12:00AM - It's almost time for Pretty Lights!

What is Pretty Lights?

Pretty Lights is an annual RPF holiday fic exchange. We're now in our third year! Whee!

There's an introductory post and interest poll here. If you're interested in the idea of participating or even just reading, you might want to join the community prettylightsfic.

We look forward to hearing from even more writers this year!


skrip & diana

1:45AM - Scary.

http://www.ljfind.com

If you search properly, you can get it to display not just friends only posts, but private posts in their entirety. They have a community on livejournal, ljfind, with a post that supposedly allows you to request to remove you from their search, but some people report they've asked for months with no luck.

Does anyone know of a way to get this to block your journal completely?

Apologies if this is old news. I took a look around but didn't find anything on it.

4:16AM - I share because I care...

I'm sure many have seen it already, but I am still compelled to inflict it on the unaware.

Over at The Agony Booth, the blow-by-blow recap of The Incredibly Ripped-Off Story That Evaded Copyright Infringement And Became A Mixed-Up Movie (more commonly known as TIROSTECIABAMUM) is up.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's the Eragon review!
( My two cents, cut for your lack of give-a-damn. )
Anyway. Read the review, it's funny. If you've got time on your hands, read them all. It'll take a while. The recap of Manos: The Hands of Fate is my favorite, big surprise.

6:26PM - Wait, who in the what now?

LA weekly tells a strangely familiar story about a woman who fell in love over the internet. If I skip to the money quote, I think everyone can fill in the details, but it's worth reading the article because the story's well told.

Then Tania tells me that she and her boyfriend Will had been doing some digging. And man, they were intensive. They spent two whole days on the Internet, doing stuff with Google that I didn’t know was possible. They got piles of backup, but the instant she said it, I knew down to my toes that it was true.

There is no Jesse.

There never was a Jesse.

Jesse never existed.

Ever.

What elevates it from a random "MSM discovers internet wackos!" piece is that the hero of this story is Harlan Ellison. This Harlan Ellison.

(I'd link to the wiki for some of his other blockbusters, but it's being robust, and what with JF trying to escape backslashes that don't need escaping, I'm not in the mood for memory fishing.)

ETA: For those commenting on the personality of the narrator, myerlemon has posted this to fandom_wank and dug up some lovely quotes by Josh Olsen, our bard. In short, you are so very right.