the essential kit

online monikers

My friend asks, “How did you come up with your LJ name?” which seemed like a good question/meme thing to participate in, so I thought I’d answer! Kit was a character I played on an X-Men MUSH about twenty years ago. She was a comic-book me, though I always imagined her physically a bit more like Linda Hamilton. She was a photographer with a kid, and I’ve always sort of regarded her as having a life of her own: she’s one of the other paths I could have taken. (Curiously,…

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Pocoyo & Richard III

I am profoundly grateful to Stephen Fry for his wonderful narration for Pocoyo. That is all. Well, it’s not all, but it was important to say. :) I assume you all know by now that it *was* Richard III buried in the Leicester car park, which I think is enormously awesome. And also, as has been clear from Twitter all day, a great source of jokes: “A hearse! A hearse! My kingdom for a hearse!” “Richard III has finally been declared “1485 Hide ‘n Seek Champion”.” and my current favorite,…

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I’ll be in my bunk.

  I’ve just realized that things like this are what Pintrest is for, isn’t it? Instead of having an “awesome stuff” in my Flickr set, you use Pintrest. Only I don’t know if you can then stick a Pintrest picture on a blog any more easily than you can do with Flickr. Can you? Because I suppose I’ll make a Pintrest account if you can…