm gonna go do it some more.

I sobbed all the way through a one-sitting reading of Al Capone Does My Shirts. Like so. Which is the latest news in the What The Fuck, Jheti column, direct from the desk of yours truly ( Read more... )

I love estate sales.

Formwork For Concrete, Fourth Ed. Hurd, M.K., Ed.
Welding: Fundamentals And Procedures Gaylen, J., Sear, G. & Tuttle, C.A.
Introduction To Industrial Drafting Pawelek, J. J. & Otto, W.E.
Principles And Practices Of Heavy Construction, Second Ed. Smith, R.C., Ed ( Read more... )

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig [Austen] up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. --S. Clemens (Mark Twain)

I have a sadomasochistic habit where I start reading material related to my courses of study while I'm in them.

In the order in which they are currently visible on my tabletop.

( Oh god, don't stop; it only hurts when you stop. )

From Last Thursday! A bus adventure, tagged, but not locked. THERE IS ALSO BOOKSTUFF UNDER THE CUT.

( Bookery. On Julie E. Czerneda and Herman Hesse. )

Holyshit poetry D:

( Nero/Ayel, in the manner of freshman lit class. )

You know you've had a long day when you take "Script Writers 2009 ( Read more... )