First, before I forget -- remember you can win lots of lovely FREE BOOKS over at the Summer of Seven site! Including a signed copy of Faery Rebels: Spell Hunter or KnifeI promised a long time ago that I'd talk about why I love living in Canada, and I... totally never got around to it ( Read more... )

I am flying to the UK in three days and have a million things to do before I leave. So naturally I have spent most of the afternoon watching Doctor Who vids ( I blame drakyndra), reading London Underground trivia and looking at LOLcats.*

I think perhaps I should go and write for a while now.

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* No, I am not putting a link on that one. If you don't know ( Read more... )

...so that Dangerously Overinvested Readers like myself could hang out on author blogs and encourage them to write crackfic about their own characters.

(Seriously, though -- Sebastipole and Europe on the vinegar seas battling pirates and evil monsters and falling in love? WOULD BE AWESOME.)

ETA to justify this post's existence: A really smashing ( Read more... )

I am thirty-eight years old, with a fairly diverse experience of national and ethnic cuisine and a love of fine restaurants and quality home cooking.

So why does Kraft Dinner still taste so good?

I heard on the radio that Canadian figure skater Jeffrey Buttle had won gold in the World Championships this year. I'd never seen the guy or even heard of him before -- I've been out of the skating (toe) loop for quite a few years now -- but I figured hey, this is what YouTube is all about, so I went and looked him up ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that I never posted about the eye-poppingly dreadful sign I saw outside a church here in town a few weeks ago:

SNAP
     CRACKLE
               POP
THE TRINITY
Sunday at 11:00

Oh, yeah, I can see serious theologians lining up at the door for that one.

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More recently I came across this one, outside a local farm:

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In certain sectors of Doctor Who fandom there is a crack-brained theory with which I happen to agree completely that ( Spoilers for 'The Sound of Drums' )

Gather round, my children, while I tell you a heartwarming Christmas tale of sibling rivalry and threats of violence ( Read more... )

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