Things I know about (so you don't need to tell me).

[seanan_mcguire]

We here on the internet are a lot like intersecting flocks of crows: constantly chasing the shiny things, and then bringing them back to the nest to be pecked at, admired, and envied. These are some things I've been brought recently.

1. Singing mice. Yes! Mice can sing. I know this, and am delighted by it.

2. Mark Reads is doing Feed. Actually, Mark Reads is doing the whole series. I drew him a nun. We have a close friend in common, so I'm pretty well-informed.

3. Many people are making many types of horrifyingly flavored candy corn, including caramel, sour apple, and worse. None of these are The One True Corn. Only candy corn, flavored like candy corn, is The One True Corn. Chocolate candy corn is acceptable in Autumn Mix, and no other time.

4. Community is awesome and I should be watching it. Well, I listened, and I'm now most of the way through season two. Y'all were right. I salute you.

5. Amy Mebberson drew Disney Princesses as the various Doctors. I have dispatched people to try and get me a print at NYCC, since I'm not attending the convention this year.

6. The Bay features tongue-eating isopods eating an entire small community. I am so excited for this movie!

7. Steampunk Disney pins, coming this November.

8. That video of a bulldog puppy whining for five minutes. Adorable.

9. There is no new Glee until November. I hate the mid-season hiatus with a burning passion, but I did notice that it was happening.

10. The Monster High dance class dolls have been released. Yes! But they're not showing up in California yet. Boo.

And those are the things I know, because I have been told about them multiple times in the last week. I hope the world is as relevant to your interests as it is to mine!

Comments

[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

I really love Community. kitanzi and I only discovered it recently ourselves, and we now have all three seasons on DVD. (Still have S3 to watch, as it came recently.)

One of these days, I'll get around to watching Fringe, which you've recommended to me numerous times.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

You really should. Especially now that we're in the confirmed final season.

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

::grabs candy corn from desk drawer, munches::

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm, candy corn.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

Pringles is making pumpkin spice flavored potato crisps. I'm frightened, but thought I should share.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

...that, I did not know.

Are they available in the US?

[archangelbeth]

1. Singing mice? That's awesome! (...no link? *sadface* (I tease! I can exercise Google Fu myself!))

5. ...another thing for me to hit the search engines with.

7. ...oooooooo.

8. ...that's going to be harder to find. Oh, well. I have a whiney part-Siamese cat instead, who will do that with crossed eyes.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Actual whining cats, much to be preferred.

[tygerversionx.livejournal.com]

Is this a back door into some kind of ask you a question thread? 'Cause then I'd be tempted to ask you what starter Pokémon you chose. I chose Snivy. ;)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I choose Cyndaquil.

It's a WEASEL that is ON FIRE ALL THE TIME. How can you not love that?

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

2. Mark Reads is doing Feed. Actually, Mark Reads is doing the whole series. I drew him a nun. We have a close friend in common, so I'm pretty well-informed.
Heh, another thing you have in common is that people keep telling you the same things over and over. It happens so often that it's become a hilarious running gag that initiates like clockwork with every mention.

Also, what is this about singing mice? Like actual mice actually singing? What do they sing?

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

They sort of exchange information by humming. It's adorable.

I can't wait for Tuesday!!!

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, singing mice! Thank you so much for that; I think you just made my day. A lovely October Day(e).

I'm so sorry; I seem to have been completely unable to resist saying that. :-)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Hee.

[taldragon.livejournal.com]

my favourite comment regarding singing mice was Juliet McKenna's tweet:
Mice can 'sing', scientists discover via @Telegraph http://soc.li/CfR8dWI Well, obviously. Did these people never watch Bagpuss as children?


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagpuss)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Bagpuss rules.

[kshandra]

Bizarrely enough, the truck stop that I generally fill up at for the last time before heading into Burning Man has had MH dolls the last couple of years. If you would like, I will remind you of this next August, and will take whatever wish list you may have at the time to see if I can acquire one or two. (Obviously, it won't be any of the exclusives, but since it is such an out-of-the-way location, they might still have some of the less-common dolls.)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I will keep that in mind.

