Dear Virgil,

When you hide just your angry fishy little face under a leaf, I can still see you. Your ass, it is GIGANTIC AND BLUE.

Love,
Me.

P.S. Pls to be telling me, why do you need nostrils?

(For anyone mystified, Virgil is one of these.)

Have just been to see Wishbone Ash in Oxford- I think hands down the best live band I've ever seen.
Most excellently prog-tastic and absolutely spot on with every single moment of the twin lead guitar harmonies that made them famous- although I believe that the band line-up might be slightly different now.

Not sure how I managed to miss this but oh my god I am just about dead of the Jensen Ackles love right now:
Jensen singing on stage with Kane

It is quite a long video, but only the first 3 mins or so contain Jensen's boogieing bad self although the second half is "House Rules" which is awesome and which I obsessively stalked on CK's Myspace a while back. I'm not proud.
There's bonus Aldis Hodge right at the end too, for the Leverage fans.

There's quite a lot of screaming, just be warned. :)

Apparently it was Christian Kane's birthday.
Also, Steve Carlson has my guitar. Just, y'know, thought that was kind of cool (DYING OMG GLEE).

And now work.

It pleases me immensely that I seem to be able to turn the BBC iPlayer up to 11.

( Fandoms where the ultimate expression of love and trust is letting someone drive your car? Love. [Spoilers for S&H - The Fix] )

Yeah, SPN, Starsky and Hutch beat you to it!

Okay, so mostly because of calamitycrow, I decided it was time I watched some Starsky and Hutch again. It's been a good few years since I last watched Season 1 through and it's almost *more* awesome this time round. There are certainly fewer wacky disguises, but we don't have to contend with Hutch's season 4 porn star moustache, which I think is a pretty good trade.

Anyway, because I like to share the joy, here's a very short S&H clip. Featuring earnest!staring!Hutch and adorable!smirking!Starsky.

I think I need a Gran Torino icon. *ponders*

On last night's Front Row on BBC Radio 4, Mark Lawson and Mark Eccleston talking about new (cringeworthy-sounding) film I Love You, Man:

LAWSON: Now, we use these categories, Mark, we have rom-coms, chick-flicks, buddy-movies... Um, this is a newer one. This is called a bromance.

ECCLESTON: It is. Or a homme-com I think is the other way of looking at it. And in that respect I think it's quite fresh, basically. And it's a nice marketing tool for getting men who wouldn't be dragged screaming into the cineplex to see sort of traditionally female-centric romantic comedies, by presenting two men--one fat and hairy--on the poster so it doesn't look too slashy."

My response?
O_o ... what?! People on Radio 4 aren't supposed to know what slashy means! *flail*
(though as calliope85 pointed out, he clearly hasn't encountered LotR fandom)

But it's so much fun! And also a little procrastination.
So I stole this off lazy_daze and couldn't resist dumping my latest Word file into it...
I present Country Life Gimlet as a Wordle.

( Unveiling the masterpiece... )

Title: Five Times Copper Didn't Get His Hair Cut
Fandom: W.E. Johns' Gimlet King Series
Pairing: Trapper/Copper
Word count: 2100
Rating: PG-ish I suppose.
Synopsis:

Notes: It is a recurring "joke" in the books that Gimlet keeps ordering Copper to have his hair cut. Copper's excuses are many and varied, this is the reason I like to imagine. As far as I know, this is the only piece of Trapper & Copper (very mild) slash on the internet. I may be wrong, and I would be more than happy to find out that I am :D

Please be warned about Dick Van Dyke-worthy Cockney.
At least I don't think mine is any worse than W.E. Johns'.

( By way of additional information about the series... )

( Five Times Copper Didn't Get His Hair Cut )

So, months and months and months ago now, I signed up to this challenge, and have so far written (or rather, finished) precisely nothing at all. However, something is in the offing and I hope to get it finished this evening- so I thought I'd pre-emptively post the table to remind myself what I let myself in for.

I hope to be able to indulge my Trapper/Copper love with this, although I might sneak in some Biggles/Algy where necessary.

01. Beginnings	02. Middles	03. Endings	04. Time	05. Distance
06. Comrades	07. Enemies	08. Family	09. Loyalty	10. Betrayal
11. It's a lovely war	12. A long way to go	13. Never mind	14. I want to go home	15. Good-bye-ee
16. Flowers	17. Fields	18. Sun	19. Clear skies	20. Storm
21. Pack up your troubles	22. White cliffs	23. Home fires	24. When the lights go on again	25. We'll meet again
26. Journey	27. Chase	28. Capture	29. Escape	30. Author's choice

I'm probably going to be a tremendous bore about my aquarium for ever more, I can see it happening. But but but!

