After the Mummer's Parade, the Rose Bowl totally doesn't measure up. They need a buddha. And both would be improved with judicious placement of pandas.

I need to write up a post on the Doctor Who special. I will say now, so much fun to watch it with a bunch of people. Oh, and the BBC should have been clearer about the Children in Need snippet being the INTRO to the special, not part of the special, because barkley and widget285 hadn't seen it and we had to show it to them after, and things made MORE SENSE then. Go figure.

(There are several avenues to world domination, by the by. I think mine was working pretty good, but Widget's was working for her, so...time will tell.)

What else...oh, my yuletide story. The important part is that now I can say, Thank you, rez_lo! for the beta. Officially, it's Our Blood and State. Spooks/MI-5. The more contained story than the one that I first had in mind, since that first one did not show signs of being one that would be done by deadline. And since hardly anyone watches Spooks, I'd love to know what those of you who do watch think of the story. No, I'm not above begging for attention now that the gift part is done.

Lastly, the icon is the best I could do on short notice to capture this. Download and watch the high-res long version if your connection can handle it.