Oh, for animal cruelty. This kind of thing makes me cry. I mean, the Evil Twins are rescue cats, and every time I pass by an animal shelter I have to remind myself that two is all I can handle without becoming a crazy cat lady. I've read tearful essays by shelter employees about the painful process of euthanasia; the idea of a shelter worker who ( Read more... )

I have spent my Christmas watching movies and working on my holiday_on_ice fic, which is... not an epic, but it is long enough that I'd have to cut it down to get it published in The New Yorker. I'd also have to make it not fanfic and take out the porn, but I had not intended for the metaphor to extend that far ( Read more... )

1. I am so totally back on LJ, and I so totally feel like I have nothing to say ( Read more... )

So the computer drama continues! Have purchased new computer, have exchanged computer with defective ethernet jack for identical computer, have realized when returning home that I left the Comcast CD-ROM in the defective computer and will have to call the cable company mañana. In the meantime, I think my iPod just fried. Which is fine, since I ( Read more... )

femslash07 got over 40 signups in 24 hours. What this means is, if you haven't signed up and you're thinking about it, there are going to be lots of writers involved, one of whom will be able to write in your dream fandom. And callmesandy and I will be doing our best to make that happen. So you should totally sign up ( Read more... )

1. There is still time to participate in the femslash07 official poll. Stand and be counted!

2. My friends dragged me out of the house to see Children of Men. It's a rough movie -- I can honestly say I've never seen a SF film that chilled me with horror to that degree. Which is to say that it's amazing. Clive Owen and Michael Caine give incredible ( Read more... )

There's still time to do this thing. Seriously, it's a no-commitment challenge, and you give me an excuse to read poetry. And then you write stories and other people read them and leave feedback and it's just how fandom is supposed to be.

What? Fairy tales are nice.

justababyduck and I went to see Little Miss Sunshine last night. I was disappointed, because I ( Read more... )

1. With distraction77 out of town, I thought I wasn't going to get to see PotC 2 this weekend. But my fangirliest grad school friend was hanging around the Fortress of English today when I was there for another damn meeting, and we looked at each other and I swear it was like, "Pirate Movie? Pirate Movie." Trying to be helpful, another nearby friend-type person ( Read more... )

1. I made my first ever post to audiography, which was strangely intimidating. The theme this week was very simple -- your top 5 favorite songs right this second -- and I decided, hell, I've got 5 favorite songs. Several of them are things I've wibbled about here, but some are not. The addition of a shiny little mp3 player to the household has reinforced my ( Read more... )

I watched a random movie on Logo this weekend, Hard Pill. It's kind of a gay Flowers For Algernon: sad-sack gay man learns of magical pill that will make him straight. The dialogue is cheesy in that earnest-low-budget-gay-film way, but the characterization is very real. And the SF element is nicely played, more than one might expect from a movie ( Read more... )