( my four-word spoilery review of Mockingjay )

Today is 09-09-09. It's also my birthday. I'm turning twenty-seven, which is 9 times 3. Some things:

! I feel like this day should be tremendously numerologically fortuitous, but so far I'm at work, the weather is crappy and my e-mail is broken. The only fortuitous thing I have done is wake up and decide to yank out the eyebrow ring I've had since ( Read more... )

Dear Livejournal: I'm sorry I haven't written you in a while, it's that time of year when I get distracted making very important fake bingo card graphics about baseball.

Books I wish other people I know were reading so we could discuss them:

1. I keep meaning to say, I finished The Raw Shark Texts and I'm now 99% sure that it was The House of ( Read more... )

Recommendations:

1. This post by silviakundera about personal sexual preference v. preferences when it comes to reading/writing romantic pairings, which says some smart and interesting stuff that I have always felt but never articulated because I worried that not wanting to read/write femslash made me a Bad Lesbian, so this post made me really happy in a "it's ( Read more... )

blah, blah, gays and sports. (but not together!)

to return briefly to the subjct of ronnie and ben on make me a supermodel, there is a short but interesting column in entertainment weekly about gays and lesbians in reality television, and how gay and lesbian reality television personalities have helped normalize homosexuality for viewers. one ( Read more... )

movies: aaaah i am legend was so fucking awesome, although i suppose i am biased, because i love both will smith and the apocalypse, so it's basically like they made a movie just for me.

books: did anyone read summer of my german soldier when they were a kid? i was thinking about this book last week because i was making hush puppies (uh ... long ( Read more... )

OKAY.

i've been all-consumed with grant writing for the last two weeks, and i kept thinking i wanted to post to livejournal, but mostly so i could tell a may-not-even-translate-that-well now-about-ten-days-old-anyway story about how i made starkeymonster watch colts/chargers game and how, after peyton manning threw his fourth interception and i was cackling ( Read more... )

a. lolcatisizashun of your livejournal is the best quizameme in the history of the internets.

( the subject line of my most recent post + cat macro = default icon of my soul )

one more everything-old-is-new-again refugee from my ipod:
+ the most perfect warm weather song: pharrell & jay-z v. beck // frontin' on debra. also reminds me: the moment when friday night lights won me over as a show forever came relatively early -- in the first episode, when they're in the sandwich shop, and the scene is cutting back and forth ( Read more... )

when i lived in vermont, i saw molly ivins speak at an ACLU fundraiser in a ballroom at a sheraton in south burlington. the first thing she said was that she'd spotted jim jeffords in the second row, and she wanted to publicly thank him, and led the whole room in a round of applause. so she was a pretty fucking classy lady, and i'm really sad that ( Read more... )