Sandkings - by George R. R. Martin. Unfortunetaly, this puppy's out of print; it's an anthology written by Martin before he became all famous. I had read this when I was much younger after picking it up already well used from Bookman's, and had been intrigued, but had been overwhelmed at the same time. This time I still felt a bit overwhelmed, but in the same way that Martin's novels have that effect, so in a good way. Kind of the speculative science fiction of Philip K. Dick, but with emotion and character development and sensuality and horror, you know, stuff that might have kept many of Dick's stories from sucking. Pun unintended, there. Sorry, yeah that was kind of tangent.

-"Join Ken Bowers, author of "God Speaks Again: An Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith", Saturday, October 9, on "Faith Under Fire," a new cable television program broadcast on the PAX-TV network..." - ok, not cool. Basically, a fundy Christian evangelist is not-so-subtly going after the Bahá'í religion now, on the basis that apparently tolerance between religions [re: main tenant of B.] is not down with the jebus-thumpers [insert the Bird right here].

-I have no idea what this is, but it's eeriepretty

-ohh, it's awwwnnn...again. (via Wyatt)

-midnite.rain - art in noah-kh's section

-snake info - it would be awesome if my kukri knife was actually named for a kukri snake's fangs, but okay if it's the other way around

-and somebody just drove by playing "Scotty doesn't know" really loud. Aweso.