I always thought I would enjoy A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket (full Goodreads reviews: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, Book 4, Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 8, Book 9, Book 10, Book 11, Book 12, Book 13), and when I discovered that the audiobooks were read by Tim Curry, I thought NOW IS THE TIME. (Books 3, 4, and 5 are read by Lemony ( Read more... )

You totally know what I did at Comic-Con. But you want details, pictures! Well, five of you do.

( Getting to Comic-Con )

If Doctor Strange: The Oath and/or The Losers are relevant to your interests, you should check out my post from late Friday night.

Now I present yesterday's Adventure in Facebook. The set-up: remember this bunny guy on BART from last weekend? Remember Amy, whom I met at Heidi's out-of-debt party in January? You don't have to; that's why I have ( Read more... )

Let me introduce you to Jilli (cupcake_goth). She is the Lady of the Manners at Gothic Charm School. And she has written a book, Gothic Charm School: An Essential Guide for Goths and Those Who Love Them.

Perhaps you've heard of it since Neil Gaiman Tweeted about it. Yeah, that's right, Neil gothdamn Gaiman pimped my friend's book.

She was also on the Seattle ( Read more... )

Previously on Buffista F2F: Seattle Edition-I arrived in Seattle, hung out with friends, and explored the city a bit. Then there was an EXCITING CLIFFHANGER where I had just entered the Buffistas Hospitality Suite.

( Friday afternoon: Lunch, comics, and coffee )

A couple weeks ago, danea forwarded me this Tweet (that's what you call those things, right?) about someone looking for someone to write a review of Star Trek for a Science Channel blog. I linked her to some of my favorite LJ movie reviews, and she really liked them, but she had already found someone for Star TrekSo I asked her if she needed anyone to ( Read more... )

The Lieutenant of Inishmore, by Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman and In Bruges), is the funniest play about dead cats ever. It's also the only non-musical play I've seen where the entire cast ends up covered in blood. It's like a hilarious Irish version of 100 Bullets. Berkeley Rep, go see it!

Yesterday, my awesome neighbors Beth and Ari knocked on ( Read more... )

It was once again time to escape up north, this time under the pretext of seeing Amber Benson at the Roseville Borders signing (even though she was doing two signings in the City as well). But actoplasm didn't work at those bookstores, so this would be cooler! Plus, this time, there would be a bonus sainfoin_fields (Tris)!

( Games and games )

I just received this message from the guy in my last post:
My apologies if I offended you in my post. I have a lot of India friends and I know they would have accepted my jest knowing I meant no offense. I want to say more to explain my point of view on my comments, but I don’t want to sound like I am making excuses. I made a lot of assumptions in ( Read more... )

Is it racism week or something? No, seriously, is it racism week? Because five days after this WTFery, I'm hit with an even bigger bit of WTFery ( Read more... )