Me: Owen in the Jolly Jumper reminds me of a television episode where people are cursed to dance and they can't stop and then they combust.
Teenaged babysitter: You mean on Buffy?
Me, blinking: Yes.
Teenaged babysitter: I've seen the whole series, like, twice. My mom and I just finished watching the second season of Angel. We've...
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Imagine, if you would, how loudly I squealed when my stitch-group friend Marie gave me this knitted Dalek last week.
DUDE. How awesome is this? And she made it a rattle. I can't wait till Owen properly interacts with toys.
You, too, can knit a Dalek if you're so inclined. Marie told me she used the...
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Glee got me thinking tonight. It got me thinking about hate.
I had like the anti-high school high school experience. Not "anti" like "against". More like "anti" like "antimatter". I hibernated. That's the way I think of it. I put my head down and woke up on the first day of university.
It wasn't a conscious...
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Have I ever mentioned that the whole let's-do-an-interview-about-crafts-with-Joss-Whedon thing was the most fun I've ever had online? Well, if I failed to mention it, consider it immortalized here in bytes (until the EMP strikes and all this work we've done is obliterated).
The fun started nearly two years ago, the interview was in November of...
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The Swedish title, Män som hatar kvinnor, translates as "Men Who Hate Women". Somewhere along the line the title for the English translation of the wildly popular, bestselling novel was changed to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
It's this difference in how stories are packaged in Sweden vs. North America that's making me insist...
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When Twin Peaks first aired in 1990, it was a revelation. For one thing, it was my first experience of true, out-and-out geekery. I kept a journal with quotes from the show. I talked about it with my very few friends at school. I was a weird kid and it was a weird show...
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I'm reblogging myself from over at Tumblr because I'm fairly desperate to discuss this. Please, oh please, chime in:
The relationship between Dale Cooper and Harry S Truman in Twin Peaks is the best example of true male friendship ever portrayed on television.
Go.
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It's grey and rainy in Vancouver, but spring's pretty much already started so I'm not too worried about any unpleasant prognostications today. BING!
Regardless, instead of passing out from exhaustion at 7:30 last night, I parked myself on the couch in front of the television and finished off my groundhog (huge thanks to June Gilbank...
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I thought a couple weeks into 2010 I'd do a little wrap-up of 2009. It was, after all, a fairly unusual year for me. Also, I've neglected my pal the bulleted list and I feel I owe him a big one.
(Wee note: I've gone and put a new theme on the blog, so poke...
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Dude. Game knitting. You have to try this.
Lee Meredith's ebook about it is worth the download. I printed the relevant pages and brought them with me on a wee trip we took last weekend, and I'm not sure I'll ever be without a game-knitting project whenever I travel from now on.
The gist of game...
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