Ganked from queenfaithie .
Pick your five favorite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions. Don't cheat!

1. Doctor Who

2. Firefly

3. Farscape

4. Dollhouse

5. Life on Mars

(spoilers for Doctor Who series 4 general, Firefly general, Farscape through the Peacekeeper Wars, Dollhouse through s2e12 "Hollow Men" ish, and Life on Mars ( Read more... )

SPOILERS in case you don't read post titles.

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If you haven't heard David Tennant and Catherine Tate sub for Jonathan Ross over here yet, I recommend that you do that kind of NOW.

So my new favorite kind of joke is the new business kind. It goes like this, just for explanation purposes.

Person A: Hey, I've got a new business!
Person B: Oh, really? What's your business?
Person A: I'm a parking ( Read more... )

I was just on the Doctor Who News Page, and saw these kinda close together.


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Dear Ewan,
What's your greatest fear?
I mean right now, not after you've fallen for Millie.
lots of love
The Author

Here's something not to do with NaNo: the slightly +100-word story I wrote for my French journal on Halloween. And I'm actually translating it, because I used carats for dialogue (like you do) and LJ is getting html-confused. 
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 Dear Ewan,
Dude, help me out here. I know where the story ends, but where does it start? Briefing the department? Preparations for leaving? Alice having a meltdown? Chester escaping onto Merton's playing fields? Lecturing Michael? Getting lectured by Professor Magambo? 
I really don't know, man. I want to start this thing in Oxford so that we can at ( Read more... )

 You know what that means, kids.
I'll post up the bits of my novel as I write them, and each post will stay open for three days, at which point it becomes friends-locked.

The kickoff part was good... though I thought the swing dance was even better. I Lindy'ed to a 230 bpm polka!

One of the roomies got Michael Buble's new album for her birthday. This is very much my song. (Yeah, I'm aware of the accent aigu (english?) on his name. Too much trouble when I can't get the international keyboard to work)

Hint: for added fun, say that where someone who likes you might see. No, this is not what I am doing.

Click to view

In other news, NaNoWriMo ( Read more... )

 Dear Ewan,
Thanks for piping up! You're a peach, and yes, I recognize that isn't the slang where you come from. So, your name, your educational history, your sister, your cat, all good. Can we get a little deeper? Maybe start with the coffee thing? And just for the time being I've said your parents live in Edinburgh. Really, though? Come on.
No rush ( Read more... )