Ermm...

[tadorna]

What have I to say?

Very little really. I feel snippy. Snip snip snippy. *rolls eyes at world*

Um. Our garden is being overtaken by spiders. HUGE MONSTER SPIDERS!!!1

I am rereading Microserfs for comfort reasons.

I wish to purchase cool little things I don't really need with money I don't currently have. Any suggestions?

Blah blah. I'm bored.

Entertain me with interesting links, facts or stories please. I command you!

ETA: *rolls eyes so far they're looking at the back of my head* Whoa. It's dark in here!

Comments

[rochefort.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you've read this Susan Cooper interview before; you might find it interesting:
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/intrvws/cooper.htm
Especially the bit where she says she always envisaged Will and Bran getting together when they grew up.

No, sorry. I just made that bit up. It's not actually interesting in that way.

And a random interesting fact: did you know that Chupa Chups wrappers were designed by Salvador Dali?

[lebannen.livejournal.com]

Hiii. I'm afraid I don't have any interesting links other than that to the complete works of AJ Hall, and I suspect that either you've read them already, or don't really want to know about them right now. hmm.

I got some interesting post from the USA via Germany today, which again may make you feel more snippy if yours hasn't turned up yet, but, woo yay, it is teh roxor. or something. there will be a mrginally more intellegible comment made when I'm not drunk. (yeah, right, like that email I meant to send you last year about Protection. One day it'll get written...)

This morning there were FIVE giant hairy spiders in the bath. If I wasn't in such desperate need of having cleaner hair today I'd have been tempted to leave them there. As it was I threw them out of the window and felt very brave.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Oh you are mean! You should not taunt the gullible. I haven't read the interview though, cool. :)

And a random interesting fact: did you know that Chupa Chups wrappers were designed by Salvador Dali?

Er. No... *looks suspicious* Are you taunting me again?

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed, I have read the complete works of AJ Hall, and very lovely they were too. Thanks, though. The mere though of them serves to lighten my heart, which is currently a little tired of fandom in general.

Although... I got some interesting post from the USA via Germany today Yay, cool! Please don't feel the need to make intellient comments on my behalf though, heheh!

I congratulate you on your arachnoid bravery.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Please don't feel the need to make intellient comments on my behalf

I meant on my account. Bah! *gives up typing*

[rochefort.livejournal.com]

Would I kid you? :)

http://www.chupachups.com/ccentral/dali/dali_eng.asp

It's even got creepy-crawlies on it. Not spiders, though.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Ha! Well there you go. You learn something new everyday etc. Ants, too! :)

[lebannen.livejournal.com]

*blinks* I didn't even notice anything odd about that statement until I read the second comment. And I thought I'd sobered up....

So, anyway, American Gods, good book, yes? I'm in the middle of a reread at the moment (well, actually, it's possibly only the second time I've read it, or maybe the third, I forget - not the nth as it would be with Good Omens, f'r instance), which has possibly predisposed me to see aging deities where they might not have been intended.

(my current excuse for incoherence is tiredness after staying up faaar too late last night reading something very meta. and no alcohol at all. honest.)

[leeky.livejournal.com]

http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Hours of fun. 99% educational content free.

I Aren't Nonymous

[lugna-vatten.livejournal.com]

We, too, are Spiderous in the backgarden. But not the small blackish Janet and JOhn type more your exotic looking brown and mottled ones. Loads of them. And more likely to be called Caprice and Ptolomey, too.

They're busy little buggers - it only takes them about 15 minutes to start tying up the garden after we've been out in it.

[maya-ibuki.livejournal.com]

Picture this scene if you will, late one night not so very long ago I am round a friends house, the house is deep in the country and quite old. I dim the lights and settle on the bean bag for a bit of late night Buffy. Hang on though; what’s that commotion behind me… the cat’s chasing something, never mind, (Buffy like kills some more Vampy badness!)… hang on again, what’s that that just ran down my naked arm and over my face…. Ahhhhhhhh!!!!

And the moral of this little tale? ‘Better to have huge monster spiders in the garden than in the living room!’

Maya x

[the-oscar-cat.livejournal.com]

I am rereading Microserfs for comfort reasons.

just. yes.

i am going to re-read quite ugly one morning - apart from about 3 pages that make me feel ill - just to erase the shite that was on tv on sunday night.

*projects*

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Microserfs! Cute book. Loses momentum about 2/3 of the way through, I found. Screamingly funny the flat food!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really enjoyed American Gods. I didn't expect to, for some reason. It was the first Neil Gaiman book I read. It pushes a lot of my buttons, I think, and then there's the fun of spotting the Gods. I'm just fascinated with the idea of plucking bits of mythology out of the ether and twisting and moulding them into something new but strangely familiar. Heh, how's that for incoherence? Plus I'm in love with the thought of all these old gods hanging around driving taxis and stuff.

So what was this fabulously meta thing you stayed up reading? I used to read a lot of meta stuff, but now I often tend to lose concentration.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Thanks - commendably mindless.

Re: I Aren't Nonymous

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Yes, those are the type we've got. Only ours are called Yanesh and Persephone. I've given up on the now - the garden is theirs.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

You were probably blocking its view of Buffy. It really ought to have waited till it was invited though. Bit rude.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Microserfs is the ultimate comfort read, I think. :)

i am going to re-read quite ugly one morning

Ah, I haven't read that, but I didn't watch the TV thing either. Probably best not by the sound of it??

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're probably right, actually, but I love all the characters so much I don't really mind. And it's just so full of gems like the flat food thing. Makes me smile. :)

[lebannen.livejournal.com]

hmm, it was the one mirabile_dictu linked to, umm,

... Why is it, may I ask, that it is culturally cool and acceptable and not even mildly surprising for this photograph [of two members of the US women's Olympic Beach Volleyball team in horizontal full-body contact] to be so popular, and yet the idea that women like male/male slash is so shocking?

Not a particularly new topic, but it got a lot of replies, and I read... most of them, probably.