One particularly pleasant (for me) recent development has been thegreatmissjj's fiance moving to the Rutgers area, so that I now get to see JJ (she who is Neil Gaiman's magical niece) in my very own neighborhood as well as NY ( Read more... )

I said before that I didn't want to relegate Patrick's opening act, Bishi, to a footnote, so I'm going to talk a bit more about her here. Anyway, she was rather extremely terrific. She came on in a killer silver space dress with traditional embroidery and a gleaming sitar and proceeded to play a champagne mix of folk and disco pop. She has a ( Read more... )

Oh god, it is absolutely obscene how much I love the book version of "Peter Pan."

I come across a quote from it and I can't breathe.

You all know of my passion for Oscar Wilde and his writing, but Peter Pan was one of my first loves. Not the first, no--that honor belonged to a fictional onion, and the next after him was Tom Sawyer. (And I know I'm mixing literary love with childhood crushes here, but shush ( Read more... )

Do you know how many projects I have lying around? I just went through some of my folders, whose numbers keep growing and growing, as I pile them full of things that I intend to get to “later” or “soon” or even “next week,” and then never do. So many things started, never finished! And I do want to finish most of them, but will I ever? Sadly, ( Read more... )

I love how everything ties together. Though are people really that predictable ( Read more... )