I've been watching Sanctuary lately, and I was musing about James (even aside from the fact that he is played by Peter Wingfield, he is a character about guaranteed to hit manymanymany of my fannish buttons) it occured to me that it would be both fascinating and frightening to see what would happen should Sir James Watson and a certain Anthony ( Read more... )

Found by way of lyons_love

The second assignment was very interesting. We read a poem about basketball called "Shooting Baskets," by Christopher Bursk. It was a fairly long poem, with some great words in it. So, we had to write out own poem, using ONLY words from this one. It had to be at least sixty words long, and we could only repeat a word if it was ( Read more... )

Fascinating link on how reading narrative affects the brain: Readers build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations.

Happy Birthday to argentlupin!

Another incidence of competence: Quick action by bar pilot kept tanker off rocks. Not quite as spectacular as landing a plane in the Hudson, but quite an accomplishment all the same ( Read more... )

Still stuck on the re-writes for Tantalus, but I can feel that the back of my brain is working, so I am not too frustrated about it ( Read more... )

And it's still only at the nominate fandoms stage!

Did you know there is Vinland Saga Manga?! Gonna have to check that out ( Read more... )

Assume the switch from Julian to Gregorian Calendar at the date ( Read more... )

Ok, I was reading astolat's offering over on Sweet Charity and my eye was caught by a formatting juxtaposition -- Highlander at the end of the first line, and Vorkosigan Saga at the beginning of the last ( Read more... )

Would you believe that "The History of Middle-Earth, Volume X - Morgoth's Ring" is a bunny farm? I wouldn't have, but it is.

Quotes & notes found ( behind the curtain )

From the SF Chronicle, Wed 4 Dec 2002 ( Read more... )

Going to go see Harry Potter tonight, at the same theatre and with largely the same crowd as I saw the first showing of TPM. Should be fun ( Read more... )