Everyone has their "guilty pleasure" reads. Mine appear be Melissa De La Cruz's YA Blue Bloods series that mix vampires and Gossip Girls and a little Paradise Lost for good measure. I've now on the fourth book "The Van Alen Legacy" with its switching POVs every chapter; I now understand how GRRM fans feel being tempted to just read the chapters ( Read more... )

I had a lovely lovely time at marag's fannish swap yesterday meeting among others heatherly, mscongeniality, greenygal, pleasance, neotoma and likeadeuce. I am usually fairly lousy with names. Faces and voices I'm great with, but attaching names? Not so much. Sorry about that ( Read more... )

I just caught up with the last two episodes of "Bones" and found George Coe on my screen again. You have to understand I've been taping over old tapes of "West Wing", occasionally stopping to watch favorite episodes. "The Stackhouse Filibuster" is still one of my favorites, closely followed by "Galileo". (I still remember the West Wing episode ( Read more... )

musesfool is running a Firefly - West Wing title challenge. Minimum 500 words. Due July 1st or thereabouts. Episode titles here. I already wrote "Crackpots and These Women" as one of my early attempts at SGA fanfic. In retrospect, I noticed a silly crossover potential with the "Stackhouse Filibuster". Did Sgt Stackhouse have a famous relative he was ( Read more... )

Taken from nicolae:

Also from the Pilot episode

Leo: He was swerving to avoid a tree.
Donna: What happened?
Leo: He was unsuccessful.

Incredibly saddened to hear about John Spencer's death. Leo was always one of my favorite West Wing characters. However flawed he was (and god knows he had them in bushels), he always held himself with a certain nobility ( Read more... )