R.I.P. Octavia Butler.

Her books, especially the Parable books, are some of the few I've read more than once as an adult. I just finished re-reading one of her books yesterday.

My inner 13 year old is very much enjoying Phantom Of The OperaIf only Christine were less annoying. I'd probably be terribly annoyed with the Phantom too, except anyone is an improvement over the horribly nasal one I saw when I was 13. And Raoul, while possessing some amount of charm, isn't nearly as cute as that one was. I had a ridiculous crush ( Read more... )

You know, I really shouldn't be annoyed at having to wait a week to watch Serenity after finishing Firefly since all the original fans had to wait years, but, well, I am ( Read more... )

Our thermostat is broken, at least for the heat side of things. Last time I tried with the AC, it worked properly, but the heater just stays on all the time, no matter how low we set it ( Read more... )

For some reason I made myself a MySpace account today. I was bored, and it seemed like a source of free entertainment. I'm not quite sure what the point is, though. I have this urge to reconnect with people from high school, even though there's only a handful I actually want to be in touch with. That doesn't really make any sense, does it ( Read more... )

I'm so close to creating a children's TV community where parents can slash the characters, or pick on Dora's Spanish grammar, or whatnot ( Read more... )

Saw PoA today. I think koyote liked it better than I did. Not that I didn't like it, but he hasn't read the books, so it's entirely brand new to him ( Read more... )

I think Leif and I ended up on national TV today. Our 5 seconds of fame.

We went into DC and stopped at Barnes&Noble where John Gibson just happened to be talking about his new book - Hating America: The New World Sport. I guess he's a right-wing conspiracy theorist who has a show on FOX ( Read more... )

Oooh...new Harry Potter trailer here.

Yes yes tarie, I know I'm way behind the times ( Read more... )

I miss Davis ( Read more... )