Mercury Prize nominations are up - and I guess I'm shocked that Arctic Monkeys are nominated again, just for the sake of "Really? Again?" I did enjoy the album, but I guess their debut was really all about the zeitgeist. Hmmm. I love Jamie T's album so that's exciting - and Amy Winehouse, well, I think I'm slowly coming around to preferring her ( Read more... )

ETA: HAPPY MOTHERS' DAY Hope those of you who celebrate all have marvellous sun-filled days with your family :)

There seemed to be a fair amount of euphoria amongst my f-list (and so well deserved too!) following the announcement at the Serenity on the Hellmouth Awards. Congrats and dousing in tossed champagne, in no particular order, to twilightofmagic, spikendru, amybnnyc, frimfram, bogwitch ( Read more... )

This post is brought to you by the letter G, a letter close to my heart, or at least my, er, annoyances. One or ‘tother.

It's the Letter Meme wotsit, in case you've not come across it. The deal is this:
Comment on this entry that you'd like to play, and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter in your journal, including ( Read more... )

I've just had a Yum Char lunch and my belly is bloated. Mmmmmm-hmmmmmm.

So I noticed that random_urges (which is an LJ community for unusual pairings) is holding a ficathon called The Rare Pairings Ficathon which looks rather interesting. Except bad me! bad me! bad me! I made a rule that I wouldn't write any more ficathons ... except ... eeeep.

Also, eloise_bright wrote ( Read more... )

I decided to do the birthday meme wotsit, which I snaffled from both entrenous88 and desoto_hia873. Well these things amuse don't they? ( It's a well known fact that late August, early September is a fairly traumatic time so I'm warning you! )

Firstly, thanks so very much to
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I have to admit I adhere much more to the "Bah! Humbug!" tradition when it comes to V Day. ( 'splainy )

Thanks to bogwitch for the icon. Wheeee!

I’ve been labouring under a migraine today which is just beyond the point of frustrating as Broke Back Mountain and Walk the Line (OMG, yes, we are a backwater out here) were released today and I was going to toddle off and hmmm and harrrr over which one to see. But all of that was pointless planning because head ( Read more... )

Today is a day for a bit of everything. Running around doing RL stuff. Catching up on emails. Catching up on the f-list. I've written one of the drabbles that was requested but will post it later. The other two are sitting in my head, waiting for paper. I also signed up for entrenous88's Scottish ficathon at the last moment, and have an Angelus/William-esque ( Read more... )

Reasons to be Slightly Worried

1) It takes me far too long to go through my f-list. I am wiped. Plus I still owe emails all over the place. Even to people that don't know they're getting them.

2) It's my winter_of_wes day on Thursday and I haven't written a word. This is definitely not of the good

Reasons to be Cheerful

1) The next round at femslash_minis is Lilah!!!! OK ( Read more... )