Way overdue, but:

Christopher Lee: Thanks so much to Syd for this one!

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Doctor Eleven: I was so heartbroken about losing my favorite doctor I've barely watched Eleven, but when I watched the first two eps I was struck by the parallels between their relationship and Peter & Wendy. If you don't get it, think about it a little. No time has passed ( Read more... )

Drinking Games for Lazy People: I like drinking games that have, like, one rule. Then you don't need a whole list, just a whole bottle. So the M*A*S*H 'take a drink for every drink taken on screen' and the Law & Order 'donk-donk' drinking games are easy to play, even if you're drunk ( Read more... )

JoCo & TMBG: Better Together!: I must admit, I've been so down and unmotivated lately I couldn't muster the desire to go see TMBG when they come through my home state for two dates in March at Asheville and Charlotte. (Serious warning sign, I know!) But then, as if sensing my hesitation, they sweetened the deal: Jonathan Coulton is opening ( Read more... )

King & Associates Tax & Accounting: Holy Apollo, Batman, I've got a second job! I figure getting offered one I could do -- and not go bonkers at -- in this job market was way too good to pass up. Also my boss is a super-awesome lady. She's got a plant she calls 'Audrey' and her hold music is George Harrison's 'Tax Man.' And it's not retail or food ( Read more... )

Lots of people are looking back on things that affected them, and I'm still sick, so I'm going to give it a shot. Here are recaps of my ten favorite awesome things this year in no particular order:

Wings of Avatars: Finishing a book for the first time since Derek died. Finally crossing that finish line on November 29th, barely under the wire and ( Read more... )

Ary Barroso: While watching 'The Lady from Shanghai' -- an old movie with Orson Wells and Rita Hayworth I was underwhelmed by -- I heard a song from the 1944 Disney film 'The Three Caballeros.' I knew it was that song about Baía that romances the place in South America. The whole film is a series of propaganda-like vignettes begging Americans to ( Read more... )

"What do you read, my lord?" "Words, words, words." I collect them and share them like Fraggles do with smooth rocks, and was delighted to have my dad send me two honeys:

Esurient: synonym for greed

Cyllipygian: 'having well-shaped buttocks' (I'd heard this before but forgotten it. Doesn't it sound so much more sophisticated than 'nice bum on ( Read more... )

Alegria: I always forget how much I love Cirque du Soleil, even though my iTunes is packed full of their music and I've got the box set of their shows. I'm watching 'Alegria' for the eleventy-somethingth time ( Read more... )

Wings of Avatars:

126824 / 126824

So for the record, here's the total number of words I wrote for this year's National Novel Writing Month, midnight November 1st to 4:26 pm November 29th:

67021 / 50000It's over. A year and two months of work and second-guessing, of false starts and restarts, of re-evaluation, of two mad thirty-day writing ( Read more... )

Wings of Avatars:

121326 / 127756

Other relevant numbers: 25.5 of 27 chapters done. 3 scenes remaining. 61,523 words since November 1st. 3 days left to finish.

(Stay on target!)