I am taking a mental health half-day Friday afternoon and catching up on some of the TV I didn't catch up on this weekend and it is going to be good. I would be more excited about the 'Gates starting back up on Friday if I hadn't already seen all the SG-1 episodes. As it is, I'm looking forward to seeing the end of the show's run on the big(ger ( Read more... )

Stuff, in no particular order:

* laurashapiro has a non-spoilery review of the first Buffy Season 8 comic.

* I am totally getting The Physics of Superheroes for my dad for Christmas.

* Today's daily puppy is particularly adorable. AWWWW. (Yes, I totally have vicarious dog issues.)

* WTF, Rob Thomas? I am liking the current fandom conventional wisdom on ( Read more... )

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( Navel-gazing over my hangups, love memes, and fandom not being utopia )

I went to bed at 9 last night to try to kill the headache that Advil wasn't making a dent on, and ended up having a night-long, convoluted action-adventure dream involving a birthday party. When I was younger, my dreams tended to be disjointed and fragmentary--at least the parts of them I remember, which were (and are) always bits and pieces only ( Read more... )

( VM 3.09 - Spit and Eggs )

Inspired by our gratuitous mockery thoughtful discussion of CSI: Miami, sdwolfpup has made several magnificent HoCaine* icons, of which this is but one. She's so talented! I'm such an enabler.

And for those of you who do not share my morbid fascination with the awfulness that is CSI: Miami, I am pleased to announce that the National Cathedral in ( Read more... )

My parents in Birmingham were calling me in San Francisco all day to get updates on what Ivan was doing. Their power is out, and likely will be for several more days, so they had me looking things up online. Aside from a giant tree limb that fell in the driveway and is now blocking it, they have come through unscathed, though my father is cranky ( Read more... )