In The Dream-Quest for Unknown Kaddath, a story by H.P. Lovecraft (yes, I'm talking about Lovecraft again. Deal with it) the hero Randolph Carter's goal is basically what the title says--finding the mysterious city of Kaddath he's wanted to find all his life. He has a lot of picoresque adventures while locating the place until at the very end he ( Read more... )

I'd heard rumors about this, but nothing concrete until now. I have no doubts that Sr. del Toro will do this thing justice (and fully appreciate his intentions to develop the characters way more, although a more detatched, documentary-like take could be really interesting if done right.) The inevitable insurge of bandwagon-type fans will be ( Read more... )

( IT'S SILLY MEME TIME! )

I could write up a long and detailed analysis of my personal Christmas season (this time without rampant typos and horrendous LJ tag errors) but I really doubt I could do it much justice. Instead, I direct you to i_blaze_the's wonderful recap of the time he was here and all the stuff we got up to. May it bring you as much amusement as it brought me this ( Read more... )

So. Christas.

Franky I expected it to be a lot worse than it has beeen so far. The addition of has telped no end, as haw liberal applicationm of snow. Having completely missed any and all snow last year in the City of Doom, oit's been a welcome change. So far we haven't done a ton--most of our sojourns out have had to do with shoping <(as so ( Read more... )

Today I got back from my college graduation in Vegas. I was expecting a rather horrendous experience, but when it came down to it I had a great time. ( It went something like this: )

For a while I had this big spiel about how I'm coping with the Mom-less situation but I eventually decided I just didn't really feel like posting it--it was enough just to write it, and I didn't feel like there was anything particularly interesting anyway. Instead I decided to come and whine about how if this season's fashions continue their trend ( Read more... )

Just a quick note to say thank you, everyone, for your encouraging comments. Knowing that y'all are out there and care really helps. I'll beat this crap yet with your support.

"my heart has joined the Thousand, for my mother stopped running today ( Read more... )

In honor of my birthday, padparadscha called me all the way from Kenya! She seems to have had a great time (I hope I wasn't just imagining that) and told me many awesome things like how Dr. Who is apparantly really popular there and how the maleria she got at one point was like a Victorian Heroine Illness.* It came at just the right time, too. I'd been ( Read more... )