I just sent the email below to some RL friends, because we were talking about stuff.  I'm in the midst of freaking out about it now, like, did I really just tell these people who I know FROM CHURCH about all this stuff?

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I am uncomfortable about this much overlap between these two areas of my life.  I think I'm moving in the right direction-- ( Read more... )

I've been having this persistent thought, and I wanted to share it, even though it may not be as much of a revelation to the rest of you as it was to me.

So, you remember when MCR's Desolation Row video first came out, and everyone in bandom was watching and discussing it?  One thing I remember from that time was us collectively realizing that it ( Read more... )

Those of you with any proximity to bandom know that it almost gave itself a squee-induced hernia when the new blog-style My Chemical Romance site went up a while back, complete with Twitter links to all of the boys.  And I have to admit that, after uncurling from my initial cringe at the vry srs commentary on reality TV, I realized the genius of ( Read more... )

This post started out as a comment in musesfool's journal; then I realized it wasn't really fair to dump all this in someone's comments, so I moved it here instead.  Look here to see her insightful post that inspired these thoughts on what it's like to not receive the feedback you wished you did (plus long discussion in comments, plus Dean Winchester eye- ( Read more... )

Happy More Joy Day! I hope that all of you, wherever you were today and whatever you were doing, felt some reverberation of our little efforts at cosmic uplift. Go here to check out the journal of
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I was surfing livejournal, as one does, especially when one is avoiding writing, and I came upon this, and all of its random and varied threads--which I haven't even read all of, to be honest, I mean, there were over 1000 comments--and just thumbing through the first threads made me realize something anew:  We don't know them.  The boys in the band ( Read more... )

To begin with, I have a fic recommendation:  Everyday Mysteries in the Summertime by
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