Nicked from . A. Pick five films you enjoy. B. Don’t post their titles, just a relatively well-known quote from each. 1. “Okay. If that’s the way you want to play it. But when the gun is in my hand, we’re going to have this conversation again.” 2. “Magnificent, isn’t she? I first saw her in 1949. The land of tolerance. Peace.” “Are you going to kill me?” “Yes.” “Why?” “Because there is no land of tolerance.” 3. “Legano, illegano…is gray area.” 4. “Remember what the Python boys say.” “What,…
geek joy!
I went to see Superman Returns again this afternoon. I love that movie. I will own that movie. I will watch that movie over and over and over again. But today I got extra giggly geek joy out of it, all unexpectedly. :) Some years ago, my mother and husband Conspired on a Christmas gift for Deirdre and me. Mom has a fantastic old cookbook she got from her mother, a basic cookbook that literally tells you how to boil water and make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches all the…
ow.
My shoulder’s acting up. This has become enough of a rarity to be actively offensive to me, nevermind painful. Don’t know if it’s from carrying groceries the last couple days or from sitting on the couch doing my galleys for PHOENIX, but ow. I should probably, like, take some aspirin, huh? Galleys are going well. Just a matter of typing them in now, really. This is the first time I’ve focused on, “Huh, can I change this line around a little in order to get rid of the orphans?”, which…
*Well*.
I am Ms. Spammy Poster today, but this is News of Significance, so I’m writing about it even though I have Very Little Idea what it means, mostly. There’s just been email from Harlequin regarding the Bombshell imprint. To wit, that the imprint has been cancelled as of January 2007. (It’s not performing well enough, in short.) You know that big long posting about the ridiculous number of books I had under contract that I did a few days ago? The one titled, “4 down, 6 to go”? It is…
Buh.
This is really very much not what I expected. Buh. In fact, I think I said, “Agh!”, or something along those lines. You scored as Green Arrow. You would marry GREEN ARROW! He is a billionaire, and a champion of the proletariat. He will always champion the people more than you. He is also the mayor of Star City. Sure you can stand the political spotlight? Green Arrow 79% Batman 61% Superman 57% Green Lantern 54% Captain Marvel 54% The Flash 43% Aquaman 39% What Justice League Member (Male) Would…