Welcome to my walk to work!

Things i am intensely pleased by:

Terminator Taxidermy

I love you, but you frustrate the fuck out of me

The idea of a Historical Pre-enactment Society

50s style advertisements for  My First Neurosurgery Kit!

An old favourite: CRUSH THE COOK (scroll down).

Make GPS Art with Stavros!

Free, weekly sci-fi from Tor books: This week - Spin by Robert Charles ( Read more... )

in this episode: romance to science fiction to poetry and back. Tell me if you enjoy it, or i'll confine it to facebook.

Houses of Stone: Barbara Michaels

Wonderful strong female protagonist discovers parallels with wonderful strong female poet (sadly dead). Author remembers she writes romances and wrecks story. Three stars (five if you chew off ( Read more... )

Where does a social phobic slug go to hide? Fucking lucky those snails are. I'm beginning to think this is why my handbags are getting larger and larger ( Read more... )

A week's worth of favourite links, all probably purloined from one science fiction author or another :}

• "14) The only universal message in science fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently.
  Niven's corollary: The gene-tampered turkey you're talking to isn't necessarily one of them." (From Niven's Laws. Slightly more ( Read more... )

Conradin's post just reminded me ( Read more... )

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You may not know -- unless if you follow my fb, where I wallow in my somatic form with true clumsy style-- but I've had a form of gastro that's approached dysenteric proportions for a couple of weeks. (Seeker: it's YOURS! Computer virus! I've caught the bug in your system ( Read more... )

"You know," says G., "She ended that email she sent to me by saying 'I'm still the same Tania you first met, you've just seen the bad as well as the good.'" He pauses. "In other words, she was always the kind of lying fucktard who would try to sleep with my best friend's partner. I think I'm justified in not caring about her any more."