[mlerules.livejournal.com]

10. The Monster High dance class dolls have been released. Yes! But they're not showing up in California yet. Boo.

FYI: I'm fetching you from PDX on Monday 'n' shuttling you wherever. We could swing by another Toys R Us if'n you like to see if'n they're here in OR.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.

<3 <3 <3

[bookblather.livejournal.com]

Wait wait wait wait more Amy Mebberson princesses and Doctors? HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS.

*zoom to google*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

It's AWESOME.

[tikiera.livejournal.com]

But have you seen the candy corn flavored white 'chocolate' M&Ms?

I have a single serving size bag. I am very, very scared.

but I could not resist buying it.

[bercilakslady.livejournal.com]

They are actually white chocolate, they have cocoa butter. That said, they are *vile*.

[wednesday]

Dance Class is not yet in New England, either. Sadness. Instead, the Midnight Magic dolls whose clothes Nefera chooses not to wear, like, ever, have taken hold of shelves. Their backstory makes me sad.

Also, the MH costumes for little girls this year are adorable. Operetta! Ghoulia! I would want one, but that would go all wrong.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Midnight Magic dolls?

I have not encountered.

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

3. Many people are making many types of horrifyingly flavored candy corn, including caramel, sour apple, and worse. None of these are The One True Corn. Only candy corn, flavored like candy corn, is The One True Corn. Chocolate candy corn is acceptable in Autumn Mix, and no other time.


The One True Corn is also made with real honey. Full stop. No other candy carn can be substituted. *nods sagely*

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[pameladean]

I have been assuming that you did know about the matter I am about to disclose, but it is not on the list!

Zombie ants?

P.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

They are AWESOME.

Nature is so cool.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

I keep eyeing the candy corn Oreos with trepidation. If I hate them, I'm stuck with an entire bag.

Unless I foist them off on my little neighbors. Hmmmm...

Hey, the parents already eye me with suspiscion because I engage in water balloon fights, teach them how to make doll clothes (skirts for My Little Ponies? NOT as easy as you'd think) and encourage the use of sidewalk chalk (this place looked like a crime scene most of this summer, because we were tracing everyone's shadows). What's one more thing? ;)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

They're SO HORRIBLE OMG.

[k-crow.livejournal.com]

Speaking of shiny things, have you heard about the book, Spillover by David Quammen? It sounds like something you would find especially shiny. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

No! What's it about?

[gothrockrulz.livejournal.com]

The next Disney movie should be all-out Steampunk. Just saying. :)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Treasure Planet anyone?

[charles ellis (from livejournal.com)]

So, does this mean you don't already know about Zombie Con in San Antonio, TX next weekend? Work schedule permitting, I plan to be there in the hopes that it will succeed well enough to become an annual event and maybe entice you back to central Texas some year. And that same weekend the Alamo City Roller Girls are putting on Zombies vs. Vampires bout. I need to be there to root for the zombies.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I would love to come sometime in the future.

[princesselwen.livejournal.com]

Singing mice just makes me think of Babe.

A pig of destiny!

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

That'll do, pig.

[asphaltangel.livejournal.com]

"7. Steampunk Disney pins, coming this November."

This might be the best thing ever. Definitely the best thing today.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[vincentursus.livejournal.com]

These things entertain me.

This universe has my permission to continue to exist.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[tollermom]

in re #10... if you need me to make another Target run, just let me know. :-)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Swoon.

[literateknits.livejournal.com]

HUGE sigh of relief when the Halloween episode of Gravity Falls didn't make the list, because I know I saw it and went "Oh hot reservoir, this is Seanan's jelly." (that's the fancy way of saying oh hot damn, this is my jam. It just. is.)

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

I am glad to know that this is your jam!

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

I just finished Feed. I... uhm... WOW. My normal eloquence has totally deserted me. WHAT a ending. Just incredible.

Looking for the next two books tomorrow.

[seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com]

Yay!