there's this show on the history channel right now about what would happen to the world if people suddenly disappeared, and damn, this stuff is fascinating. apparently the hoover dam can run without people for about a year. (and it will probably be undone by all the little molluscs that live in lake meade and have to be cleared off the pipes and ( Read more... )

i had a new & improved nano idea driving home from work yesterday, to wit: a westward ho! type apocafic. as in, some east coast person packs up and goes west and kind of collects other survivors along the way in a modern day wagon train caravan kind of thing. somehow they have to keep their vehicles gassed up and their selves fed and then they ( Read more... )

a. i now have sour gummy bats. they're not too sour and are very cute. i mean... bats! candy shaped like bats! there is no bad here ( Read more... )

this is a (very!) late birthday fic for ephemera, who requested a musician in the post-apocalypse. it may be more the skeleton of a longer story than a complete story in itself, but i admit i like it this way. i'm sorry it's so late, sweetpea, and i hope you like it too.

( Casper Grace was a country fiddler... )

starbucks has cheese scones. this makes me happy. you know how hard it is to find a good cheddar cheese scone in the greater boston area? you could probably argue that starbucks doesn't count as good, but hey, i enjoyed it and that's what matters, right ( Read more... )

if there was any justice in this world, i'd be able to leave work right now so i could sit in the diesel (or anywhere that wasn't here) for a couple hours and try to write either of the post-apocalypse fics i have ideas for, or maybe some nice springy (and ideally porny) derry belmont, altho i have a context-less image of him wearing a winter coat ( Read more... )

my boss is out of the office until next monday. you know what this means, don't you. slackitude to an epic degree. by thursday i might possibly be embarrassed. i have actual work that actually has to get done, too. *tries to motivate self ( Read more... )

things to know:
this takes place some unspecified time after books of the deadharley is amy's second hitchhiker. she's from portland (even tho amy picked her up somewhere in ohio, i think) and is trying to go home ( Read more... )

picked up eudaimon from the airport yesterday, and i would've been on time except for some inexplicable reason they went through us customs/immigration in shannon airport - ie, before they left ireland - so when the plane landed here they just breezed right through the baggage claim. i don't get it either. but at least i don't think i was that late ( Read more... )

i don't know if this is going to make sense to anybody but me (and maybe farwing and saunteringdown because they both let me babble at them). it's part of the post-apocalypse 'verse i might've mentioned once or twice. if you read the ghost of jack kerouac this is set probably a month and a half (possibly two months) later. i have no plot and thus the passage of time ( Read more... )