So, I like stories that have a hero who is honorable, strong, and kind, who helps out a woman who is independent but for one acceptable reason or another has to lean on the hero ( Read more... )

You've heard a zillion pleas for help by now; skip with impunity. This has to do with stuff more than $.

( An opportunity to help, cut for your convenience )

In other news, my net connection was down all day, and a horrible black storm chased me from over the mountain as I was coming home from lunch and I made it inside just as it broke into hail. I half-believed it was the Rapture and that I was going to die alone in bed ( Read more... )

Did you?

Tomorrow's the big day: NaNoWriMo starts. Are y'all doing it too?

1. I've been mostly unable to read LJ for the past, oh, couple of months? Apologies if I've missed something important about your life.
2. I just saw, on CNN's foot ticker, that Johnny Ramone died after a battle with prostate cancer. I was never a huge Ramones fan, but they were cool, and it makes me kinda sad.
3. I've been watching Hurricane Ivan coverage ( Read more... )

Does anyone know about a fire anywhere around San Francisco today? It's awfully smoky around here, but a half-hour of diligent google-searching hasn't gotten me anywhere.

1. I watch "The Daily Show" from time to time, recorded by my TiVo. Monday's TiVo description said the guest would be "Robert Smith: singer (The Cure)". I got happy. ("It's Robert Smith of The Cure!" "Dude! Sweet!") Turns out, it was Robert Smith of the football. Oh well. I'm sure he was a fine guest and is a genuinely terrific human being, but ( Read more... )

The "Red vs Blue" guys have put together a very realistic* guide to the internet. This link requires Quicktime; there's one out there that uses Windows Media Player, too, evidently.

Link courtesy of epi_lj.

*It's also hilarious.

There is a livejoural.com (note the missing n) for our typos.