Why do we have too many words in the English language?

Paranormal: beyond normal explanation.
Supernatural: relating to things that cannot be exlained by natural law.

Huh? TeenLinnit and I had a nearly violent healthy debate last night on ghostly occurences. Teen, insisting that all things ghostly were paranormal and all things other worldly and ( Read more... )

I've copied this over from frimfram's journal.

yourlibrarian is running a Buffyverse fandom survey as part of her doctoral thesis. She's hoping to get a picture of demographic and technology-use trends among fandom types, and she'll be publishing the results when they're in ( Read more... )

Yup... I let the Linnit Sprogs loose in town with £20 each of my money, and whatever of their own they both took with them, to buy their contributions for our Age Concern Christmas boxes ( Read more... )

Copied over from Nebula's journal... and I seem to recall it was Neb's journal I copied it over from last year too. That girl is mightily efficient. grins*

First, the rules:

Step One: Make a post (Public, Friendslocked, Filtered... Whatever you're comfortable with!) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes; the wishes ( Read more... )

My essence lives within the pages of fantasy fiction, I tell you.

And I only found out because just_sue recommended I take a look at the writings of author Kelley Armstrong http://www.kelleyarmstrong.com

*squishes and wobbles Sue in ample bosoms in mega HUG to show her how happy Chrissie is ( Read more... )

You must, MUST, MUST go over to st-salieri's journal and from there to stoney321's journal, via http://st-salieri.livejournal.com/ and read their theories on why it is Spangel, or Spuffy's, Cold Dead Seed that makes the world go round.

Both theories are scientifically supported by questionable, very funny, ( Read more... )

You Are 28% Girly
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I know I've gone on about this fic before... but it's good. And, not just because Spike and Buffy are in it ( Read more... )

Have you ever read those FanCon / WriterCon LJ entries and reports and thought,

"Sounds fun. I'd love to meet up with the writers, artists and fellow readers in this fandom.... if only those sorts of gatherings weren't nearly always hosted in the USA." Hmm?

Or if you are non-European based, have you ever thought,

"Sounds like fun. Maybe I'll ( Read more... )

Dog, you remember of course that she isn't... a dog that is, but is actually a beautiful tortoiseshell female pussycat that EBLinnit took delight in naming 'Dog' when he got her 2 years ago ( Read more... )