Wow, I haven't posted here since LJSanta 2011 ended. How lame is THAT?

...Sooo, I'm here to tell you that LJSanta 2012 is AWN! Bring it! (Oh, it has been brought-en!)

Sign-ups and info in the usual place: http://lj-smith.com/ljsanta/

So after lots of extensions and deadbeats and backup writer wrangling, all the LJSanta stories went up earlier this week, and I've just finished posting author and deadbeat names today. Wee! Go thank your author if you signed up, and feel free to write to any authors whose stories you enjoyed if you did not (or even if you did, but you like someone ( Read more... )

I think pretty much everyone who was going to sign up for LJSanta already has, but I'm going to be out until this evening, so if you were dithering and missed the deadline or something, if your sign-up email magically appears in my inbox before I come home, then I will magically add your name to the hat before I draw names. MAGIC!

That is all!

Dear LJ Smith fandom friends ( Read more... )

Many historic lessons were obtained through tremendous sacrifice. Such as eating food - if something is poisonous, we all seem to know it. It is common sense. But in the past many people must have eaten this food and died so that now we know better. Therefore I think the first person who ate crabs was admirable. If not a hero, who would dare eat ( Read more... )

A long time ago, I had this strange and surreal dream. Nothing special really happened in it, but the imagery and layout of everything still stays in my mind. I think I blame Lovecraft and Ligotti, as I'd recently read their stories involving renditions of terrible, impossible cityscapes only seen in dreams ( Read more... )

I'm trying an experiment, another attempt to expand my artistic skills a bit, and I'm lookin' for guinea pigs (GUINEA PEEEEGS ( Read more... )

So I got a Spotify account thanks to one of my Facebook friends, and it's... actually pretty swanky. I mean, there's the whole having to listen to brief commercials between every 3-5 songs or so, but on the other hand, it's free, and the commercials are just for other music, so that's cool. And having the ability to switch fairly seamlessly between ( Read more... )

So I was going to use Cannonball Read as an excuse to post in here more, and then I read this book that was so stupid and occasionally offensive (oh the delightful sexism of women about women!), and I was really not looking forward to reviewing it, and... yeah, that didn't happen ( Read more... )

The saga continues! Rather than apologizing like an adult who cares about the deep traumas of others, LJS is "standing by" her analogy because, you know, she's the one who was raped and then blamed for it, so it's totally okay you guys. She's clearly more important than anyone else who has ever been raped.

And I quote: I should have been more ( Read more... )