A chicken hit my car on the way home tonight ( Read more... )

knight_77 was a darling & hopped on line a precisely 10 AM PST, to buy tickets for NIN's show at UC Davis! He manged to snag tickets for him, his bro, D & me! It's a smallish venue, there were only 1800 tickets on sale ( Read more... )

Actually, I know what I've done ( Read more... )

Last night we tried to watch 28 Days Later. We got about half way through before I made D turn it off. I was waaaaay to scared to continue & knew I'd probably have nightmares about zombies ( Read more... )

Got home round 6.30 this evening. Drove straight from Yosemite to home. Stopped once for a bathroom break. Still. Five hours in the car is a bit much. Once here, we unpacked the car & collapsed. Will post vacation adventures later this weekend, once I've caught up ( Read more... )

1. Pick one dozen movies that you have special feelings about.
2. Pick a few lines of dialogue.
3. As people guess the film, strike out that entry.
4. If possible, after the film is guessed, explain why that movie made the list.

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I've somehow managed, over a longish period of time, to delete my Buffy fic links. Not sure why I did that. But the end result is that I've been thinking of this fic & I can't find the bloody thing. So if any of you who read this know, please send me the link. *headdesk ( Read more... )

Belabouring the obvious.

If you say that your character, "glared with his eyes and then laughed with his mouth," I'm going to run away using my feet and delete your story with my fingers.

Snagged this from iberia. I've bolded the ones I've read.

2004 ELFRIEDE JELINEK
2003 JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE
2002 IMRE KERTÉSZ
2001 V. S. NAIPAUL
2000 GAO XINGJIAN
1999 GUNTER GRASS
1998 JOSE SARAMAGO
1997 DARIO FO
1996 WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA
1995 SEAMUS HEANEY
1994 KENZABURO OE
1993 TONI MORRISON
1992 DEREK WALCOTT
1991 NADINE GORDIMER 1990 ( Read more... )

Here's my latest icon. Mmmmmmmm.


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