Year Review 2008

It's been a great 2008, my dears. Tomorrow we jump off into a new year and a new life. So throw out the old baggage, clean up your rooms and ready yourselves for a party tonight! We'll greet 2009 in style~! Let's review this year in a more orderly fashion. I know 2008 was the best and worst year but it can't be that bad, yes? [January] -I spent the first day of the year at work. (Memorable because I was taking a call when there were lots of shouting and jumping around the place! The whole... read more

So these are all over my flist and I haven't done one yet. The year in writing: Sleepless Long Nights, That Is What My Youth Was For : [BBC Robin Hood] Will/Djaq, Djaq backstory, Bassam, spoilers to end of s2, PG13. A Fangirl Steals Pizza : [BBC Robin Hood] Will/Djaq, 80sverse AU, enough fluff to break your teeth. PG13. Things Change Between the Beats of A Heart: [SGA] Ronon/Keller, teen, written in shifting POVs - not my best, posted rough as hell. The further I fall, I'm beside you ...

Coen Brothers films are difficult to review. They don't easily fit into a genre. They don't compare easily to one another. And this year they couldn't have possibly exceeded their previous film - this year's Oscar winner for Best Picture , No Country for Old Men . If that film was like the culmination of their everything they had learned from their past films, this feels like a compilation of Coen Brothers parts. And I don't mean that to sound condescending. Somehow it evokes memories of Raising...

Year In Review: 2008 Meme 1. Go to your calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2008. 2. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your year in review. January: So now seems like a fine time to revel in the fact that, this year, I am a journalist. February: Chick flicks are complete, absolute, and utter bullshit. That is all. March: I think the new plan is to make out with Mike. April: Notice: I have a brand new boyfriend! I am not a moron. His name is Mike....

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2008. Post the first line or so of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review". January JAN 5th: So...yesterday I got the fancy new laptop I am currently sitting at work using. February FEB 5th: So. The Badger Herald, one of the only independent student newspapers in the country, now has a new reporter. March MARCH 3rd: Ok, so Ali the idiot left her poor notebook at home so she will do a private LJ post instead to paste into...

As always, the world of indie comics never stops being interesting.  Everytime I think I'm getting a hand on this monster that is Pickle Press, some new plot twist shows up to make me realize I am forever stuck in a David Lynch film.  If only I could get Laura Harring to show up...   I started the year by working the Phoenix Cactus Con with my pal Wes Sweetser.  I love this show, and it was great to see Wes again.  It was the first time I brought Dare to the show, and it was well-received. ...