So, it is party time again, folks!

[wiseheart]

Each year this time, we launch my virtual birthday party, which starts on October 1 and ends on October 9 at midnight, sharp. The goals of the party are to post as many comments and collapse as many threads as possible, on as many new pages as we can. It is always great fun, as you can see if you check out the similar entries of the last few years.

This year, I'll also throw the real party at mid-time - and post the recipes of all the food that will be there for you, so that you can all participate if you want to. Virtual food has no calories.

Fandom-related discussions are as welcome as the ones about coffee or chocolate (just to name a few favourites from previous years), and, of course, pictures and recipes of birthday cakes. ;)

So, drop by, tell your story, post your pics or silly poems, ask questions you always wanted to ask and have a good time!

Soledad, in excited expectation




Oh, and by the way, to provide birthday gifts hobbit-style, I've got a revived story and a Kansas 2 update for you.

Enjoy!

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

My Dutch friends always borrowed the goats from their neighbours to eat off the grass. When the yard was cleared in one place, they tied the goats to the next tree and the faithful beasts did a marvellous job. :)

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I have to head to bed now -- should really have done it a while ago, but there are so many interesting conversations I wanted to chip in on! -- since I have a 9am lecture to give tomorrow morning. My students really are a good bunch; last week they had already started showing up at ten to nine, when I arrived in the lecture theatre, despite the fact that the lectures are meant to start at five past whatever hour they are scheduled at...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

It would be quicker to say what I didn't like about it...

It's the archetypal use of a crime to peel away the layers of a seemingly idyllic town. It has an off-the-wall sense of humour that is close to unique in US television. The surreal elements are far more like art film than commercial television, and are open to multiple interpretations that fans are still debating. Its cinematography & set design were unparalleled at the time in television -- it's only fairly recently that works of that quality & level of set detail have been shown outside cinema. Audrey Horne is one of my favourite young female characters. And there's a young David Duchovny in drag :)

The first series was nearly perfect; the second digresses after the main mystery was solved and was diluted, but still has some very strong episodes and the most memorable cliff-hanger I can remember in television, ever.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

As long as there is some mad rush... :)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Oh, and most of the incidental music is brilliant, and I write this as someone who generally hates film/television incidental music.

[solanpolarn.livejournal.com]

I am not sure it would be Christmas without it! ;-)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Let's hope your thoughts on the relative temperature of garden centres & kitchens are accurate!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Hope your lecture goes well!

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I saw it on DVD a long while ago and recall enjoying it, and being amazed that Witherspoon was so capable of such an English role. Dench is always good value. But I've only seen the play a couple of times and a long time previously, so I couldn't compare the two.

[sammydragoncat]

Finally home! First chance I have had to check in at the party today! Wow, already at 723 comments, now I have to catch up.

[sammydragoncat]

It was 98 on Saturday, 96 on Sunday and 89 today - I wish we had rain. California is going through it's 3 rd year of a drought, so I have water restrictions and fire hazard warnings to deal with. Rain would be lovely!

[sammydragoncat]

Good for you! There is nothing worse than to have nothing to do at work for a long block of time.

[sammydragoncat]

Fall TV schedule just started here, so I have been watching Gotham, Forever, Castle, Scorpion, Agents of SHIELD, The Mysteries of Laura, The Red Band Society, Supernatural, Flash and Arrow.

[sammydragoncat]

I am currently finishing up The Bloodied Ivy (The Nero Wolfe Mysteries) by Robert Goldsborough. I am not sure what I am going to read next - my to read stack is outrageous.

I looked up Elizabeth Peters Amelia Peabody Mysteries - the first book sounds good, I had not heard of it before; thanks for the tip.

[sammydragoncat]

fingers crossed LJ won't crash

[sammydragoncat]

I have seen it a few times - generally when I am bored and I am looking for something to watch.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

We are BEYOND awesome!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!!!

[sammydragoncat]

I have a tendency to bake in big batches too - with cookies I have started to freeze portions and pop them in the oven at a later date.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

I've missed the evening party in Europe, as it's nearly bedtime for me on the US East Coast... sigh...
Wishing everyone a good night's sleep, for tomorrow, we party on!

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

But maybe I can post a little something more, as it looks like we're almost up to a new page...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

And it would be such a shame...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

...to miss a new page...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

...by only a few posts,...

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

...now wouldn't it?