Ello, Editors ( Read more... )

Bonjour, Bugs!

After putting you off your Wheeties a few months back with "Flies n' Maggots", am encoring on Canadian 'grisly science' podcast Caustic Soda this weekend as the guestpert Entomologist, to revolt all and sundry with tales of the Hemiptera (True Bugs); looking forward to recording on Sunday at 1am!

Salutations, Slavelings ( Read more... )

Salutations, Sparklers!

May have just gotten a personal "Merry Xmas, Wirrrn!" message from a certain Taylor Lautner due to a mutual friend in California with a Smartphone. May also now be squeeing and bouncing around the room. 

Bonjour, Blattids!

Entomological surprise du jour: Saw my first Gisborne Cockroach (Drymaplaneta semivitta) for literally 15 years today, when I moved a box of Xmas decorations. When I was a kid, D. semivitta (a native Australian roach) was omnipresent in homes, and the large, winged reddish-bronze cockroaches- the American Cockroach (Periplaneta ( Read more... )

After yonks of dormancy (I've flirted with a few SUPERNATURAL and INCEPTION pieces, but haven't written MAJORLY in fanfic since BUFFY ended, where I was averaging about a story a week) I've suddenly been bitten- hard- by my Slash Muse again, which is perched on my writing claw and demanding I write something. Next few weeks should see me produce ( Read more... )

Hiya, Halflings!

OMG OMG LOOKS AWESOME WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT A FUCKING YEAR

BTW- Start your slash engines revving :)

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/wb/thehobbit/

Conan the Barbarian: "My God is Krom, but I seldom pray to him; he doesn't listen"
Sabotai: "...Then what good is he?"

Momentous personal decision du jour: I have crossed over from ticking the box on "Agnostic" to ticking the box on "Atheist", after life shat on my head yet again and once too often. I've come to the decision that after so many years ( Read more... )

G'Day, Gorehounds!

I'm rapidly losing patience with FANGORIA magazine. What used to be a fun, all-inclusive horror movie magazine is, under its new editor, becoming a dumbed- down (those crappy cover paintings!), relentlessly heterosexist, heavy metal music magazine with the occasional horror movie article between unending pictures of B-movie ( Read more... )

Ciao, Celebrants!

Beautiful Australian ad for GLBT Marriage. I have some kind of saline solution leaking from my ocular cavities. Is this normal?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TBd-UCwVAY&sns=fb