What I just saw was a one-hour-and-one-minute speech, in which a black President, a white Vice President and an orange Speaker came together in a show of dignified bipartisanship, multiracial manlove, and lavender ties as sparkly as Twilight vampires ( Read more... )

With many, many thanks to Chickenhat for making it so. One more I owe him, out of many.

http://www.rudemechanicals.com/trojanwomen/

August 11 - 14, 2011
The Rio Suites Hotel
3700 W. Flamingo Rd.

So far, the cheapest hotel rates I'm finding are through the con website:

http://www.creationent.com/cal/stlv.htm

"So what did you do this weekend, Tazira?"

"I painted my friends green."

"...Oh."

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You were expecting sober reflections on Star Trek, the Animated Series? I'm sorry, you're in entirely the wrong journal.

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So with Winter's Tale coming up, it's already time to get my act together on a graphic for the inevitable postcards (they make great bookmarks). Any votes?

#1


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This is genius. Raw literary genius.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/143758

I have two nieces, Sienna and Avery, ages two and one, respectively. Most of the time, they get on surprisingly well, without most of the jealousy issues you'd expect from children that age. They've been seen to willingly share toys, food and the attention of the nearest attendant adult ( Read more... )

Because I've heard the song roughly thirty times since October, I find myself reflecting on the Twelve Days of Christmas. And wondering what the fuck my true love was thinking, when it came to some of those presents ( Read more... )

There. I have nagged. And I have voted. Alas, I can do nothing more now. Wake me when the inevitable do-nothing Alice in Wonderland 112th Congress is finally on the way back out ( Read more... )