My list of stuff to do for Fabulous Fandom February was a little much, I must admit. But I am quite proud of myself, in that I did accomplish a fannish thing every single day. I'm on episode 9 of The Wire's fourth season, and I did watch one episode of The Professionals, and I just have "All Hell Breaks Loose" left on Supernatural S2. But I never ( Read more... )

I have to say that despite not talking about Fabulous Fandom February, I am having quite the wild time participating in it. (That is, participating in something that I made up. Because I rock.) I am happy to say that I have done something fabulously fannish every day this month so far. And I intend to see it through ( Read more... )

Is this too ambitious for a 2009 summer travel plan? I have an itch to travel, and I know that this summer is one of the last opportunities I'll have to do this kind of ridiculous sweep of a continent before I have to settle down and get a real job. (If any of those are even available in late 2009, that is.) Assuming money is no object, my idea... ( Read more... )

For Valentine's Day, the NBA gave me the All-Star Skills Competition. I had to watch it all alone, but frankly, that's probably good. I'm sure even the neighbours heard me screaming ( Read more... )

I remember the first time anyone told me that there was Harry Potter fanfic, and that it was available at the pit of voles, which at the time was still known as fanfiction.net, or ffn. I knew about fanfic, but I hadn't realized that you could write it about books. I thought it was mainly a TV thing. And I had never heard of fanfiction.net before ( Read more... )

The only stories I can come up with are the ones I don't like reading -- the ones that don't quite hit the mark. The ones with too many pop culture references and not enough timeless truths. Maybe that's not the problem. Maybe the problem is that I'm just not good enough at writing, at devising plots and depicting characters. Every story has a ( Read more... )

"Ghostfacers" is nominated for a GLAAD Media Award? Seriously?

Because advice from your mom is always the best kind, what did mine tell me about house-sitting?

How about "Make sure the cats have food every day"?

No.

Was it "Wash the floor before they get home"?

It was not. Frankly, though, that's good advice.

In fact, it was a deeply concerned, "Don't watch any scary movies with the lights off!"

I managed to get my drabbles decoded just now, out of Microsoft Word format and into good old HTML. Thank you, Google!

There are approximately a gazillion of them. A ton for Sports Night, The Wire, Pretender, Veronica Mars, Homicide: Life on the Street and one each for Queer as Folk, Spin City, and Maximum Bob. Some are definitely better than ( Read more... )

I have declared that for me, next month is going to be Fabulous Fandom February. I am going to be a good fan and do fannish things, the likes of which have not come out of me in years. I wrote down everything I want to do on a piece of paper and put it somewhere. Highlights included:

• Finally get through season 4 of The Wire• Finish writing the ( Read more... )