FYI, folks: Jim Hines is doing a fundraiser for rape crisis centers, and is offering an advance copy of his book The Snow Queen's Shadow as an incentive, though no donation is required to enter the drawing for that. A worthwhile additional bit of info is that RAINN has announced that donations made during the month of April will be doubled. If you' ( Read more... )

I'm sure everyone's heard of the Queensland flooding, so there's no need for me to convey how disastrous it is. I'm by no means aware of all the various relief efforts going on, but for those able and inclined to donate somehow, here are the ones I do know of:

Premier's Flood Relief Appeal
RSPCA Queensland
Australian Red Cross
Australian Disaster ( Read more... )

They cut a Mara Jade joke???

Just break my heart, why don't you, Robot Chicken. :'(

I love Flogging Molly so much. It's a very rare day that I don't listen to at least some Flogging Molly and Bob Dylan music, yet I never get tired of either of them. They're the only musical artists I've ever found that I can listen to so endlessly and still be happy ( Read more... )

Five Sci-Fi Children's Books. That's pretty awesome.

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Amazing. Glad that didn't happen during a game.

According to Mandy's backyard thermometer, it's 84 degrees (29 C) right now. Not that I'm complaining. O:-)

*runs*

ETA: Broke a 60 year record. Still not complaining. :P

"Ginger, don't eat crickets! They sing beautiful songs!" -Rachael

The fact that I have three large boxes full of yarn and still almost inevitably buy more every time I enter a craft store doesn't worry me much. It's when I'm rummaging through those boxes, happen upon a skein, and think, "I bought this yarn for a specific project, I know I did" yet cannot recall what that project is that I get worried. I have got ( Read more... )

I'm at Mandy's, working on Etsy stuff. I'm sitting on the couch. Ruby just brought a mouse in, dropped it on the floor right in front of the couch, and batted it cheerfully. As you can imagine, mouse was not so sanguine about the whole thing, and ran under the coffee table. Mandy is now searching with a cup to capture and release mouse, but mouse ( Read more... )