apparently a wrinkle in time is FIFTY this year. yowza. i remember playing the happy medium in a little group skit in school in, i dunno, fifth grade? sixth? for those who remember the ot4, daniel's brother-in-law, the nice boy who eventually marries his sister amy, is named cal partly as a tribute to calvin o'keefe.

Post the first sentence ( ( Read more... )

after i got out of work today i found a pamphlet under my windshield wiper that said "do you know where you're going to spend eternity?" and i thought "i'm going to spend eternity in a plain pine box". and i'm ok with that ( Read more... )

happy birthday byrne! writer, mommy, spinner, knitter. as i believe she is on vacation, she might not mind if you all share her cake. :D the dancing boys however are all hers ( Read more... )

happy birthday beckaandzac, gleeful fangirl and archiver of nifty audio! for you, cupcakes and dancing girls. :D ( Read more... )

my bootlegging brothers story has a setting and a time period and a teeny bit of background and a teeny cast list, but so far there's no real story. i do however kind of know how it ends:

Buried in the history of NASCAR's early days is Rabbit Ellecott, a good ol' boy from Kentucky who cut his racing teeth driving for his father and brother during ( Read more... )

the guys who had to turn off my gas to install a new meter came at 10 and were gone by 11:30. speedy! so now i can leave the house. and i have heat. (which is nice, since it's supposed to snow.) i may or may not attempt to bake something later. i can break in my mixmaster ( Read more... )

the painter in the painter and the curator 'verse is still annoyingly named mike, which i like less and less. argh. this morning i wanted to call him jimmy, but his last name is donnelly and... no. (those of you who watched the black donnellys know what i'm talking about.) (i liked jimmy donnelly, but still. he wasn't the brightest bulb and he ( Read more... )

the thing i keep forgetting to mention is that i have a flickr photostream now so you can see some of my photos from paris. :D someday there will be other photos of other places.

pimp: findyourwords, a writing accountability comm. :D the same idea as getyourwordsout, in that you set a goal for how many words of fic/screenplay/academic nonfic/poetry/whathaveyou you'll write ( Read more... )

bacon explosion. because the best thing to cook with bacon is... more bacon! and also bbq sauce. (link from yi_sen who is a terrible, terrible jew for tempting me with pork products.)

for those of you who looked at getyourwordsout and thought it was a good idea but required too high a word count, meredevachon is taking a poll to gauge interest in a like-minded comm with a ( Read more... )

felt fortune cookies. so happy and so, er, felty!

snail with hat. beats trying to find a teeny franklin stove to put in his shell.... check out the knitter's blog - really cute crafty things (not just snail hats :D ) and gorgeous photos.

last night the combination of a show on the history channel about moonshine and crotalus_atrox going "hey, this would be ( Read more... )