So I'm a reader of this blog, right? I've posted a link to it before in these pages. I'm rather a fan of the lady's style of writing; anybody who writes about sex and grammar this well has got their proverbial fingers on my equally proverbial pulse. Anyway, like many a higher-profile blog, there's space for ads, including one to this very, very odd ( Read more... )

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This has been an awful week. Since last Wednesday my favorite author has died and on Monday some deluded psychotic gunned down thirty-two human beings. Jesus Christ.

So: two items of good (or good for them) news.

Under the category of "good for them:" Bollywood superstars Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai got married today. Now, anyone who ( Read more... )

So I forgot my computer back at work yesterday, and spent a whole day removed from the Internet. On the upside, I spent the evening last night writing and later watching The Venture Brothers. I had the fortune to hear a radio interview with the author Walter Mosley on Tuesday, and it kind of got me into gear toward writing again. Mosley insists ( Read more... )

As if we needed any spare evidence of her goddessability. Now, if you'll excuse me, my glasses just exploded.

There's a hole in the world.

Leave me alone.

It's late. I should be asleep, working off the rest of this cold and because I have to be at work at 7 tomorrow. But I can't sleep, and as science has taught us, in situations like this, it's the LiveJournalers that suffer.

The man in the white suit---Farouk, I think his name is--he has one of those small, effeminate James Bond guns, with the ( Read more... )

Do not click unless you are keen to find out spoilers for Battlestar Galactica's upcoming 4th Season, in 2008.

The Twelfth Cylon

Honorificabilitudinitatibus: Word appearing in the final act of Love's Labor's Lost. It is apparently the ablative plural of medieval Latin "honorificabilitudinitas," meaning "the state of being able to achieve honors." The word itself dates as far back as the early 12th century, before anyone in the medieval world was writing in the vernacular. ( Read more... )