Author Michael Crichton dies.

Some of you are going to no doubt be surprised that a literary snob like me would give a shit, but I had a huge crush on him in high school. And the mathematical concepts detailed in Jurassic Park were just hot, even if the characters were underdeveloped.

I spent a good chunk of today making hair tassels. Yesterday I bought a package gray hair at the beauty supply place (and it really is a lovely thundercloud color). I thought I'd make the gray tassels first. I managed to get eight large and four small out of the package, and I figure that should be more than enough. I still have the dark hair ( Read more... )

Stolen from...a whole bunch of people on my F-list.
Let's see what the crystal iPod, oh great divining tool of the ages, has to say about my life:

( Eenie-meenie-chili-beanie the iPod is about to SPEAK! )

Nuff said.

EDIT (post speech): I am so unbelievably proud to be an American right now.

ZOMG.

This movie pistol-whipped me, hog-tied me, blew my head off, and left me covered with flies. I wanted to be the rope, I wanted to be the knife, I wanted to be the dust.

LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT, LOVED IT.

I may have to rethink my position on the film adaptation of Blood Meridian. With John Hillcoat's help, Ridley Scott may actually be able ( Read more... )

Okay, now that my civic duty is done...

I went to the fabric store today and bought me a metric fuckton of kickass halloween fabric. It was on sale, marked from $20 a yard down to $7 a yard. I did something I've never done before: I put three (incomplete) bolts of fabric down on the cutting table and said, "Yeah, I'll take all of it." It's this ( Read more... )

If you've ever read fanfiction, or written fanfiction, you MUST READ THIS STORY: Torch This! by Helen E. H. Madden.

You will laugh your ass off.

A very strange but interesting story, here by way of Velvet Mafia: Kinder, by Steve Berman.

Another story from this week's edition of Clean Sheets: Traversed By His Longing, by Marina Kris. It pleases me to see the experimental nature of these new stories. I hope it becomes a trend.

Green Mars, by Savannah Lee.

Oh thank you so much, Clean Sheets, for not sucking. I really needed a nice fat dose of not-sucking. <3

You say you have been here already
But you haven’t taken this road
To my city.
The road paved in skin
And I would have you travel all of my roads.