The Dream Quest of Unknown Me

Well James Marsters was in only one scene in last night's episode of "Without a Trace". I'm hoping that when they move his storyarc to the forefront that it might be a 2-parter with lots of JM scenes and that they give Detective Morris a nice first name for anyone who might like to write a Bones/Without a Trace crossover story (and it better NOT be Dudley *g*)

The writer E.E. Knight, author of the Vampire Earth series, has written an interesting entry in his LJ on writing blunders to avoid when writing a novel. He's another pro author on LJ - yay!

For all you booklovers out there lexica510wrote in a comment I don't know if you use Firefox, but in case you do — one of the most useful extensions I've installed is Book Burro. When it "senses" that you're viewing a webpage about a book (like on Amazon, for instance) it checks to see who else has it for sale, and for what price.
The website touts it as "Don't search for the lowest price — Let your browser do the work for you!" but the aspect I like best is that it taps into WorldCat to see if the book is available at any local libraries. *happy sigh*

Went websurfing and came across a few things:

Gakked this from wisteria_  - If I dig a very deep hole, where I go to stop? Another stupid application for Google Maps...

Go look at Kiwi and how he made his dream come true - it's sweet and a little sad.

Lots of cute cat pics here 

Came across The Chapbook of William the Bloody Rhymer with its collection of poems by our Spike.

Spent the day roaming the internet and came across two great posts.
One is baylor_w's amusing commentary on The Ten Commandments; the other I found through that post. It's an essay on The Other People who apparently do not suffer from Original Sin as they are not descended from Adam and Eve. Both essays are amusing and thought-provoking.

I think I may have mentioned that as a kid I used to read Superman comics (plus others in the DCverse). Today I came across a site called Superdickery which is "Home of the phrase that started it all, 'Superman is a dick.' Witness an ever growing selection of examples of Superman acting like... well, a dick." It's a funny site often using the editions that I read oh so long ago.

My outrage at the xtian right and their scheme to make over the country in their image is making me far more political than I ever thought I would be. Found a couple of sites for my outrage (misery loves company *g*):

Democratic Underground
liberalrage

Need an icon with a message to Dubya? Go to liberal_icons. I'm heading over there to find one which I'll add to my allotment of 6 though which one to retire?

Gakked this info from kathrynt via ginmarie:

In light of the situation in SD, Cecilia Fire Thunder, President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, is opening a Planned Parenthood on res land which will provide abortions. The state has no jurisdiction over reservation lands.

Further kathrynt writes:

"I called the Office of the President of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of Pine Ridge, and spoke with Ms. Fire Thunder herself. (In case you haven't seen it, this is in reference to http://www.indianz.com/News/2006/013061.asp)

If you want to mail donations to the reservation, you may do so at:

Oglala Sioux Tribe
ATTN: President Fire Thunder
P. O. Box 2070
Pine Ridge, SD 57770

OR: and this may be preferred, due to mail volume:

ATTN: PRESIDENT FIRE THUNDER
PO BOX 990
Martin, SD 57751

Enclose a letter voicing your support and explaining the purpose of the donation. Bear in mind, the Pine Ridge Res is not exactly dripping with disposeable income, so do consider donating funds directly to the tribe as well as specifically for this effort.

ETA: Make checks out to OST Planned Parenthood Cecelia Fire Thunder. This will ensure that the funds get routed properly.

For email contact, you can contact the president at:

firethunder_president AT NOSPAM yahoo DOT com
cc:vbush AT NOSPAM oglala DOT org

That is Ms. Fire Thunder's personal email address; I have received permission to post it here. For the sake of record keeping, do cc: the listed address on all correspondence; that's her official secretary.

She was frankly kind of surprised that a white girl from Seattle was calling to express support, and even more surprised that the news had spread so far so fast. She's likely to get deluged with screaming hate mail soon, so get your support in fast. Send email with good thoughts if you can't send money.

ETA: Yes, please, dear God, link it anywhere and everywhere!"

There's a photographer named Gregory Colbert who has a show called Ashes & Snow with the most gorgeous photos of encounters between humans and animals. Take a look.

Anyone out there with an aquarium? There's a Fish School where someone has figured out a way to train goldfish, bettas and albino Oscars to do simple tricks. The only pets I ever had were a couple of goldfish that quickly departed to that aquarium in the sky (actually they were flushed down the toilet). I might have been more devastated if I'd known I could actually do something with them.

Well I've been web-surfing and I found 2 sites with "Lost" timelines: here and here. They do help make sense of all the important trivia floating about.

With Tom Cruise and his Church so much in the news I found this very interesting site Operation Clambake: Undresssing the Church of Scientology Since 1996 and its very funny Scientology Illustrated. Is it just me or are there an awful lot of gullible people out there?

Sweet piccies of a baby monkey and stray kitten are to be found here

I just came across Cute Overload with a bounty of photos of cuddly hamsters, kittens, puppies and other adorable animals.

In Thursday's NY Times I came across an aticle about a site called Blurb which can make a hardcopy book out of a blog (for a price of course). I don't know if it would work with livejournal and ghod knows I haven't written anything that should be preserved for posterity--yet--but maybe someday. I'll keep it in mind.