a.k.a. "Wait, Warren Ellis said that?"

Take a gander.

(Courtesy weepingcock.)


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NCIS:Gay strikes again. Seriously, they have to be messing with us at this point. Seriously.

From roughly 8:00 to 8:10:




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I have an AO3/OTW invite if anyone wants one.


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Panera's new macaroni and cheese is obscenely good. According to the lady at the front counter, they've sold out of it every day since it was introduced last Thursday. (Oddly, I didn't see it listed on the main site. Is New Jersey a test market for it, maybe?)

This is hypnotic. I especially enjoyed playing with the plant, fire, and concrete settings.

I knew going in that it would be tough to find a rental that will take six pets. It's still a depressing process, though, and I'm feeling poor today which doesn't help.

I love that LabCorp lets you make online appointments now. The waiting room has gone from "always packed" to "usually pretty empty".

I need a baby so that I can dress them in this coat. And EXPLODE FROM THE ADORABLE.


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Aww, we love you too, Bill!

The show last night was all kinds of awesome. I'm just glad that the band liked it just as much as we did. :)


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New bird at the birdfeeder today: gray, with an orange-red fauxhawk and black and white striped wings. Very punk and cute!


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I'm disappointed to see that there are only a few comments on this excellent fic, so I decided to give it a quick pimp. To quote from myself:

"It's not a pairing(s) that I'm normally interested in, and a lot of these polyamory stories involve cheating at some point, so I came in a bit doubtfully. But you handled it all smoothly, and made all three of the characters act like reasonable, intelligent adults, so the maturation of their relationships felt satisfying and real."

Bob/Brian, Bob/Ray, Bob/Ray/Brian
NC-17

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( Boys will probably want to skip. )

Just felt the need to complain, sorry.

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I've never been a big believer in all of the fuss over so-called "vanity sizing". Everyone claimed that everyone was doing it, but I hadn't seen much evidence - I've been roughly a US size 28, sometimes maybe a 26W, for at least five to eight years.

However, today I checked out the current offerings at MyShape.com, my go-to place for clothes that fit great. They only show you items that will fit you based on your actual measurements. Most of my very favorite pieces come from them, so I know that the system works.

And today I discovered that Jessica Howard apparently believes that I'm a 24W. But even worse, at some company called Scarlett Dresses, I'm a 22W.

WTF. Like finding nice clothes wasn't already hard enough.


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I'm going to the Empires show in Philly tonight! Am ridiculously excited, as they are easily my favorite band that I've discovered via bandom, and rank high on my "favorite indie bands" list overall.

(A little below them comes The Academy Is..., and I quite like the 504 Plan EPs I downloaded. Apparently Tom Conrad and I share the same taste in music.)


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From Awkward Family Photos:

( Has anyone seen Aunt Telcia? )

I make no judgments, but someone in the comments posted a photostream of the setup in an attempt to prove that it's real.


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Via Smart Bitches Trashy Books:

We now know the next big thing in publishing:



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Today, I naively assumed that my brain chemistry was back to normal. But now I'm working up to a migraine. :(


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Oh, that would be frozen rain!

Two weeks before Halloween.

In New Jersey.

ETA: OK, the snow is pretty.


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I don't like Glee.

I'm sorry - I tried! I love musicals, and I love dark and/or subversive comedies.

But I don't like many of the characters, and it seems like the more I dislike them, the more screen time they get. And the ones I do like, such as Puck, are still pretty shallow.

Every single one of the plot lines are boring me to tears. I started fast forwarding through parts quite a few episodes ago, and I'm down to just watching the musical numbers (which I do enjoy), and about two minutes total of the rest of it, in roughly 30 second snippets at a time. I'm pretty sure I haven't missed anything as a result - so far, I've been able to follow what's happening without a problem.

And the timeline is driving me crazy! I've forgiven the instant perfection of the singing, background music, and choreography, on the basis of it being a conceit of the whole musical genre. But I can't figure out how many months(?) are supposed to have passed. When are sectionals anyway? At the end of the school year? ( general spoilers ) This is hurting my head.


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(Yes, seriously, three posts in one day. I know.)

I just noticed that Empires is playing three shows in NYC and Philadelphia next week. I don't usually (or, well, ever) go into the city for small shows at clubs. But as they're by far my favorite group I've been introduced to since joining bandom, and they seem to stick mostly to the Midwest, there's no way I'm not going to one of them.

The only question is which: the NYC and Brooklyn shows are much closer, but I need to head down in the general Philly direction for house hunting sometime soon, it's a weekend instead of weekday night, and there's a good chance that I can talk my brother and RoShawnda into coming with me. I'm leaning towards the latter. (Besides, Philly smells better then NYC.)

Oh, uh, hi SGA-people. *waves* I guess I forgot to mention that I joined bandom recently? As you know, I don't normally do the RPF thing, but I somehow got sucked in back in August - I don't even remember how anymore.


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Despite my well-established SGA love, and therefore in defiance of fandom's collective disdain, I have been watching Stargate Universe. It's not half bad, actually. I'd be really into it and think it was moderately great if I didn't hate every single character. (Except Eli, who is exactly the kind of character I normally hate - see Greg Grunberg's character on Heroes - so I don't expect my slightly-better-then-indifference to last).

And I hate every member of the Senator's family at least twice as much as everyone else. Shut up, selfish people, your emo is not that important compared to survival, national security, or even everyone else's emo suffering.


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My friends lists these days are overflowing with massive (and well deserved) Criminal Minds love. And yet good fanfic remains frustratingly hard to find. Rather than commenting yet again as yet another person discovers the series, I thought that I'd actually post my recommendation here.

Defect by kikkimax (also here) features a pre-Hell Dean Winchester caught by the FBI; the problem is, the BAU is needed to figure out what crimes he's actually guilt of. Gen.

The characterizations are spot-on for both series, and it's fabulous to view Dean through the agents' eyes.

( Read more... )

The sequel is Hell, and Back.

While I'm here, another great CM/SPN crossover is Haunted Minds by buffyaddict13, in which the BAU investigates what happened at Cold Oaks. Unfortunately, it's a WIP and seems to be on indefinite hiatus.


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