I enjoyed many of the Festivids, but the reason you should watch Propagation is to be recruited to Threshold, a short-lived but really neat sf alien invasion show where the aliens keep winning. Stars Carla Gugino, Peter Dinklage, and Brent Spiner, along with a very handsome military man with a mysterious backstory that sadly never got explored. ( Read more... )

For those of you in the US: Fight SOPA. Phone calls really do work for Congress, if you can.

Department of “Yes, I see how that could have happened”: An earlier version of this article misspelled part of the title of a segment of “The Daily Show” that featured Colbert. It was “Even Stevphen,” not “Stephven.”

Awesome brush-off poem.

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( Ilona Andrews, Holly Black, Brandon Sanderson )

Is anyone in need of an AO3 invite?  Let me know.

( photography, objectivity, the american future, Ilona Andrews, N.K. Jemisin )

Your internet is not my internet: I read about this new Facebook stuff and it just makes me confused. Filters are exotic and nobody knows how to use them? And so Facebook is going to let other people decide what my Groups are? Why can’t I manage my friends myself and filter out specific people when I need to? (I take it that hidden somewhere ( Read more... )

( Epic fantasy, zombie blogging, vampire teenagers in love, and Kate Daniels )

The most recent LJ stuff, brilliantly satirized here by
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Seen on Freecycle today: stuffed prating dog. Turns out it was a typo for “praying,” but I’d be into a prating dog, at least as long as I could turn it off.
( Ilona Andrews, Daniel Abraham, musical history, cars, lawyer-novelists )

Fic rec: Mistaken for Strangers, by
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Raising children: 2.0 took two pairs of boxer shorts, mushed them together, and insisted they were a baby. But she also maintained that she was the daddy and that the baby had two daddies, so perhaps I haven’t failed as a parent.

( mortgages, discounting, food, suburban history )