Romantic Name Concatenation

Ardellis | August 11, 2006

When the original Bennifer was all in the tabloids, I should have seen this coming. The practice of turning the two names of a romantically linked couple into one word was probably too easy for people to resist. And writers of fan fiction are notoriously incapable of resisting.
In the Pirates of the Carribbean fanfic communities, [...]

Who Wants To Be A Superhero?

Ardellis | August 5, 2006

If you had told me even a month ago that I’d become hooked on a reality TV show, I’d have laughed at you. Sure, I watched the first couple of seasons of The Real World. Didn’t everyone? It was new then, and it was on MTV. And, yes, I was amused by some of PBS’s [...]

Time Loop

Ardellis | August 3, 2006

Yes, the server has been acting up again, and posts since July 21 went off into limbo once more. I’m beginning to feel a little like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. But that’s OK, because this is, after all, only a blog. My sympathy is with those whose businesses reside on the same server as [...]