Trust little_tristan to bring something delightfully bookish and distracty to the table. I am entirely here for that this morning.

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killedthekat's Bioshock Infinite vid, to Florence + the Machine's "No Light, No Light". CONTAINS ALL THE SPOILERS. ALL OF THEM. And they are glorious.

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So glorious.

Top Five Favorite Stories

Post a list of your top five favorite fics you've written, regardless of fandom or the reason you love them. This isn't about the BEST things you've written, but what you LOVE most. Then tag five other people to do the same. (I'm not going to tag anyone, but I'd love to see all my friends do this!)

Something Nice for ( Read more... )

Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers by Michael Connelly:

Sometimes the killers called me. The phony hit man who was convicted of killing and burying his wife called from jail to say I had been too harsh on him.
Synopsis: Before he began writing Harry Bosch and Mickey Whatnot, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter who took very ( Read more... )

Title: Clockwork Girl
Author: Dru Pagliotti
Genre: steampunk
What's Going On: I forgot to read the selection I made for book club. Oops. Let the speed-reading commence.

Title: Retail Hell
Author: Freeman Hall
Genre: Bitchy L.A. handbag-seller's memoir
What's Going On: I started reading Fighting Fire, by Caroline Paul, about one of the first female ( Read more... )

Title: The Treatment (Jack Caffrey #2)
Author: Mo Hayder
Genre: Dead hooker fiction
What's Going On: I just finished Birdman (Jack Caffrey #1) last night and am still trying to pull my thinky thoughts together (along with writing a review of Theodosia and the Last Pharaoh for Serial Killers before soulswallo sends out a hunting party). It basically boils ( Read more... )

Just think: this is how I live my entire life. BOO-YAH.

( I like big BOOKS and I can't deny-- )

slash.

I've discovered it's way too convenient to watch media on my tablet, especially because the Netflix iPad app deals with captioning better than the tv-server version -- easier to turn on but also weirdly, items that don't have CC available on the server offer it on the iPad. This has led to screencapping hilarity* with sand sharks and now, ( Read more... )

Title: My Lobotomy
Author: Howard Dully
Genre: Memoir
What's Going On: When the author was 12, Dr. Walter Freeman gave him a lobotomy with an ice pick at the insistence of the author's step-mother. Forty years later, everyone's still wondering why. Also the title for some reason makes me have Le Tigre's My Metrocard stuck in my head and there is ( Read more... )

Because when you sit down and make a resolution to stay caught up with lj and comms and emails and fandoms and writing (huzzah!) the universe laughs until it chokes on the sour-cream-and-onion Pringles it was eating and gives you the worst flu of your entire LIFE! For five full days! (if you count the evening trip to Urgent Care last night to get a ( Read more... )