The scoop on Scott and I meeting Alton Brown is up over on WP (with footnotes. After a day of jury duty--which is certainly our most depressing civic duty, if nothing else--I am too tired to cross-post and deal with footnotes ( Read more... )

So, 2013. For an awful lot of reasons, just a not-good year.

But every year has good things, and this is a list of mine:

1. My lovely husband just kept happily surprising me at every turn this year.

2. Got to go to Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer's ninja gig in Sarasota with jkason!

3. Had a lovely 40th birthday slumber party with doggiesushi, jkason, and my boys ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make, y'all.

I read fan fiction. Glee fanfic, to be precise. I actually haven't read fanfic since Buffy, and I could sit here and analyze the hell out of why I feel that Glee lends itself better to fanfiction than Buffy did, and why I can't read Doctor Who fanfic at all, but that is not the post I want to make today. (Or ( Read more... )

Ya know, I love Neil Patrick Harris, but he's no Jane Lynch. More Jane Lynch!

Um ... hang on. Whoa--um ... Not what I meant, but okay.

(Cool "Safety Dance.")

Aaaannd I watched the Lady GaGa episode, and--say it with me--more Jane Lynch! What the hell was that, an entire episode without Sue Sylvester? Featuring a vampire gag? Are you people ( Read more... )

So Monday night, dealio and I went to see Stephen King at the Van Wezel in Sarasota. He and his wife have a house out on one or the other of the keys up there, so I'm sure it was convenient. :)

He has recently started writing stuff set in Florida. The first thing I remember is a story from (I believe) Everything's Eventual where the road to Hell is ( Read more... )

I'm sure everyone has seen this, but just in case, because it made me grin like an idiot:

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Over the weekend, the husband and I saw Avenue Q, the touring company, which was awesome and hilarious. I'm not sure if the best part was the older ladies in front of us laughing hysterically at the full-on naked puppet sex scene, or the entire theatre roaring applause at the "GEORGE BUSH! Is only for now!" bit. Though they also seemed to enjoy ( Read more... )