Last year, I had a New Year's resolution I thought was fool proof. Not so much a resolution as a project. I was going to catch up on all the genre canon I missed. I love Heinlein, and yet I have never read Stranger. I love Asimov, and yet I have never read Foundation. I have never read Frankenstein. I have never seen TOS in a language I speak ( Read more... )

Looks guys, I'm delurking! Yeah, I couldn't be bothered to do so to post pictures of the impressive six-inch bruise on my thigh. I couldn't be bother to share the hilarity of finding my mother's cache of Law & Order femslash. But this, this is truly important. And, you know, three of you might not follow me & Lisa on twitter or facebook ( Read more... )

8:22 a.m.: I wake up, turn off my alarm before it goes off, and try to remember who I am and what my purpose is ( Read more... )

While hunting for my nail file, I found a box of condoms.

Is the issue:
a) I am too disorganized to find my nail file;
b) I think that I own a nail file;
c) I own a box of condoms;
d) I'm contemplating any of this at this hour?

I'm a few days late here, but since people are still collecting donations for things like help_haiti, I figure it's still worth saying. If you are donating money to a relief charity, especially a large, well-known charity, please please *please* leave it unearmarked. Charities are legally required to spend all earmarked money on the cause earmarked. In ( Read more... )

My brother, due to some bizarre genetic quirk, does not like to read. I know, wtf! Anyway, in the last few years he's discovered the joys of fiction, an endeavor I feel should be encouraged. One problem. Squirt seems to enjoy fantasy, and I...do not. And the small amount of fantasy I do read is not to his taste. I did have luck recommending he read ( Read more... )

My not-very-inner twelve-year-old could not resist doing this meme. Gakked from zinke 1. Put your media player of choice on shuffle ( Read more... )

So, I have to get up early in the morning, and I tried to go to bed at a sensible hour. Yeah, I failed to fall asleep. So I'm watching TV while I try to get tired.

Aaaand, I gotta say, I may be done with FlashForward. Well, okay, let me qualify that. I find I'm bored with the show, probably because the show is repetitive. Really guys, you told us ( Read more... )

Okay, *now* it's probably in poor taste to finish my Ted-Kennedy-is-the-leader-of-the-vampires story.

At least in terms of recommendations based on past usage. Amazon used to be really good at this. Well, from my perspective, in that they kept recommending books and CDs I liked and owned. Less so from their perspective, in that I did not buy the recommendations. But these days Amazon has taken to reccing romance novels and engagement rings. I AM ( Read more... )