False advertising

There is a movie coming out of Bridge to Terebithia. Trailer can be viewed here. Now, like most people who read BtT as a child, I love the book. It was beautiful and tragic and perfect and unforgettable, and above all, realistic.
And I want to know why the trailer is acting like this film is [...]

Entertainment Round-up (updated!)

I know some of you are tiring of hearing me go on and on about TV shows for the last few days.
But, um, Veronica Mars was Tuesday night, so bear with me. In white text, as usual, to prevent spoilage. Highlight to see…
I LOVE LOGAN ECHOLLS.
It’s a pure love, a deep love, the [...]

The Vacation Continues

More loafing yesterday, even though I need to 1) clean, 2) pack, and 3) sew my suitcase back together again. The suitcase industry is such a crock. You pay hundreds of dollars for some supposedly “lifetime guarantee” bag that goes out of warrantee the second you check it onto an airline? And then you’re blamed [...]

Back, briefly

I enjoyed the blog vacation. It’s amazing how little time it takes to fall out of the habit completely. Writing this seems vaguely foreign to me right now.
I gorged myself on Thursday, lay around on Friday reading books, spent most of Saturday out and about with various friends, and did more reading, research, and movie [...]

Worth It

First of all, Veronica Mars ROCKED. Wow. But when they did that ad with LoVe/Piz=?? and then said to go to that website, http://veronicaviewers.com to share your thoughts? “Piz is a whiny little bitch of a character who Veronica would steamroll within minutes” was not an option to check. What am I supposed to do? [...]

NYPL

I can’t decide what I like best about this site: the fact that the blogger makes jokes about how to pronounce the acronym for New York Public Library (never occurred to me before, but now I odn’t know if I’ll be able to stop thinking of it), the fact that she (?) is clearly a [...]

NaNoWriMoHateBlo

That’s National Novel Writing Month Hate Blogging, which seems to be a hot new trend. Look here, here, here, here, here, and, most surprisingly of all, here. (This last contains an open letter to the organizer beginning, “Every year when you run your event, I cringe.”)
Okay, I know Anne Crispin means well, and I’m usually [...]

Double Secret Probation

Someone just emailed me to ask if she’d done anything to get excised from my blogroll. Apparently, her link disappeared. (Of course, if I did any kind of culling like that, you know that biyotch Gena would have been out on her ear long ago.)*
If anyone else has had their link vanish from my blogroll [...]

Under the Rose: What it’s about

I’m now officially behind on my NaNoWriMo goals, but the good news is that I’ve turned the last corner on my line edits. Sixty-three pages left. I’m reminded of the character in Anne of the Island (which Robin has, shamefully, never read) who claims she can’t write a paper unless she throws each page to [...]

Denzel Vu

Not doing Thursday Thirteen this week because I don’t feel like immortalizing “13 ways that yesterday sucked” in my blog.
It was getting a little desperate yesterday afternoon (those of you who received the whinging emails and phone calls can attest to that) and I didn’t really feel like going out, but I had [...]