A couple of days ago my geek plot/character comparison module (the same part of my brain that many years ago figured out which LotR character each of the Babylon 5 characters equated to) realised that the Winchester brothers share a lot with the brothers 'Mir.

Spoiler warnings for Supernatural s1-4 below. And LotR ( Read more... )

So, last night I made a christmas dinner for moose_biscuit and me (after depositing the Chad at the kitty hotel ( Read more... )

So, you may have noticed that I've not been here for a month, and you might have realised that that was because it was November and therefore NaNoWriMo. I have been writing. It was my sixth year in a row (2005 to present) and I'm pleased to say that I won (for the sixth time ( Read more... )

Ok, so as weird celebrity-filled dreams go, that one was pretty frakking weird.

Last night I dreamed that I was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing, only my partner, rather than being the rather dishy James Jordan, as I might have hoped, was in fact my mother. Granted, she's a very good dancer, but not quite their standard! Fortunately the only ( Read more... )

So, Ain't it Cool News has released some supposedly confirmed Hobbit castingMartin Freeman will make a brilliant Bilbo, but I'm not so sure about the lovely Richard Armitage as Thorin. Mind you, John Rhys Davies is huge, so it's sort of a tradition for Dwarves to be played by massively tall actors. Still, I'm having trouble seeing a skinny 6'5" ( Read more... )

So, how long has the internet on mobile phones been around? Forever? I finally changed my P&G tarif to Text&Web, so last night I surfed the interwebs on my phone for the first time ever ( Read more... )

Fun weekend. And quite busy ( Read more... )

So, NaNoWriMo is suddenly only about six weeks away, which rather caught me by surprise.

We'd hoped to hand over the mantle and responsibility of Municipal Liaison to someone else this year, because moose_biscuit and I have run the region for two years now, but no one seems willing, so it looks like we either do it again or let the region fall apart. We'll ( Read more... )

Ok, this is what I plan to make in the next few months:

• New summer weight Chinese hanfu robes for Maelstrom - current kit is polyester satin and is ridiculously warm in the summer, so I plan to make a new set in silk and/or cotton. moose_biscuit also wants a new summer outfit, but I think she wants to do it herself, so I shouldn't be needed.
  
• First attempt at a ( Read more... )