zornhau has the coolest idea that he nipped from a friend.

In universe R, what's on your bookshelf? Here are a few of mine:
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If you've got two minutes and as silly a sense of humor as I have, check out this dog and his idea of fun. (It takes him a while to get hold of the rope, just stick with him.)

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My favorite April Fool's fun is via stephanieburgis here:

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Probably everyone has seen 'em, but I hadn't, and needed some snickers. In case you too have been surfing sludge--
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Today I started wondering "What would X be like if Y wrote it?"

Here's the list I came up with while trudging through exercising:

If Lord of the Rings had been written by Marcel Proust. (Would it be two thousand pages of brilliant heartburnings from the POV of Wormtongue?)

If Sons and Lovers had been written by P.G. Wodehouse. (Paul ( Read more... )

Get your New Year's Resolutions while they are hot!
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Freb: So much chatter all over the Internet lately about dark fantasy. Some can't even agree on the definition of dark. Like that book on your shelf there, praised as being so dark. I found it emotionally adolescent in spite of all the hard R kinky sex and torture ( Read more... )

I got in the mail the dead-tree copy of Steven S. Silver's Argentus 5--which reminds me just how much I've always enjoyed fanzines. (In this issue he invited various folks whose initials are SS to contribute, I being one ( Read more... )

Some bits I find funny, read over this morning as anodyne to the news--those inclined, see if you can name the source book:
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