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Tonight, a very special epidsode of "The Office"
According to the episode summary in the paper, "Michael causes a problem."
If you missed that one, it's really good! I liked it almost as much as my favorite episode of "House." -
Yuletide NYR Challenge
Here's something interesting to those who like small fandoms: an anonymous donor is offering $5 to charity for every New Years Resolution story posted to the Yuletide archive in the months of June, July and August. The details are here. The list of unfulfilled NYR requests is here.
Speaking of NYR fics, here's mine:
Title: The Hay-Scale
Fandom ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
I've finally gotten around to starting Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, and so far it's not bad if you like that sort of thing. But.
Some of you may recall me ranting about Darrell Sweet's cover for an L.E. Modesitt book. Sweet's cover for The Eye of the World is, objectively speaking, not quite as terrible, but it is one of the most ( Read more... ) -
Postcard stories
I've been looking at the Waterstone postcard stories this morning. JKR's is very cute - "Elvendork! It's unisex!" And I'd like to congratulate Neil Gaiman on his very neat printing. Some of the other authors should take a lesson ( Read more... ) -
The FFNet Kids Don't Just Make This Shit Up, You Know
So I dreamt last night that I was a teenager again ( Read more... ) -
Quidditch Noir
A new genre of my own invention!
Dry Mouth Morning, Ludo Bagman, pg
Freak Collision, Rita Skeeter, Doris Purkiss, pg ( Read more... ) -
DH Wanking
It's been three days, and I just can't seem to accept that ( spoiler ) -
Worst. Foreshortening. Ever.
I've been very depressed lately, and so I've been reading more escapist fiction, but also more inclined to be cranky and fault-finding. Hence this post. I just finished Shadowsinger, the fifth and final book in L.E. Modesitt's "Spellsong Cycle," and I've enjoyed this series, every book of which is all about women using magic to unleash UNGODLY ( Read more... )