This will probably be the last post I ever make on LiveJournal. I simply cannot abide by the new terms of service.

I hope that the few LJers who've been reading me recently will join me at Dreamwidth, which is almost the same thing with more freedom. With some luck, I may be able to transfer the last few years' entries there as well, but in any ( Read more... )

I’ve grown rather fond of the cheetah ( Read more... )

The first three Disney princesses ( Read more... )

I was mistaken earlier when I said that Keith Laumer wrote this. He had died by 1997. Instead, various writers ran with the premises he laid to create nine stories ranging from 25 to 89 pages each, followed by a set of technical notes. Naturally, they don't have the same sense of continuity that short-story compilations by one author have. In fact ( Read more... )

The Style Invitational in The Washington Post has a challenge to write this kind of poem, albeit without necessarily using LOLspeak. I opted to keep it easy to read.

I’m Johnny Cash,
The Man in Black.
Just hear my songs:
I had a knack
For not just one
But many kinds.
I sang real deep;
I wrote the lines.

In the mid-1890s, the comics began
With The Yellow Kid gracing the papers ( Read more... )

You have to wonder ‘bout that Sam ( Read more... )

In order of release, this is fourth volume of The Sword of Truth. In order of story events, it's sixth. Regardless, it's my first taste of author Terry Goodkind. I have no idea of the volumes' relative popularity; I just wanted to check out some part of the tremendous series, which I must have learned about from a list of recommended fantasy novels ( Read more... )

It’s Presidents’ Day weekend, but I’m working Monday morn ( Read more... )

Listen to the music that the radio plays ( Read more... )