I do need to post something real, but for the moment:

New York Magazine published a selection of personal ads from theatlasphere.com, a dating site for Objectivists. There's some gold in here.

nymag.com/news/features/artifact/51814/

Enjoy!

My previous romance rant was fun, but now I'm feeling mildly guilty about running down a beloved old genre. There are several good authors still working, and I've started paying attention to people's opinions in order to find new authors. The basis of my rant was mostly that the 95% of the genre that's crap is no longer crap I enjoy ironically. I' ( Read more... )

I've been reading romance novels since I was 12. pezzgrrrl was there to witness the carnage; she can back me up on this. I've very gradually moved away from romance as a genre. During the time I worked at the GSU library, I had free rein in a respectable academic library, so I checked started reading more non-fiction. Getting books for free weaned ( Read more... )

Gonna pull another review out of my hat! I'll blame the evils of corporate bookstores which revoke the right to check out books right before their annual inventories. Apparently having stock roaming around in the hands of employees throws off the count or some shit. Inventory is all over, though, so I checked out a book I've been meaning to read ( Read more... )

 One of my favorite manga of all time is currently being shown in animated form in Japan. I quit watching after six or seven episodes.

Itazurana Kiss ran for 23 volumes and ended when the artists, Kaoru Tada, died in in her late 30s or early 40s. Her death was, of course, tragic and left the series with a dangling ending, although since the final ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm resurrecting this thing. I'm mostly planning on using lj to do book reviews and so on, but to catch folks up: CB and I have been married for a little over a year, and I desperately need to get some wedding pictures on-line since we've many awesome ones. I'm still working at Borders and loving it when it doesn't drive me crazy. I'm also ( Read more... )

Hello all ( Read more... )

Okay, write down the following ( Read more... )

I have discovered a love too delicate and sublime for this harsh, unloving world.

In the process of explaining to CB why he will never quite measure up because he hasn't been genetically modified, and we cannot soulbond because I am not his chosen mate because is a normal man, and normal men do not have chosen mates, we got off topic very quickly. ( Read more... )

I was going to post something gooshy about how thankful I am to have C.B. and my family and my friends. C.B. just tried to stick his tongue up my nose, so I'm just thankful for the friends and family. You are all wonderful, and I'm glad you're part of my life. As for C.B., well, we all have our burdens to carry.