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Many links open...

First off, I agree with Penny Arcade's take on the Serenity movie. And if you haven't seen the trailer, go! Watch! And agree with me that River's kick-ass.

On the literacy and reading front, there's Guys Write for Guys Read: Boys' Favorite Authors Write About Being Boys looks pretty cool. Neil Gaiman, Gordon Korman, Brian Jacques, Jerry Spinelli, Chris Crutcher, Chris Van Allsburg, Matt Groening, and edited by Jon Scieszka, who's got the original Guys Read website.

And Captain Tractor finally has a new CD out! Highlights include "Hallelujah Song" (on socipolitical commentary: the story of the Pope and the sniper Jesus), "#3 Roxbury Street" (on nostalgia and change: "the drunks all went to college and the poets never try/the banshees have been silenced and the swallows left the nest/the jester's selling real estate and the punks all drive a desk"), and my current favourite, "Maria's Last Words," (a cheery little drinking song, the chorus being a floor-stomping "I can't take this bullshit any more/every Friday night, you end up on my floor/she said, Jesus Christ, I deserve more from this life/you've got one more chance and I'm walking out this door...," and the cool part being how it starts out fed-up and angry, and by the last repetition, everything else stops and sounds absolutely heartbroken.)

Point of reference: Captain Tractor is on the second DS soundtrack, "What Do You Do with a Drunken Soldier," which played during the "previously on..." Mountie on the Bounty part two. They do an awesome cover of the Arrogant Worms' "Last Saskatchewan Pirate." Like Great Big Sea, but less commercial and definitely rooted in the prairies (hard to miss with album titles like East of Edson and Bought the Farm, and more angst.

*ahem* Anyhow. New CD good.

Speaking of DS, People Like You is college-era Ray/Stella, fantastic characterisation, and gay sex.

I want the TV-B-Gone universal remote keychain thingie from ThinkGeek. Not so much with the internet urinal. But the concept amuses.

Paddle to the CSC is obviously Sports Night fic from the title, and is about how Dan's infamous white shirt ("You're wearing my shirt") is a slut.

Even though I haven't seen Stargate: Atlantis yet, A Beautiful Lifetime Event by astolat is smart and funny and emotionally affecting. And the same goes for About a Lamp by flambeau.

Tomorrow is my last day at the school I'm subbing at. (Probably. There's enough work to keep an extra person on for a few more days, but the budget is the issue.) On one hand, employment=good, and I'm enjoying being back in a school library, even if it's mostly copy-cataloging and weeding. On the other... (looking around) I definitely put a day or two off to use cleaning up, doing laundry, and planning what I'm going to plant this year.

However, I'm back on the sub list as available, and the schools have just gotten extra funding to handle the transition to the new library software, which means more hours, and for some schools, additional staff. Like me! (Problems? Glitches? Plan for them? Budget extra staff hours for training? Why would we want to do any of that? *headdesk*)

Besides, I have book reviews and drabbles to write!

TiW drabbles

... posted to wonderland_fic here.

Overtired and brain is mush, so nothing at all has gotten written tonight, from cover letters to reviews to recs to fic. All of which I need to work on. (points) Look! More than three icons! (distracts, runs away to sleep now)