Answers to last week's 15 characters meme:

1. Uncle Iroh
2. Frank N. Furter
3. Edward Elric
4. Phèdre no Delaunay
5. Sue Sylvester
6. Dexter
7. The Piemaker
8. Willow
9. Gaeta
10. G'Kar
11. The Dude
12. Jayne Cobb
13. Daria
14. The Pirate King
15. Captain Hammer

Three [Edward Elric] and Seven [the Piemaker] collaborate on a novel together. What ( Read more... )

I might even do a better job of this one than the "ships that don't really work and are therefore impossible to write" meme.

1) Make a list of fifteen characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment ( Read more... )

Yesterday I found out firsthand that the rumors are true: Emperor Norton is still alive and holding court in San Francisco.

( details at 11! )

( cut for pictures, bullet-point lists, and half-baked nattering about Latin culture/mythology that needs more research and development )

I'm super-late to the party because we were in Hawaii when the verdict on Prop 8 was announced (more on that later when we organize our pictures). We caught it on CNN, but I had to wait until today to get the full love-fest since we were in Internet blackout mode.

And oh my God, you guys. This video.

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(Feel free to start it at about the 1:40 mark ( Read more... )

n00b: How did you and your husband meet ( Read more... )

Inspired by a comment from vogtalicious, I started coming up with some possibilities for the surprise! twist! ending! likely to result from M. Night Shyamalan directing "The Last Airbender". Feel free to add your own ( Read more... )

I think I already mentioned my office's trans!fail ("we can't have genderless bathrooms! we might use a bathroom a man has used and get cooties! our trans clients' comfort and safety is totally less important than avoiding the boy-cooties"). Now I get to add health!fail to the list. D ( Read more... )

. . .but neither of those will let me cut for Lost spoilers.

( ye're gonnae die brotha! )

SPNL writers:

( cut for SPNL spoilers )