Because I'm bored, but too tired to write

Cause keladry_lupin did it:

( The Christmas Meme )

Christmas lights

So, would anyone be interested in sharing the most, erm, spirited (or garish, depending on your point of view) Christmas light display in their neighborhood/town (even if it's your own)? Kind of meme-like?

Even though I think taking things to the extreme is pretty tacky, I can't help but enjoy the joy of the season that literally radiates from those displays. One very fond memory I have is seeing the humongous display covering the courthouse? City Hall? (big, classical, forbidding-gray, official-looking building) in downtown Sydney. Red and green "ribbons" (at least fifteen feet wide) wrapped around the building along with several slightly-smaller-than-Macy's-Parade-sized balloons of Santa and snowmen. It was tacky as all get out, but it was so cheerful. I loved it.

So, wannna share? If so, I'll rush out and take pics of the house I'm thinking of.

Spam comes from boredom

I just finished Fay Weldon's "Letters to Alice Upon First Reading Jane Austen." I smirked at the irony of how the back pages are filled with critics' reviews of her previous books.

I do believe this is a book I will have to buy. There are so many wonderful quotes and observations that I will remember only the vague notion of, and then be distraught when I can't find the reference.

At least it's a short book, so the rereading to find the line won't take forever and a day.

EDIT: And on a related note, is the fear of leaving critical reviews in the fandom purely based on etiquette, or is it more a fear of receiving in kind?

I think the latter, myself.