I would love to win an Advanced Reading Copy of Malinda Lo's upcoming book Adaptation. I've loved Lo's other two published novels, and I think this one will be awesome as well.

( Click to see the ARC cover, also visible at the above titular link. )

Have a touch of Whovian humor, via gailcarriger.


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I'm a participant in the klainemadness challenge. Although named for March Madness, this challenge is not about sports (not even "the same way Charlie's Angels was about law enforcement," to quote the Sports Night tagline); it's about ranking porny Kurt/Blaine ficlets. If that interests you, I encourage you to head over to the first round for reading and ( Read more... )

I'm signed up for these local deals called Faveroos that are like Living Social and Groupon deals, except the Faveroo people donate part of the purchase prices to local charities, like the Mid-Ohio Foodbank. The e-mail I got about the latest Faveroo offer today stunned me a bit, when I opened it and saw . . . well, take a look at the initial ( Read more... )

Thank you so much to oxoniensis, robanybody, slippery_fish, and sandrine for the birthday wishes and virtual LJ gifts. Thank you also to sandrine, rosanner, and dine for the holiday snail mail cards. I really appreciated all of those, and I really appreciate all of you, my dear friends, more than you can know. ::hugs::

I do not appreciate LJ's recent style revisions and lack of notification for the above ( Read more... )

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Isaac Asimov once wrote a letter on how a library is awesome and rather similar to a Doctor and his TARDIS:
[I]t isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will ( Read more... )

Yesterday a coworker was reading off to a customer on the phone -- for some reason I couldn't ascertain, although this is public information -- the names of groups who have the meeting room reserved at one of our branches this month. I thought surely I'd been mistaken when I heard her say, "Central Ohio Time Lords ( Read more... )

Allow me to preface this by emphasizing that I mean it in the absolutely most literal way imaginable possible:

I strongly dislike having a teabag swing and hit me in the nose while I am attempting to swallow.

He plays Wes on Glee, but those Dalton outfits do not do him justice. ( Here, have a mini-picspam. )