Okay, every so often, I get to thinking about things like TV shows I watched when I was young, or books I've read. Nija and I got off on talking about what we used to read, and we were discussing horror/supernatural books....

And I remembered this book. Actually, a series of books, but I only vividly recall one - which I think is the second in the series. What I remember is this:

There was (I believe) a group of friends who solved supernatural/paranormal mysteries. I think it was two guys and a girl. I'm pretty sure they lived in New York. And the plot of the book revolved around werewolves. there was a new guy at school, and he was kind of weird, and there were these reports of animals being brutally torn apart - things like pigeons and whatnot - and I the school was putting on a play of The Hound of the Baskervilles. And the weird kid was a werewolf, and I think his stepdad had turned him, or it was his stepdad who was the werewolf, and to reverse the curse and become human again the werewolf had to swim backwards across a body of water.... Oh, and he was playing the Hound in the play. And I think the female friend was somewhere else, because I remember the main kid writing a letter to her, or something, and them doing werewolf research and having to coordinate with her or something....

And the main kid lived in an apartment.

If any of this rings a bell, PLEASE HELP! I am going nuts trying to remember the name of this book, and the author, and all that good stuff. I might be smooshing various books into one, but I know the Hound of the Baskervilles thing, the swimming backwards thing, and the pigeons being torn apart are in this book.

I know it's in my head, and I think I'm getting a headache I'm trying so hard to remember. :/

ETA: And I've tried looking it up, but everything has failed. Lists of werewolf fiction, lists of fiction referencing Hound of the Baskervilles, etc etc.

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1. He is sitting in front of the TV, what is on the screen?
Firefly, Discovery Channel, or Good Eats

2. You're out to eat; what kind of dressing does he get on her salad?
He likes different ones

3. What's one food he doesn't like?
Crab. Brain, liver, and and other weird food like that. :)

4. You go out to the bar. What does he order?
Guinness

5. Where did he go to high school?
Parkersburg High School

6. What size shoe does he wear?
13?

7. If he was to collect anything, what would it be?
Books

8. What is his favorite type of sandwich?
Does a Chipotle taco or quesadilla count? If not, probably the Grand Chicken sandwich from steak escape.

9. What would this person eat every day if he could?
spicy Caribbean food.

10. What is his favorite cereal?
Frosted Mini Wheats

11. What would he never wear?
Something pink and frilly. :) Or anything Michigan.

12. What is his favourite sports team?
The Buckeyes and anyone who is playing Michigan
Then the Mountaineers.

13. Who will he vote for?
Probably democrat. We're all for the anti-christ types.

14. Who is his best friend?
Me :-)

15. What is something you do that he wishes you wouldn't do?
ask him to get me drinks and such

16. How many states has he lived in?
2. WV and OH

17. What is his heritage?
German? Irish?

18. You bake him a cake for her birthday; what kind of cake?
Doesn't matter as long as I use this - http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/sku8239147/index.cfm?pkey=cbkwcaki&cm_src=None

19. Did he play sports in high school?
He was in band.

20. What could he spend hours doing?
Watching Firefly, sailing, playing mafia wars :)

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Considering the end of s3, I'm very curious how they're going to pull this off.

All the same: NO SPOILERS KPLZTHX! ^-^


pS - The teaser is up @ CW. It's kinda "meh". //worried face//

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FAIL, APATOW. Funny parts, and I have this deep and shameless love for both the stars whatever they're in, but Anchorman it is not. The best bits (after the Sweet Child O' Mine singalong, which is actually the greatest scene in the history of cinema) were the Tropic Thunder trailer and OMG MIRRORS OMG HAVE TO SEE THAT NOW NOW NOW. It's possibly one of those horror films where all the good bits are in the trailer with some top-quality editing and the film itself is shite, but oh lordy I need to see it NOW.

Then we sat on the beach in the pitch black, eating chips and curry and listening to the water and nattering on for about an hour and slagging off Jack. :D It was good.

SLEEPYTIME.

( I got the cutest thing in the mail today! )

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I've been having trouble sleeping again. My damn legs have been acting up like sons of bitches all week, and I don't know why.

Last night, I actually sat down and watched all of Soylent Green, from start to finish. I'd never actually seen the movie in its entirety before. I'd seen every part of it, just not altogether and in order.

One of the things I love about that movie is the fact that even now, it still sends a shiver down my spine. cannibalism is one of the few things in fiction that still bothers me, and unwitting cannibalism even moreso. I don't even know why, there's just something about it that never fails to disturb me. To the point where it is, I believe, the only thing I've ever flat out refused to write.

I've written guro, I've written snuff, I've written all manner of intensely wrong situations...but cannibalism I shy away from. The closest I've come, I believe, is 'Now, At The Hour of Our Deaths', but I don't know if that counts as cannibalism, since it was technically a zombie/demon sort of thing. Who just happened to look human. I'll write it in original fiction, because I push a lot more of my own boundaries in original fiction.

Anyway! Picked nijawial up! We're now bemoaning the heat and humidity together, because it's crazily humid. Which is probably why my legs have been such a mess. And! Those boxes we ordered like three weeks ago finally showed up. O.o I'd given them up for gone!

And what I was fearing actually happened. I posted 'Don't Think Vice' on FF.net, since there was nothing graphic depicted in it, and someone PMed me to rip me a new one over having Jonas Venture use the term 'oriental'.

*headdesks*

I know it's not a PC term. Jonas? Not so much, no. This fic takes place in the 60s, these characters are canonically racist and sexist, and it'd be ridiculously OOC to have them using modern day PC terminology in dialogue. I tried to capture the way in which Jonas was presented in canon - as a golden god to the other characters, but not so great a guy to the audience. That includes his less than stellar attributes. I politely responded, explaining my reasoning, and pointing out the canon instances of the original Team Venture's racism - the two most glaring examples being the flashback in 'Now Museum, Now You Don't' with Jonas' 'disguise', and the comments Horace made regarding Kano's ethnicity in 'Past Tense'.

I am not the characters I write. Their words are not my words. When characters talk, they talk as themselves. Using their words. I don't see why people can't understand this.

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I have been very bad about resizing and uploading concert photos, but I finally did so and thus I have a picspam. Useful for all of a handful of people on my flist who could use a pick-me-up right about now. Everyone who has no interest in these fellows should probably just pass. Since I already did my aftermath entries, there's not a lot of chatter under the cuts. Mostly lots and lots of pictures. :D The majority of these were taken without flash because I don't like using flash unless I must.

( the Old 97's - the Trocadero - Philadelphia, PA - July 30, 2008 )

( the Old 97's - Webster Hall - NYC - August 1, 2008 )

( Rhett Miller - Circle Line Rockin' the River Cruise - NYC - August 22, 2008 )

• 23:49 loves listening to albums that remind her of all sorts of things from the past. #
• 00:15 reading amazingness written by Liz then listening to music and drawing in bed in the dark. Also, sleeping an appropriate amount for once... #
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• 02:03 man, I always turn on PBS when it's time to sleep. I am NOT going to watch this documentary about the 60's. I JUST WON'T! #

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