Criminal Minds 5 x 08 Outfoxed

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Shadow Unit

I love Falkner and Todd, so anything featuring either or both of those would be great. I'm also interested in the relationship between Chaz and Brady after Season 2. Don't like Lau, so not interested in her story.

Shadow Unit is a small fandom, so any fic would be great. I do have a great big internet crush on Solomon Todd, so I'd love to read more of him and Falkner is just so great also. I'm not really interested in Lau, or Hafidha really, but I do think there is more to say about Brady and Chaz's relationship as well.

Doctrine of Labyrinths

I adore Mildmay. Just Mildmay, or Felix appreciating Mildmay would be excellent. Also, Shannon Teverius would be good to explore.


I'm not a big fan of Corambis and much preferred the first three books. Mildmay is by far my favourite, but it would be interesting to hear more about Shannon as well.

The Wire

I love Lester for his intelligence, Stringer for his dreams and Omar because he's Omar.

These are my favourite characters, and any kind of focus on them would be good.

Whilst horizontal for most of the weekend, I started watching Glee. Just 2 episodes so far, but I'm enjoying it - whether that is down to Jane Lynch more than anything else, I don't know, but she is brilliant.

We also finished Season Three of the West Wing

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We are listening to the new Flaming Lips album.

Hmmmmmm.


P's verdict: "I'm actually digging this."

I will say that the Flaming Lips are one of the best live bands I've ever seen. Srsly. Even if you don't like their music, you should still go and see them - what's not to love about a guy with a singing nun puppet, covering himself in fake blood and dancing with a load of people in furry costumes?

(plus I have a bit of a "thing" for Wayne Coyne)

Title: FWB

Author: nebula99

Fandom: Shadow Unit/Criminal Minds crossover

Rating: FRM (language mainly)

Type: Slash (although Brady and Gray are a canon couple)

Pairing: Brady/Reid, Brady/Gray

Summary: It's not exactly a booty call.



Author’s note: All of these characters belong to other people and were not harmed in the writing of this fanfic. Beta read by the ever supportive slash_girl, all remaining mistakes are mine. Spoilers for Season 2 of Shadow Unit and Season 4 of Criminal Minds.


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Christopher Walken performs Lady Gaga's Poker Face on Jonathan Ross.

<3

Bonfire Night is approaching and so this weekend, I shall be mostly baking Parkin. There are various different regional varieties of Parkin - Yorkshire Parkin is obviously the best.

(This recipe is a birthday present for standuponit. He's not been around for a while but if any of his friends pass by, maybe you could pass it on to him?)

Yorkshire Parkin

350g/12oz medium oatmeal
175g/6oz self-raising flour
2 tsp ground ginger
175g/6oz soft brown sugar
175g/6oz butter
250g/9 fl oz golden syrup
50g/2oz black treacle
2 free-range eggs
110ml/4oz milk

Pre-heat the oven to 150C/300F/Gas Mark 2 and line a small, deep baking tray with greaseproof paper. Combine the oatmeal, flour and ginger in a large mixing bowl.

Melt the sugar, butter, syrup and treacle in a bowl in the microwave or in a saucepan over a low heat. Pour the melted ingredients into the flour with the eggs and milk and stir well.

Pour the mixture into the prepared baking tray.

Bake for 45 minutes until golden brown, but still soft and sticky on top. Reduce the oven to 130C/250F/Gas Mark 1 and bake for further 30 minutes until firm to the touch.

Allow to cool before tightly wrapping in clingfilm. Store for at least 3 to 5 days to mature. This is very important.

Failure Modes:

Parkin is too dry - your tin was too shallow, or you didn't wait long enough to eat it. Parkin, like most people, improves with age. Wrap it up and put it out of reach until it has matured properly.

Took the kids to see Michael Jackson's "This is it" today. Both of them have been MJ obsessed since he died and after Small Boy saw the trailer for this, he made big puppy dog eyes at me until I promised to take them both.

It's rehersal footage for the shows he was going to do in London and after watching it, all I can say is "wow" - that would have been one hell of a gig. With all the dark stuff surrounding Jackson in recent years, it was easy to forget what a brilliant performer he was. Watching him sing and dance was a great reminder of Jackson the popstar and looking at these performances, he seemed healthy and enthusiastic about the forthcoming shows.

The dancers were excellent and "Smooth Criminal" and "Thriller" were the stand out numbers, along with Jackson's pared down performance of "Billie Jean". "Earth Song" made me nauseated, and I did long for Jarvis Cocker to pop up for a bum wiggle at that point, but all in all, it was highly entertaining and made me sad that he never got to do those shows. The dancing seemed effortless, and if he sounded shy and awkward when he spoke, he came alive when he sang.

