I am so thankful for so many things this year, and if you've been following along, you know most of them.

And also, for getting to do this:


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Who else is?

"There's nothing wrong with your love story, baby..."

From Interview magazine:

With audiences clearly exhausted of modernity, the Braveheart remake comes on the heals of successful medieval fantasies Game of Thrones and Spartacus.

Medieval fantasies? SpartacusAlso, while I admit that GoT and Spartacus have soothed and medicated my savage spirit, it's heels, not heals, my friends ( Read more... )

-- politics-fandom-fail: WTF PEOPLE ARE UPSET BECAUSE A BLACK CHARACTER IS PLAYED BY A BLACK ACTRESS? Are you kidding me with this shit, Internets? #thehungergames.

-- politics/fail: Of course in a world like this, where you can just shoot people in the street without the expectation that the police will, you know, care, I guess I shouldn't be ( Read more... )

This is pretty cool...

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I kinda feel like this all the time...

First of all, faris_nallaneen linked me to Ben Franklin's synonyms for drunk. What's your favorite? I'm torn between "It is Star-light with him," and "Seen a Flock of Moons," (how celestial!) and "Been at an Indian Feast" (um, not the ones I've been to...), and... "Sir Richard has taken off his Considering Cap." SO BEEN THERE. Or there is a certain succinct ( Read more... )

If not, really, go take a look: a letter from a former slave to his old master who wanted him to come back and work for him after emancipation. And here's the scan of the original newspaper account. tl;dr? (well, really you should), but basically: kiss my ass.

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So! I have not been here in quite some time, again. It's not that I don't love you, LJ. It's that I am EATEN ALIVE by work. And it's just going to... stay like this. Forever. (It will end, I suppose, with my dissertation defense, but that's like a wall so high I can't see over it. Also known as March? Yeah ( Read more... )

There is seriously nothing weirder than randomly procrastisurfing (new word!) and....


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I stopped watching the damn thing earlier today, when it looked like it was going to get stalled and the frustration was killing me.

And then my darling magnetgirl called me with the news.

YAY NEW YORK. It feels fucking awesome.

Also, um, hi guys. Long time no talk. Hopefully back with more soon.