Tales By Request

This started as a repost of a meme stolen from princesslaurene, and evolved into a kind of project. Here's how it is.

• You leave a comment to this entry, containing:
• A prompt. This will be included somewhere in the finished piece of writing. Examples of prompts include:
• concepts
• phrases
• words
• sentences
• quotes
• objects
• A fandom. This is optional for you, and may not be used if I don't know the fandom terribly well.
• I'll write something based on your request comment.
• You have no say in what you'll get back, except that the prompt will be in there somewhere and somehow.
  
• Each piece will be a seperate entry, tagged with (tag to be decided) and will have a link back to this comment.
  
• Requests will be filled on a (mostly) first-in first-out basis.
  
• Other notes:
  
• Post all requests as replies to the entry, and not as replies to other comments.
• You may post second and subsequent requests:
• At least one week after a previous request, or
• When the queue is empty. (Check title of this post)
  
• A link to this post will be added in the sidebar.

I think that's everything for the moment. There's another entry here for discussion on this, just to keep the comments uncluttered here.

Meme Revisited: Discussion

Well, there it is. Reposted with modifications.

So, you might wonder, what is there to discuss. Quite a bit, actually.

Was it purely and utterly ridiculous to post it?

Is there something that might be helpful to add to the previous entry? Is there something in there that really doesn't serve a purpose?

Can you think of a few fandoms to suggest, so that I can add them to the list if I know them in any way, shape or form?

Do you have a suggestion for a project name? It'll be used for the tags and the sidebar link.

Would it be useful if I had a special icon for it?

Do you have anything else to say about it?

When news resembles the Internet

To quote from their lead-in thing this evening:

...and Heath Ledger gets sprayed with water by photographers on the red carpet at the Sydney premiere of [the] gay cowboy movie.

This? Very much not made up. Yay for Seven news. It's not journalism, but sometimes it is entertainment.

Today has been a slow news day in the life of me, with a prominent feature being that I've finished Anansi Boys and very much liked it. This brings to light an important observation on the way I read books.

Yesterday, I was reading it while I was out; I came home, about a sixth of the way through the book, for about an hours' reading.
Today, I woke up, swept and washed the floors, vacuumed, washed myself, and read for a further hour - at which point, I decided it should be lunchtime. The book was half-finished - ie, one hour now means one-third of the book.
Post-lunch, I finished the other half over - yes, an hour. And the deleted scene, and the little interview with Neil, and a bit of a glance at the notebook thing.

Does this happen to anyone else?

Lastly, there's been a large blue torch (USian: flashlight) sitting on my bookshelf since the night where I had to put a spider out on the very most distant part of a broom imaginable. It occured to me today that this particular torch has a base which can be used to make it point upwards at angles up to 70° from the horizontal.

Be honest. In this situation, would anyone else suddenly feel like painting the batsignal on it?