I love Tim Burton, despite the fact that I all too often find watching his movies to be just like turning up at the most sumptuous banquet imaginable only to come away hungry. Big Fish is my favorite Tim Burton movie (that I know of), because it is the only one (that I know of) where the story fully inhabits and lives up to its own spectacle. ( Read more... )

Funny story: during my Spring Break, I killed my dvd player with my mind. It was just a cheap little dvd player from Target, probably about a year and a half to two years old, and one afternoon I made the fatal mistake of looking at it and thinking, 'Huh, it's been a while since I had a dvd player break down on me.' And the very next day, my dvd ( Read more... )

the papa Viking tells his son, the scrawny kid Viking, presenting him with his very first horned Viking helmet. 'It was half of her breastplate ( Read more... )

Slugs can eat kibbles. Gack! Oh, kittehs, I think I hear them climbing up the sides of the house and slithering under the crack in the door!

How oh how can slugs eat kibbles? Do they have teeth?

Guess what, friends ( Read more... )

I was ready for a change! And so far I'm going with this awesome polka dot layout by grrliz. Chartreuse and salmon, together again for the first time ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, my spring break took place over a week ago. And as with every school break since the beginning of time (five. whole. years.) I had this picture in my mind of what it was going to be like: perpetual soft gray afternoon light, long drifty days spent polishing the silver, outings to the zoo, cooking by candlelight, and - above all ( Read more... )

I wrote the bulk of this last night - or, more accurately, in the wee hours this morning, before finally getting tired and toddling off to bed.So: I am a gnome. And also a very poor lj-friend of late. But the inevitable excuses will have to wait for another time. I should *so* be in bed right now, but I can't seem to sleep! All my excitement and ( Read more... )

I finally remembered my etsy password and logged in to window shop for a little while. (Distraction ho!*) It occurred to me that I had never bothered to check for any feedback left about me after any of the maybe half a dozen purchases I have ever made at etsy. (Oh, I have drooled over hundreds of things! But only ever bought a few ( Read more... )

I swear I have non-White Collar musings to post about sometime soon, but I've managed to stay terribly busy for the last few days and haven't had time to get on it. In the meanwhile ( Read more... )