( Rambling about the aquarium. )

Oh, and I might have a job. Maybe. In Reading. Dunno yet.

Sorry that I suck and haven't replied to any LJ comments for ages!

Hooray more snow! This is now directly outside our back door. Oh how I love traumatising my mother.



Also, after the Saga of Aquarium Man, I finally have a fish tank! In which, according to the man in the fish shop, I can actually put fish in a couple of days rather that the couple of weeks I was expecting! Photos later when I've added the incredibly tasteful pottery for planting things in.

There's something quite awesome about waking up in the morning and looking out of the window and seeing this:



And then discovering that there's been a freezing fog and dashing out in your pyjamas and taking photos of everything.
( A couple more pictures here. )

I'm sure you all need convincing that Hawaii Five-O is brilliant. I mean, it's understandable that much of the world isn't as enlightened about it as I am. I won't rant and rave about it, and squee magnificently or anything like that, although I could.

No.

Below the cut guaranteed one image, and three bullet points of awesome.

( Right this way for condensed late-1960s cop show goodness. )

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you SO much for volunteering to write in any one of the fandoms I requested. Some of them have been round for ages, and some are relatively new, but I love them all with the fickleness of my happy little fangirl heart, and any new fic at all is awesome fic in my book.

Generally speaking I chose the pairings I did because they were slashy, but honestly I would be just as happy with something gen that pushed all the same buttons as the original material, namely deep friendship with a side order of banter.

I don't particularly like het, so I'd rather it wasn't there unless it's completely unavoidable. Mentions of ex-wives/wives/girlfriends would be fine, obviously, I've got no desire to erase them from canon, I just don't especially want to have to look at them :D (Except Della Street, omg I love her)

If you *are* going down the slash route, I'm not really fan of kink (although now I come to think of it, Crusoe and ropes would work) so it might be safest to avoid it since I have really rather tame tastes and would choose some sappy cuddling over almost everything any day, no matter how hot it is. One request I do have, please no mpreg, or fpreg, it's a giant squick for me.

Specifically:

Crusoe
As I said in the sign-up, I'd love to read about Friday and Crusoe and their madcap island adventures. I'd really prefer this to be as silly and stupidly cheesy as the series itself, because that's the way I like it. Just exactly how many pulleys *did* wash up from that shipwreck, anyway? Did Robinson Crusoe single-handedly invent orange juice? Why the heck don't they just build their own boat and sail off the island, if they're so good at making things?

Perry Mason
I love almost anything Perry Mason, but most of all Paul Drake. Anything involving Paul and I will be so unbelievably happy. If you'd like to try your take on his backstory, or add a tag to one of the existing cases, it's all good.

The Persuaders
I think my sign-up request just about covers it. Again, cheese-tacular madcap adventures would be *awesome*. I'm not really into the whole angst thing, you might be able to tell. An exotic location, some utterly ridiculous storyline, Danny getting knocked on the head/captured/carried off by pirates so that Brett has to go and rescue him...

Miami Vice
As long as Sonny doesn't come off girlier than he is, I'll be happy. I love him as a beer drinkin' football watchin' Buddy Holly listnin' fishin' kind of guy and I love the way it's him and Rico against the world sometimes, with their little eye-rolls at each other and the way they seem to see things the same unless it's personal. I'd prefer something set seasons 1-3 before it got too Doom Doom Doom Gloom and AAAANGST. Which in itself is awesome, but I do prefer their happier (and mushier) interactions.

Finally, Christmas lunch for me will involve trolling into the next county to visit relatives, so I might not be able to comment on your wonderful wonderful story as quickly as I'd like. That doesn't mean I don't love it and I will comment as soon as I am able to get back to my computer and obsessively checking my email.

Thank you so so much! I will love it!
Love from,
Me.

HAWAII FIVE-O WITH MORE COWBELL
Don't tell me this is not genius. :D

As if my complement of '60s-'70s cop shows wasn't comprehensive enough.
*overdoses on McGarrett cheese*

Title: Bear Valley
Fandom: Perry Mason (1957 TV series)
Pairing: Della, Perry, Paul. Maybe a bit slashy, you know me.
Word count: 1900
Synopsis: Fills in some of the gaps in "The Case of the Angry Mourner". Even on vacation, Perry can't escape his job. Unfortunately that means Paul can't, either.

Notes: For calliope85, because it's her birthday! Extremely mild spoilers for the episode.

( First, some visual aids. )

( And on to the fic )