Went to a fun party yesterday, ate good food, most of which was bad for me. Saw the Avengers trailer and the Madonna halftime show and Kelly Clarkson singing the national anthem and Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert singing God Bless America and the season premiere of The Voice and really all of that was good enough for me ( Read more... )

I've been so worried lately, and thanks to all of you for being nice about it. Let's talk about stuff that's making me happy!

• New Nigella on my TV! She's seriously my anxiety cure, you don't even know. And she likes rosé, which I do too. (See below.)
  
• Saw Red yesterday noontime at a $6 matinee. It was really fun! Bruce and Karl and Helen and ( Read more... )

Yesterday was kind of awful but today was pretty great! It's weird, my birthday is at the end of August but it always turns cold right before it; when I was growing up in Maine I could never have a swimming party for my birthday ( Read more... )

So I'm not offering much for help_pakistan because omg BB fics. But I am offering a batch of homemade pop tarts so hopefully that will get us something ( Read more... )

God, I feel like an actual human being again. Hurrah ( Read more... )

So the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer put out that book about vegetarianism that many found annoying and over the top in that way that advocacy books sometimes can be, and I mostly just chalked it up to that. But the other day the Financial Times ran this really amazing interview with him, conducted over lunch at Gobo in the West Village, and in it ( Read more... )

because I have too many goddamned tabs open. I'm finally spending my birthday gift certs thanks to Black Friday sales.

For my freelancing friends, what you say to that guy you did all that spec work for who never paid you.

From Eating the Road, some flowcharts: What fast food should I eat? and What cereal should I eat?Some of you just love sci ( Read more... )

I did the ST Reboot Meme on DeviantArt. I'm no artist; I mostly did it as art therapy when I was feeling writer's block. Definitely was cheering, so if there are other memes on DA I could do link away ( Read more... )

Saw Whip It and The Informant this week and highly recommend both. They're both quirky-funny, but if you like their trailers, you'll like the movies. Drew Barrymoore did a great job directing Whip It and the performances are so fantastic I can't single out any to list. Same with The Informant, but what I will single out there is the crazy, ( Read more... )

Spamming you with the happy! Another cheerful thing: tomorrow is National Donut Day! Dunkin Donuts and Krispy Kreme are giving away free donuts! Thanks chromodynamics for the info!

bhanesidhe and I just watched this and laughed so hard we alarmed the cats:

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In other news, I just joined up for last.fm (I'm clio-jlh there) and I uploaded my iTunes plays into it to form ( Read more... )