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Patty and I had a lovely outside dinner last night, but then stayed up too late because work caught up with me. Boo.

Today my face hurts in a massive, horrible sinus way.

I posted my Dragon*Con schedule last night!

We're expecting a lovely fucking hurricane over the weekend that should make Dragon*Con related travel slightly annoying.

Dragon*Con people, there's a fake Irish pub near the hotels that has video trivia and tends to be Not Fucking Annoying on Thursday night. But I can only recall its location by sight in my head. This does not help me tell other people where it is or what it is called. Anyone?

Rather unexpectedly, won writerinadrawer Round 4. If you weren't following along, do go back and read the stories. Many, many people turned in at least one that was some of their best work, and I'm pretty sure we all embarrassed ourselves at least once (I feel like I can count at least four on that score (the embarrassment score) for me). In the end (and arguably through the whole thing, since exercises like this are weird), it certainly didn't come down to quality, but what happened to be to the tastes of whoever was voting in a given week. Also, while I could often tell who wrote what, I pegged something for cruentum that I still can't believe was misswinterhill a few rounds back, so that sort of wacky surprise was fun, but since everything is revealed now, a bit too late for you. Anyway, everyone, and most especially our host, thefannishwaldo, deserves a round of applause for Getting Through This Thing. I found this _much_ harder work than therealljidol.

30 mosques in 30 days.

Ad campaign to counteract anti-Muslim sentiment.

Extreme Dog Grooming.

Plato's pop-culture problem and ours.

The politics of "ma'am" I about fell over laughing at "Because it amuses me."

The Advocate has a point. As more conservative Republicans call for same-sex marriage, what does Obama achieve by opposing it? The people that wouldn't vote for him over this issue, already wouldn't vote for him. Right?

Interesting-and-a-half that pressure for marriage equality in Australia is now coming from a Tasmanian independent.

Are you fucking kidding me? Emergency message about crashing into the sea played to passengers by mistake. Mercury retrograde, we are done!

[TW fic] Seven Times Jack Shagged Ianto Silly

The whole set as promised!

Title: Seven Times Jack Shagged Ianto Silly
Rating: NC-17
Summary: The tw_gleeclub was goofing around one day, as we do, and the idea for a Listfic was born. This piece is really 7 possibly unrelated pieces written by people united under the banner of Jack/Ianto smut. What's not to like? Organized by sanginmychains

1. The First Time, by remuslives123

2. The Second Time, by chamilet

3. The Sixth Time (hey, you can't get it right all the time), by heddychaa

4. After he removed that silly stopwatch from Ianto's hands, with his teeth, and proceeded to show what else he could do with his mouth, by alafaye

5. After Jack returned from his trip with The Doctor. That hotel had two big beds, and they completely befouled the sheets on both of them. They left a really big tip for housekeeping; they're not savages, by sanginmychains

6. When the Aliens Made Them Do It (but no one made Tosh watch, strictly speaking), by blackbird_song

7. Actually there totally was time after the beans and before anything else happened. They just had to get creative, by rm