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The Brave One

Jodie Foster’s boyfriend, Naveen Andrews (mmm Naveen Andrews… ah, sorry), gets beaten up and killed. Foster, sick of living in fear, buys a gun. And you know all those people who harass you on the street? The guys who bully and threaten? Yeah, she goes out and starts picking them off…. And it’s called The […]

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Faith

“Why does anybody tell a story?” Ms. L’Engle once asked, even though she knew the answer. “It does indeed have something to do with faith,” she said, “faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.” Read the rest

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How I Play the Game of Thrones

Your Score: House Lannister 72% Dominant, 36% Extroverted, 72% Trustworthy Confident. Dangerous. Unrelentingly sexy. The master of all you survey, you are of House Lannister. You are a dominant personality—and how! When someone asks “and who are you, the proud lord said, that I should bow so low?” your response is probably, “FUCK YOU! I’m

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Note to Self:

Though I may, in fact, be sitting up listening to Chris Pureka songs on repeat, posting the lyrics of said songs, in this instance, might make this look like some kind of teenage angst blog, and I’m not particularly angsting tonight. But man, sometimes songs feel so good. It’s not just lyrics, just as fiction

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The Mists of Avalon

No, I’ve never read the book. No idea why. Just never could get into it, which is sort of sad, you know, being a feminist SF/F writer who’s never read it. But I did manage to sit through the 3-hour miniseries, which I’d heard was really awful, so I wasn’t expecting much. All right, no,

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Unreal Tournament

The guys at work tend to get together for LAN parties on occasion, so I figured I’d pick up some first-person shooter games and try my hand at it so I could join in. This is definately one of those games that, after a certain point, you just have to play with other people, otherwise

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