Xander ,'Chosen'
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.
Personally, I look at my chronic insomnia as a disease that must be treated with meds in order for me to be not INSANE, and to have good quality of life. I use Xan in the evenings, and very occasionally during the day, if I feel a panic attack looming.
Oh hey, Erin is me! Because, yeah, after this past year, I am on the Ambien/Xanax combo for sleep for most nights, and it has made a huge difference.
Whoa--this is some SERIOUS "Criminal Minds" grave-robbing shit going on here. [link]
No photos but the story could be disturbing.
The Moscow thing? Creeeeepy.
Massive plagiarizing in a new thriller, by a guy who resents the way other novelists produce tripe and get published: [link]
He even scammed the Paris Review!
Consuela,
the scope of the plagiarism is SHOCKING. I cannot believe it.
Argh. Someone tell me to get some fucking work done? Because my self-discipline thingamawhoozie, which never worked in the first place, now seems to have wandered off altogether.
Amych - get some fucking work done.
Consuela, the commenters who are calling the plagarism homage and mash-up and satire have damaged my eyes.
Code like the wind, amych!
Off to the dentist. Oh joy...