Braaaains... I neeeeeed braaaaaains ( Read more... )

It's not as if I don't have far too much work to get done between now and the end of the year... but I'm simply **burning** to write a Firefly/Deadwood crossover fic. I blame agentotter for this. It's all her fault, since she forced me (kicking & screaming, of course!) to sample the joys of Firefly fanvids. Mmmm... lovely, luscious Firefly fanvids. Why ( Read more... )

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As bummed as our first viewing of "Serenity" left us, Ron and I found ourselves with the afternoon free (our Makindu booth was rained out), so we've got tickets for another showing. Sitting now in a Starbucks killing a little time before it starts. Ron is being a good writer and **writing**. I'm uselessly spinning my wheels ( Read more... )

Serenity thoughts... Spoilers, so don't read if you haven't seen the film yet!

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It's been one of **those** days. Planted in front of the comp from 7 am to 7 m, working on an absolutely wrteched project for the high school, the same one I dread every year. Just gave up, and realized I forgot to do laundry. Bleh ( Read more... )

According to NPR Marketplace & Editor & Publisher, Barbara Bush visited the Houston Astrodome today and had this to say:

"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckled slightly)--this is working very well for them."

Go and see The Constant Gardener. Oh man. Oh my. Best film I've seen in a long, long, long, long time. Surely this wasn't made by someone in Hollywood? As always, Ralph Fiennes is hot hot hot hot hot; the acting is just wonderful across the board. Kenya is absolutely incredible to see -- yes, Virginia, that is NOT a California backlot, and ( Read more... )

This is stripped wholesale from an email someone just sent to my office account -- it's probably from a blog somewhere. But I can't help but repeat the crime ( Read more... )

Like everyone else in the Dryer States of America this past week, I'm just boggled and ashamed regarding the state of disaster relief in NOLA. We can delivery supplies to Bangladesh two days after a tsnuami, but adequate supplies don't even BEGIN to arrive in NOLA until Friday, five days after the hurricane ( Read more... )