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My parents and Eric have been reading All's Fair, and it seems the pacing is off... and I'm not sure how to fix it. But the good news is that the characters and dialogue are great. So, basically, I just need to clean up the plot. Which isn't the easiest part, but I've always sort of known something like this might happen: I get all super-confident ( Read more... )

I dragged Eric to see "Paranormal Activity" last night, just so that we could do something Halloween-y this year. (We're not in a party mood.) I also wanted to see it in the hope that it would actually scare me, since I'd heard such good things--otherwise, I would have gone for "Saw VI" (I know, I know). Eric thought it was pretty scary, but I ( Read more... )

With the exception of Weeds (Showtime, Mondays at 9) and True Blood (HBO, Sundays at 9), this summer has been relatively boring in terms of TV (but aren't most summers?). Aside from those two shows, I'm currently watching Big Brother 11 (CBS, Sundays at 8, Tuesdays at 9, Thursdays at 8) for my reality TV fix. (I saw bits and pieces of The ( Read more... )

So, I managed to get my computer infected with a nasty virus this past week. Eric and I tried all of Sophos Antivirus's removal suggestions and nothing worked.

But I posted to this forum on Thursday or so, and by Friday night I had a response from a "malware expert." He walked me through a bunch of scans, checked my logs and scan reports, and took ( Read more... )

I just finished Season 1 of the HBO series "True Blood," based on Charlaine Harris's "Sookie Stackhouse" (or "Southern Vampire") novels. I know I'm a bit behind the times, as the first three episodes of Season 2 have aired so far (I'm starting those soon!), but this is a fantastic series and I just had to mention it ( Read more... )

Stephen King Slams Stephanie Meyer.

I knew I still adored King for a reason.

On Twilight: I haven't read them or seen the movie, but I've seen/heard enough to know that while I might enjoy them, the writing would want to make me want to stab someone in the face. No one can really take the vampire love story in a new direction, as far as I'm ( Read more... )

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A Perfect Circle is done. Tool is still fine; 10,000 Days was everything I hoped it would be.

But Nine Inch Nails, from With Teeth (or a-with-a-teeth-a, if you want to be smart about it) to the recent release of The Slip (this includes Year Zero, but I haven't yet heard Ghosts I-IV), just feels soft to me. The edge that made me fall in love with ( Read more... )