This is a stunning, heart-breaker of a poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts that I just discovered today.

Dear Augusta,

Your walls never surrender,
call out names or
recognize the sound of bodies
thumping against years as a mother’s
slatted prayer. If you mourn for the innocent,

straightjacket swaddled in a padded
room, mourn, too, for the young
man, a jackal ( Read more... )

harryronbigbang is up and running.  I haven't had a chance to read anything yet, but there are a bunch of my favoroite writers who have contribued, so I can't wait to get a nice chunk of free time to revel in the Harry/Ron love.

And a shout out to the pinch hitting beta, workerbee73 , who stepped into a scary void when my usual HP beta , whose life is even more insane then ( Read more... )

Dudes, ice dancing is hysterical. Americans skating to a song about a shotgun wedding. Scotts skating to a Johnny Cash song whose lyrics consists of lists of American cities, complete with daisy dukes and midrif baring flannel. I have no idea what the Russians were thinking performing an Aboriginal dance in little more than paint and loin cloths ( Read more... )

I haven't been good about promoting/talking about shows I go to that aren't opera.

I love close settings and relatively unknown performers who always stay after to talk to their audience, and acoustic guitar, so last night I ventured out with a friend to see Ernie Halter, Joe Firstman and The Kin.

( Ernie Halter )

Title: Contrast
Author: innibis
Rating: R
Word Count: 326
Pairing: Kendra/Lee(/Kara)
Genre: Dark AU, post Razor
Warning: Mentions of character death
Disclaimer: I am not RDM or any of his cohorts. I do not lay claim to BSG in any way, shape or form; especially the finale.

A/N: Just a little dark something or other that was stuck in my head. For workerbee73, you ( Read more... )

So Bee's been doing the heavy lifting in the thinky thoughts posts lately, and I certainly don't have the flist she does to generate a ton of ideas. *waves to mini flist* This isn't actually thought provoking either, but as I am well and truly snowed in (and irrepressibly positive in nature), I thought I'd attempt to start a discussion about ( Read more... )

Title: Beauty and the Beast (2/2)
Author: innibis
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 9,376
Pairing: Kara/Lee
Genre: Completely AU
Disclaimer: I am not RDM or any of his cohorts. I do not lay claim to BSG in any way, shape or form; especially the finale.

A/N: Ah, workerbee73, a beta who can be trusted to see the beauty in the beast.

Part I

( Beauty and the Beast )

Title: Beauty and the Beast (1/2)
Author: innibis
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 8,419
Pairing: Kara/Lee
Genre: Completely AU
Disclaimer: I am not RDM or any of his cohorts. I do not lay claim to BSG in any way, shape or form; especially the finale.

A/N: For my darling beta, workerbee73, who read a single scene I had stuck in my head and decided that it should be turned ( Read more... )

Not that this has anything to do with Thanksgiving, but hey! Muppets! *g*

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Have a safe and fun holiday for all you celebrating. Everyone else, just be safe and have fun in non-holiday related ways this weekend.

I don't tend to air my politics in here - I have a perfectly good outlet for that elsewhere, but I just almost died laughing when I read this:

Like a lot of people, as soon as I got my copy of Sarah Palin’s ‘Going Rogue,’ I immediately thought of the German literary critic Hans Robert Jauss.This isn't tongue in cheek, he totally means it. Oh, ( Read more... )