How easy is it to get a tabloid to print your totally fake celeb story? Very.


YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO:

karaokegal's Fourth Annual “Come As You’re Not” fanfic costume party.

Who is invited: YOU! If you're seeing this posted anywhere on your friends list, even if you've never heard of me, please come to the party anyway.

I’m inviting you all to write a fanfic as someone other than yourselves.
For a week, starting on October the 31st. The idea is to write fic in a totally different style/form/pairing/fandom than you ever normally would.


Sell the Vatican. End world hunger.

Proper Toy Story 3 trailer! With plot!

Kristin Schaal is a horse. (Just... go with me on this one.)

I'm about 1/10th of the way through Unseen Academicals and really properly starting to warm to it. Librarian POV is always, always awesome.

Yesterday I read, replied to and posted something like a hundred fanmails. Maybe even 150. Today V isn't here to do the signatures but I can read and sort. Best name of the day so far: Crimson Starks. (Although it's still early. Yesterday it was Sawyer Sendelbach. Neither of them have anything on Tuesday's winner, Logan Strain.)

Waitrose's apple and blackcurrent crumble cake is REALLY NICE.

So it was my birthday on Saturday!

I had a nice weekend. I got books (Unseen Academicals! Dark Entries! The first volume of Girl Genius in really-exists-format!) and a plug for the kitchen sink, and stroopwafels! We made a chocolatey mess (there is both cake and melted chocolate in there somewhere. And possibly also the lost city of Atlantis. We watched Masterchef and Merlin. We went out and had a nice meal and saw Up, which was so lovely, and omg heartbreaking (I pretty much cried throughout, but in the good way) - and in 3D. It wasn't horribly painful, but also not quite brilliant enough to be worth bothering with when there's a choice, I feel. Apart from occasional wow-moments it probably didn't add that much to - SQUIRREL.

(That's an Up joke. But it's in the trailer so... yeah.)

Anyway, I also spent a nice amount of time in bed, and this morning some men came and replaced our faulty fuse-tripping slightly Rusty old hob with for a bright shiny white new one called a Moffat. This is truefax.

I don't know where Tunis Cake comes from. I suppose it's entirely possible it comes from Tunisia. Google has only told me the recipe, and that lots of people are looking for the recipe or somewhere to buy one (this is a mistake - bought ones are never as good) and, randomly, that it was very popular in the sixties.

Our family has made one every Christmas. It is the BEST CAKE EVER. Madeira lemony vaguely almondy cake with vast, vast amounts of chocolate on top (which is why you don't get them from a shop, they never do the chocoalte right. This year I made my own, with the help of my mother's recipe and anotherusedpage and foreverdirt. It turned out quite well.

( Recipe and a picture. )