4 posts tagged “qotd”
What shows are you looking forward to in the new fall TV season?
Is it fair to say that I'm looking forward to Torchwood on BBC America, even if I've already seen the season's worth of shows?
Are you throwing or attending a holiday party this year? Any ideas/tips to share?
Already threw one. Tips to share?
- More food is better than no food, but make sure that the food you prepare/provide is desirable food. Make all the impressive little candy-cane/graham-cracker sleighs you want, but your guests will appreciate the simple snacks more.
- Let the party mutate, split, then coalesce again. If everyone is not in the same room, don't worry. A good party usually stakes claims simultaneously in the living room and the kitchen.
- Put the pets away. Better for the cats to complain later, than for the host to worry about their welfare during the fray.
- Be ready for people to stay overnight. Have some blankets, extra pillows, etc.
Do you remember your first flight? Where did you go? Why?
Submitted by Laurel.
I went to Cinncinnati, Ohio. To see my brother and sister-in-law. I was 12, got a tour of the cockpit and my own set of plastic Delta pilot's wings.
Today's QoTD is about listing your top 5 in books, music or movies. I've not the time to do any of the above, but I can make one solid reading recommendation, maybe the first of several. These will be the books that I've always loved, always recommended and will never deny.
Though I'd discovered Neil Gaiman through his Sandman run for DC Comics, Good Omens hit me like a ton of sweet bricks during the last year or so of my college career. At the last line, a perfectly executed reference to W. B. Yeats, I was thunderstruck.
And I was such a proselytizing dork about it, even reading it aloud during a one-act rehearsal. I was directing and thought that the bit about a tree audibly growing up and out of the middle of a suburban mall would be inspiring. Maybe it was, but I think I was just being humored. Since then, I've had to replace my original copy three times, having loaned it out so much and lacking the heart to ask it back.
