Favorite Christmas smell? Baking gingerbread.
We'll be making a giant Gingerbread man cookie this weekend. The TJ's one that comes as a kit.
Tonight however, we hie off into the dark to attend JZ's office party.
Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.
'Sleeper'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Dec 16, 2011 9:50:06 am PST #11831 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Steph L. - Dec 16, 2011 9:52:19 am PST #11832 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
...what if it's purple and sparkly?
Most probably not a penis. A Real Penis (tm) only comes in fleshtone.
Dang!
JenP - Dec 16, 2011 9:54:24 am PST #11833 of 30001
Oh, crap! Well, oh, good, really... David and JZ's hieing reminded me that I think I have a concert to go to tonight... and I have no idea what time. I should look into that. At least I know where. Wow. Brain holey.
I'm a fan of the mulled cider smell. Can't think of one I don't like that I particularly associate with Christmas at the moment, but I'll think about it.
Consuela - Dec 16, 2011 9:55:07 am PST #11834 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Some people tried to explain to me that there were as many female genre and/or nerds as male. And then they treated me like I was mansplaining. It was really surreal. Just because LJ is full of female slash fans...no, it's still a man's world, in terms of numbers and volume of yelling.
Hmm. I do think it depends on how wide you throw your net, though. If the definition of "genre" includes urban fantasy & anime/manga and Twilight, not to mention various fantastic tv properties, I suspect there's a rough equivalence.
Somewhere I bookmarked a study on SF/fantasy fans, which indicated that the readers in the two categories, put together, was about equal, gender-wise.
Connie Neil - Dec 16, 2011 9:55:17 am PST #11835 of 30001
brillig
what if it's purple and sparkly?
Most probably not a penis. A Real Penis (tm) only comes in fleshtone.
... Barney . . .
Jessica - Dec 16, 2011 10:00:20 am PST #11836 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I thought this was an answer to favorite Christmas smell.
BWAHAHAHAHA!
sumi - Dec 16, 2011 10:11:35 am PST #11837 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
The designer behind the Big Book of Knitted Monsters is named Rebecca Danger.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2011 10:11:56 am PST #11838 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If the definition of "genre" includes urban fantasy & anime/manga and Twilight, not to mention various fantastic tv properties, I suspect there's a rough equivalence.
But tech is in there too, and I don't think there's any way that urban fantasy and Twilight can make up for those numbers.
Consuela - Dec 16, 2011 10:32:21 am PST #11839 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
But tech is in there too, and I don't think there's any way that urban fantasy and Twilight can make up for those numbers
Maybe, but I suspect there's a lot of overlap, too: lots of guys are both into tech and into genre stuff, so they don't count twice. Fewer women in tech, but plenty of women outside tech who are still into genre stuff.
Also, urban fantasy is huge. It's like romance, in that it kind of gets ignored by the critics, but there's gobs of it being published.
§ ita § - Dec 16, 2011 10:47:00 am PST #11840 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
lots of guys are both into tech and into genre stuff
In my continuing discovery, not as much as I'd have thought. It's a prevalent stereotype, but most of the computer geeks I know could care less about sff. And they are legion.