I just bought my plane tickets and I'm going to go visit scarletts_awry in May!

I feel like this requires extra exclamation points!

via the Futon Critic:

TNT RENEWS POPULAR DRAMA SERIES LEVERAGE FOR SECOND SEASON

Full article here

There have been several things that have made me happy lately, some of which I really, really need to make posts on at some point:

• Poppy Z. Brite's Liquor novels


• Melissa Marr's Wicked Lovely, and good YA fiction in general


• The Dark Knight. I'm not going to see it until scarletts_awry gets here in a few weeks, and then we are going to see it TOGETHER YAYZ, but ( Read more... )

The Middleman premieres tonight on ABC Family. The show is about the titular Middleman, an "independent contractor" who deals with problems like tentacle monsters and mad scientists, and is based on executive producer Javier Grillo-Marxuach's graphic novel of the same name ( Read more... )

Meme ganked from melina123 and various other flist people:

So I was adding some new interests to my LJ profile (because I, uh... have some new interests. Yes.) and found myself feeling defensive every time I typed a female name, thinking, basically, FUCK YOU, SHE'S AWESOME, because I felt as if someone somewhere was going to be criticizing my love for ( Read more... )

Thanks to everyone who commented on the smile meme! You all brought me much delight and joy this week, and it was really needed.

Further to that, some awesome things of awesome:

Joss Whedon wrote an Internet musical during the writers' strike. It's called Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and it stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion, and ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, karaokegal! I hope it's a lovely one.

ABC picks up Pushing Daisies for a full season.The news makes me very happy. Despite my concerns after the pilot aired about whether they would be able to sustain the concept (concerns I still continue to hold, mind you), I'm finding this show to be an utter delight, and so far it's held up brilliantly. ( Read more... )

This is my 1,000th post.

I feel like I should have something profound, or at least interesting, to say, but I don't, not really.

In the course of those 1,000 entries I've:

• written probably something over 500K words of fanfic;


• written reviews for every single episode of CSI:NY from S2 onwards (and a couple of scattered ones for S1);


• written ( Read more... )

( Doctor Who )

Trailer for An Accidental Husband, starring Uma Thurman and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

Not at all the kind of movie I usually go for, but Thurman and JDM are both hot hot hot like hot things. (We've already documented my fondness for JDM, and I am head over heels for Uma -- in Kill Bill in particular, but she's just really awesome in general ( Read more... )