Monkeys and keyboards aside, one Random + CSS still doesn't make poop.

I picked up Gaiman's Stardust, got about halfway through, realized I couldn't give two shits about any of the characters and that there was far too much extra padding word-wise, and put it down.

I picked up Charles de Lint's Widdershins, realized that it was cut from the same cloth as Gaiman's American Gods, and got maybe four chapters in before my overused concepts sensor started shrieking about NO MORE FAIRIES NO MORE FAIRIES AND ESPECIALLY NO MORE EUROPEAN FAIRIES TRANSPLANTING TO AMERICA. Then I put it down. Too bad--I liked his straight-up native oddities stuff.


I picked up Kiernan's novelization of Gaiman's screenplay Beowulf, mostly out of a morbid sort of curiosity--how would modern-day storytellers take on the work that'd been one of the (many) banes of my Major British Writers class?


Well, I didn't put that particular header on this post for no reason.

( They did WHAT to my classic?! )

I'm afraid to see if the movie's any better, so I picked up a Best of Lovecraft collection and am still working on Laurie’s The Gunseller, which is still good. Mm, brain cleaner. :P

It's been pretty chilly here, and the creek half-froze. Here's to a panoramic video without having Kabuki try to drag me away.


Boo, Photobucket! Embedding isn't working. :( Here's the link anyway.

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More pics of neat frozen things are going up @ my deviantart acct. :D


In other news, the 4k strong shota community at Lj might be going up as the next incarnation of Strikethrough. I should start link-collecting and making popcorn now.