Sometimes Clark can perform a rescue or two. Not that Lois needs rescuing, of course.

( It Takes Two... )

After I get to the end of every movie, TV show, or book I watch or read, I always start to speculate about what happens next. After all, if it's a story I truly like, it can't just stop there. In the case of TV shows, like my current favorite, Chuck, I absorb every trailer and spoiler I can get my hands on to inform my speculations as much as possible.

Most of the time these speculations just stay in my head to be discarded on watching/reading and replaced by the ones for the following installment, but for some reason, my thoughts for the upcoming episode Chuck vs. Phase Three won't stay put.

( So here follow my thoughts for the upcoming episode of Chuck: )

My (next-to) last post to my fanfic thread at Bluetights.net

( -30- )

Two words:

Radioactive Cheesecake

We'll see if it actually turned out the way I envisioned it tonight at choir rehearsal.

Another bit of Superman Returns fanfic, celebrating seeing the movie for the first time three years ago last Saturday.

Edited 7/6/10: My story was nominated for a Superman Movieverse Fanfic Award!



( Eleven Pink Roses )

As May approaches, we loyal television viewers take stock and begin to deeply analyze the characters on the shows we watch and love. Specifically, we're looking for who could be expendable, because, these days, as regular-season television series sign off for their summer hiatus, they try to go out with as big a bang as possible, and inevitably, this means "big deaths".
( Cut for possible spoilers. )

So after plans to go out to breakfast got cancelled today, I decided to give in to a temptation I've had for the past few weeks and make crepes.

The last thing I've actually cooked of late was some honest-to-goodness vegetarian broccoli-cheese soup (since most broccoli-cheese soups use chicken stock as a base) right at the start of Lent, which was two months ago, and before that it was my Christmas cookies. Plus, I've never made crepes before. Nevertheless, undaunted by my lack of experience, I opened The Joy of Cooking, found the recipe for crepes and started putting ingredients into a bowl. Crepes, I discovered, are actually pretty easy. Flipping them in the frying pan was probably the hardest part. After making the crepes I scrambled some eggs (with ham, and feta and cheddar cheeses), wrapped them in one crepe and had that for lunch, following it up with another crepe filled with raspberry jam. Tasty stuff.

Now that I'm on this experimental cooking kick again, I'm hoping to keep it up. I've been thinking of trying to make chocolate raspberry truffles for a while, and I'm pretty sure I have all of the ingredients for them...

In a word: Good. In several more words: really really GOOD.

But don't just take my word for it: go see it yourself.

The Most Important Thing

( Jason has a difficult assignment on his first day back at school after the events of Superman Returns. )

It's Christmas time again, and, once again, despite the craziness of the season, the mental and physical exhaustion of trying to squeeze so much into a mere 24 hours a day, the sheer number of tasks still to be accomplished, the one looming absence from our usual family gatherings, and the threat of another sort of white Christmas out here in la la land, it's turning out to be a wonderful Christmas after all.

As usual, I ended up having to choose between baking and sending out Christmas cards. Baking won out, and I've so far made three batches of coconut macaroons. I'm usually lucky if I can get one made (and eaten--given that most of the members of my family don't have much fondness for coconut, and the few who did had to give it up because of cholesterol issues), but this year, I found a recipe that actually worked and immediately began modifying it by making up batches of almond, lemon, and raspberry (different batches for each flavor). I brought some into work along with some of my mother's absolutely fantastic cookies and was gratified that mine were the first ones gone from the plate. I'll probably make at least one more batch before Epiphany.

Now it's late and my family has enjoyed the tradition we've developed in recent years of turning on all of the Christmas lights (and turning off all of the regular lights) and listening to Christmas carols while we sip brandy and look at the beautiful sight of the brightly lit and decorated tree with all of the presents underneath. Time to get some sleep to shore up for the busy events of the day.

May the joy of Christmas be with you today and throughout the year. And even if you don't celebrate Christmas, Peace on earth and good will to all!