WOO HOO! Just read Cat Feral’s lovely little story From the Desk of Rita Skeeter. Brilliant, brilliant fic. It answers the question: If that Skeeter cow - sorry, Professor - wanted to ruin Minerva McGonagall’s reputation, how would she go about it? It’s scary how some authors get inside characters’ heads. Anyway, it got me thinking...how would ( Read more... )

OK, seriously, the Plagariasm police are gonna come in dead of night and take me from my bed and put in me in Plagarism jail. But they'll have to fight off the Police For Really Bad Twisting of a Phrase first ( Read more... )

"Psych". Defenitely "Psych." I love love love it. It's interesting and hilarious and it has cute guys and witty dialogue and an OMG GREAT PREMISE THAT'S ACTUALLY WELL-THOUGHT-OUT!

YAY!

*Dances a dance of new-show-love*

Le sigh. Today's Friday and Sabbath begins at sundown as usual. I love it. It's like this tiny space of time where everything feels right. Lighting the candles, reciting the blessing...it's just delicious. My dad's watching the news in the other room, and it's all Hamas and Hezbollah and Lebanon and radicals and terrorists and defence and offence ( Read more... )

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Just thought of the BEST idea for a ficcy!


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Wow. Great title, huh. But it's all rainy and there's light and half-light and grayness and all, so I blame my lack of originality on the weather. Always good to blame the weather. Especially Nebraska weather, cause it's wicked crazy -- hot as Hades one minute, raining the next, construction a nanosecond later. We got a joke here in Nebraska. Two ( Read more... )

OK, so I was watching Hidalgo on AMC (grumble grumble ten-minutes-of-commericals-and-two-minutes-of-movie grumble) and it was the scene where Hidalgo is lying on his side, and the spirits of Frank's Sioux ancestors come to him, and he's chanting in Sioux, and I was thinking how much the chanting sounded like davening (praying, esp. in Hebrew) and I ( Read more... )

The sun is shining, sending a creamy, rich yellow bar of light through my back door, a bar which comes as close as the welcome mat and then stops abrubtly like a stranger, unsure of the welcome he will receive, stops at an open door. It is nice to stand in that bar, to feel the heat surround me like a halo. The grass is a mix of green and brown ( Read more... )

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just finished watching "VAN HELSING" on a rented DVD, and even though the DVD sometimes skipped (grumble grumble obstinate technology mucking everyfing up grumble) it was just...WOW! I mean, yes, most of it was campy implausible "Plot? What Plot? Where?" random stuff, but some of it was ( Read more... )

Just finished reading reviews on the Sci-Fi "Legends of Earthsea" series, and, finding out that Sci-Fi in its infinite wisdom royally screwed up the plot (gratutious acts of sex and violence? Not in any copy of Earthsea I've ever read!) and the races (Ged was white in that movie! What in the name of...something nameable...possessed them to make a ( Read more... )