Having a moment of premenstrual social phobia panic about Gally. After cocking up at Chicago TARDIS year before last I'll be on rather better behaviour, but I'll still need to do the Chicks Dig Time Lords panel, and there and elsewhere I'm going to be surrounded by people I've clashed with online. My perception, in fact, is that wherever I go at ( Read more... )

Superboy Comics. "Clearly, no two days in Smallville are alike."

One day I want to go to Resolute.

Much of the classic September 2001 The Onion - Attack on America issue has been preserved at the Wayback Machine. "Hugging Up 76,000 Percent". (I do wish the images had also survived, though!)

Public toilet finder for the US.

National Public ( Read more... )

James Baldwin. The Fire Next Time.
Frances E. Kendall. Understanding White Privilege.
Brian Thacker. Rule No. 5: No Sex On The Bus.

( Books bought and borrowed )

The doctor says Morgan's foot will be fine; we just have to keep the cut clean ( Read more... )

In Canberra. Net access unpredictable. Apologies for any delayed replies to stuff.

Miss the cats. Happily husband is also warm and furry.

Nikita Lalwani. Gifted.
Mark Lawson. The Battle For Room Service: Journeys to All the Safe Places.

( Books bought and borrowed )

A sign in New Zealand:

HUKAFALLS JET-PRAWN FARM

Social websites sign EU pact vs. cyber-bullying

Lovesick octopus Sid swims free

Hairy savages bit of Highland fling: "In reality, the battles between the Jacobites and Hanoverian forces were more contests between equals with the rebels using up-to-date military tactics and relying on the musket and bayonet - not the claymore."

Trans-Tasman ( Read more... )

We're home, safe, and in a mental fog of exhaustion. Tim has become a FAT BARSTID in only two weeks. It's not hard to work out why: I've just watched him "sharing" a bowl of kibble with Frank. (Who is in good health, if hilariously shaved.) We're gonna need two bowls.

After enough staggering scenery, your mind just goes numb ( Read more... )