Noon: Wake up. Usually this does not involve a hangover ( Read more... )

Or: The Perils of an Interracial Relationship in the Russel T. Davies Universe.

Seriously. I wasn't going to say anything after Mickey, or Martha, or even Evil Lance, but this Officially. Has got. To stop.

Let's do the numbers!

Torchwood: Sleeper: Tonight's so-bad-it-passed-good-and-went-back-to-bad again episode of Torchwood manages to fit ( Read more... )

For various boring reasons I spent much of today lying in bed thinking "what have you done with your life?" I found this article online, which at once makes me feel better and not-all-that-better. The word of the day, boys and girls, is "shopdropping." If you've got a mo, read the article. If not, I'll tell ya: shopdropping is the process whereby ( ( Read more... )

Turns out Rowling had her meaning hidden all along:

"Dumbledore (n) A type of bee

"Not the Headmaster of Hogwarts, though J K Rowling must surely have borrowed his name from the insect. And a nicely echoic word it is, which evokes the drowsy hum of bees on summer afternoons.

"Its first part is one of a set of rhyming words from English of some ( Read more... )

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated yesterday evening.

I don't know, it's not like she was Bobby Kennedy or anything, but I have a feeling things are about to get a lot, lot worse.

I read a book today, oh boy ( Read more... )

So last night I had this dream where I'm standing on the porch--not my house, some cinematic Texas/Kansas/Nebraska house with expanses of space--and across the road there's this other house and there's this young girl, maybe nine, is running out toward me and I'm paralyzed with fear, thinking "oh, no, I/we can see like the whole space here, ( Read more... )

Or: Robert April Reviews Rocky IV.

So, being as my life is filled with excitement, I found myself at 11:30 at night flipping through channels to land unceremoniously on the training montage for Rocky IV, which incidentally can be viewed either as two montages or one ridiculously long montage interrupted only briefly by a teary reconciliation between ( Read more... )

This was my inaugural facebook post, so apologies for those of you who've seen this twice:

Every Man's Battle: Winning the War Against Sexual Temptation One Victory at a Time is a Christian (who'd a thunk?) themed self-help book designed to rid the spiritually impure of you from those beastly impulses Jesus finds so off-putting.

My natural impulse of ( Read more... )

Today is the birthday of novelist and social activist Arundhati Roy. She is 46. God bless her. She's one of those people for whom I, as a more-or-less identified atheist, can say "god bless her" without irony or without direct response to her having sneezed. What follows is a few quotes of hers and a couple of links to YouTube snippets of speeches ( Read more... )