I went to see Thomas the Metropolitan about photography and  learned a lot, and came away with telephoto lens for 'my' Pentax. Ooops. Now I owe him more money -- but as he's going to let me have and keep the Pentax for a VERY moderate price, and there is money in my future in the shape of new job with three months of overlap which means regular ( Read more... )

I just learned a useful new word: 'paracosm', which means an imaginary world that's throroughly thought through. Seems we fans and RPers aren't sad nerdy escapists any more. Quite on the contrary -- the future, that article says, belongs to those that can imagine it.

Well, we can, and we do.-

Crossposted to Dreamwidth and LJ -- comment wherever ( Read more... )

Why do TSA agents iconically wear blue rubber gloves, and not some other colour(s)? Are they not aware of the unfortunate cultural implications of the 'Hands Of Blue'?


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Cute!!

**giggles**

Why are there no were-bears?

Hey, Nazgul, cracicotus took pirate pictures for me at the Dragon*Con parade -- I'm sure you'll like them as well!

In other news: Woody Allen has completely lost his f***ing mind!!!

And not just because I am a disappointed fan of that woman. I mean, all movies she has been in so far have been soft porn at some time in the late eighties!

Ahhhhh, Carla Bruni, Carla Bruni...

**shakes head**

She used to make such cool music.

**sighs**

Thanks to nazgulwears for the first link.

With the brilliant new Star Trek movie, fanfic writers and readers are rediscovering K/S, the grandmother of all slash.

So, as a service to those only now getting into this, I offer you my old fics in that fandom:

The Demon of Beta 55First-time fic set during the Original Series and trying to stick as closely to its look-and-feel as possible, ( Read more... )

Ahh it was a good day, and there was so much, and I am so pleasantly tired from it, I can just enumerate it all quickly:

• Woke up early, had good thread with the Nocturnal Americans
• Yay plot is really coalescing and getting underway -- to think this was started as a mere stopgap measure!
• Cats majorly cute!
• Eeeeeeee Supernatural! But why is heaven's ( Read more... )