Whee!

( Yes, I have no life. I also have no work on my desk at the moment. )

Dance for me, sock puppets of doom!

One hour of six complete! Only five to go.

Mmmrg. I'm never staying up online until 12:30 with Simon and Patrick again, no matter how entertaining it is. Makes me too tired. By this I mean that I'll almost certainly do the same thing tonight. Weep. I have no self-control. ((This is a lie. I have lots of self-control. I just don't use it.))

Me: [hands James Cagney my glass] Hold this for a second? Thanks. [goes back to eating]
James: [makes as though to drink it]
Me: [not looking up from food] You can have it if you want.
James: Aw, now you've taken all the fun out of it.
Me: I can't help that I'm very attentive.
James: [glare]
Steven: Bad Alex! No more bidding traits for you!

[at X2]
Stryker: You're a survivor, Wolverine.
Steven: Oooh, bidding Natures!
[Wolverine runs off]
Me: And he FAILS!

Yeah, so, X2 was entertaining. Very glad I went to see it. Nightcrawler! He's so German!

Nightcrawler: Even ze voice?
Mystique: "Even ze voice?"

Hee.

I need more entertainment. Time to check my e-mail!

...and no, I'm not going to change my Userinfo into a LARP character sheet just because I'm bored.

Tanya Huff, and why I am such a fangirl

10 Reasons Why Tanya Huff is So Cool (in quote format)

In honor of the third Summoning book being out (must... go... get...), a list of ten Tanya quotes from interviews that I particularly enjoy.

...actually, her moving around story sounds... suspiciously like Steven's. Born in NS, moved to Kingston... *jabs Steven* Is your mother really Tanya Huff?

1. "[...] I still consider myself a Maritimer. I think it's something to do with being born in sight of the ocean. Or possibly with the fact that almost no one admits to being from Ontario..."

2. "You're probably wondering how two reasonably intelligent adults can unintentionally acquire a Chihuahua. Please don't ask."

3. NF: Your Blood series obviously merges several genres into one. If you had your choice, where on the bookshelves would you put that series?

Tanya: In the bestseller section. Failing that, in as many sections as possible in order to reach as many readers as possible.

4. "So, what we have hopefully is a funny story that just happens to feature Hell as a secondary character. In fact, Hell and the cat get most of the good lines..."

5. "As well, we get to discover a whole new continent where the society is vaguely like that of the Mayans as run by the Borgias."

6. Tanya: I come from a working-class family, though, and I didn't realise writing was even a career until about grade eight when it suddenly hit me: "People write books." Where I thought they came from before that, I have no idea. Springing fully formed from the head of Zeus perhaps? Who knows. Anyway, shortly after that came the equally important epiphany: "I am people! Therefore I can write books."

7. She's a fan of Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, and Joss Whedon. [And apparently would sell her firstborn to write for him. I would so watch any TV series that had Tanya writing for it.]

8. AAK: We have it through the grapevine that your third and yet to be published book in the Keeper series is called Another Fine Summoning. Would you like to say something about the story?

TH: Well, the TV Guide description would read: "Two keepers, a cat, a couple of dozen displaced street kids, and an archetype try to stop a shopping mall from taking over the world." Given that it's a Keeper book, you can assume that I'm treating this serious subject matter with the respect it deserves. [XD]

8. AAK: How far do you see yourself as being on the cutting edge of fantasy writing?

TH: Mixing metaphors here but I'm so far from the cutting edge, I'm on the sidewalk. Occasionally, I stop at a sidewalk café, have a coffee, and enjoy the buskers.

9. CD: Of all the fantastic worlds you've described, would you like to live in any of them?

TH: As fond as I am of all my worlds, I'm fonder still of socialized medicine, TVO, and living with a reasonable certainty that the things going bump in the night are probably the cats. They may be a nice place to visit, but, realistically...

10. CD: Why do you think there are so many more science fiction movies than fantasy?

TH: Finally, an easy question! Science fiction makes better movies because in sf the plots are externally driven. What would happen if we sent a squad of space marines in to battle a nearly indestructible alien? What would happen if we were attacked by giant insectlike aliens for no apparent reason? What would happen if aliens sent us a plan for a space ship? What would happen if we built a computer that turned out to be smarter than we are? What would happen if Mulder and Scully started acting like real FBI agents? Oops, sorry, free associating...

Greatest. Quote. EVER.

"I am officially a pervy Felton fancier.

Such magnificent DNA."

XD

Apparently Tom has three older brothers, all legal, and so I can stalk them until he's older! Sweeeeeeet.