Brilliant (?) Idea

I was over at bloodclaim and in a reply tempestsreach wrote that Lazuli Kaat was compiling "The Spander Files" at http://spanderfiles.tripod.com/contents.html with Spander fics sorted by category. I can't recall the number of times I have read a request for a specific type of fic ie. vamp!xander, human AU, h/c. Wouldn't it be a great idea if authors submitted the titles and URLs of their fics and readers could submit their favorite Spander so they could all be under one searchable roof so to speak?


On another note a couple of nights ago I watched "Smallville" waiting for James Marsters to appear again (if you blinked during the finale of the season premiere you missed his first appearance). This is the first season of the show I'm watching (and once Brainiac is defeated I doubt I'll continue watching--it's not my cuppa) and I was surprised by the AUness of it all compared to the comic books I read back in the day. As I recall teenage Clark Kent was Superboy openly complete with costume, Jor-El was a nice guy and Brainiac was green. I wonder if the production staff are going through the old comics and gleaning what they can use. I wonder if Lena Thorul would ever show up. The stuff that sticks in one's memory *sigh*

Linoleum

I came across this somewhere:
"More Weird Mating Habits: The longest-lasting copulation, according to University of Arizona biologist John Alcock (interviewed for an August Knight Ridder story), is that of the lowly "stick insect" (of the phasmida family), which goes on for several months at a time, even though, he said, it is "not clear this is welcome to the female." The male attaches himself to the female's back, which allows her to continue with her daily routine during the mating, while also discouraging competitor males. According to other biologists, some ticks spend up to eight hours on what resembles foreplay, and butterflies, snakes and houseflies can also go on for hours. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch-Knight Ridder Newspapers, 8-28-05]"

Now in the NYC area there's a commercial featuring a man with a woman attached to his back because she wants him to get a medical exam (I think that's the reason for the ad). I will never view that ad in the same way again. It's now the middle-aged version of linoleum though it would've been better if the roles were reversed *g*

I should make clear that I suffer from chronic televisionitis.