So this is not exactly a record for me, but . . . given my recent absence (and I really should be working right now) I suppose it's noteworthy.

Anyhow, I'd been rewatching the old BBC Narnia miniseries and I'd just hit their version of Voyage of the Dawn Treader when I recalled my pique with the whole Eustace situation all over again. Therefore, I ( Read more... )

So I totally took this off of sarcastic_fina , and I won't tag anyone because I'm probably usually the last person to see these anyway, and also because I really think people should have the option of thinking about it rather than being told, "You're it!"

List fifteen fictional characters you would have sex with (in no particular order) and tag five people to do ( Read more... )

Right now, I don't care if I'm being irrational, I'm just really sick of some things ( Read more... )

I have this habit of trying to always have a book with me to read. You know, just in case I wind up with nothing to do for a while I'll have something to entertain me. Anyhow, my current something-to-read-in-a-spare-moment book is by Judith Tarr. It's called King's Blood and it's the same book she's been writing since her earliest books were put ( Read more... )

I'm not quite sure where this will end up because I just had a book rec for those who are interested and then I decided to type until I had a fair-sized entry.

The book in question is Screening Party by Dennis Hensley. It's just sort of a collection of articles, but it's a lot of fun. Basically he got a bunch of his friends together and they watched ( Read more... )

Or at least, those of you with as much time on your hands as the scientist who came up with this. Wait for it, drumroll please ( Read more... )

Okay, so before I go into today's anti-Bush thang I have a help request. I finally managed more than one paragraph at a time on my BtVS/HP crossover and then I got hit with a roadblock. I was never a big fan of the vampire myth in general. So, I don't actually know all the things that are traditionally associated with ID-ing vampires on sight ( Read more... )

Why? Because I can and I like talking about Dave Barry. Who wouldn't? He's hysterically funny on his good days and fairly funny on his bad. I'm just putting in a plug for one of his inspired-by-one-or-two-columns books. This is his "Book of Bad Songs". (Yes I know hte period is ungrammatical, but I've always felt that rule makes no sense applied to ( Read more... )

Actually I was just curious to see if I could manage an AEIOU title that made sense. Anyways, my overdue penguin of the month is the emperor penguin. At 44" tall and weighing 60-90 pounds, these are the largest penguins in the world. They breed during the Antarctic winter when temperatures can drop as low as -70 F with winds sometimes exceeding 120 ( Read more... )

I'm really on the verge of banging my head on the desk at the moment. If I hear my mother bitch abotu her bras one more time I think I'm going to scream. She's been steadily gaining weight over the past couple years and she has now gained enough weight for it to affect her upper body. Yes mother, people do gain weight around there. Enough so that ( Read more... )