Robert Holdstock's Celtika quotes James Elroy Flecker at the beginning. Neil Gaiman references or quotes him... a few times, I think, in Sandman. I read a novel about him when I was a teenager, and though I don't remember it well enough to say whether the novel was good or not, it did feed my proto-slasher instincts, and I really liked Flecker's ( Read more... )

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Reminder to self: "Don't argue with crazy people. Guess what it means if you win?" -Donna Barr

Huh. "Smallville" shrink... "Dead Like Me" shrink...

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Well, off to California for cousin's wedding, mother's birthday, and more mandatory family fun!

Of course livejournal doesn't want to work the first time I want to post for a week or so.

It's science fiction comedy time. We just got the first two seasons of Red Dwarf and s.4 v.2 of Lexx on DVD. Hours of black comedy, satire and truly tasteless fun for me. Lister and Rimmer bicker like an old married couple, and Stan and Kai kiss (well, ( Read more... )

I recently learned that one of my favorite young actors, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, is to be in two remakes that definitely arouse my curiosity, if not my unreserved enthusiasm. He'll be playing King Philip in a remake of The Lion in Winter. I can't help but wonder why anyone thinks a remake of The Lion in Winter is necessary. The original is so ( Read more... )

Thank you, liviapenn, for the lj code ( Read more... )