It's sort of sad but also the way my life is going lately, when I end up being linked on an LJ of someone living in Chicago to something that is taking place in my town (sort of) ... but thanks to copperbadge 's monday linkie post ... I now have a ticket for a screening of a televised performance of the National Theater's production of Frankenstein starrring ( Read more... )

"Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
- Henry James

Thanks everyone for getting me through these hard days. Your words and your love mean more than I can say.

{{HUGS}}

I don't talk too much about my love for Law and Order: Criminal Intent (I don't, do I?). It was first fandom that drove me to the internet in search of fellow fans. I came in some time in the middle of season five (in real time), but watched most of the episodes on USA in re-run. In fact it took me a while to even grasp that the show was still ( Read more... )

While I'm thinking thinky thoughts about who I am as a writer (feel free to chime in if YOU know. I'm not sure I've figured it out) I thought I'd stick a request out there. In the week leading up to mah birfday ... I find myself wanting fics which deal with how/why/when/whyever Ianto 'went gay'/fell in love/came under the influence/decided to sleep ( Read more... )

Every so often I rant and rave about The Blue Castle and try and make everyone read it. It's LM Montgomery (of Anne of Green Gables fame) writing a book for grownups.

Wherein we read about Valancy's Blue Castle for the first time:

Valancy, so cowed and subdued and overridden and snubbed in real life, was wont to let herself go rather splendidly in ( Read more... )

It's half an hour or so until Christmas and I'm sitting here watching Law and Order: Criminal Intent, which despite not sounding very festive, actually makes me really happy. I love that show...well, until it got all emo-ey and man-pain-y the last season and a half ( Read more... )

It's my last day of work until next year (the 4th I think, whatever that monday is, but I'm not looking that far ahead, no Sir ( Read more... )

I doubt there's anyone on my flist that hasn't already had this pimped to them... but just in case ... I have to put my two cents in on this piece of epistolary brilliance by
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