FOR REAL THIS TIME.

The six selected illustrators and twelve selected authors have been announced ( Read more... )

A Cat in the Ointment

For some, life's one long fine surprise
the ointment's pure: there are no flies.

For some, life's one long disappointment
there's only flies: there is no ointment.

The rest of us live in the middle.
You own the cat -- clean up the widdle.

- Neil Gaiman

I have been really feeling the trueness of this recently.

This entry ( Read more... )

I GOT IN sort of ( Read more... )

I heard back about My Sister the Vampire (recap because I can't remember if I've mentioned it - established series, their writer had to stop working on it so they were looking for a new one, and I sampled for it). I didn't get it, but apparently I was an extremely close second and KB was very very nice about my sample and said that if the publisher ( Read more... )

Look what James just gave me. SO. EXCITING. I am pleasantly surprised that my veneer of being totally used to all this dissipated somewhat when presented with the actual physical books for only the second time ever.


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Feels like I've been off LJ and DW for ages. Not actually true, but kind of feels like that. Maybe because the last thing was a driveby vid post? Anyway ( Read more... )

Sooo apparently Youtube decided to take this down, but still let it work for me and not email me or about it or anything. Because obviously. Never mind. To vimeo! (And, after some laptop-based crackle and embed code dramaz...)

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Have To Drive (Star Trek XI fanvid) from Opportunemoment on Vimeo.

Have To Drive ( Read more... )

I'm a little below my target word count (though about 6,500 words less behind than I was on Friday, I request the highest of fives) so obviously I made a vid.

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Enough To Go By
Music: Enough To Go By, by Vienna Teng
Fandoms: Superman, Batman, Iron Man, Hellboy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, V for VendettaI like this song, because it doesn't attempt ( Read more... )

Saw Harry Potter on Monday. Loved it - all the moments I particularly liked from the book were present, correct and really well done. And one or two things I really didn't like in the book were notably absent, so that was good too. SNAAAAAAAAPE OMFG.

Lots of fun things from Comic Con, including Joss Whedon panel (tbh, there's not a lot of new info ( Read more... )

BASEMENT JAXX, guys. We sang. The Metropole Orchest (from Holland) played. A US hip-hop dancer called Lil Buck and a London ballet dancer called Jennifer White danced. The soloists were Vula Malinga, Sharlene Hector, Brendan Reilly, Lisa Kekuala and the RIDICULOUSLY fabulous and awesome cabaret star Le Gateau Chocolat.The soloists wore mostly ( Read more... )