Signal Boost - White Collar Redux - Looking for Spooky Fics

The inaugural post for for wcredux has gone live. It's time for you to bring out your spooky fics! Stories don't necessarily need to be about Halloween, but there should be some element of creepiness or surprise or fear. This is also the month to self-rec your death and dying fics, too.

Please recommend one of your fanworks for the theme, which must be at least six months old (i.e., published before April 2014), but the older the fanwork, the better.

You can find all of the information here

The Twenty Five Most Inappropriate Childrens' Books Ever...

Okay - have to admit that I'm not all sunshine and smiles today. Whether it's the post Big Bang doldrums or the lack of sleep or just a general bad mood, I'm really not fit for public consumption today.

But browsing through Boing Boing brought this to my attention and put a huge grin on my face: The Top 25 Weirdest and Most Inappropriate Children's books of All Time!

Yes, there really are books called "My Big Book of Pretty Pussies" and "Why God Gave Us Ice Cream."

Matt's Taking It Off ... All Off (one hopes)

For some reason, this tweet ended up in my spam folder (most stuff from Twitter doesn't make it that far):



I can't believe I'm actually looking forward to this.