Apropos of action chicks, did you guys know of the movie "Haywire"? The plot is traditional agent gets doublecrossed and goes for vengeance and to protect the fam, blah blah. However, the protagonist is a woman. Not just any bad bitch, the actress in the role is Gina Carano, MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter IRL. It's been so long since I've seen ( Read more... )

( I still haven't watched this week's TVD, don't spoil me :D--in other non-news, I've been thinking of manpain as of late... )

Here, have some Sketchy Santa courtesy of Fail Blog.

On other unrelated news, I read Octavia Butler's Patternist series (I'm trying to also hit up some Ursula LeGuin before break is over).

( Spoilers? )

Hot Star Trek uniforms, plus bonus genderswitch. So hot it hurts.

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Not entirely surprising, but interesting: Why We Love Bad WritingI had never thought about the sheer speed of it though. But it makes sense. Reading Faulkner is definitely an entirely different experience speed-wise than Dan Brown. Sigh. Which is why I'm still not done with ( Read more... )