It's not often that you can say that a novel sums things up perfectly. Particularly when that novel is of the dark fantasy romance genre and if there was an imprint in the Mills and Boon series that catered to the supernatural BDSM crowd, it would most likely end up there (hell, for all I know there is such an imprint!).
It’s not all invitations to coffee or ungrammatic hatemail.
Sometimes these little notes revive pleasant memories of previous posts, like a nice little alert from someone (doing a systematic search on sites which had referenced them) to an updated URL for some essays on film noir that I linked to more than a year ago in this post about Marlene Dietrich and the iconic femme fatale. Read more »
So you’ll never guess what I got for Mother’s Day… a new native garden outside my window!
This was the previous outlook from my bedroom window:
A little bleak, no? More:
Have another eye-candy: Eva Mendes in Italian Read more »
A couple of days ago I was chatting to Patrick on msn and he offered to send us some of his sourdough starter- he's a pretty handy baker of bread these days. In due course, the parcel arrived. When parcels arrive at our complex, because they're too big to fit in the mailboxes, they get left on a bench in the foyer, where everyone just checks the parcel to see if they have any friends (or porn...). Read more »
I’m just going to quote this post from Suzie at Echidne of the Snakes in full,complete with its links for Burma, and add a reminder for the women of China coping with the earthquake disaster of yesterday. Read more »
Eye on Big Brother has been keeping a very close eye indeed on the confected narrative of “Corey Worthington (or Delaney) redeems himself as a house guest”, most recently looking at how this narrative has only been maintained with difficulty because of “Nanna” Terri refusing to play the role cast for her, and Bianca’s far too loud condemnation of Corey in his persona of “just an average seventeen year old kid”, and how their refusal o Read more »
Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! Read more »
Contrary to widely held beliefs, single people are not desperate. Particularly single women. I'll stick to the female side of this equation during this post since that is the side I belong to. Read more »
Day 7 arrived! The pinnacle of the Festival! Read more »
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