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I'm so far behind on this rec that the whole Internet has already seen it, but logging here so I can find it under my "rec" tag later: Trying to Communicate. No idea why the author thinks it "borders perilously on crackfic" - it is really most sincerely crackfic. And yet, it actually works.

"Are you telling me," Gwen said, "That we have an alien LOLcat?"

"Makes sense," Owen repeated.

"In what universe does this make sense?"

"Ours," Jack replied.



In other news, Y HALO THAR stomach flu, my old not-friend. Fortunately, I did everything I *had* to do yesterday, and can thus spend the rest of the weekend lying around like a fish on ice. If I'm a lucky fish, the new Torchwood books will arrive today.

Random non-sequiteurs

I was not, by the standards of my previous post, a lucky fish. Nor am I feeling particularly better. Feh. Have spent much of the day re-re-re-engineering the Roma afghan pattern. At this rate, I will spend as much time designing it as I will knitting it.


In the WTF is happening to our leaders? section, McCain calls DC "The City of Satan" (tidily implying that anyone who isn't going in there with an UnConstitutional Christian mandate is equally satanic) and Bush vetoes a bill because it banned torture. The torture techniques associated with the Spanish Inquisition and which the U.S. condemned as a war crime after WWII are now "practices that have a proven track record of keeping America safe." Really? PROVEN? Funny, I'm pretty damn sure I can point to centuries of proof that torture does the exact opposite, muddying intel by getting people to confess to any damn thing. Rather than rant, I'm just going to point you at nemo_wistar's excellent post on the subject.

If it's one thing that infuriates me more than anything else about this government for the last few years, it's this constant feed of bullshit in an attempt to somehow make us believe that the things we do to "defend our freedom" are somehow different and more morally permissible than the tactics our enemies use to try to defeat us.


calufrax recced this one, and I'm pretty sure it's already in my fic recs tag (how could anyone forget a title like "N is For Not On Your Life, You Horny Little Prick"?), but I'll repeat it: Around the Universe in 26 Letters.

Also, via jooj, proof positive that a list of titles can not only be a fic, but a hilarious one: The Torchwood Paper Trail, a list of standard forms at the T3 office.

Alien Brought to The Hub
* A. For Diplomatic Purposes
* B. For Interrogation
* C. For Observation
* D. For Medical Purposes
* E. For Sexual Purposes (Unofficial, added to the rosters after J. Harkness began working at TW-3.


Dude! A yarn party not that far from my place!