On vacation, in Ecuador. It's 6:30 in the morning, and if I were a reasonable person, I'd still be asleep. But I'm unreasonable and so I'm up on my sister's laptop, posting to LJ ( Read more... )

I don't currently have any desire whatsoever to have children. Maybe this'll change, maybe it won't, but if I should choose to spawn, I sincerely hope I don't end up as sanctimonious as the blog commenter I just came across.

I read this blog entry. I was amused. Then I got to the comments. First:

:neutral: Is this supposed to be funny? Is it ( Read more... )

There has been a lot of whining on the blackstones community lately - I'm not even sure why I'm still on it, since I dropped NANA around volume ten or so because it was getting really wandery and unfocused - and I just have to roll my eyes. Why isn't Hachi with Nobu! I hate these new characters! Blah! Blah! Seriously, if you hate it, stop reading ( Read more... )

Elizabeth Merrick is guestblogging for Jessa Crispin today at Blog of a Bookslut. Luckily it's only for the day, or I might have to temporarily remove Bookslut from my aggregator. And this is an example of why:

Why are the big movies that get made out of "novels" by women about being an assistant or a nanny...
Last time I checked, a novel was a ( Read more... )

You know, I think one of my biggest pet peeves about the PoT communities are the fangirls who start their posts "Hoi, hoi!" YOU ARE NOT EIJI. IT'S EVEN ANNOYING WHEN EIJI DOES IT. It's like fangirl Japanese taken to a new and excruciating level.

I won't even get into "Nya!"

little_details is gone. Although I have to admit that "does Europe have credit cards? Do they pay bills? Are there taxes?" was, in fact, a really, really, REALLY stupid question.

The majority of the members of little_details - at least the ones that habitually respond - would be horrible reference librarians. Don't ask us about that! That's too complicated! You didn't ask right! Have you even LOOKED?! I can't remember the last time I saw a post there where the poster wasn't jumped on or snarked at for one reason or the other ( Read more... )