We noted that there was no "lean" in the Smooth Criminal routine, and this confirmed our suspicions that they cheated with special shoes in the video. But it was all impressive nonetheless. And we were particularly amused by the scene showing the dancers being taught to grab their crotch in just the right way - less Baryshnikov, more Jackson. *g*

Met up with P and the kids after work today to see "Up".

It's very funny and entertaining and a great kids movie. It is also incredibly moving and I cried like a big baby. The opening sequence is beautiful and there are more heartbreaking moments dotted throughout the film. It is all about loss and longing and finding that what you need is right beneath your nose.

Recommended.

Went to see Paolo Nutini and his band, The Vipers, last night. Awesome gig. Paolo was adorable and at times completely unintelligible, but that's a Paisley accent for you.

The music was toe tapping and gorgeous and I adore his voice - it's so rich and soulful, it's hard to believe that he is so young. There was also an excellent cover of Love's "Alone Again Or", which can only really be achieved with a brass section, and The Vipers well and truly rocked it.

This is Paolo and the guys doing "Pencil Full of Lead". Impossible not to move.

I did not get a place in the London Marathon.

I got my copy of "Rejected" magazine (srsly) through the post, and then an email to say, "Hey loser - just in case you were still harbouring any illusions that you were successful - you WERE NOT!!". Gee, thanks, David Bedford.

However, I am less bothered than I thought I would be. I haven't got the time or energy to attempt to raise £2K for a Golden Bond charity place and there are other marathons. I'll keep trying and eventually I'll get a guaranteed place after the requisite number of rejections.

So I'm going to do the Lake Windermere Marathon instead. It's not a massive event like London, but it is in a lovely part of the world and I have family support nearby.

Via criminalxminds

Ed Bernero blogs about Roman Polanski

Now that I can't respect Tilda Swinton anymore, I'm so pleased that Ed has ethics and a backbone.

An article about Ina May Gaskin - radical midwife and real pioneer. There's some scary information about the state of birth in the USA in that article, including the fact that the maternal death rate is actually increasing and not decreasing.

The lack of postnatal care in the USA is also shocking - no required visits by midwife or health visitor, just at the time that women need more not less support. Who is watching for postnatal depression, helping with breastfeeding, checking that a woman and her baby are actually okay? Scary.

To be honest, every week is a Nestle-free week in our house, but in case any of you are interested: Nestle Free Week

And if you want to know more about why so many people won't buy Nestle products: Boycott Nestle

Babymilk manufacturers have a vested interest in undermining breastfeeding and promoting dependence on their products. And even if Nestle does "La-la-la-la-la - I'm not listening" We can at least know that we don't contribute to their profits.

Actually started a little bit of revision today. W00t! Got slightly overwhelmed by the amount of material to try and encode into my brain, but there's not point in freaking about it. Just need to get it done.

Spent a while this afternoon sorting out all of our books. Since we moved in, 6 years ago, we've had half of our books in boxes in the attic as we didn't have space for them. Finally, we got some more bookcases and today we managed, at last, to put all of our books on shelves.

I had a happy time making sure they were all in alphabeticaly order and there are some interesting juxtapositions - matociquala is next to Tony Benn (with a slim Samuel Beckett in between) - I think they'd enjoy a very nice pot of tea; there is an entire shelf of Monettes - Paul and Sarah, Samuel Richardson is next to J K Rowling, neither of whom are strangers to very long books with irksome characters, and Irvine Welsh is snuggled next to Jeanette Winterson - I give them five minutes before they come to blows.

Annoyingly, I still can't locate my copy of Good Omens and suspect I will have to buy a new one. But there are some titles there that I'd forgotten I even owned, so today's work has been a job well done.

Criminal Minds 5 x 01

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Good news - I picked lots of blackberries today whilst the children were at dancing.

Bad news - the blackberries were entwined with many nettles and my arms are still hurting from the stings.

Irksome news - I cannot spell reminiscence consistently. And I refuse to set it as an auto-correct - I need to achieve this!

Sooo, after a shaky start, we are loving The West Wing. We watched the Season 2 Finale last night . . .

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I am trying to write an essay on why elderly people find it difficult to remember recent events and yet have strong memories of events that took place in their youth.

I think there's lots of material for this - theories about episodic and semantic memory, reminiscence bump, lifetime retrieval curve, levels of processing, decay and age related cognitive deterioration - but as usual, I'm finding it hard to settle down and just WRITE the damn thing.

I also had to go and get my haircut today. The hairdresser dried it, and it is now somewhat "pouffy". Hey ho.